The true northerner., 1880-10-22

struggle. and limited tickets between Chicago
and Kansas City were sold for 30 cents over all
four of the competing lines. Thousands OF un-
limited tickets between Chicago and Kansas
City were sold for Sc, and between Chicago and
st. Louis for $5. The effect of the fight Will
be TO permanently reduce rates between these
points. and thus the people at least will be ben
Gifted by this fight.
The heaviest wind-storm experienced
for many years prevailed throughout the North
west on the 10th and 18th of October. The
gale was particularly disastrous to shipping on
the great lakes Three or four vessels were
wrecked in the vicinity of Chicago, and
several lives were lost. Near the Mani
tou islands barge, with all hands, was
lost. In the vicinity of Sturgeon bay, on
the west shore Of Lake Michigan, an immense
amount of damage was done to shipping, no
less than twenty vessels having been blown
ashore Old sailors say it was the worst storm
they ever saw on Lake Michigan. The gale
also swept over Lakes Superior and Erie, but
the damage was light compared to that
done on Lake Michigan. The storm
was very violent along the line of the Southern
Minnesota railroad. in Minnesota. Trains were
blockaded by snowdrfts ten TO twelve feet deep,
and the passengers were only kept from starving
by the arrival of teams with provisions. Cattle,
horses, and other farm animals have pershed
in large numbers. In the Elkhorn valley, Neb..
snow drifted to the depth of eleven feet, and
railroads aud stage routes were blockaded.
Shipments of grain in bulk from st.
Louis for foreign ports, from Jan. 1, 1880, to
date, amount to 13, 1914, 600 bushels, double the
amount for the same period in 1879.
At Centralia, Iowa, a man named
Kalb accomplished the feat of drinking three
glasses of whisky in rapid succession, but died
in ten minutes thereafter.
Col. George Scroggs, proprietor OF the
Champaign (Ill.) Gazette, and for time United
States Consul at Hamburg, died few days ago
at Denver Col, of consumption.
Mrs. Julia ID. Bates, widow of the
Hon. Edward Bates, United States Attorney
General under President Lincoln, has just died
at st. Louis.
Below is list cf the vessels reported
lost during the heavy gale on Lake Michigan:
Steamer Apena, Chicago, Capt Napier, seven
ty passengers and crew f; schooner David A.
Wells, Chicago, Capt. Thiedkauff and crew
barge Florence Lester, officers and crew
schooner, name unknown, Foscora, Wis, Off
GERS and crew; schooner, name unknown.
Several roads in the Northwest, in
Guiding the Southern Minnesota, the Iowa di-
vision of the Milwaukee and st. Paul, and the
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, were
blocked with snow and ice last week, and travel
over them was suspended two or three days.
Eouth-
The Southern cotton crop has suffered
seriously, in consequence of the wet weather.
Two lions escaped from their cage
during a circus performance at Little Rock,
Ark, creating the widest CONSERVATION
among the spectators, VINO were mostly negroes.
The animals were recaged, however, before
they did any damage.
A fire on the wharf at Charleston, S.
c.. destroyed two or three cotton warehouses
and one steamship, besides damaging a good
deal of other property. The total loss is about
100000 insured in foreign companies.
Later reports of the fire at Charles
ton, s. c., place the loss at about 100000.
Two or three British steamships were ruined.