Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

A Chicago dispatch reports that the embargo on railroad travel, caused by the stormy and frigid weather, is very serious. Travel between Chicago and fit. Louis was almost stopped. The postal officials report greater annoyances than have previously

been endured. In the Dubuque section the embargo is repotted as the worst in eighteen years, and from various points come 4 .reports of trains six to ten/ hours late, and of others imbedded in 1 mountainous drifts. Superintendents make announcements that they will not attempt to clear the tracks until the wind subsides. Thermometrical readings average 20 below zero, a few towns reporting one of the coldest nights of the winter. For 100 miles around Dickinson, D, T., a fierce snowstorm raged, with the temperature at zero, msiking all Northern Pacific trains several hours late. Snow and rain fell in Pennsylvania. Snow fell at Wilkesbarre reaching thirteen inches. Six' inches of snow; followed by torrents of rain, fell in the Port Jervis (N.Y.)district. Heavy rain and high tides flooded] streets in New York. The butcher stinds in Washington Market were inundat'd, and every cellar in West and South str iets was submerged. A hurricane along' the Atlantic coast . did heavy damage at Cap» May, Atlantic City, and other points, kt New York two men were fatally hurt b■ a falling shutter, another man being bio n from a building and killed. A wind-i :orm at Denver, Col,, unroofed several sti ictures, and wrecked plate-glass fronts, 1 suiting in a loss of several thousand dollars. Heavy rain following a snow-stern flooded the streets in Baltimore, in some tl iroughfares the water being two feet deep There were 254 failures in th< United States reported during the week as compared with 273 in the preceding i id with 218, 204, and 135, respectively, in he corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, idlßßl. About 85 per cent, were those f small traders whose capital was less thai $5,000. Canada had thirty-three, a decreamof one. -....Special telegrams from jJominent distributing centers to Bras®reet’s from and St. the south, to Boston, Chicago, and at the north, all tell of a decreased of business owing to the the weather and the consequent inteisH|>n to railway traffic... .The opinion p- "'dSb in the City, of Mexico that, regardinppYWWship railway, Capt. Eads will secure front theGovernment the concessions he reqirsts. .In anticipation of a Socialist out Leak the National Guard in New York Citland elsewhere is said to be drilling for Ireet fighting. Chicago merchants are alwreported to be drilling their employes inlimilar tactics. I ’ A collision on the Virginia Miuand Railrotid, a few miles from Washinion, D. C., resulted in the death of five m<s, all train hands. All the passengers, sewnty in number, escaped serious injury. |The safe of the express-car had been opined shortly before the accident, and the fllnes made such headway that the express a*nts could not close it. Its contents |ere burned. On account of the way-bills laving been burned, it cannot now be toldlust how much money was in the safe, but.lt is variously estimated all tlie way from s7® 00 to $150,000. About a bushel of silverlollars were taken out of the wreck. ®ey W’ere badly burned, and many more wire melted into a solid lump. The loss oflhe railroad company is estimated at- $25,1)0. Postal officials say the collision called the largest loss of mail matter of wlch there is any record in the depnrtirHit. The fire which resulted from* the I>l- - destroyed thirteen through roistered mail pouches A party of sußvshovelers at the Chicago Stock Ymds was run down by a Northweswn train. Two of them were killed.lA passenger and a colored porter were kiftd by an accident on the Ohio and Mississjlii Road, near North Vernon, 1nd.... Wo hundred and fifty men are thrown ontlif employment by the burning of the Main Safe Company’s factory, which was jffiIstroyed by fire in New York. me factory was an eight-story buiffiliig. The tottering walls of Me. structure threatened the surrounding tmments, wliich were cleared by hundreds of ijalf-clad women and turned intotheStreets. The loss is mated at $230,000 . Fire partially ed St Michael’s Orphan Asylum arwg Joseph’s Convent near" .Pittsburg, SH Several structures were burned ville, Texas, with a loss of