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Show LOCAL NEWS. I say they never knew so much ice on j lake Krie with so little snow, ililes out rf.e ice is three feet sn inclies thick, and learns are crossing al points never known before. It is feared that navigation navi-gation will not be open till lata in May. Rhode Island Democracy. The T.hode Island Democratic Slate convention met in this city this morning. morn-ing. K. J. Barnaby was chosen president: presi-dent: nominations for State oiiicers were made as; follows: for governor, Olney Arnold, of Providence; lieuL governor, Charles R. Cutlar, of Warren; and for secretary of Stale, AVin. J. Miller, ot Bristol. After some debate on the propriety pro-priety of sending delegates to the national na-tional convention not yet called, eight delegates were chosen to the Democratic national coriTeniion if one is held: a State central committee was appointed, and tho convention adjourned. New York Newt. New York, 20. General Sickles stated to-day that he had negotiated SlO0,0U0, at five per cent., for the new Erie board, on securities rating as high as seventy. The new loan can bo readily read-ily paid off with the earnings in a very short time. The assembly judiciary committee today to-day examined John Taylor Johnson, president of tho New Jersey Central railroad, who testified that there was a general feeling of insecurity in regard to the doings of the judiciary. Ex-mayor Havemeyer testified that the public, generally, wero impressed with the idea that simple justice was un-1 attainable in tho New York courts. In the Pacific Mail investigation today to-day il was stated that the hulls of three iion steamships are building at Glas-: gow, at a cost of $2-19, 23 each, and engines en-gines $So,lXO each for tho company. The question whether money was spent in Washington to aid the passage of the bill giving the company an increased subsidy, was objected to and withdrawn for the present- Mrs. k. Shousbank, residing on 12th street, died in a dentist's chair to-day, from the administration of laughing gs. Tito coroner will investigate the matter. Kigbl of the Japanese embassy arrived ar-rived here to-day. Il is believed that the Stalen island ferry company will be thrown into bankruptcy, by its defeat in tho suits by tho relations of those killed on tbo There were seventeen additional cases of small-pox yesterday. The case of Carlo Vogt, tho alleged murderer of a Belgian noble, was before judge Cardoza to-day, who remanded tho prisoner. A letter was read from Vogt to his wife in Philadelphia, asking her to destroy tho evidence of his guilt. ' Tho glass works of Goesting Cc Cj., Jersey city, were burnod this forenoon with a loss of $60,000. Warrants havo been issued for the arrest of H. P. Elias and Ellis 11. Elias, charged with swindle in the Geneva watch company business. A cable dispatch dis-patch has beon '.received from tho U. S. consul at Geneva, stating that no such firm as the Geneva watch compauy ever existed. Heavy Snow Storm In New York, New York, 0. There has been a terrible snow storm near Ponda, New York, and the snow drifts are from six to ten feet deep on the Fonda and Glo-vorsville Glo-vorsville railway. The Tea Trade. t Philadelphia, 20. Arrived, tho barl; Geinina, from Poo Chow, China, wbh a cargo often, being the first direot importation im-portation to this port since 1841. Washington Advlcei . Washington, 20. Tbo New York custom house committee examined ex-collector ex-collector Murphy again to-day, principally princi-pally as to tho connection of the admin, istration with tho Republican feuds in New York. Representatives of tho two Republican Republi-can factions in Now Orleans interviewed the President to-day, and discussed political po-litical all'airs in Louisiana. Tho United States and British claims commission resumed its sessions to-day. They transacted much routino business, but made no decisions, and adjourned till Saturday. Govornor llo loft to-night for Now York, on his return to Japan. His business is to leport to his government the progress of tho negotiation of the treaty between Japan and the United States,and for such instructions as aro required re-quired in tho premises. Piayer and Politlca. Boston, 20. In the prayer of chaplain Cudworth, at the opening of the session of the Massachusetts house, this p.m. he expressed a fervent hope thut'th'.) memb 'rs would act favorably toward tho question of woman suffrage At tho close, Kimball, of Boston, raised a point of order, that under tlio rules no person not a member could discuss matters bo-fore bo-fore the house. Tho speaker sustained the point, Fires. Baltimore, 20. Tuo extensivo sash and blind factory on Canton Avenue, with tho agricultural implement factory, fac-tory, and tho Baltimore- ca,r wheel work;;, were burned this a.m. Tho buildings covered an area of one block The loss is $S),0O0; insurance, $-10,000 Louisville, 20. The Ohio Falls car works, nt Jefl'ersonvillc, Jndiana, wore destroyed by fire this afternoon. They were the most complete and extensive works in llu country. The buildings covered five acres, and tliero were besides be-sides a number of lumber yards, a large amount of machinery and material, sixteen six-teen nearly finished coaches and a number num-ber of freight and other carB burnod The loss is about $300,000. insurants about $X),000. pUiMngo ttewa. Chicago, 20. The cold continues, and according to reports received at tho government gov-ernment signal office extends over nearly near-ly ibo ontire east and west. ' The Great Pacific hotol was leased to-V'y: to-V'y: a rm lwoniy years tq Gago Bros ana Rice of ibo Sherman houso -Vnhroso Cox, the murderer of Miss hummers, of Quincy, who with a number num-ber ol other prisoners escaped from Palmyra, Pal-myra, Mo., jail, was with four of his companions arrested this morning. The U. P. Tcimlnui, Omaha. 20. In the case of Crno value va-lue U. P. railway eowuany, pending in the diolnci court of the Uriitcd States for the district of Towa, on motion u set aside for ondemniion lands fur the use of Ihe road, lha decision was given yeTU.uBy at kuukuk, holding that the eastern terminus of said road, as fixod under existing laws, is not in Iowa, but in Nebra.-U; that it has no corporate rower to bund a railroad in Iowa, and could sot therefore condemn land far a right of way or the use of the road. Monetary and Stockit New York, 90, Gold dull; governments govern-ments quiet and" steady; monov closed easy; stocks inactive, excopt Erie and Union Pacific W. U. 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