The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-19
FROM THE WEST.

Missouri SenatoTin! Contest Frank Blair
ST. LOUIS JAN 1S.-The Missouri Legislature
this morning elected a L. S. Senator to succeed
Charles d. Drake, who has resigned. The fol-
loving is the vote:-Blair, 102; Henderson, SO;
Benjamin, 5. The new Senator's term of service
will expire on the 4th of March, 1878.
NebrnslSn Senatorial EIectlOn-P. w. Hitch
cock Chosen.
OMAHA, Jan. 1S.-P. w. Hitchcock has been
elected u. s. Senator from Nebraska.
Election of senator Ferry Iu mIchIRau.
DETROIT, Jan. 1S.-ln the election of sue
cessor TO the Hon. J. NJ. Howard in the U. S.
Senate to-day at Lansing. the Republicans cast
their votes for the Hon T. w. Ferry. and the
Democrats for the Hon. N. Walker, editor of the
Detroit Free Press.
Election of GIInnesota Senators
ST. PAUL, Jan. 1S.-The Legislature yes ter
day elected the Hon. William Window to the
U. S. Senate for the long term and the Hon. o.
P. Stearns for the short term Both Senators
are Republicans.
Inspection Of the Colorado Coal Hines.
DENVER Jan. 1S.-A large party of citizens of
Denver and railroad men went on an excursion
yesterday over the Boulder Valley Railroad to
the coal mines at the terminus of that road, 81
miles from Denver, by invitation of the con-
tractors, Robert E. Carr, OF ST. Louis, and d. II.
Moffat, of Denver. They inspected the various
tunnels leading through the mines and partoOk
of an elegant dinner served on the train. These
mines, which are said TO be ineXhaustibe
having q 12 foot vein of soljdlcoal, will be ex-
clusiyely worked for supplying the city of Den
yer and the Denver and Kansas Pacific Railroad.
The party returned to Denver this morning.
Fire in "a TunneI.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 19.-T buildings
and machinery at the Water Works tunnel shaft
were destroyed by fire last night Four men
were in the tunnel when the fire broke ont, but
were rescued. The loss is estimated at $4,000 to
$4,000.
The Recent Snow Storm in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-The recent snow storm
here was almost unparalleled in this section for
severity. Isolating us for several days from the
East appearing first in the Nevada Mountains,
it struck us on Friday, the 18Th, and did not
cease until Sunday night. Though not more
than twenty-five inches of snow fell it was piled
up in fearful drifts in every direction. A storm
of sleet which accompanied or alternated with
the snow adhered to the telegraph wires, load
ing them down until they snapped in pieces.
The wires from this point eastward for fir ON
seventy-seven to one hundred and one miles
we've wrecked as they never were before. Over
thousand men lave been at work night and
day making repairs. Communication with the
outer world is re-established at last, and by to-
morrow the Western Union lines will be fully
restored. What little news we received from
the East, between Friday night and yesterday,
reached us by railroad express from Toledo or
wire via Cincinnati, st. Louis, and Omaha.
Boiler Explosion.
Central CITY, Col, Jan. 19-A boiler explo-
sion in q saw-mil near Carbon yesterday killed
L. f. Norsemen, the engineer.
The shipment of gold from three banking
houses in this city during 1870 amounted to
$1,2l0,625 The estimated gold product OF
Gilpin county for the same period was 81, 800 O0O