Show VIEWS interesting Interest imm n railroad p report je showing shown 0 r NW NEW 1104 I 1 a developments in the reading strike j h SEVERE SNOW STORMS STORIES how ilow a kansas town leg for th he 0 county seat SON MARRIED europe hr has a touch of the blizzard notes of interest from all puts parts ct of the world neatem associated piers press to the THE TRUNK LINES the inic dulai to go into meet effect january oth other railroad El roid notes new YORK dec 29 at a meeting today to day of tho the trunk lines to which body the sub divisions of freight rate rates messof w eat of chicago was as referred it wai was decided to ratify tile scheduled tariff adopted by the subcommittee sub committee of the joint conference committee at sit a meeting held december it was left to the discretion disi of tho the several western committees representing the various railroads to agree on an equitable u i table division alion that would not creal effect a change inthe in the public carrying rates and to give the western roads a th chance anceto to perfect it their arrangements it was decided the ilia schedule should bo be adopted on january oth vill instead of january ad as be beton bom agreed upon IN new EW YORK yorm dec 29 at a special cia I 1 meeting ma e ting of the northern pacific race ir adi directors today to day several hours were egeit 11 t in in the discussion of tho the oregon navigation ignation lease but no definite action was taken PORTLAND oregon dec 29 today nelson bennett one of the contractors trac tora on tho ilia oregon pacific ry ity began suit against the company to recover for balance due and for damages sustained by the ilia com failure to cairy carry out their end of the he contract dec 29 20 the railway aye age in review of railway construction tor for the tear 1887 will tomorrow to morrow that 1837 haa has surpassed Burpie sed ru IN ail other years in in the extent of r railway iwa mileage constructed ted in in the united aun cited states the total so far reported reaching 12 miles reports Ite ports yet et to ito come m will ill probably swell sn ell it to not lesa leas than milos miles this ie is all new main line track sidetracks or track not net being counted ilia greater part of thia pr prodigious legious ligi ous increase of railways has tak taken n place in in a few western states eti itee kansas leads with atonal a total of 2070 miles nebraska comes next M with ith 1101 I 1 I 1 01 fexas texas 1035 then tho ilia following colorado dakota acio in I 1 montana COO mis bichl soun uri ga indian territory and soon so on many ot of these lines have been very coatis cost ly as for instance those ilia over ov erthe I 1 ie rocky mountains Monn taini in colorado t the a bouthern southern pacific extensions in in northern california atchison kansas kangal sas city and chicago extension nort northern I 1 I 1 era work in in the cat cas ride ede mountains etc ate A careful shows that not far from hae have boon been expended on lines coin completed comple tod during the year counting buildings equipment etc ta the ie money which has thus been elpe expended furnished temporary employment bent to a vast army of workmen and haa riven given permanent employment to another army of probably the extension of tho the air year bring tile rail railway Aay ay mileage of tile ho anted states to ISO 1501 miles THE some dying ember embers of the th labor contest still smoking liln READING dec doe 29 vanguard of delegates to the convention t of the rea heading ding I 1 railroad I 1 t empi employees ayee s to be held to toni ni g I 1 it arrived arri v ed this forenoon tho the weed meeting n 2 will v ill bo be ono one of tho the most important I 1 held for a long timo time as it will decide whether the knights will A ill poo 1 issues in in the tile fight and bland stand together of 0 let faiq railroad men wea fight their own bittles battles philadelphia dec 21 29 chairman john L lee accompanied by 11 1 I bennett member of tho ilia executive committee commit teo of the knights of labor called on oil supt bupt S few eigert this morning but lie refused to t talk ilk to a con com being sc iha in part art by cf f labor or rep 11 ho ai bould talk to lee alone ne but bould 1 I I 1 d leave n i with ill bennett whereupon they withdrew M further word words pann dec 20 dred and fifty delegates delag atea representing in I 1 tile re ng railroad and coal coll an and iron Compa iii employees throughout tho the territory covered by thit tit it coin katrys tracks met here tonight to night in special convention to take into consideration Ade ration their relations with will tho ilia company the meeting int clini was w as a secret ono one tho the burden of the complaint cimpl aint from the coal regions wag that the miners had grievances that they considered themselves entitled to a 3 continuance ti of tho tile 8 pr per cent 0 indrea and that they tho the miners inin cra would t be bound by the tile action of the convention the majority ot of tile delegates present to think that the strike on the ilia railroad was wm over arid that tile convention should devote itself to doing the beet bost it could for tho the miners unless the men ruen in tin thie uty city should reconsider their former action not to jb SE VEItE Vt 41 the cold wave playing prink pranks tn in the east mt tax dec 20 10 henry wise a firmer farmer a was berday 11 found f 0 lind frozen to death ten miles from this city tins this is is tile birtt death from freezing that ever occurred in thie this section light maps mars dec 29 one of the u out severe otilli ac east st ons gal galea of lie ilia prevailed last night and early this morning it changed chang d to a high northwester north w wester ester with a rail rapidly y fal fallati liti temperature and at sunset it sra b blow ci ing mi more than sixty mi emilei loi an hour tonight to night it is ver erv y cold NEW YORK dec doe 29 the cold wave which struck tho tile city it last evening is still here and lie tile wind continue continues rt tit a velocity ot of 1 CO 0 miles an I 1 hour the lowit point m was as 14 do grees above zero at 6 5 am the tile high 11 cat velocity of 0 tile he wind wat was 43 49 miles en an hour colder vi weather cather is predicted dic teI HALIFAX S doc 29 11 A soul southeast tica q t it ilo lj prevailed lod last night and caused extensive damage to the tile ship shipping ping in the harbor all bews I 1 in t the 11 port are more or less leas injured va dec 29 to w weather ea hier was dextre extremely ae lyte cold id 1 last ji and tie thermometer registered thirteen t een legreve leg reee ees above zero this morning reports from the southwest say the weather la is very c cold 1 d and the ho thermometer re registers 7 beg arsi below i ow zero louisville LouisviLL it dec 29 the river was frozen over here early thia this morning and navigation ie is suspended etive men pay now that no coal can reach react here from pittsburg until february the maximum temperature was rea reached I 1 ed at a m when the thermometer herc kometer mor neter registered four degrees abo above e at 12 today to day it is 13 a above pith v 0 w ith the ilia weather clear and a rising g temperature indicated MINN minneapolis barous dec 29 20 thermometer 20 defrece decrees below at 7 a m 1 clear and still no serious d delays ings are reported to t traffic m effic in dakota dit it the a weather is mud much colder and there ie is more interruption to business wat reports 32 degrees below dec 29 tho the mercury was 8 above this morning navigation ie is entirely suspended one man was I 1 frozen rozen to death while intoxicated QUEBEC dec 29 A heavy snow storm set in here yesterday and has continued throughout today to day and V tonight with unabated fury in some places the enow snow ie is drifted to the depth of seven or eight feet ST JOHNS N B dec 29 the dying dying y year e ar signalized its departure by one of i the severest storms experienced in this section for u number of years the storm began begun about 7 bet night and raged without intermission until daal daylight i b t this morning the w wind ind reach reached e gd its maximum height at I 1 when ben it was as blowing at a rate arate of sixty miles au an hour the til blizzard la in europe LONDON dec 29 steamers arriving at british ports report very severe weather eather on the atlantic VIENNA dec 29 A heavy snow cormis florin is prevailing here No trains have left tor for vienna since yesterday all railways are am cither wholly hoel y or partially blocked PARIS dec 29 severe we weather is being experienced in I 1 n sonth eastern france franc there r hero has been a heavy fall of inow snow at nice doc doe 29 most ot the german rivers are frozen over several of 0 the baltic ports including konigsberg are closed southern andrest ern rivers are all covered with ith drift ing ice railway traffic is greatly in in and the I 1 hartz artz mountains deer and oilier other game are flocking to the villages for food several deaths deathe from the acts of exposure are reported in various parte parts of austria MADRID madrin dec 29 A passenger train collided with a enow snow blocked freight train near A villa avilla today to day sev say enil erld persons were mere killed and othera others seriously Beriou ely injured foreign aa diotes paris doc dec 29 general logerot Bo gerot mini ter of war has ordered a deedy execution of general Boul angern order for fort the lie manufacture of le lebel bet rifled which milich wae was rescinded by general ferron BUCHAREST dec 29 jt it ie is reported that troops are massed at bender in Bes sarabia and that buryi and ammunitions of war are eons constantly ci t v arriving there P 9 dec 2 29 10 it Is stated that prince alexander of oldenburg arg who lias has just arrived in paris fr OT st t petersburg ie is charged ith a m lasion to settle the details for the rasso french action in the event of war LONDON dec 29 the ds paris correspondent pays 1 1 in an interview today avith with benor pa 0 r Mateus the colombian minister lias has declared that neither by threat nor cajolery would ilia his government be induced to allow america to have anything to do with the panama canal even it do lesseps failed to complete tho the work they would ra rather t tier do without the canal than tham roe a america complete it lexro lox LONDON ro c dec 29 A dispatch from 1 pays last night tile italian camp was aroused by an alarm that the ilia ns were about to male make an attack it was afterward ascertain ascertained etl that the he italian commander had caused the alarm to bo be raised in order to test the tile troops the tile experiment showed that ev everything er was in perfect order T alio I 1 10 it at I 1 continue to advance P PARIS dec 29 Glad gladstone sino left P paris aria this this evening lie will go directly ro C 7 to 10 florence drade dec doc 29 the resignation of the tile ministry has been acc accepted c P ted by king hilin the tile retirement of M kinetics is considered a check to coux dec 29 the government official who iio is charged with criminally assaulting three young girls ia is major bishop the governor of the county jail the tito police authorities refuse to prosecute major bishop dishop western wool growers tr cloverdale CI OVERDALE cal cat dec 29 the woo wool growers and oa 01 wool dealers of sonoma and mendocino count countie leshe a meeting iril today to day to disca 11 president clevelan s views regarding ree anding use ho ad misa mireion sion of wool want free ot of auty E M hutt hiatt a prominent democrat of liln mendocino county presided and announced the object of the meeting Keso lutious were unanimously adopted a d that tito wool growing industry of california increases lier tier wealth building up manufactures and furnishing employment to thousands of laborera laborers at good wages and arid cereas IlAe he reas the tile competition of forell foreign n cheap labor the tile reduction of tariff in 1883 and nd other discouragements discourage ments has greatly decreased emed her bool OOL product any reduction of the taril on oil wool wool would seriously cripple alii industry and greatly derre decrease aeo it not in fatally stally destroy tho ilia production in this bute bite and also that reducing L tariff ariff on wool and retaining it oil woollen fabrics would unjustly discriminate between the I 1 two no industries without affording relict relief fo the consumer of ana n aured woollen good goods that ve me unalterably at op ill tho promoting eastern interests inte reste at ill the 0 expense of the whole nation discouraging by the samo fame irle meana anti t lie lie development eilt of the tile industry of tho the great debt Co coign Cong ngn wa WM q then appealed to to ill maintain the present tariff and the tile fintain views of tile national wool grower growers association was heartily endorsed aud and operation cooperation co with is ill them proposed wn wm hilton will BOSTON doc doe 29 41 the will of lie tile late to william hilton wae was filed in tho the probate office this afternoon to hist 1 wife and daughter carollo hilton fi ke e he leaves each and makes es the following conditional pub lie bequests fifty thousand dollars to ilia massachusetts venwal hopi tal OOOO to philipa Fhi lipa academy at andover to williams col cot lege to harvard college it to amherst Arn herst college to the tile american AHe american rican board of 0 for or foreign 1 missions W 10 30 to the ilia american homo home gary society 25 to the tire american missionary society of mew f e Y k 25 to the boston city A society 50 WO to tho ilia town of sall JJ bur 0 to boston oe dispensary 10 to the deeton n wa young ansar I 1 omens christian hristian C association 10 16 to the that home of little wanderers arto to tho the childrens hospital I 1 to the ilia abbott academy of Arl andover dover france and england PAWS PARTS dec 29 9 lord button lytton today to day dav handed hi 4 credentials to president ert carnot ag as the tile british ambassador in a 8 ho expressed pleasure at returning te to france 1 ranee here be he had al at ready dy served in tho the diplomatic corps raa queen u en victoria he said enjoined b him im to consolidate the good relations that for many man years had existed between franco and aland on behalf of the queen and british government he lie congratulated franco upon her tier choice of a president M Car iii his s re reply pl v said ho he would highly alue value a reali tion of queen victorias N victorias injunction injunction 0 and he would not fail to con contribute tribu to to astren strengthen agthen gt hen those ties tics of friendship which draw tile two peoples together and which are tho tile best guarantee of 01 tho the triumph ph of the ilia ideas of I 1 progress peace and liberty ice ke ST LOLIS louis dec 2 29 19 the funeral of governor marmaduke will take tak a place at jefferson Jef lerson cit city y at 2 p in sa B av the honorary P pall ai I 1 bearers will be fie ex of the state tata governor morehouse Moreho uso and five fire lodges judges of tho the supreme court the active pall brems bearers aers bill will be eight personal friends from various parts of the state A salute of seventeen gune guns WI fiill I 1 be furad at sunrise on saturday morning non in 9 according to the militia biliti r regulations regula tiona ns of 01 the tile state gov morehouse Moreho uTO was a sworn in as governor today to day the state officers held 9 a meeting this morning and adopted resolutions paying a a high tribute to the good qualities odthe of the de do ceased and rid extending sympathy to the family kotta N 0 ted miller deau dead MINNEA minneapolis POris minn dec doe 29 john crosby president of the rational national sillier millers association and an active manager and d the senior senio r member of th the q gb preat r 11 I 1 t mil bulling ii rig firm of washburn ashburn IV crosby C r y 1 co died a at t 2 this 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