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PUBLISHED EVEP.*' THURSDAY AT
THE WOULD AT LA11GE.
Summary of the Daily New .
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Count De Foresta, a secretary of the
Italian Legation at Washington, has been
appointed to the Legation at Brussels. He
will be succeeded at Washington by
Signor Denitto.
A telegram has been received at Wash-
ington from General Stanley, confirming
the press reports of the arrest of himself
and aide at Austin, Tex., while executing
an order of ejectment from the Secretary
of War. What further action in the mat-
ter would be taken by the Government had
not been determined.
The President has granted a pardon in
the case of Bishop A. A. Kimball, con-
victed at the September term of the First
District Court of Utah of polygamy and
sentenced to eight months' imprisonment.
The prisoner is in an advanced stage of
consumption.
Michael Keating, a messenger in the
War Department, fell down a stairway
area in that building in Washington re-
cently and was instantly killed. He was
intoxicated.
It is stated positively at the Department
of State that no demand for indemnity had
been made in the case of the steamer
Haytien Republic. Mr. Morse, owner of
the vessel, recently requested Secretary
Bayard to demand $*250,000 indemnity.
The Secretary informed him in reply that
there was no need of haste in the matter
and that the question of damages could be
best determined after the vessel had ar-
rived at New York.
The State Department after inquiry
could find no grounds for interference in
the case of the brig Josefa, fined $4,000 for
being short twenty packages of corn
Btarch at Porto Rico.
The boiler of Hastings' sawmill, at Gold
Hill, near Boulder, Col., exploded the other
day. Four men were killed.
In the live bird shooting match at
Cincinnati the other day, between Captain ,
T mT7,v . c ,'Bogardrs and Al Bandle, the score re- |
OA^i ADIAx i • " j gulte«i: Bandle, 100; Bogardus, 95.
jncexdiar1es destroyed the big sawmill
atNorrie, Wis., during the recent storm,
causing $65,000 lo->s.
William Westerxberger died of hy-
drophobia at Logan, O., recently. The
night prior to his death the physicians put
him in a straight-jacket, which he soon
tore to pieces. It took four or five strong
men to hold him when attacked by a con-
vulsion.
Ex-Judge Roberta. Johnson commit-
ted suicide at Avondale, near Cincinnati
recently. About two months ago Mrs.
Johnston died, and the Judge was unable
to withstand his grief.
A grocery store on South State street,
Chicago, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire early the other morning, and an un-
known man, supposed to have been a burg-
lar, was burned to death. A barrel of oil
exploded during the fire and Frank Polo,
who was standing outside the store, was
fatally burned.
Governor Oglesby's daughter, Olive,
was married recently to Chester Allen
Snider, o? Kansas City, at St. Paul's Epis-
copal Church, Springfield, 111.
Near Terpp, Dak., the other morning a
number of Russian settlers got into a
quarrel with American settlers over the
possession of a goose. The result was
that séveral Russians wrere stabbed, but
not fatally, while one of the Americans
was iatallv injured.
E. L. Harper, the Cincinnati bank
wrecker who became insane recently, has
recovered so far that he has been again
placed at work in the Ohio penitentiary.
The lamp of a sleeping pumpman in the
Norrie mine near Ironwood, Mich., caused
$7,000 damage the other night.
Two men were overcome by foul gas in
a well afc Saline, Mich., recently and died
before they could be rescued.
Michael Keely, the noted Chicago
brewer, died the other morning, aged
fifty-nine.
The contest between Joe McAuliffe, the
champion heavy weight of the Pacific
coast, and Jackson, the colored champion
fiom Australia which occurred at the
gymnasium of the California Athletic
Club at San Francisco on the night of the
28th, was won by Jackson after twenty-
four rounds.
The taxes of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company for the current fiscal year,
amounting to $502,000, wrere paid into the
California Treasury on the 28th. The
Southern Pacific statement just issued
shows the total earnings for the past year
to be $32,569,000; operating expenses $28,-
000 000.
Mrs. Henry Martin and Miss Kate
Powers, two ladies living in one of the
suburbs of Chicago, while driving across
the Rook Island road track at Forty-sev-
enth street recently, were struck by a
locomotive and instantly killed, their
bodies being terribly mutilated before the
train could be stopped.
Amrlie Thurin, seventeen years of age,
who was employed as a domestic in a
Chicago private family, upon retiring blew
out the gas and was found dead in bed the
next morning.
The final dividend of 20 per cent., mak-
ing the amount paid 100per cent., has been
paid by the Comptroller of the Treasury
to the creditors of the Second National
Bank of Xenia, O.
Fire in Dongola, II!., the other morning
destroyed eight business houses, causing
THJtf EAST.
Two brothers named Van Wormer were
>nangled to death recently by a train near
Binghamton, N. Y.
John Burke stabbed and probably
fatally wounded Michael Moore during a
drunken quarrel the other evening. The
men were visiting two servant girls at 40
West Nineteenth street, New York. Burke
escaped.
Annie Jones, who eloped from Utica, N.
Y., recently wit?h Walter Smith, a dry
goods ele**k, was arrested at a hotel at
Montreal where she was stopping and sent
homr.. Her lover was left behind.
Th£ trustees of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, have decided to open on
Sunduys from noon to six o'clock and on
two week day evenings for the benefit of
the working classes.
A panic occurred at York, Pa., due to a
collapsing floor at an entertainment
Christmas night. Three hundred persons
had narrow escapes, and many were
bruised.
Two young ladies named Smith were
drowned near East Brady, Pa., by a boat
upsetting Christmas day. The two young
men with them and another girl were res-
cued in an exhausted condition.
James G. Blaine has been appointed
one of the Maine Commissioners to the
centennial celebration of Washington's
inauguration in New York, April 30.
Mme. Gaston de Foulliat, a sister of
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and the wife of a
French nobleman, has joined the Roman
Catholic Church in New York City.
Hon. James T. Moffett, Congressman
from the Twenty-fifth district of Penn-
sylvania, has been admitted to the asylum
at North Warren as a private patient.
The difficulty seems to be excessive nerv-
ousness, which was brought on by the
arduous labors of the recent campaign.
The New York Graphic has changed
hands and also changed politics. Here-
after it will be Republican and strongly
in favor of a protective tariff.
The mutilated remains of a human body
in two parcels were found in East Fair-
mount Park, Philadelphia, on the 20th.
Indications v.*ero that a terrible crime had
been committed.
Executions have been issued against
Robert C. Tot ten, of the firm of Totten &
Co., iron founders and machinists of Pitts-
burgh, Pa., for $114,000. The cause of the
embarrassment was not known.
Douglas Henry, a New York stock
broker, has suspended Lusiness. He had
no outstanding contracts.
The late Syive3ter Bowman, of Newton,
Mass., provided by will that upon his
grandson's death the Massachusetts Gen-
eral Hospital and Tuft's College shall re-
ceive $50,000 each.
No assignments of places in the coming
inaugural parade will be made until a
week before March 4. One hundred Colo-
rado cowboys are expected to partici-
pate.
By an explosion of naphtha in the cool-
ing room of Apsley & Coffin's rubber
factory, Marlborough, Mass., recently one
man was killed, another badly burned and
$7,000 damage done.
A National Scientific Association
was organized at Ithaca, N. Y., on the27th
by leading Eastern scientists, with Prof.
James Hall, New York State Geologist, as
president.
The annual banquet of the Massachu-
setts Tariff Reform Lsague w*as held at
the Hotel Vendóme, Boston, on the night
of the 28th. There was a large attendance.
Letters of regret were read from Presi-
dent? Cleveland, Speaker Carlisle and crther
prominent politicians.
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TJUS
The overland eastbound Central Pa-
cific train was held up by robbers near
Clipper Gap, in the Sierras, on the 25th
and robbed of a large amount of money,
said to be $50,000.
Five men were killed and two badly
hurt by the falling of earth in an excava-
tion at Denver, Col., on the 26th. The ac-
cident was due to carelessness on the part
of the gas company m laying a pipe.
A broken switch at Helena, Mont., on
the 2t>tb, caused the death of a fireman
named Moore and serious injury of a pas-
senger. The engine and one coach were
overturned.
$35,000 loss.
Forty settlers crossed the Canadian
river at Pur cell, I. T., recently bound for
Oklahoma.
THE SOUTH.
A serious fire destroyed the Western
Union telegraph office and other buildings
at Marion, Ala., recently. Loss not stated.
At Jackson, Miss., the other day, Lem-
uel Roseman stabbed and killed Frank
Hughes, colored, a barber, in a dispute
about 25 cents.
Miss Mary Kensard, one of the injured
in the railway collision at Bardstown,
Ky., has died in Louisville from the effects
of her injur.es.
By an explosion in an iron mill at Wheel-
W. Va., the other day Wiilia%i Miles bad
both eyes burned out and was otherwise
disfigured. Two other men were badly in
jured.
Farmer Chambers was shot and killed
recently at Alma, Ark., by Georga Keyes,
who was carelessly handling a pistol.
The other night a kouse near Harrison-
burg, Va., in which a number of colored
people were holding a party, was blown up
with dynamite and some of ci-,6 iumates, it
is said, were seriously injured.
The Commercial of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
a Republican campaign paper, has sus
pended. Lack of support was the cause.
The Richmond (Va.) Whig has sus
pended. Its goodwill was purchased by
the Richmond Times.
The report of a race war at Lamar,
Miss., was denied.
The Louisville (Ky.) Trotting Associa-
tion, John E. Green, president, has ceased
to exist.
Michael O'Map.a. aged twenty-three,
tripped and fell while hunting near Fiein-
ingsburg. Ky., the other day, and his gun
was discharged, killing his eleven-year-
old brother Robert.
Prof. Paul Combs, a member of the fac-
ulty of the Maryland Agricultural College,
was drowned recently in Breton's bay, St.
Mary's County, Md. He was gunning for
ducks and was standing up in his boat just
about to fire, when the sail shifted and
knocked him overboard. The body was
not found. The accident was seen from
the shore by Combs' mother and others of
the family.
The other night the west bound train on
the Cincinnati, Selma & Mobile was de-
railed about five miles fiom Selma, Ala.
Two coaches were partially turned over
and the passengers badly shaken up, but
nobody was seriously hurt. There was
also an accident in the morning near
Selma, on the East Tennessee road, by
which sixteen passengers w ere bruised up.
It is said a tobacco pool has been formed
at Loaisville, Ky., under the name of the
Tobacco Board Consolidation.
Thk State of Texas, it is announced, has
issued its last patents for public lands.
What has not been taken up belongs now
to schools, asylums, etc.
THE LATEST.
An escaped Soudanese has offered to
bring General Gordon's clothes, sword and
papers, which are said to be hidden near
Berber.
John and Wiley Matthews, two of the
condemned Bald Kuobbers, escaped from
the Ozark, Mo., jail, together with five men
charged with train robbery. The Walkers
refused to go. The escape was effected by
friends of the Bald Kuobbers working
from the outside.
Clearing house returns for week ended
December 29 showed an average increase
of 19.6 compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the in-
crease was 25 4.
The London Stock Exchange was active
and advanced during the week ended De-
cember 29. American railroads had a
sharp rise, but weakened toward the end
of the week, T e Continental bourses
were depressed with prices tending down-
ward.
Richter calculates from recent statistics
that Germany has at her disposal in the
event of war an army of 3,513,416 com-
pletely drilled men, not counting the re-
serves and the landsturm, which are not
drilled in the time of peace.
The London police have received and
traced to their origin, letters which lead
hem to believe that "Jack the Ripper"
was living in the vicinity of Diury lane.
They did not accept the theory that the
Whitechapel fiend had any thing to do
with the murder and mutilation of little
John Gill, at Bradford.
It has been discovered that the vault of
the Uniled State* sub-trea*ury in the cus-
tom house of Baltiuvore, Md., was robbed
of $1,243 in standard silver dollars, April
¿5, but the robbery was kept secret in the
hope that the thief might be surprised and
captured.
A causeless run was made on the Ger-
man-American Savings Bank of Burling-
ton, Iowa, the other day, but it lasted only
a short time and had no bad effects.
More battles with oyster pirates have
been reported off the Maryland coast. In
one of the engagements Captain Shores
was wounded. In anotber five dredging
schooners were captured by the State
navy.
At the request of the Acting Secretary
of War Attorney-General Garland has in-
structed the United States District At-
torney at Austin, Tex., to take the neces-
sary steps for the defense of General
Stanley, U. S. A., recently arrested in that
city while in the execution of his official
duties.
The President has ordered the removal
of Edward Cushing. collector of cus ton *
¡at Belfast, Me., because of charges that he
had accepted money from applicants for
positions.
It is said that Dr. Alexander E. M. Mc-
Donald, general superintendent of the in-
sane asylum on Wards island, has become
insane. He was one of the experts whose
testimony convicted Guiteau, the assassin
oí President Garfield.
GENERAL
The cotton operatives and factory own-
ers of Bolton, England, are engaged in a
dispute, which will probably end in a lock-
out, because the masters think bad work
is being done.
A number of Soudan dervishes have
arrived in Constantinople on a secret mis-
sion.
General Loris Melikoff, the famous
Russian officer, died recently, aged sixty-
four.
The second official inquiry into the cir-
cumstances of the late alleged accident to
the Czar's train at Borkia, has resulted in }
ascribing the disaster to crime and not to
accident.
Brussels has been thrown into a fer-
ment of excitement by the reception by
prominent people of cards and telegrams
announcing the advent in the quaint old
city of the famous "Jack the Ripper," of
Whitechapel notoriety. King Leopold,
the prefect of police and the court minis-
ters are among the recipients of this mys-
terious being's delicate attentions.
Alfred Vance, a noted London music
hall singer, was seized the other night with
an attack of heart disease while on the
stage, and died in a few minutes. He was
singing at the time the latest concert hall
song, entirled, "Are You Guilty?"
Gladstone decided not to visit Rome.
The Bulgarian budget show's a deficit of
12,00 >,000 francs.
Messrs. Sheehy and Finnucane, Na-
tionalist members of the British Parlia-
ment, have been summoned to answer to
the charge of inciting tenants to adopt in-
timidation.
The Lord Mayor of London will give a
farewell banquet in honor of United
States Minister and Mrs. Phelps January
24.
A false alarm of fire in the Berliner
Theater, Berlin, the other night, caused a
temporary panic, but no one was injured.
Judge Lambert Tree, the new United
States Minister to Russia, arrived in St.
Petersburg on the 27th.
Several shocks of earthquake were felt
on the 27th in Eastern and Southeastern
Spain.
Tns American brigantine Josefa was
fined $4,000 by the Spanish authorities at
Porto Rico, because of a few packages of
corn starch being missing which were
marked on the manifest. The owners have
made complaint to Secretary Bayard, on
the ground that the fine was outrageous
for a trivial mistake.
Prince Karageorgevitch is dead. He
leaves a fortuue to his brother, the pre-
tender of the Servian throne.
Fine cod fishing grounds have been dis-
covered off Queen Charlotte's islands,
British America.
Charles Shaw-Lefebre, Viscount Ev-
ersley, died recently, aged ninety-four
years. He was for many years a promi-
uent British statesman.
Business failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended December 27 numbered
299. compared with 311 the previous week
and 263 the corresponding week last year.
The fast trial trips of the new dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius in Delaware bay were
pronounced a success.
A shell burst in a powder magazine at
Messina, S'cily, the other morning, killing
sixteen soldiers and injuring many others.
Prado, the murderer of Marie Aguetant,
was guillotined at Paris on the morning of
the 28th. He refused to confess and died
protesting his innocence. He had been a
companion of Pranzini, guillotined some
time ago for a similaroffense.
BUENING STEAMER.
A. Magnificent Vessel of the Old
Colony Line Burned at New-
port. 4
Timoly Escape of the Passengers—
Loss About S30Ü,000—Powder y
Explosion.
Seven Colored Persons Drowned While
Crossing the Ohio—Policeman Diet
From Hydrophobia.
Newport, R. I. Dec. 31.—The steamer
Bristol of the Old Colony line, which ar-
rived from New York about 2:30 o'clock
yesterday morning, was found to be on fire
at 6:20 a. m., and in a short time was de-
stroyed. No one was injured, though a
few Newport passengers, who had re-
mained in their staterooms to await a con-
venient hour for rising, had narrow es-
capes and some of them lost all their cloth-
ing. All the baggage, however, was saved.
The freight had also been landed before
the fire broke out. The Fall River and
Boston passengers had all departed in the
last train, leaving just as the alarm was
given.
The fire started near the kitchen and
spread very rapidly. The fire department
of Newport, together with the police force,
exerted themselves in every possible wray
to ch«ck the flames, but the joiner work of
the staterooms, saloons and stairways was
as dry as tinder and draughts through
the steamer caused a fearfully rapid spread
of the flames, so that before the city fire
department arrived there was a mass of
fire sweeping her almost from stem to
stern.
Three alarms were sounded in rapid suc-
cession. Thousands of citizens were also
attracted to the spot by the brilliant illu-
mination of the volume of fire and clouds
of smoke which rose from the burning
steamer. The fire apparatus on the steam-
er was brought into use as soon as the
flames were discovered and the crew
worked with great vigor to save the boat
but in vain.
Some of the passengers still on board
did not understand the meaning of the
first alarm, and were only roused by the
crackling of the flames near by. All suc-
ceeded in escaping, but some with only a
portion of their clothing, and others by
crawling over the railing near to burning
timber. One man, with two little children
—a boy and a girl—who occupied a state-
room, was awakened by the sound of
crackling flames and barely escaped with
his little ones undressed, but with their
clothing in their hands. Another young
man had to borrow clothing in which to go
to his home in this city. All the personal
baggage of the passengers was saved.
When the department arrived the upper
decks and center of the steamer were a
mass of llames, which gave out such in-
tense heat that it could scarcely be borne
at a distance of several hundred feet. This
greatly impeded the work of the firemen.
The flames had gamed such headway that
they c^uld only be fought from the wharf-
side, while the great heat and flyingsparks
endangered buildings on the docks and
steamers lying on either side of the wharf
and a constant effort was required on
the part of the firemen to prevent
them from igniting. A dozen streams
were soon pouring into the flames with
little apparent effect for over an hour,
while o: hers were employed in drenching
the dock and buildings. The steamer
Pilgrim, which wa* in the greatest danger,
was, with some difficulty, got safely out
of the range of the flames, and was kept
drenched with water from her own ap-
paratus. In the slip to the north lay tho
freight steamer New Bedford, which had
to be kept constantly drenched, and even
then did take fire about noon, but the
flames were extinguished before serious
damage was done.
Shortly before three o'clock in the after-
noon the flames were under such control
as to permit a few firemen to board the
steamer and work from outside the guards
of the lower and second decks. At 8:15
the port hog frame fell in, and soon after
the port smoke stack fell in and the star-
board side fell about noon. Two firemen
were injured. The crew lost all their
clothing and the orchestra their music.
powder explosion.
Everson, Pa., Dec. 31.—About eight
o'clock last evening in Brown row, belong-
ing to the H. C. Prick Coke Company, two
kegs of blasting powder in a house oc-
cupied by Poles, who were preparing the
powder for their work in the mines to-day,
exploded from a spark from a pipe and
seveu of the men were frightfully burned.
Fuloak is the most seriously injured, the
flesh being almost totally burned off his
legs, arms aud back. It is supposed lie
was standing between the kegs when the
explosion occurred. Joseph Chrenchick's
feet were almost blown off and nraputation
will probably be necessary. The others
were burned principally about the hands
and arms and their injuries are not seri-
ous, Four houses were burned.
seven drowned.
Riplev, O., Dec. 31. — Yesterday morning
a soort distance from here Mrs. Turner
and her little daughter, a daughter of
George Cloyd, three Brooks brothers anda
man whose name is not known, all colored,
attempted to cross the river from Kentucky
to Ohio in a small boat. At some distance
from tbe shore waves from two passing
steamboats capsized their little craft and
all seven occupants were drowned. Their
cries for help were beard by persons on
the steamboats, but darkness prevented
the rendering of assistance. All who per-
ished lived in Kentucky. None of the
bodies have yet been recovered.
hydrophobia again.
St. Louis, Dec. 31.—Police Officer Henry
Fehle, of this city, died a horrible death
from hydrophobia Friday night. Last
September while walking his beat he was
bitten on the right leg by a dog but
thought nothing of the wound. Wednes-
day the leg began to swell and Thursday
he was taken down with violent symptoms
of hydrophobia. He passed from one co¿
vulsion into anotber and finally died in
great agony Friday night. Dr. Bernays,
who attended him, says the case was gen-
uine hydrophobia.
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.
Interesting Papers Read Before the A met*
lean Historical Association.
Washington, Dec. 28.—When the Amer-
ican Historical Association met yesterday
morning in the lecture room of the Nation—
al museum A. C. McLaughlin, assistant,
professor of history in the University of
Michigan, read a paper upon the influence
of Governor Cass upon the development
of the Northwest.
Frederick J. Turner of Johns Hopkins*
University read a paper prepared byProf^
W. F. Allen, of the Unive^ity of Wiscon-
sin, on the position of the Northwest i ,
general history. Prof. Allen emphasized,
four points as of special interest: First,
that the title to the Northwest belonged to«
three great nations—Spain, France and
England—which in the sixteenth, sevens
teenth and eighteenth centuries, respect-
ively, possessed the acknowledged leader—
ship among the European Slates; second
that the leadership acquired by England
ia the eighteenth century was integrally
associated with the building up of the
British empire and the decisive act.
in the formation of this empire was
the acquisition from France of that
enormous tract of territory of which
the Northwest was the center;
third, that the imperial destiny of
the United States hung upon the posses-
sion of the Northwest as but for the
military success of Governor Rogers Clarkv
and the diplomatic skill of the commis-
sioners in negotiating the treaty of peace
in securing just this territory, the domain
would have been contracted and it was
not likely that there would have been the-
courage to make the purchase of Louisiana*
and the subsequent acquisition; fourth,
that tho development of the National
policy was closely connected with, and in.
fact took shape in the ordinance which
organized this territory. The Territorial
system, the policy of creating new States
and the National guaranty of personal
freedom, universal education and religious
liberty, he said, found their first expres-
sion in the great act which provided for
the government of the Northwest.
RAILROAD BUILDING.
Mr'
Over Seven Thousand Miles of New Main
Track Constructed During: the Year.
Chicago, Dpc. 28.—The Railway Age
says: Notwithstanding the widespread
impression that tbe additions to the rail-
way system of the United States during
1888 would be comparatively insignificant,
the evidence is now before us that the
railway mileage of the country was in-
creased during the year by no less than
7,120 miles of main track. While ibis
is much less than the pheno-
menal increase in the year 1887,
1886, 1882 and 1881, when the new mileage
**as respectively 13,000, 9,000, 11.500 and
9,97G miles, the record for the past year
exceeds that of every other year in his-
tory, with the exception of 1871, when
7,379 miles were added. New track was
laid in all but two of the fortv-seven.
States and Territories, the ex-
ceptions being Rhode Island and
Nevada. Kansas still leads the
list in the extent of new mileage and she
has done so for several years. California
comes next. Only about twenty linea
built more than 100 miles each; those
doing the largest amount being the
Chicago, Kansas &; Nebraska, 412L
miles; St. Paul, Minneapolis &; Mani-
toba, 427 miles; tho the South-
ern Pacific, through various sub-
sidiary companies, a little over three hun-
dred miles. This is important as showing
how the nature of the work of railway
construction changed in a single year.
The building of great competitive lines
has practically ceased and the year's
work was chiefly devoted to the construc-
tion of short independent lines or branches.
ANOTHER VESSEL SEIZED.
Spanish Authorities at Porto Rico Seize a
Vessel For ail Alleged Trivial Matter.
Philadelphia, Dec. 27.—The brigantine
Josefa, which arrived afc this point Tues-
day from Montego Bay, Jamaica, while
discharging cargo on her outward trij>
from New York to Arroyo, Porto Rico,
was found to b3 lacking twenty packages
of corn starch which were marked on the
vessel's manifest. The vessel was
seized by the Spanish authorities,
who held her until a fine of iH,00()
was paid, although the value of the goods
in question did not exceed $29. The
master and crew were forced to suffer
many indignities at the hauds of the Gov-
ernor of the island and officials acting
under his authority. The authorities
offered to settle the matter if the captain
of the vtessel could satisfactorily explain
the wherebouts of the missing packages
After the fine had been paid it was ascer-
tained that tlfe missing goods were
delivered by mistake on board the
ship Josephus, which lay next
to the Josefa in New York but
were placed on the Josefa's mani-
fest. Explanations were made to the
Spanish authorities and tbe return of tlie
fine was requested but was refused, and
the vessel left for this city. James Brett
of New York, managing owner of the Jo-
sefa, has filed a complaint against the
Spanish Goverument with Secretary Bay-
ard. It will be urged that the war ships,
Galena and Yautic, shall bo ordered to
continue their cruise to Porto Rico and.
summarily secure redress for the impqsi—
tion suffered by the Josefa.
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The Youthful Blizzard.
Chicago, Dec. 27.—The gale which pre-
vailed in this vicinity yesierday afternoon,;
and up to midnight was very severe, al-
though it did little damage. A brisk snovr
storm is in progress this morning.
Dispatches from Iowa, Northern Illi-
nois and Wisconsin indicate the preva-
lence of a severe storm. At Waver—
ly, la., at midnight a foot of snovr
had fallen, and tbe fierce gale piled-
it into huge drifts. Railroads in that
vicinity were badly blocked, but train*
were still running. Machester, la., re-
ports that from Emmetsburg to the Da-
kota line there is an average fall of on#
inch; between Emmeteburg and Chick*
as aw about six inches and east of Chick-
asaw to the Mississippi about two inches .
Twelve inches of snow fell at Marshall*
town*and the wind is drifting it badly. <.
Wausau and Eau Clair, Wis., report a
six-inch fall which has gladdened tbe
hearts of the loggers.
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