The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-24
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
For the month of January there were
received at tho Chicago Stock Yards 165, $40
cattle, 7I0 ga hogs and "a, go sheep, being
an increase over the same month last year
OF 3G,G33 cattle and s,ilS sheep, and do
crease of II ,01s hogs
THE storm throughout the West and
Northwest on the LIST, ID and 3D. of February
was by far the severest of the winter. An
embargo was placed upon railway traffic,
and in many places business of every kind
was for u season completely suspended
In Central Illinois the storm was accom-
panied by thunder and lightning, the wind
blowing gale, and the thermometer being
far below the zero mark Snow fell to the
depth of two feet in the cattle ranges of tho
far west, and much suffering to the stock
has ensued In consequence,
The Union Iron and Steel Company
of Chicago; has closed their extensive mills,
throwing 1900 men out of employment The
causes which led to tho financial collapse nre
gwen by the President of the company as
the decline in the price of rails,
while the company were carrying i'm
mense quantities of high-priCed
material, and the unreasonable demands of
the workmen, who have been receiving
from 80 to 10 per cent more for their labor
the East The capital stock of the company
is s20000OO, and the value of the
plant including the stock of ore
on hand, is placed at s5,0O00O0
Judge Moran, of Chicago, has rendered an
important decision affecting the status Of
the Ho-callod bucket shop grain rooms
An application was made by aproprietor Of
one of those institutions for an injunction
restraining the Western Union Telegraph
Company and the Board of Trade
from deriving him OF the Board OF
Trade quotations, and the court held
that the applicant carried ON a gambling
business and was not entitled to any equita-
BILE relief The Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad Company has reported to the Treas
urer of Wisconsin that its total receipts for
the year ended Dec 81, last, were 81, $50, AZ %
o. against si,WO, i6l61 for the previous
year
The Kansas rolling-mills, located in
suburb OF Kansas City, shut down last
week. The assets and liabilities are about
100000 each Five hundred men We're em-
ployed
Ten lives were lost on the coal-boat
Tacoma, of the coast OF California, and the
vessel is u total wreck. A leakage Of oil IN
Thermer & Teagle's refinery, at Cleveland,
WINS carried by the stream to the
boiler, where an explosion occurred,
and soon the run was full of blazing oil
This extended to the Standard OIL Works,
where number of successive explosions
occurred, wreoking many buildings and
sending the burning iiuld In all directions
Fully 100000 barrels of oil were consumed,
and the total loss is placed at seo5,cO0
THREE men were killed at Deadwood
by fall of earth in the Esmeralda mine.
In the iury-room OF the Criminal Court at
GA ~
for murder, shot his wife through the head
and sent another bullet into his own brain.
The wife was awillinRparty To the desperate
scheme. DO. Charles Waite sheriff Of Sherman
county, Neb. was Tilted by widow Of Ioup
City, who twice changed her mind ga TO the
proprloty Of marrying him lie lost his
-cason and KILLED her aud himself with a TO
volYer q. The investigating Jury IN tbs
Newhal House horror returned q verdict
finding the proprietora and owners OF th'
building guilty of culpahle negligence
In not having autiiclency OF IRE 90
capos and IN not employing a greater
number Of watohmen TO guard against dis
astei Freight ana passenger trains ON th'
Dayton aud Michigan road oollidVd near Sid
ney, Ohio, killing both engineers end a bag
gage master, and badly niuring two htu
mon The accident arose nom uisnndcr
standing OF orders
rlmpF men T. r. Duty, phomai
Booth and Jack Wlliams-Wcre killed a
Rabbit Ear mountains, In Middle Park. Col
hy snow slido ON the mountains The mpi
We're 40 supper ia a cabin, when thp fnuW
slide struck the shanty aud swept y ana
thom DO destruction In iue ralln $685.
three m n was Mlke WYNN. WhH Wn.lN
alive after being huripd rIehIN0n NN
der tNo SNOW, hut probably lHNllN 'ri .u
... The gross receipt Tor Two pcIN rHtu D
OF patu in Cincinual were uNOf tl-A'Wh
fnE soVrn
Many hundred thousands Of DO oauo hah
Ing polo. naod m Mo Norut each ycag sio oh
aln,d uoar ho hoad OF nis BLACK rigo d
Mississippi
rnf Governor % AlebAma iNp'h
proclamation oueglng nrevord ot fAeQ fo
I tho arc.t oi Vincent Che thioylng aiaf
| lfoafnier
Tns block AZ Nashville, Tenn.
boOnded hi 'FRONT.' nroat Aaikqi aH
/ Wharf rtireia VAS pnu.Nmal hl nir. iufO|i
mn a lo.s oi faNlA lull, hlfao m Ah'N