The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-10-27
Western and Southern State

A railroad war in the West has resulted in
a reduction OF fare from Chicago to Kansas
CITY TO fifty cents. The regular fare is $l4.oO'
The Oregon legislature has passed a Icon
terring suffrage ON women.
A fire at Charleston, s. c., destroyed two
large cotton sheds and one brick warehouse,
partially stol ed with cotton. The flames
then spread to the cotton on the wharves and
thence to three British iron steamships laden
with cotton. One OF the vessels was badly
damaged and the other two slightly injured
The total loss is about 5000, 900.
A terrific wind and snow storm is reported
from Dakota and Wisconsin, extending to
Chicago. Dispatches from La Crosse, WIS,
say The storm all along the Southern Mime
sofa railway was the severest known IN years.
Passenger and freight trains we're b'ockadei
in snow drifts from ten to twelve ieet deep,
and teams with provisions were dispatched to
their relief from several points. A number
of disasters to shipping are reported from
Chicago and several lives were lost. a
schooner ~ioundered off North Chicago, and
her crew OF eight men are supposed to have
persisted.
The National Association oil Local Pr achers
of the Methodist Episcopal church in the
United States met in Baltimore, a few days
ago, to celebrate their twenty-htth anniversary.
Rev. DR.. ID. II. Wheeler, of the New York East
Conference and editor OF the .Methodtst, PIE
sided. DR.. Wheeler delivered the annual ad.
dress. Mr.. G.. G. Leigh. of Brooklyn, deliver
ed IN address on the advantages OF having the
American pulpit occupied by men OF educa'
ton.
William Todd, q Baltimore saloon-keeper
in a fit OF rage fatally shot his wife as she was
standing with q month-old child in her arms.
The Colorado State authorities have arrested
Indian Commissioners Meacham, Agent Berry
and two others, charged with the murder oil
the ireighter jackson.
Further reports from the severe snow
and wind-storm in the Nortk vest state that
hundreds OF vessels have gone ashore on the
lakes, among them the steamer AL ena, with
from forty to seventy people on board.
A shooting ARRAY at Buena Vista, Tenn,
between DIR. Zebe johnson, his two sons and
one Steele on one side, and two men named
Owens and Ludbcrry, resulted in all six being
badly shot, Owens and one of the Johnsoni
MORALLY.
The notorious Apache, Ohief Victoria, and
mis- band, who have boon the terror OF q por.
ion of the territory bordering on the United
States and Mexico, have at last been summar-
ily dealt with. A dispatch from San Antonio,
Texas, reports that Chief Victoria, fifty war
riors and eighteen women and children were
killed in n fGht with Mexican troops. Seventy
women and $50 head Of stock were captured.
Since Victoria "broke out" a year ago, over
four hundred men, women and children have
persisted at the hands Of his warriors.
. During the recent ST. rm in the Northwest
the bark Trader and the schooner Grenada
we're wrecked or Lake Michigan and fifteen
men lost.
The other day q fire broke out in q shoddy
manufactory in Cincinnati, and the flame;
spread in such a way as to cut off escape iron
the third story, where a number oil womer
were at work. Despite the heroic efforts o
the fremen five women we're burned TO death
AT the Baltimore races Parole won the rac,
at one and n quarter miles-his second victor,
since bis return to the United States.
| h boiler OF Cox & Fairbanks d~istillery a
Terre Huute, Ind, exploded with such terri
/, BILE effect that five woIkmen were i~nstantl,
killed and nine others injured, several fatally
A collision between two trains nineteen
miles from Cincinnati resulted in more or les
I, serious injuries TO fifteen passengers.
4 a freight train ran into a crowded excur
4 sion train which vas coming in TO the Stat
: tair at Raleigh, N. O., and three men wer
| killed and fourteen more injured.
: The linseed oil mills OF Orr, Leonard
Daniels, at Piqua, o., were destroyed by fir
p at an estimated loss OF from $3.50, 900 to $500,
;. 600, with insurance from $75, 600 to S95, 900
Z Chief Justice Edward G.. RYAN, oil the Wis
eonsin supreme court, is dead in his seventy
first year.