The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-12-26
LATE NEWS.

"A fire at Fontaina, Kansas, Tuesday
night, burned fourteen houses.
ALI the trains approaching Philadelphia
are detained by the snow.
The Russian Czarowitch is seriously ill
with typhus fever.
The signal officers in New York DIS
play cautionary signals to-day.
The ship Newcastle" was wrecked off
Cooke Strait on the 10th of November, by
which sixteen lives were lost.
Dispatches from the West report the
seveIest weather yesterday and last night
known for years.
The steamer Wild Cat and the barge
Swallow have been sunk by the ice in the
Mississippi river, below Cairo.
The Clifford hotel, New York, was
damaged by fire last night. The guests
escaped.
The weather at Milwaukee is the cold
est ever known the thermometer indicating
80 degrees below zero.
"A vigilance committee at pisalia, Cali
fornia, yesterday hung Charles Allen, an
alleged murderer.
"A passenger train at Gibson, on the
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, snow
bound, was telescoped yesterday by fol-
lowing train. Two persons were killed and
four hurt.
Cheers greeted the reading of the bill
in the Spanish Cortes, yesterday, emanci-
pating the Porto Rico slaves within four
months, with compensation.
The rear car on the indianapolis, Peru
and Chicago Railroad was thrown off the
track by broken rail. Twenty persons
were injured, three fatally.
"A train leaving Cory, Ohio, on the
through the trcstle over Goose creek. Two
cars We're burned and thirty-fiye persons
| hurt; nineteen of whom have died.
Six girls are reported to have been
burned and several hurt, by the fire on
Centre street, between Lombard and Worth
street. New York, last Tuesday evening.
Great damage has been done by the
rise in the Ohio river. The huge cakes Of
ice were piled up in great masses, carrying
everything before them. Several steamers
and other river boats were sunk.
President Grant has accepted an inyi-
tation to visit Wilmington, Delaware, in
the latter part of January, on the occasion
of grand fair to be given by the Smythe
Zouaves. He will be accompanied by a
few personal friends, including George w.
Childs, Esq, ex-Secretary Borie, and prob.
ably some Of the members of his Cabinet
The verdict of the jury over the bodies
burned at the Fifth Avenue hotel is to the
effect that the means of escape were cir
cumscribed; that the proprietors of the hote
did all in their power to facilitate the escape
of the inmates, and recommended that al
hotels in the city be Immediately inspected
TO prevented the recurrence of such catas
trophe.
FINHIS is 10 GIVE NOTICE-,Fhat ON tn
Il l4th day of Nov. A. ID. 1872, warrant il
bankruptcy was issued out of the District Cour
OF the United States for the Eastern District @
Virginia, against the estate of Charles Edward.
, OF Isle Of Wight co. and State of Virginia, VIII
mas been adludged bankrupt on his own pet
uon that the payment of any debts, and tn
delivery OF any property belonging to said banl
ruptI 10 MN or for his and the transfer
any property by him, are forbidden by law tina
meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt
prove their debts and choose one or more ass
gnees of his estate, will be held at q court ,
bankruptcy, to be holden at No. rs Bank stree
/, Norfolk, Virginia, before benjamin b. Foste
+, Esq, Register, on the I'd day of December A, ]
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