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Show NOT AN ERUPTION, - Spiral Winds Carrying Mountains Moun-tains of Snow were Seen.3 blizzard in the south. A Crazy Man Who Wanted to Get To Washington and Kill President Cleveland Cleve-land is Arrested and Locked TJp Over Night in a Texan Town. Seattle, W8b., Dec. 26. The following fol-lowing mesa ige came to Puyallup by a homing . pigeon sent by the Post Intelligencer Intel-ligencer Mount Rainier party : '-Camp Mountain View, Foot of Or-bon Or-bon Glacier, Wednesday, Dec. 26. While crossing the Wintnrop glacier, yesterday, Major Ingraham mpde a ciitical examination of Blaine glacier, by way of which the ascent to the summit sum-mit was to have been made, and found that the ice and snow was so broken up that an attempt to climb up would hav proven disastrous. Consequently, the summit was not attempted." The expedition has been an entire succeEB. Lt has demonstrated that while the mountaiu has been both smoking ani steaming the change is due principally to tremendous avalanches ava-lanches and not to an eruption. The now peak observed from Seattle is off Columbia's crest, and was forme 1 by spiral winds carrying the snow and whipping it into the cone-shaped peak described. The party will be home Friday. A MIGHTY STORM. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 26. Louisville Louis-ville is experiencing the heaviest snowstorm that has visited this section in some years. The snow began falling fal-ling about 1 o'clock thia morning and continued inctssantly ever since. It is estimated at midnight that fully ten inches has fallen and it is still snowing. Street car traffic is greatly impeded, Eome of the lineB having been compelled com-pelled to abandon their service entirely. en-tirely. Reports from Henderson, Owensboro and Paducah say that the snow is heavy and still falling. Lexington reports re-ports heavy snow throughout the Blue-grass Blue-grass region. Cattlettsburc reports a heavy fall and still enoving ithere and at points up the big Sandy A mighty norm ia raging over the entire en-tire south anii east, in Alabama, Tennessee Ten-nessee and in ail tbe states on up to New York and around the ereat lakes MEANT. TO KILL CLEVELAND. New Okleans, Dec. 26. A. W Alton of New Jerusalem, Tex., was arrested upon the charge of insanity. He arrived ar-rived over the Southern Pacific from Houston, Tex., and claims that he was not satisfied with the way Groyer Cleveland was running affairs, and was on his way to Washington to kill him when intercepted by officers. He was locked up in a cell last night, which l;e almust demolished durice the night. He tore the boards from tbe wall and did considerable damage. He was almost nude this morning when the officers offi-cers removed him from the demolished cell to another. Alton claims also that somebody is after him to do him up. In his ravings rav-ings he sees all kinds a demons, and this morning Baid that he cculd raise the dead and make the sea give up its treasures. He says he has a wife and several little brothers, and thinks they will come to his rescue and release him from jail. Judge Cain remanded Alton to the workhouse to be examined by the city physician, . |