, 1875-05-06


Horace Greeley's daughter Ida is to
be married on Saturday morning to Col
Nicholas Smith of Covington, Ky. by
Cardinal McCloskey.
WuxEsBARRE, Pa.-Miners at Seven
ur's works yesterday voted to resume
work when the basis Of IA is granted.
OMAHA, April 2sth.-The party Of
miners brought out of the Black Hills
BY the military. passed through here
today. They were furnished free trans
portation to the Missouri Valley Juno
ton as they were penniless.
LONDON. April 29.-Bullion in the
Bank of England has decreased 936. .0OC
during the past week.
PAE1s, April 29.-Specie in the Bank
of France increased $500. 900 francs the
past week. 4
LONDON, April pa dispatch to the
Daily Telegraph from Berlin says the
Prussian Government intends to ignore
the letter of sympathy addressed by the
Roman Catholic Bishops of Great Brit
! ain to those of Germany.
The Prussian Diet has prepered a bill
declaring the old Catholics entitled to a
share of the Catholic Church cemetaries
and revenues proportionate to their
numbers as compared with other Cath
olics.
NEw YORK, April 29.-The Times
special from Germany reports that the
Belgian Minister of Justice made an ex-
plicit statement thas the Belgian Court
is competent to take up proceedings
against Duchesne and this statement
has been transmitted to the Berlin Gov
ernment. ..
TORONTO April ga fire at Bally
Croy this morning destroyed Peter
Small's Warehouse, two hotels and a
number Of other buildings. Bridget
Burke. Mary Ann Tanning and Mar
garet DAILY lost their lives.
HALIFAX. April 29.-Several vessels
from Europe report seeing immense
quantities of ice. Two of them were
jammed in ice o number of days and
much damaged.
CHICAGO. April pa special from
Oshkosh gives the following account OF
the fire there yesterday. 1t broke out
in the sawmill of Morgan & Bros, on
the North side of the river. The build
ings were dry and filed with the most
combustible materials. and in an in
credibly short time we're enveloped in
flames. Neighboring piles of lumber
caught fire and spread with lightning
r.pidity up Sawdust Avenue. sweeping
everything before it. A dozen saw and
shingle mills. with all the lumber piled
around them, soon succumbed to the
fury of the flames. The small frame
residences of the operatives at the mills
seemed served but to whet the appetite
of the fend. Families fled in blank dis
may, surrending everything. Fir1men
for time fought brayely in the face of
terrible odds. but were driven back,
step by step. One after another of the
business buildings on Main Street were
licked up. from Alsoma to Cheap, where
all of our principal dry goods stores.
banks, hotels and newspaper Offices, all
went down before tho resistless hurri-
cane. Merchants had time to save but
little. A few succeeded in carrying a
few loads of ~ most valuable wares
away from the track of the fire, but by
far the greater number lost all. Beck
with House and Adams House, two ho-
tells of the finest capacity. finely fur.
nished with all the modern improve
ments, were destroyed also in q twink
ling. Nothing worth mentioning was
saved. Newspaper and telegraphic Of
fees shared the fate of the surrounding
buildings, Of the Northwestern Office,
owned by Allen & Hicks, daily paper,
nothing was saved. The Times. q
sprightly weekly, had also all the con-
yeniences Of first class office.
Three men are reported killed, but SC
great is the confusion that it Ii imposi-
BILE to ascertain their names. Rumors
of further loss of life are prevalen
about the street, but your correspond
ent cannot trace them to any reliable
source. Quite number, however, are
seriod&ly injured.
1t is impossible at this hour to g, en-
estimate the losses. Over two thous-
and residences, one hundred stores, ho-
tells. banks, the opera house, valuable
structure, costing nearly hundred
thousand dollars. A score of saw and
shingle mills, besides an incalculable
quantity of lumber are destroyed. The
loss upon the whole can not fall short
of two millions. while it may reach
double that amount. The scenes in the
city battle description. Everything il
confusion; hundreds of families are
homeless and women and children are
lying about the streets or coming around
in search of places of shelter from the
chilly night air. The heavens are lit uI
with the horrid glare of fire, which is
yet burning fercely within the limits
to which it has been confined.