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THE HERALD.
ft CHRISTMAS BLIZZARD.
The Northwest Experiences
Some Cold Weather.
AT DENVER IT IS MILD.
Horace Greeley's Partner Celebrat
ed His Colden Weddlnn Christmas-Father
Henrlcl 19
Dead.
Y EST U R I . Y'S HI.I ZZ A R I.
Sr. PAI L, Minn., Dec. 25. -The
northwest today experienced the
coldest weather registered so far
this winter.
In this city this morning the mer
cury stood at 1(5 to 18 below
zero. The weather throughout the
day was bright, but bitterly cold
with a cutting wind.
Fergus F'a I Is reports 'Ja below;
Winnepeg, 22; Moorehead, U; Saint
Vincent, 22; Duluth, 12; Lacrosse,
12; Bismarck, 17,
It appears to be slightly wanner
in the far northwest.
At 9 o'clock this evening the
thermometer in this city registered
ll5 below zero.
Denver, Col., Dec IT), Denver en
joyed perfect spring weather, pro
bably as pleasant a Christmas as
has ever been experienced in this
section. Although there is some
snow on the ground, the warm sun
of yesterday and today has melted
it considerably, and tonight at t)
o'clock the weather is clear and
mild.
St. Louts, Mo., Dec. 2a. The ther
inouieter went down to 1 degree be
low zero.
Chic ago, 111., Dec. 2.'). Today was
the coldest in the last three years
AtG o'clock this afternoon the mer
cury was far below zero and stead
ily decending' a wind going at 'I!.")
miles an hour from the north ad
ding to the uncomfortable atmos
phere.
New York. Dec. 2a. A biting
wind driving sharp particles of
snow before it with the mercury
around the 20 degree mark was the
record of the weather here today.
The steamship Hermann, which
plys between Antwerp, Boston and
this port, left Boston Friday. She
hail hardly got out to sea when Un
wind began to blow briskly fro,li
the northwest and brought with it
the worst weather, Captain Meyer,
the skipper, says he experienced.
The inbound steamers were all late
today and arrived inerustcd with
ice,
():f Block island, the I'ilgrim and
City of Taunton met with a big
blow. Their paddle boxes were so
filled with ice that the wheels
turned with difficulty.
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 2a. Snow
began fallingat 2 o'clock this after
noon and for three hours there was
a steady fall. At o'clock tonight
the temperature was 20 degrees
above zero, having fallen 0 degrees
in three hours.
HORAC E ;re elky's partner.
Sim; Sim;, N. Y., Dec. 2a. General
James B. Swain of this viliagc and
his wife celebrated their golden
wedding quietly here today. They
were married on Christmas evening
1S12. General Swain has a remark
able history. lie began life after
leaving school as an apprentice in
printing office in ls:J4. Horace
Greeley worked with him. Later
General Swain and Mr. Greeley
went into partnership, butdissolved
in IS 10. The firm was known as
Horace Greeley & Co. They started
the Log Cabin and were co-editors
of it. General Swain later edited
the "Life and Letters of Henry
Clay."
FATHER 1IE.NRK I DEAD.
PlTTsiiUKU, Pa., Dec. 2a. Jacob
Ilenrici, senior trustee of the Kcon
omite society of Kcouomy, died at 8
o flock this morning, aged eighty
eight years. This society, of which
Father Ilenrici was leader, is com
posed ol about 500 people, all celi
bates, and are worth from $5,000,000
to $10,000,0110. They make up the
town of Kcouomy, about six miles
west of Pittsburg. The Kconomite
society gained notice some months
ago through Dr. Teed, the Kore
shan, who tried to cet control ol the
money of the society. Jojm Ihiss,
a trustee, will probably be Father
Ilenrici successor. Duss has been
friendly to Dr. Teed.
WANTED Twenty teams at once,
to haul ice.
II. C. McMaken it Son.
J 1 " K'aaisey last evening mar
ried Henry II. Ilardnian and Miss
Hattio A. McConn.
IMPROVING EVERY PAY.
Washington, D.C., Dec 2(5. "Mr.
Blaine is getting along nicely," was
Dr. Johnson's reply to the question
us to the condition of Mr. Blaine's
health. The hour was 0;H0 ami the
physicians hail just emerged from
the threshold of the historic man
sion on Lafayette tqtiarc. He had
remained with his distinguished
patient just :!() minutes by the
watch and so well satisfied was he
with the improvement shown that
he will not return to the house
again tonight.
When asked as to the probability
of Mr. Blaine's removal in the near
future. Dr. Johnson's reply was
that he never had but one state
ment to make about that: "That
such a contingency was to remote
to be discussed." At present Mr.
Blaine wi.s doing very well,
and it was his condition each day
that concerned him rather than
what it might be one week or one
month hence.
When asked a day or two ago if
Mr. Blaine was permitted to sit up,
his reply was that he would not
be permitted to do so even if that
was his inclination.
Today was generally observed as
a holiday. Mr. Blaine's house was
brilliantly lighted this evening and
there was every-where maintained
a cheerfullnet-s not observable in
members of the family for many
days past.'
DISEASE RIDDEN IIAMHURO.
IlAMHURG, Dec. 25. Two children
living in the Bergesche strasse fell
ill on Thursday with cholera anil
todav two more in the same house
with them were stricken. Kppen
dorf hospital is treating forty-eight
cases of cholera, some of virulent
type. There was one death from
cholera today. Without doubt th
disease is making steady though
slow progress. General uneasiness
prenails, especially in mercantile
circles, which are still under the
burdens of last fall's losses. In
crease in the sick list and dealh
rate would mean within a few weeks
that all opportunity of making!
good recent reverses would be lost,
EL1XTIOX RETURNS STOLEN.
Long Island City, L. I., Dec. 2(1.
Assist, it Ci't Clerk Hayes, in coin
pliance witli an order issued by
Justice Jlartlett of Brooklyn Satur
day, competing him to return the
election returns of the last
election to the inspectors
for correction, went to the
city clerk's office this morning only
to find the returns missing. The
policemen have been on guard in
the city clerk's o flic. v. since the elec
tion ami declare no one has been in
the safe. Mayor Gleason says no
one lias the combination to Un
safe except. City Clerk Burk and
Assistant Hayes, and does not see
how the returns could be stolen
since the police have been on duty.
There is great excitement.
Detts la Taken In.
Deputy Sheriff A. C. Langdon yes
terday arrested Gorham Bells at
.Nebraska City, against whom an in
dictnio'nt was found last week by
the gWmd jury in connection with
the asylum investigation. Beds is
the fifth man on the list of the ar
rested and the sixth against whom
it is known that indictment s were
found. Belts' offense was in con
nection with the coal contract. He
was a member of the firm of Belts &
Weaver, to whom the contract was
originally a wanted, and it was af
terwards, upon the failure of the
firm transferred, the White Breast
coal company, of which John Dor
gun is local manager, finally get
ting hold of il. It is generally sup
posed that Betts furnished tin
brain work in working tin? scheme
by which the coal deal was man
aged, lie at the time of the arrest
was traveling for Trestor, the coal
dealer of Lincoln. The deputy says
that when arrested he evinced no
surprise and remarked that he sup
posed he would he caught in tin
same net when he heard the other
coal men were indicted. Relatives
and others were looking up bail and
it is supposed the bond will Ke
inade tonight.
Farmers, Attention.
Tin-Farmers' Mutual Insurance
Company will hold their annual
meeting at the licit school house,
KightMile Grove precinct, Satur
day, Jan. 7, lS'.U, at 1 p. m., for the
purpose of electing officers and
transacting such business as may
properly come before the meeting.
J. P. Falter, Sec.
Leave orders for hair chains at K.
G. Dovey & Son or Frank Carruth's
jewelry slore.
THE STOCK IN DANGER
The Blizzard in Oklahoma So-
vere on Stock.
THEY WANT A VOICE
A Human Lob Found Wound Around
a Brake Rod -A Peculiar Claim
Betorn Congress Other
Telegraphic News.
RANGE STOCK IN DANGER.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 20.-Kan
sas, Oklahoma and the West gen
erally are experiencing a genuine
Christmas blizzard today which
threatens not only to block rail
road travel, but also to do great
damage to slock on the ranges
south of Kansas and the strip if it
continues for many hours. Last
night a,driz.ling rain began early in
the evening which continued al
most to day light, when it gave way
to driving snow, the wind having
meantime shifted around to the
northeast and the temperature
growing colder. The snow kept up
all day, ami before night it had de
veloped into a regular blizzard,
coming straight from the frozen
regions of the north. Several
inches of snow fell and drifted
badly. Scattering reports from
Kansas and the Southwest gener
ally show that the railroads are in
trouble from drifted snow in the
cuts on the prairie, and as a rule
trains are all late. Hardly any at
tempt is being made to run trains
on the roads west from Kansas
City.
ANXIOUS FOR ITrUKNSllir.
Kb Reno, O. T., Dec. 2li.-Tlie
more intelligent class of Indians
are highly pleased with the pros
pect of the turn legislation in con
gress is apt to take, as indicated by
the report of the last few days.
They argue that in the creation of
a state, with full power conferred
upon them as citizens, they would
have some voice in their own gov
ernment, and that this would be a
big inducement for the breaking
no of their tribal relations. Associa
tion with the whites would very
materially assist in the advance
ment of the educational umt indus
trial institutions of different tribes,
Wolf Robe, oue of the most intelli
gent and progressive Indians in
the Territory, expresses the hope
that the plans advanced by Senator
Perkins may take definite shape
and much good lo the Indians fol
low. An Indian in congress would
be amongst the probabilities.
SEVERED FROM THE 1IODY.
Moiierly, Mo., Dee.2'1. -When the
Wabash fast freight reached here
this morning the remains of a hu
man leg were found wound around
a brake rod. It had been dragged
a long distance over the cross-tits.
When the limb was removed il was
found to be that of a man torn from
his body, and presented a sickening,
spectacle. It was devoid of cloth
ing, the bones were broken i n to
shreds.
The balance of the body was lo
cated at Warrenton, and the leg
was at once shipped to that point.
From letters found upon t lie body
it is supposed to be that of a young
man named Ruhrer, whose home is
in the country, near Warrenton.
The train was a through freight,
and lie is supposed to have fallen
under the car and had been torn to
pieces while trying to emerge from
a box car after riding out
from some point near St. Louis.
WANTS pay for gettyhiu rg.
Washing-ion, D. C, Dec. 20. A
peculiar claim before congress is
that of a Maryland man who mak"s
the prodigious claim that he saved
the battle of Gettysburg. Inci-di-nlally
he losl a cupp'y of drugs
by confiscation at the hands of the
confederates. I b asks nothing for
saving the battle of Gettysburg,
but he submits the following ac
count of his losses, for which he
respectfully asks compensation:
I do hereby certify that the fol
lowing is a true and correct list of
tin- property destroyed for nn- by
the rebel aider and abetters, in
Wooilsboroiigh, Frederick county,
Md., for my saving the battle of
Gelt vsburg from being lost to the
government and the Union, by my
having the rebel spy arrested in
Woodsborough, Md., in lstkt, during
the Gettysburg campaign of the
war of the rebellion, in Inly, lWi'l:
Chemical preparation for horses,
cows, hogs and sheep, 300 gross,
which I sold at $1 a pack, and $120
per gross .$;t(i,0(X)
Hair tonic, 100 gross, which
Isold at 50 c a bottle an, ($js
per gross: amount 4 r
Klixir of castor oil. 10n,
which I sold at :i5c a bottle und
at $21 per gross: amount.., i
(. henncal prepared thoidace
0 gross, which I sold at 35c a
bottle and at $24 per gross-
umouiii
Chemical preparation, lini
ment tereben, 50 gross, which
1 sold at35e a bottle and at $21
per e ross
1,200
l,20(r
Real estate worth from immni.
$12,000 which I deeded for $1,500 to
save himself mid get away. Mv
whole loss in medicines destroyed
for saving the battle of Gettysburg
oy iiaving tiie relict spy arrested,
as stated, was $5,(KK). mo 0t
greatly in the plans, scheme and
devices of the rebel aiders and
abetters to injure me in every con
ceivable way.
DIED IN IT'S MOTHER'S ARMS.
Kansas, City. Mo., Dec. 27. The
ll-days-old child of an emigant
named Carl Valdo, died in its
mother's arms at the union depot
today. The child was born at sea
and could not partake of nour
ishment. The mother was unaware
of the infant's death until her at
tenlion was called to it by a police
man. When she discovered the
babe was dead her grief was pitia
ble. She and her husband were ah
sohitelypennileasand had had no
breakfast. A subscription was
made up for them among the peo
ple in the waiting room, and the
coroner took possession of the
dead baby, and they were sent on
their way to Jennings, Kas., their
destination. The baby was buried
in potters field.
ROCK FELLER'S MIINIFIC'F.NC'E.
Chicago, III.. Dec. 27.-John D.
Rockfeller has made another gift to
the University of Chicago. Tho
sum is understood to be over $l,0(X),.
000, but the exact figures are not
given out.
For the last two mouths the trus
tees of the university have been en
deavoring to persuade Mr. Rockfel
ler lo give them $2,000,000 j,( order
to carry out some of their cherished
plans.
The New York capitalist objected
to giving (hat sum outright, but
. . . I . .'At . .
siioiiniieu a proposition for a vast
sum to be given, providing certain
plans which lie suggested be car
ried out. This proposition was
submitted to the trustees today.
"I cannot give you the exact fig
ures," said one of the trustees to
day, ' but I w ill say that through
the generosity of Mr. Rochfeller wo
.now have a fund which will enable
President 1 (arper to carry forward
the institution on the broad basis
which lie conceived for it."
New York, Dec. 27. President
Harper of the University of Chi
cago arrived in this city today. In
an interview as to John I). Rocka
feller's million dollar Christmas
gift to the university he said: "For
a Christmas gift it is about the
biggest on record. Mr. Rocko
feller has been very kind to the
university and we think it especi
ally grateful lliat a citizen of Xew
York should display such muni
licence to an institute of Chicago."
i;ating pics' fekt on a wagrk.
Sr. Louis, Mo., Dec. 20,-Mike Col
lins, a laborer on coutract work, has
undertaken to eat a yard ot pigs'
feet, thrte feet every day for thirty
days, or forfeit $10 and the price of
the feet. The Let was made; on De
cember 1 with O. Weber, a dealer in
pork and pigs' feet, and it was
agreed that Collins should cat them
on O'Fallon street and Sarsfield
lane. The feet are sent over every
day to Lundt's from Weber's facto
ry, and Collins can take his own
time in consuming them on condi
tion that he leaves the bones for the
judges to certify to. Collins was
seen at Lundt's today and eceuic de
termined to win. He did not look
very happy, however, over the pros
pect of having to cat the visible
means of support of a do.en or
more pigs before he could win his
bet. Kvery evening the referees
conn- in and check up the bones
and cremate Uiein in tho stove at
Lundt's. Considerable money is
being wagered on the result.
For Girls Who Si.vj.
Christine Xilsson, the famous
songstress who now lives in a pal
atial house in Piiris, has prepared
for publication a careful and ex
plicit article of suggestions on the
voice, which the Ladies' Home Jour
nal will shortly print under tho
title of "The Study of the Voice "
The finest line ol dance pro
gramui's ever exhibited in this city
at this office. It will pay you IW
call and sec them.