The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-04-15
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

under the Coercion Act, addressed a
large crowd at Claremorris. His speech
gives graphic description of scenes
which are pretty numerous in the West
| just now. He said: Keep up your
courage. Eli be back again to fight the
landlords. Go to Curraghlea and see
what took place there yesterday. Five
whole families were evicted; one family
consisting of thirteen individuals; an
other of eight; another of seven-alto-
gether thirty human beings. Three
hundred police were engaged in the
work, and, to the honor of the force be
it said, that many Of them. shed tears
and made up on the spot subscriptions
of four and five pounds for the most
distressed of the evicted families. The
people never insulted the police |
have been informed this morning that
the police patrols found these evicted
families last night lying on the side Of
the road sheltering themselves around
small fire, having been out all night.
Go and see after them. Let none want
A Washington special says that the
collision in the Senate yesterday be-
tween Hill and Malone has had the
effect to intensity the bitter feeling be-
tween the two political bodies and pro-
long the deadlock. The end seems
further off than ever. There were in
dications, two or three days ago, that
the solution of the difficulty might be
speedily reached, but this is no longer
looked for, and the whole question re-
turns to the condition it was in months
ago, a question of physical endurance.
The New York Board of Health re-
ports that typhus fever and smallpox
have taken sudden and decided start
again. When there seemed grounds
for hope that the Health Officers had
gained control of the diseases week be-
fore last, only IL cases Of typhus and %
of smallpox were reported. Yesterdays
reports showed that last week there
were SO new cases of typhus and 572 of
smallpox. Eight new cases Of typhus
We're reported yesterday.
One hundred and thirty people were
rescued from Mayville, Dakota, on
Tuesday night. They had been sur
rounded by water and ice for two weeks.
There are twenty families in bend on
the river who cannot be rescued on ac-
count of the fields of ice surrounding
them. 1t is probable that not less than
5000 people have been rendered home
less upon the Dakota bottom alone, and
all they possessed, except their clothing
alone, swept away.
A cyclone at fernando, Mississippi,
killed Eliza Evans, a negress, and so
stunned her two children that they
have not spoken since. 1t killed an
other negro child and Ben. Howell.
Many cases of narrow escapes are re-
ported. One man was last seen in the
air, and one or two are missing. Men
were blown all over the field like bar
rels, and nearly all beaten to death.
French, Commissioner of Railroads,
referring to the published statement
that Government is. about to institute
proceedings against the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, says no such suit as
is described has been ordered to be COM
menced at San Francisco against the
Central Pacific Company.
Arrangements are now being made in
the East with view to the extension
of the Utah Western Narrow gauge into
Nevada and thence to. San Francisco.
Thirty six miles of this road are already
completed from Salt Lake to Stockto
Oath.
1t is formally announced that Greece
has accepted the Turkish. proposals
touching the frontier, conditionauy,
upon the Powers guaranteeing loyal
surrender Of the ceded territory.
Next Tuesday Congressman Frank
Hiscock, Arson McCook and others
start for California MeCook y,ae civ