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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Government departments closed over io day. Steamer St. Laurent arrived at New York from Havre. Minister Senek has returned (o London from Italy. Great Palisade hotel, near ICoylo-wood, ICoylo-wood, N. J., burned. Stokes trial reported progressing. No new developments. Monday ntL'ht coldest of tho season in New York. Harbor full of ice. Piano I'.iotory anil box fuetory burned in New York. Lass $ IO.UUO. Insured. In-sured. Minmo Myrtle Miller arrived in Chicago Monday night and will soon lecture. Tho repotted suspension of coal mining min-ing operations at Pottsvillc, ; Pa., is unfounded. AH vessels arriving at New York during tho past two days report severe weather at sea. Two carpet manufactories anda yarn establishment burned in Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Loss $50,000. Henry G. Eielcr stabbed to death by Frederick Wiso in Williamsburg, N. Y. Wise escaped. Body of a murdered man fouud in Washington. Twcnty-fivo Dick cuts in tho face and skull crushed. Barnum's museum and menagerie on fourteenth streot New York, noar the Academy of Music, burned. Brooklyn. N, Y., has had a runaway runa-way in which the horses jumped into the East River, drowning Mrs. CP. Adams,, and themselves. President Grant was yesterday detained de-tained at Millin, Ohio, by a snow blockade. He expected to reach Washington lato last night. Later reports say the man found murdered with a pick, in Washington, was a German pedlar named Rogerski, who had '2Q0 in his possession, A Washington dispatch says the reported coalition of South American states to foree Spain to relinquish her rule over Cuba is unknown to tho diplomatic dip-lomatic corps. Chicago rcport.s Monday night and Tuesday morning tho coldest of the season. Thermometer at the U. S. signal office 20 degrees below zoro at 6 a.m., yesterday. Eighty-five EnglUh emigrants set? from Eoglatid under the care of several California residents have arrived at New York. Tlu'y sail for California by .vtcamtT Oecan Queen nei'.t Monday. Mon-day. TVe colored people of Boston have pacd resolutions ceiling on the American people to urge the adminis-tratiou adminis-tratiou to esier.d all legal aid to the Cubaa patriots iu their struggle for freedom. Every other dispatch from Chicago reports the weather the coldest of the season, also tho most; severe and longest known for years. Mercury lower than since the cold New Year's of ISoT. Simmons, murderer of Duryear, removed re-moved from Park hospital to a secret place of safety by the New York poire. A vigilance committee of forty men hid been formed to take him from the hospital and hang him. The indictment acainst Hugh Smith, of New York, found jointly with those of Sweeney, Tweed, and others was yesterday quashed by recorder Hackett on the ground that the extended term of the grand jury was illegal. Tho vessel reported wrecked off the mouth of the Gironde river, on Sat-urJay Sat-urJay proves to he th steamer "Germany," "Ger-many," which saileu from Liverpool December 17th, lor Havana and New Orleans, and not the "Germania." Mestrs. Alien, of London, were the owners. All of the crew and passengers passen-gers saved. Coroner's jury iu the case of the suffocated employes of the Fifth Avenue Ave-nue hotel exonerate the proprietors from the charge of neglect in endeavoring endeav-oring to secure the escape of the girls, but reflects upon the manner of construction con-struction of the house and advises the inspection of all hotels in the city to prevent a similar occurence. In the Spanish cortcs yesterday Martos announced that the government govern-ment had taken measures to prevent the purchase of slaves in Porto Rico and conveying them to Cuba. Diaz asked if the owners in Porto Kico were to be indemnified incase of emancipation eman-cipation of their slaves. Martos requested re-quested Diaz to postpone his question until debate came on. A Jeffersonville, Ind., special says the freight train bound south, on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Indian-apolis road, jumped tho track at Hcnrysvillc, yesterday, plunging thirteen thir-teen cars and the locomotivo over a steep embankment totally wrecking them. John Belch, engineer, George Colton, fireman, and Henry Koous, brakemao, instantly killed. A Washington Bpecial says our good-natured postmaster general is very much amused over the discussion now going on in the papers over the supposed post office decision that postmasters post-masters aro held responsible for the loss of registered letters. He says no such decision has ever been made and that neither post masters nor tho department de-partment aro in any way responsible for the loss of such letters. Jolly fun, that 1 No wonder he laughs. |
