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Show A llllasatil In ll.e Aorllmeal. IH Br. Faiil, Jau. 31. A blizzard raged iH all over Ihe northwest last night aud H today anl In still at It. Adrlvlugtnow ll broio over HI. l'aul during the morn- 'H Ing. Thu wind blew at tbe rate of 1 twenty miles au hour, driving clouds uf suow before It, lteporla from thu ,H northwest are meager at the weather iH bureau owing lo the prostration of ,1 wlrte. Tbosu received allowed some IH peculiar fte.ika of wealhur. At a 1 u'clock this morning ut HelonaH was 'H 4a below zero, while at Mlsioula, u H little over a hundred m I lei north. It IB was 10 degrees above. At tbe former iB plaou there was a high wind from tbu H west. Mlesoula was tlmultaueuutly ;LH latching a email hurrlcanu from tbe H tatt. All through Montana, with the H exception cf one point, tbu cold wat H lu Portland It wai 2.1 above and In H HI. 1'atil 13. lu Duluth It watO bu'ow, 3M Winnipeg 10, ond Jamistown 0; while M ut Fergus 1'allt, Grand b'urka mid H Fargo It was fully 20 degrees H warmer, Willi n high wind from H dillereut loin' at each of the six JH llatet. Thu mow fall lu the north- H west was not enough to came serious H delay, but high winds caused drifts H and they kept through trains threo lu IM four hour late. This evening tbu JH storm It moro severe lu the Dakota H nud Mlnuetola, uud thu temperature It H rapidly dropping below toro. H Later tonight rejiorts from many H points lu tbu Northwest statu that the H bllzztrd I general and very severe. H l.lleudale, N. !., reports a sevrrit H chutige. At 8 this morning It was 10 H nbovu and tonight It Is 25 below. H Hcliools have lieun closed, buslaets J nt a stauditlll aud a terrltlo blizzard la H raging. H It is 20 lelow at Huron, S. D to. B ulghtwItliaOJ-mllegale. Watertuwn, H (!. 1),, reports trains abandoned beoauiu H tho storm. H |