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MOOT COUNTY TRANSCRIPT
WA- HBUKN & OOUI/ON, Publishors.
.AUSTIN. MINN
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
ALMOST tho ontire session of tho Senate on
the 18th was devoted to speeches of Senators
Colquitt a ml Dolph on tho President's message.
A resolution was adopted for a special com­
mittee to investigate the condition of the civil
service in all branches of the Government....
In the House the bill providing that the first
sess on of the Fifty-first Congress shall begin
on March 4, 1889, was reported adversely. Oth
er bills were reported to discontinue the coin­
age of one dollar aud three dollar gold pieces,
and the omnibus bill for the ndmiss.on into the
Union of Dakota, Montana, Washington and
New Mexico.
IN tho Senate on the 14th petitions were re­
ceived for un increase of duty on wool, for pro­
tection of the wool and wooleu industries,
against the formation of trusts and combina­
tions, and that the tax on tobacco aud spirits
be retained until the war debt is paid. Mr.
Brown (Ga.) spoke in advocacy of his resolu­
tion, declariug it the imperative duty of Con­
gress to repeal the internal-revenue laws
In the House Speaker Carlisle resumed his
post of duty. The Committee on Elections in
the Post-Wortliington contested case unani­
mously reported in favor of General Post, the
sitting member. A bill was passed fixing the
oharge of passports at one dollar
IN the Senate on the 15th a bill was intro
duced providing a uniform law covering the
arrest and extradition of criminals who escape
to another State or Territory. A bill was re­
ported for the formation and admission of the
States of Washington and North Dakota. Mr.
Teller spoke on the President's message,
which, he said, was an attack, not on a defect­
ive tariff, not to remedy inconsistencies, but to
destroy the protective system. Eulogies on
the life and character of the late Mr. Moffatt,
of Michigan, were delivered.... In the House
the time was occupied in considering the Son
ate amendments to the Urgent Delieioncy bill.
BILLS were introduced on the 16th in the Sen­
ate for the admission of Utah as a State au­
thorizing the President to appoint and retire
John C. Fremont as a Major-General, and to
provide a method for the settlement by arbi­
tration of the controversies between Inter
State railroads and their employes. The bill
to prevent fraudulent undervaluation by im­
porters was passed. Adjourned to the 19th....
In the House the bill to annex a portion of
Idaho to Washington and Montana, the Indian
Appropriation bill, and the bill reducing the
rate of postage on seeds, bulbs, plants and
scions to one cent for each two ounces were re­
ported. An adverse report was made on the
Joint resolution to discontinue the green two
cent postage stamp and return to the terra­
cotta colored stamps. At the evening session
thirty-five pension bills were passed.
DOMESTIC.
MORMON elders who had been making con­
verts in small districts of Botecourt Coun­
ty, Va., were notified on the 12 th to leave
or be lynched.
THESE was no change in the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy strike on the 13Gb.
Several of the railroads were hauling Bur­
lington cars in the regular course of busi­
ness and anticipated no trouble with the
engineers.
MKDAD Y. MILLER, who two years ago
swindled banks of Huron, D. T„ out of
$3,000 and fled, was arrested on the 13th
at Detroit, Mich., where he lived under the
name of M. St Vinton.
AT Cottonwood, Ind. T., William Yarbor
ough shot a man named Massey on the 13th,
but the bullet killed Yarborough's wife.
Yarborough then murdered Massey and sur­
rendered.
A SNOW-SLIDK on the 13th on King Solo­
mon mountain, in Colorado, oarried Mail
Carrier
Joan
O'Neill one hundred and fifty
feet down the mountain side, and he was
dead before help could reach him.
WILLIAM A. PABKEB, who seven years ago
murdered General Bryan Grimes,' was
captured on the 13 that Washington, N. 0.,
and hanged by a mob.
THE Wisconsin Press Association met in
annual session at Milwaukee on the 13th.
A CASE of leprosy was discovered in St
Louis on the 13
ch, the patient being Choo
Pay, a Chinese laundry man. Fay has been
in this country several yeara
REV. J. N. BUNCH, of Nevada, Mo., was
fatally shot by robbers on the 13th and
robbed of $1,140 and a valuable watch.
ED EVERMAN and Prank and Moses White
sell were killed on the 13 ch by the explo­
sion of a large steam-boiler in Durrer'a saw­
mill at Burlington, Ind. The mill was
completely wrecked.
THE village of Townsend, a suburb of Bal­
timore, Md, was partly destroyed by fire
on the 13th.
Ax incendiary fire on the 13
bh at Mari­
etta, O., burned the office of the Marietta
Register, besides a book-store and several
buildings, the loss being over $50,000.
THE large dairy barn belonging to B. B.
Ingraham, near Flora, I1L, was consumed
by fire on the 13th, and thirty-five fine
milch cows perished in the flames.
THE great snow blockade at Eastern
points was gradually giving way on the
14th, and in New York City traffic was par­
tially resumed. It was feared that eight­
een pilot boats, with their crews, were lost
The financial loss in that city alone will be
$7,000,000. In Philadelphia it was still
storming, but the weather was milder and
trade was being resumed. The total loss
to shipping at that port was estimated at
$400,000. Near Newark, N. .T., three per­
sons froze to death. In the States of New
York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsyl­
vania the total losses by the blizzard was
placed at $20,000,000.
MISSISSIPPI river navigation opened on
the 14th at Quincy, 111, the first boats of
the season arriving from St Louis.
A TBAIN was thrown from the traok on
the 14th at Newkirk, Pa., by a broken frog,
and one man was killed and sixteen other
persons were iniured, two fatally.
H. C. LEAVITT, one of the men implicated
in the murder of Bev. Mr. Haddock at Sioux
City, la, is under sentence to hang April
30 for the murder of a cow-boy over a game
of cards at Dodge City, Kan., to which
place he wentfter leaving Sioux City.
IN Chicago on the 14th Judge Gresham
decided in the Burlington-Wabash case
that it was the duty of a railroad as a com­
mon carrier to receive and deliver frefght
that may come to it in the regular course
of business, and that a road could not law­
fully suspend reciprocal relations with a
connecting road through fear ot precipitate
ing a strike. He, however, did not think
there was any cause for complaint against
the Wabash. As to the Brotherhood strike
the Judge conceded the right if Individuals
to cease working for a railroad company,
but denied their right to combine in the
crippling of a road.
THB annual encampment of the G. A. B.
Department of Michigan began at Lansing
on the 14th.
NEAB Polo, 111., on the 14th Samuel Whit
meyer shot and killed George Albright* a
young farmer, sent a bullet through the
head of Albright's sister, and, going to the
barn, shot himself. The refusal of Miss Al­
bright to marry Whitmeyer caused the
tragedy.
JOHN SKINNEB, a desperado, was taken
from jail at.Hopkinsville, Ky., early on the
morning ot the 14th, carried four miles out
©f town and banged to a tree.
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THERE was something over six hundrod
millions of ourrenoy, including gold and
•liver coin, greenbacks and National bank
noteB in the United States Tteasury on
tha 14th.
IN a mine shaft at Glen wood, Pa., Rich­
ard Henwood and Peter Steele were killed
on the 14th by a bucket falling on them.
THE steamer Japun from the Mediterran­
ean ran into the pilot-boat Starbuck off
Barnegate on the 14th, and the latter sunk
with live men.
AT Springfield, Mo., on the 14th Dr.
George M. Cox, United States Pension Ex­
aminer, meta woman named Eflio Ellis at
the railway Btation, entered a carriage with
her, then beat her with a bottle containing
sulphuric add, which burned out her eyes
and otherwise disfigured lior handsome
faoa The woman was the mistress of tho
doctor's bon, and it was alleged caused him
to lead a* shameful life, driving his parents
to distraction.
DARIUS M. WARREN, under arrest at Ben­
ton, Me., for the murder of his wife, asked
on the 15rh tosaehistwo daughters, aged
eight and three years respectively. Ho was
taken into their presence by an officer,
when he drew a revolver and shot them
both fatally and then killed himself.
A STRIKE of engineers and firemen on the
Atchison, Topaka & Santa Fe system was
begun on the 15th tit all points on the lines.
Tho strike created great surprise, as the
road had not been handling Burlington
freight
COAL boats collided on the 15th in the
Ohio river at Brown's Island, 0., and nine
boats and eighteen barges were wrecked.
Over four hundred thousand bushels of coal
were scattered along the bunks or buried in
the bed of the river. No lives were lost
THE two thousand employes of McClure
A Co., coke operators at Scottdale, Pa.
struck on the 15th because the firm refused
to grant the demands of the men for a di­
vision of the work.
A FIRE in Philadelphia on the 15th de­
stroyed property valued at $340,000.
FARMERS at Winchester, O., on the 15th
tarred and feathered two Mormon elders,
and then chasad them to the Ohio river,
which the fugitives safely crossed.
AT Woodland Mill*, Tenn., on the loth
Eii Daire, a negro under arrest for burning
a barn, and being taken by rail to the Hick­
man j:iil, was taken from the oar by
masked men and hanged to a tree.
THE strike on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy road was on the 15 pronounced a
complete failure by the officials in Chicago.
Passenger and freight trains were running
with regularity and there were no indica­
tions of dissatisfaction apparent The
Union Pacific engineers who struck at Conn
oil Bluffs, la, ratuer than draw Burlington
cars, had returned to their engines.
THE last rail of the Denver, Texas fc Fort
Worth road was driven on the 15th at a
point twenty miles south of Denver,
IT was believed on the 15th that twenty
persons perished in Essex County. N. J.,
during the recent storm. At New Haven,
Conn., seven persons perished and there
were over twenty deaths in towns adjacent
to New Haven, while hundreds of people
suffered from frost-bites.
A
FIRE
on the 15th in the wharves at Sa­
vannah, Ga., consumed three thousand bar­
rels of resin and three hundred and fifty
barrels of turpentine.
IN a wreok on the Southern Pacific road
on the 15th at Colton, CaL, a score of load­
ed freiget cars were destroyed, thirteen
being burned. A conductor and a brake
man were killed.
THE banking house of J. J. Borden A Son,
at Sparta, I1L, was ra ded by burglars early
on the morning of the 15th and $2,500
taken from the safe.
THB snow-blockade in New York City was
broken on the 15th, and the steam and
street railways were once more running.
One of the incidents of the blockade was
the building of immense bonfires in the
middle of snow-drifts. Store-keepers lib­
erally contributed boxes, and the big heaps
were thus melted away.
A FALLING wall at afire in Milwaukee on
the 15th killed two firemen and injured five
others. By the fire about $300,000 worth
of property was destroyed.
GBEAT damage to the oyster fleet in the
Chesapeake bay by the recent storm was
reported on the 16th. Over one hundred
vessels were wrecked and about thirty peo­
ple drowned. Inundation of the lowlands
of the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia
peninsula also caused great losa
THE report was declared untrue on the
16th that Rev. Sheldon Jackson, a Presby­
terian missionary, had been drowned at
Sitka, Alaska
THE through California express train on
the Santa Fe road left Kansas City on the
16th in charge of Engineer Ben Wharton, a
non-union man, who was expelled from the
Brotherhood in 1877. His wife was in the
cab acting as fireman.
DUBING the seven days ended on the 16th
there were 202 business failures in the
United Staler, against 195 the previous
seven daya
OUTSIDE of Chicago, where matters re­
mained unchanged, the strike of the engi­
neers on the Santa Fe system was spread­
ing rapidly on the 16th, its effects having
extended to points on the Pacific coast,
and other roads seemed certain to share in
the difficulty. The determination seemed
to be to compel the Burlington road to sur­
render to the Brotherhood
JOHN DEAN, of Belleville, O., a retired
farmer, seventy years old and worth $50,
000, killed his wife on the 16 ch and then
committed suicide. Temporary insanity
was the causa
THE BO rd of Health of San Francisco,
Gal., declared officially on the 16th that the
small-pox epidemic was over. There were,
since last November, 473 cases and 51
deatha
AT Philadelphia on the 16th C. Currier,
of Chicago, was elected president of the Na­
tional League of Musicians.
AGENTS of the Illinois Central railway
were indicted on the 16 th at New Orleans
for violation of t»*e Inter-State law by over­
charges on cotton shipments and alleged
discriminationa This was the first indiot
ment of the kind on record.
A PASSENGER train fell down a thirty
foot embankment on the 16th near Bing
hamton, N. Y., and the cars caught fire and
were consumed. One man perished in tbe
flames, a half-dozen persons were probably
fatally hurt and many others were wounded.
IT was estimated on the 16th that thirty
persons lost their lives in the recent bliz­
zard in New York City.
Bx the wrecking of a railway snow-plow
on the 16 th near Sharon, N. Y., four men
were killed and six wounded, two fatally.
UP to the 16bh thirty-four Michigan coun­
ties had declared against liquor licenses
and two for license.
W. H. LUSLEY, railway mail-service olerk
running between Milwaukee and Lancaster,
Wis. was arrested at the former city on the
16th for robbing the mails of $2,000.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
MBS. ELLEN TUPPEB, an entomologist of
continental reputation, died at El Paso,
Tex., on the 12th.
THE Prohibitionists of the First Kansas
district on the 13th nominated Bev. H.
Shumaker for Congresa
ILLINOIS Democrats will hold their State
convention in Springfield on the 23d of
May to choose delegates to the National
convention and nominate State officers,
and the Prohibitionists will meet in the
same city on May 15 for the same purpose.
THE Tennessee Democrats will meet at
Nashville on the Oth of May to eleot dele­
gates to the National convention.
THE Democrats of Arkansas will hold their
State convention at Little Rook May 30.
THB Republicans of California will hold
their State convention at Sacramento May 1,
THE Republicans of the Fifteenth Penn­
sylvania district on the 14th nominated
Myron B. Wright for Congress.
WISCONSIN Democrats will hold their State
convention May 1 at Madison to elect dele­
gates to St Louis.
THE Rt. Rav. George Kelly Dunlnp, D. D.,
Episcopal Bishop of Arizona and New
Mexico, died on the 15th at Las Vesras.
THE Republicans of Kansas will meet at
Wichita on May 9 to eleot delegates to the
National convention. The convention for
the nomination of State offioers will be held
at Topeko, July 24.
THE Indiana Prohibition State convention
met at Indlunapolls on the 15bh and nom­
inated Rev. J. S. Hughes for Governor, and
adopted a platform demanding strict pro­
hibition and woman suffrage.
REV. WASHINGTON GARDNER, of Albion,
Mich., was elected Department Commander
at the enoampment of the Department of
Miohigan, G. A. R, at Lansing on the 15th.
THE Union Labor party of Illinois will
hold their State convention for the nonu
1 nation of offioers at Decatur on tho 26th
of April
THB Rhode Island Republicans met in
State convention on the 16th at Providence
and nominated Royal G. Tafl, of Providence,
for Governor. The platform adopted favors
protection to home labor and home in­
dustry, and a reduction of the internal-rev­
enue taxation.
THE Nevada State Republican convention
will be held at Winnemucca on the 15th of
May.
SENATOR SPOONER was elected president
of the Wisconsin Republican League at the
convention at Madison on the 16th.
FOREIGN.
THE market place at Cabin, Hungary, was
destroyed by flro on the 13th, and many
persons perished in the flames.
A FISHING sloop was wrecked on ihe 13th
at Lowestoft, Eng., and nine persons were
drowned.
ADVICES of the 13th report extensive
floods in Austro-Hungary. Bridges had
been swept away and large areas converted
into lakes. Several villages were sub
merged and a large number of persons had
been drowned.
A TERRIFIC snow-storm raged on the 13th
in Canada, and in Montreal and Quebec
business was practically suspended.
AT a meeting of the Irish National League
in Dublin on the 13th it waB announced
that $25,000 hud been received from
America to aid evicted persona
IT was reported on the 14th that fanatics
were burning tho houses of Protestants at
Santa Barbara Osoampa, in Mexico, and
that a priest named Father Frames was
causing the outrages.
THB Belfast steamer Galgorm Castle went
ashore on the 14th near Drnmoro, and the
master and five men were drowned.
THE bridge at Sossin, Germany, was
broken by drifting ioe on the 14th, and
fifty persons were thrown into the water
and many were drowned. Eleven bodieB
had been recovered.
THE grand Jury at Cork, Ireland, on the
15th called the attention of the Govern­
ment to the impending ruin of landlords
owing to the great reductions in rent
A TRAIN on the Mexican railway jumped
the track on the 15th near Saltillo, and
one car containing thirty laborers rolled
down an embankment, killing six and seri­
ously injuring twenty.
THE marriage of Prince Oscar, second son
of King Charles, of Sweden, and Miss Ebba
Munck was solemnized at Bournemouth on
the 15th.
THE house of Ulderio Boux, at Ste. Sophie,
Can., was destroyed by fire on the 15th,
and his three children and wife, the latter
bed-ridden, perished in the flames.
A WEDDING party of sixteen persons were
crossing the ice on tbe D. nube at Neus
tatz, Hungary, on the 16tb, when the ice
gave way and all were drowned.
THE funeral of the late Emperor Willirm
took place in Berlin on the 16th, and was
in all respects an affair of extraordinary
splendor. Almost every civilized nation on
earth was represented. Memorial servioea
were also held in all the leading capitals of
the world.
LATER NEWS.
A CALL for amass convention to be held
at Fargo Dak March 27, to consider "trust"
monopolies, was issued on the 17th.
A PETITION was p-esented in the House
on the 17th from the St. Paul Chamber of
Commerce asking an appropriation of $150,
000 for the improvement of the Missis ppi
bove St. Authony Falls.
THE Ontario Legislature on the 17th
passed to second reading the bill to es­
tablish manhood suffrage for elections to
the Ontario Parliament.
THOMAS NEWTON, found guilty of the
murder of John Irego, was sentenced at
Winnipeg on the 17th by Judge Bain to be
hung on April 30.
DIRECT telegraphic communication be­
tween New York and Boston was restored
onthelSth. There entblizzard necessita
ted tbe entire rebuilding of the lines in sev­
eral places.
THE Secretary of the Interior on the 17th
gave ca decision in the case of a
homesteader who had endeavored in good
faith to comply with the requirements of
the law, but who was denie
1 a patent by
Commissioner Sparks because of unavoida­
ble absence from his claims in favor of the
claimant.
HON. DAVID GBAT, of Buffalo, a victim of
the recent Dele ware, Lackawanna & West­
ern railroad, died at the city hospital at
Binghamton, N, Y., on the ISth.
THE first section of the fast mail train
from New York to Jackonsville went
through a trestle at a point seventy-five
miles south of Savannah, Ga., on the 17th.
Nineteen persons were killed and thirty-five
injured, some of them fatally.
F. CHRISTOPHER, a hardware merchant,
at Madison, Wis., shot himself dead on the
17th in the presence of his wife. Financial
troubles were said to be the cause of the act.
MR. PHELPS, Minister to England, was on
the 17th granted leave of absence, and is ex­
pected to leave England for New York
April 5.
ON the 8th the Chairman of the griev­
ance committee at Kansas City requested
the engineers and firemen on the Santa Fe
system to return to work pending a settle
ment of their difficulties.
JUDOB DUNDY, of the United States Dis­
trict Court at Omaha, on the 17th decided
nthe injunction euit brought by the Bur­
lington against the Union Pacific company
and engineers in their employ that the en­
gineers cannot, under the inter-state com*
merce law, conspire to prevent the Union
Pacific from handling Biir.ington cars, nd
that the -trikers are liable to fine and im
prisoninent.
PRESIDENT CLSVELAND celebrate his fifty*
first birthday on the 18th.
LOG OF THE BLIZZARD.
The Great Snow Storm in the
Eastern States.
Btory of It. Work In Now York, Bo.ton
and Other Cltl«a—KOHCOO Con kilns'*
Narrow Escape SSany Uve»
Lost and Much Nufforlng.
WORSE THAN DAKOTA.
NEW YOBK, March 15.—Ne York is just
beginning to make some ptogress toward
recovering from the effect of the severe
blizzard which raged here withouc abate­
ment from Sunday night to Tuesday morn­
ing. Coal 1B scarce. There is no milk at
all, and all but a few of the telegraph and
telephone wires are yet in a desperate tan­
gle. Mountains of snow block all the prin­
cipal streets and avenuea The
elevated trains, though again run­
ning, are in diminished numbers and at a
slow rate of speed. As for tho horse-cars,
the tracks are buried under two feet of
•now and can not be cleared off for several
daya All business is at a standstill The
loss can not be estimated, but it is thought
it will not be less than $5,000,000 to $7,
000.000.
Ex-Senator Oonkllng came very near los­
ing his life in the blizzard. During the
afternoon a man offered to take him home
in a carriage for $50, but he declined to
pay suoh an extortionate price. He started
home about 6 o'clock. Ho thus describes
his efforts to reach his club:
"It was dark, no lights burning, and it was
useless to try to plok out a path, so I went
along, shouldering through drifts. I was pret­
ty well exhausted when I got to Union Square.
1 tried to make out the triangles, but it
was impossible. Sometimes I havo run
aoross passages in novels of groat ad­
ventures in snow-storms, where there would be
a vivid description of a man's struggles on a
enow-swept and windy plain but I havo al­
ways considered the presentation an exaggera­
tion. 1 shali never say so again. I got in the
middle of the park and was up to my
arms in a drift. I pulled the ice and
snow from my eyes and held my
hands up there till every thing was melted off
so that I ght see, but it was too dark and tbe
•now too blinding. 1 came as near giving up
and sinking down there to die as a man can
and not do it. After twenty minutes or so I
got out somehow and made my way. along to
tb6 New York Club, completely exhausted."
The story of the storm is told briefly as
follows: a
Coming as it did wllthout warning the storm
was a terrible blow. It began with rain on
Sunday and about midnight to snow. On Mon­
day morning the wind was blowing at the rate
of fifty miles an hour, and screeching and howl­
ing around corners in a way which was terrify­
ing. Snow had fallen to a depth of three feet.
Huge drifts from six to ten feet high rapidly
formed. The many employes of factories and
stores started early, but horse-cars and om­
nibuses were soon abandoned. The surface
roads made herculean efforts to keep the tracks
clear, and harnessed six and eight horses to
each car to keep a-going.
By 8 o'clock the surface roads were forced to
abandon their cars. Then tbe rush for the
elevated road began, but the trains were
stalled by tbe icy tracks at Fourteenth street.
After hours of delay the weary passengers
were taken from the trains by means of
long ladders from the street. Tnou
•ands walked through the biting blasts only
to find their places of business closed. After
10 o'clock in the morning all efforts to run the
elevated trains weie abandoned. Fabulous
prices were vainly offered for cabs, but livery
men would not expose their animals. The tele­
graph, telephone and electric wires fell in
all directions and by noon only two circuits
of the Western Union were in operation.
The cable on tho Brooklyn bridge refused to
work and for hours no trains passed over.
Finally late at night dummy engines started
and ran two trains over the swaying structure.
No pedestrians were allowed on the bridge.
Ferry-boats on the North and East rivers man­
aged to run, but with much difficulty and
danger.
The exchanges were closed at noon, as only
a few Drokers ventured down town in the teeth
of the gale. The banks were open, but with
small clerical forces, and could do nothing, and,
for the first time in such a case, extended time
on commercial paper.
Brooklyn was no better off and Jersey City
was tn a worse condition. Out in the bay sail­
ing craft of all kinds fled before the storm.
The steamship Alaska of the Guion line ar­
rived Sunday night, but could not go up to her
pier until yesterday. Down at Coney Island the
storm has done much damage and it is ru­
mored that the Hotel Brighton had been swept
out to sea.
Viewed in the afternoon the city seemed a
prey to the elements. The Bowery looked like
a battle-field with its abandoned cars, trucks
and vehicles of all kinds. Broadway
was a wreck. Vast mounds of
snow in every conceivable shape zig­
zagged in the street. In front of the Grand
Central Hotel a truck-load ot lager beer had
been abandoned. The snow blew against it un­
til it was hurled from sight. As the day wore
on the blizzard shrieked harder and harder.
When the few business men down-town tried
to get home not a conveyance of arty kind could
be found.
Down-town hotelB were packed before night­
fall with business men detained in the city by
the storm. The night*s terrors were even
worse than the day's trouble. Men on the
street staggered along as though drunk, and
the police found a number of people just in
time to save them from freezing.
Tuesday morning the big city shook itself
and prepared lor a struggle. In every street,
square and avenue were huge drifts of snow
which blocked the thoroughfares and made
trafflo and pedestrlanism impossible. All
New York turned out to clear the
streets. The worst of the great blis
sard had passed, but the effects were far
reaching. Thousands of laborers were put to
work with big wagons to cart the snow away.
The elevated roads began to run steady. Every
train was paoked. Tne work of clearing out
tbe snow piles has gone on slowly Bince. By
noon yesterday most of the sidewalks had been
cleared, but the streets were still impassible
for vehicles. By nightfall a roadway had been
cut through cach avenue, leaving the snow­
banks reaohing up to the seeond story of the
houses in many instanoes.
The situation is unchanged. None of the
surface lines have started except the Fourth
avenue line for about one-third of its route, and
the Twenty-third street cross-town line. The
probabilities are that the surfaoe roads will not
be in operation for several days.
The only intelligence received from Boston
Binoe Sunday came by way of London cable
yesterday. It was a dispatoh from the Boston
Herald which said that the city of culture and
baked beans was as much isolated as New
York. All the cattle and milk trains are
stalled on the road, and a famine in meat
and milk has set in. People all
over the city are using condensed milk. August
Belmont wanted to get a bottle of milk yester­
day for his baby and after a long search got it,
but had to pay one dollar for a pint. Coal
Is a luxury, too. When coal darts appear on
the east side a crowd of poverty-stricken
people flock around them and clamor
for the precious black diamonds. The
earts have to be well guarded by
police. All tbe small dealers are out. Days
must pass before the wants of the poor can be
provided for. The suffering and distress are
something unknown in local history. The few
grocers who have coal are charging sixty cents
a pail or at the rate of MO dollars a ton. Bread
has run out and flour is soaroe.
The elevated roads in New York
and Brooklyn bridge oars are run­
ning on full tima All the rail­
roads leading into New York, Jer­
sey City and Brooklyn were stopped until
yesterday. Malls are from two to three
days behind, and up to last night the only
mail reoelved was by a train on the Penn­
sylvania road, drawn by five engines.
Nearly fifty trains are stalled near New
York. Late yesterday trains arrived from
Newark after a two-days' struggle. One
train has arrived also from New Haven fn
three days.
Ap afternoon paper estimates the busi­
ness loss, contingent loss and actual pe­
cuniary outlay which the storm will occa­
sion in New York City at not less than
$7,000,000, and the loss to the States in­
volved at $20,000,000.
A message came from St. Paul, Minn,,
yesterday, to Mayor Hewitt, signed Many
Citizens," which offered any financial as­
sistance need id. Bismarck and Huron in
Dakota have also wired offers to help.
BREAD AT TEN CENTS A SLICE.
PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 15.—.The snow
blockade east of this city is over, and, from
indications, trainB are running again.
The mail train which left New York
Saturday night arrived at midnight Tues­
day. The railway officials think the tracks
are now cleared, and they will be able to
move trains as usual within the next twen­
ty-four hours. The passengers and train­
men on the mail Tuesday night report an
eventful trip.
Mr. Fred Michaels, a young man from
Stonington, CoL, was the only passenger
who came from New York. He had left
there at 12 o'clock Sunday night. Mr.
Michaels was on his way to Wanhington, D.
C. The train left Philadelphia on Monday
morning and soon came into a terrific snow­
drift Said he:
"I never saw such a blizzard in my life, and
I have been living out West for the last ten
years right on the plains. The train pulled
slowly along until we got to Chester.
There were nine trains lying all to­
gether, each blockading the other. Snow
was surrounding and partly covering
them, and, where the drift bad been pretty
strong, you could not see any thing ot the oar
at all. There was nothing to be done but to
stop. The wind blew a hurricane and the
Bnow was blinding. Although the llres in the
cars were red-hot yet it seemed almost as cold
as if they had not burned at all. We lay there
for about ten hours.
"A good many of the passengers began to get
hungry very soon, and now the complaints be­
gan. Of course, there were some of us that had
sandwiches and such things, but they did not
last long. I don't think that any man can eat
while be sees somebody else starving, so we
ali divided. Then the men had to get out
and buy bread, etc. In all our misfortune,
however, we retained good cheer. Through
the snow we went, nearly up to our waists,
bunting up bake shops. Some of the passen­
gers did qu te a business, selling what they
could not eat themselves. The newsboy on
the train sold one loaf ot bread at ten cents a
slice, and made $2 out of the loaf. In the
afternoon, at last, the broken telegraph poles,
trees and other obstructions were got out of
the way, and I got to Washington all right,
ghteen hours later than I expected. From
there I came on here without being stopped
anywhere."
The brakemen suffered intensely from
the cold They report that old mountain­
eers say that the storm was the worst known
in many years.
The superintendent of mails says there
are thirteen postal oars with 500,000 let­
ters and sixty tons of miscellaneous mail
matter lying somewhere between Pitts­
burgh and Philadelphia.
THE STOBM AT OTHEB POINTS.
PATERSON, N. J., March 15.—The snow­
storm which set in Sunday night was the
greatest ever known here The fearful gale
piled up enormous drifts, and did
great damage. The drifts in the streets
are fifteen and twenty feet high. Tbe
inmates of many dwellings are
completely shut in. Business and
traffic are completely at a standstill. No
news from the outside world has been re­
ceived since Monday morning. Several
persons are reported here as missing, and
are, perhaps, lost in the snow. There are
fears of loss of life in country districta
Coal and milk are scarce, and poor people
are suffering for the necessaries of life
FAST IN THE DRIFTS.
BEADING, Pa., March 15.—On the Wil­
mington A Northern railroad there is a
train in a snow-drift twenty-five feet deep,
near Dupont, which has been there with six
passengers on board since 11 o'clock
on Monday n'ght Their sufferings from
hunger and cold oan be better im­
agined than described Two more trains on
the same road are snowed in a bank near
Joanna. A train on the Beading A Colum­
bia railroad is fast in a drift near Epbrata,
with the snow as high as the smoke-stack.
The fires are out, and the passengers and
crew have taken shelter in the neighboring
farm-housea Some terrible 6tories of suf­
fering are told by the men who were en­
gaged in opening the railroads.
The dead bodies of three men, neatly
dressed, are reported to have been found
between this city and Pottstown. Cattle
have perished from the cold in different
parts of tbe country and teams had to be
abandoned on tbe roads. Farmers are still
unable to reach this city, and milk and
country produce command a premium.
Burns were unroofed, fences were blown
down and mighty forest trees leveled by
the storm.
WRECKS ON THE COAST.
PHILADELPHIA, March 15.—A special
from Leith, DeL, says that twenty-two per­
sons were drowned or frozen to death at
Delaware breakwater during the storm. A
number of vessels of all descriptions were
sunk, several were badly damaged, while
many were stranded so far up on the beaoh
that it will very likely require weeks to
float them. The privations of the crews
were extremely pitiful The men were
literally incased in ice and a blinding
snow whioh followed tho gale added to
their awful sufferinga More than sixty
persons were bound hand and foot by ice,
and a large majority of these are now badly
frost-bitten and confined to their beds with
heavy colda During Sunday night twenty
eight barks and schooners were [driven
ashore. The crews were saved.
The total loss to shipping is estimated at
between $400,000 and $500,000. Only
two bodies have been recovered The har­
bor is ohoked with fragments and the
waves are running high.
PBINCESS ANN, Md, March 14. —In the
Hanokin river three vessels were capsized
and many others were driven ashora In
the Wicomico river at Mount Yernon nine
vessels are ashore at one point and are
greatly damaged. Names of vessels and the
fate of the crews can not be ascertained
Many lives are supposed to have been lost
and much more vessel property demol­
ished
CHICAGO, March 15.—The severe storms
in the East have had a serious effect on
Eastern maila Superintendent Wilbanks
said yesterday that no mail had been re­
ceived from any point east of Pittsburgh
since last Monday. From the present out­
look he does not expect a renewal of regu­
lar schedule receipts until the end of the
week.
A FATHER'S "REVENQE.
A Pension Examiner In Missouri with
Sulphuric Aoid Burns Out the Eyes of
tho Womau Who Lured Hta Son from
the Paths of Yirtue.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., March 15.—On Wednes­
day Dr. George M. Pox, United States pen­
sion examiner, meta woman named Effle
Ellis at the railway station, Entered a car­
riage with her, then beat her with a bottle
containing sulphuric aoid, which burned out
her eyes and otherwise disfigured her hand­
some face The woman was tbe mistress
of the doctor's son, and, it is alleged, caused
him to lead a shameful life, driving his
parents to distraction. The dootor gave
bonds in $5,000 on a oharge of mayhem.
For a time lynohing was talked of, bnt
when it beoame known that Miss Kills
would recover, the project was abandoned
RESUMING BUSINESS.
New lork Getting Back to Her Former
Condition—Cltlsenn Turn Their Atten­
tion to Cleaning the Streets—Reports ot
Iioss of Life Coming In.
NEW YORK, March 10.—The sight of the
rising sun yesterday made glad the hearts
of countless poor, many of whom were
without food and almost all without fuel,
yesterday's warm light made the latter un­
necessary, and hundreds of attic and tene­
ment windows were thrown open to the
soft air.
During the night the railroad employes
had not been idle. The Erie was the first
to win. Yesterday morning at 5:45 the
Chicago through express rolled into the
depot Other roads followed, and mail
trains left the city on schedule time
On the Jersey Central no trains are run­
ning above Bound Brook, where 2,500 men
are working away through a deep cut
Central trains are now running nearly
upon schedule time. The New York, On­
tario & Western is clear and has brought
in 3,000 cans of milk, ending the milk
famine
One of the incidents of the blockade
down-town was the building of immense
bonfires in the middle of snow-drifts.
BLore-keepers liberally contributed their
waste-boxes, and the' big heaps were thus
melted rapidly away. The sun did more
good work than all the efforts of the labor­
ers combined. From gevery snow-heap ran
little rills, which in turn went into
the piles of snow and undermined them.
The streets in many places were ankle
deep in slush. Business is resumed, but un­
der great difficulties. The 5,000
jurface-road laborers cleared the
bracks on the avenues, but left
the snow at the sides of the road in great
mounds. Trucks imd cars were blocked in
all the streets in an apparently inextrica­
ble masa Only about half of the telephone
wires are working, and the rest will not be
in order before Saturday.
The shipping arrivals gave the first de­
tailed accounts of the siorm at sea. The
pilot fieet has suffered terribly. One at
least has gone down with several men.
This was the William H. Starbuck, No. 6,
which collided with the steamship
Japanese Ice in the bay still clogs navi­
gation.
One of tbe surprises of the blizzard was
the formation of an immense ice-bridge on
the East river, and thousands of people
crossed during the three hours it lasted
Meat has gone up two cents a pound and
most of the large dealers have refused* to
sell to any but regular customera
The mayor has issued a proclamation
calling upon the citizens to aid in the work
of removing snow from the ^reets and sug­
gesting to proprietors of steam boilers the
feasibility of turning their steam upon the
snow-piles in front of their places of busi
nesa
LOSS OF LIFE.
How many lives have been lost in the
storm in this vicinity will not be known
for daya It is known that many farmers
started for this city with milk and produce
and have not since been heard from. Sev­
eral teams have been discovered in snow­
drifts in the suburbs. The horses were
dead and the drivers had disappeared.
Beports of extensive loss of life are com
ing in from all sections covered by the
storm. It is feared that over twenty
five lives have been lost in Essex
County, N. J., alone. The following are
known to have perished: Xavier Zwinge,
of Livingston, John Murphy, of Newark,
John Doyer, of Brookdale, an unknown
man called the "crazy fisherman" of
Newark, an unknown man in Newark,
John Horan Hattlerow, of Orange, an un­
known man in Irvington, one man and two
children in Hackensack, Alexander Ben­
nett, of Staten Island, an unknown man of
Staten Island, and three milkmen of Or­
ange Six others are missing.
NEWABK, N. J., March 10.—The body of
John Boe has been found buried in a drift
in the meadows: At Snow Hill, near Cam­
den, Edward Sheppard, an aged colored
man, has been found frozen to death in his
shanty.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March 16.—On
Monday John Henrinan left Milltown to
walk to Baritan. He has not been heard of
since. Neighbors found his wife dead in
bed and his children starving.
STREWN WITH WRECKS.
LEWES, DeL, March 16.—The story of the
shipwrecks and less of life between Sandy
Hook and Cape Charles between Sunday
afternoon and Monday noon can not be told
in full for many days, if ever.
The harbor is filled with wrecks of un­
known vessels, in some cases bottom up­
ward. Tbe probabilities are that the crews
of many of these craft have perished to
a man. Among the, vessels lost was the
barge Hazeltine, Captain Yan rk, and
crew of five men. The bark Briminga had
a crew of twenty-three all told, twenty-two
of whom were lost. A number of bodies
were washed ashore The tug Simpson is
sunk in the harbor. A corrected list of the
vessels ashore includes two barkentines,
seveeteen schooners, two pilot-boats and
two tugs. Three men are known to have
been lost from these vessels.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16. A Cam­
bridge (Md.) letter reports the Savenia
North capsized off Hill Point and the only
two men on board drowned Several ves­
sels were ashore in Crannery bay. The
Julia Cook, of Cambridge, is reported lost
with all on board. The General Logan is
reported wrecked at Castle Haven, and
Captain C. Eaton and crew of six were
drowned
TRACK-CLEABERS KILLED.
EASTON. Pa, March 16.—A horrible acci­
dent by which three men lost their lives oc­
curred Wednesday afternoon on the New
Jersey division of the Lehigh Valley road
at Three Bridges, N. J. Four engines with
two wreck cars, containing 100
men, left here in the morning
to open up the road Nearly
100 snow-drifts were plowed when
they arrived at a large drift on a short
curve below Three Bridges. Their speed
was increased and the four engines dashed
into the drift with great force. The first
engine left the rails and in less than a min­
ute three of the engines were wrecked and
two of them overturned. Three men were
killed.
William Shields, general agent of the
Morris A Essex railroad at Washington,
N. J., started east Wednesday with four en­
gines coupled together to open snow-drifts
on that line. The engines ran into a mon­
ster drift below H^ckettstown, and jumped
the track. Engineer Baker, of the first lo­
comotive, was killed by the engine being
overturned.
Does Not Want a Pension.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 16.—
Mra Hen­
dricks, the widow of the late Yice-Presi
dent, complains that she has been grossly
misrepresented in a recent interview cred­
iting her with censuring the Democratio
party because it had not procured a pension
for hen She says: I never at any
time felt or expressed myself in terms com­
plaining that the widows of Generals Lo­
gan and Black should receive pensions. I
am rejoiced to know that those ladies are
likely to receive pensions. It is a great
mistake that I ever alluded to a pension
for myself. I have thought, and so ex­
pressed myself, that the Government
shonld give me the Falary that would have
oeen due mv husband."