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Pittsburg had also 101 Deaths
30 from smallpox.
Smallpox has been declared cpl
demic in Brooklyn, N. Y.
There have been 125 deaths from
in Frederick, Nd, dur
ing the past few months.
The ice on the st. Lawrence is
now moving, an occurrence never
before witnessed at this time of the
year.
Twelve hundred dollars in fines
was collected in one day last week,
from milk dealers in New York for
selling adulterated milk
The smallpox is so bad in Port
Jarvis, New York, that services
have been suspended at all the
churches.
The prohibition liquor laws,
passed by the Alabama Legislature
have been endorsed by the people,
and have gone into effect in a num-
Der Of the counties in that State.
MUsIcAL.-The Queen City out
strips all American cities for artistic
music at big prices.
In three days sales of tickets,
closing last Saturday, for the Opera
Festival, commencing Feb. 18th,
the receipts amounted to $6S,000.
ALDERMEN JAILED.-Fifteen out
of seventeen Aldermen in the city
Of Brooklyn, have been sentenced
to 80 days in jail and to pay a fine
of $3.50 each. The Aldermen defed
the Court by passing a resolution
over the veto Of the Mayor, after an
injunction by the Court had been
granted restraining them from TAX
ing any action in che matter.
CRIMINAL NEGLECT AND DEATH.
The city authorities of Syracuse
left standing the walls of a high
building, recently destroyed by fire,
although liable to topple over at
any time, and the other day, during
a gust Of wind, they fell, crushing
in neighboring low-sized wooden
building occupied as restaurant.
A number OF people were in the
dining-room at the time, and the
result of the catastrophe was the
death of three persons.
CoNsoLIDATIoN.-It is reported
on apparent reliable authority that
an agreement of consolidation has
been consummated between the
Wheeling and Lake Erie, the
Cleveland and Marietta and the
Cuyahoga Valley Railroad. The
terms have not yet been announced
but will be made public in a few
days. This combination will unite
over three hundred miles of road
by the extension of the valley road
to Canal Dover, with termini at
Wheeling and Marietta, on the
Ohio river, and at Cleveland, HUI
ron and Toledo, on the lake, which
will control the coal transportation
of a large territory in Ohio,-Canal
Dover Argus
ANOTHER POLITICAL PARTY
FoRMED.-The Home Protection
Party is now organized by the Sc
lection of the following National
Committee: George w.
Baine, of Kentucky, Chairman; A.
J. Jutkins, of Kentucky, Treasurer;
R. w. Nelson, of Illinois, Secretary
and National Organizer; Francis
E. Willard, Illinois; and John B.
Finch, Nebraska. National Head
quarters, 1916 Franklin St., Chicago,
Ill. The National Liberator says:
The Home Protection party is an
anti-whisky, anti-polygamy, anti
ignorance, anti-monopoly, equal
suffrage, and civil-service-reform
party. 1t is a much-needed party,
and has come to stay. 1t may not,
and probably will not always be
known by that name, but its prin-
ciples will live forever. Its name,
for aught weknow, may be changed
at The next national convention,
but its nature will live until victo-
~ perches upon its banners. !