, 1888-03-15

admission of Washington territory and
North Idaho Us u single state, providing
that the northern part OF Idaho shall be
not included without the consent of a ma
jority of the electors residing in the part
In question. There will be a minority ad-
verse report on the first mentioned bill,
Old Probs. on the Weather.
! CHICAGO, March 13.--Meagre reports at
! the signal service office indicate that the
storm was very violent on the north Attain
! tic coast, sweeping over the states of New
| York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, Very cold
weather is reported at many points. At
! Albany last night the mercury marked
| degrees above zero and ut New York 10 de-
grees above. At Albany and Pittsburg the
snow fall is reported to be very heavy.
There is no interCeption oftelegraph service
either south or west.
TYING UP BusINEss.
New YoRK, March l3.--There has only
| been partial resumption, of traffic in this
city. Tile elevated railroad trains are run
nj ng only at intervals, but they are wholly
inadequate for the requirements. The wind
Is still blowing furiousy and the snow is
badly drifting, being piled in many places
six to nine feet.
New YORK, March I3.-The stock ex-
change adjourned at noon to-day and the
loan market at IL 80 p. m Several persons
1t is reported perished in the city last night
from the cold. Communication with WASH
ington and all points south of New York Is
| running. The snow is frozen so hard that
the plows cannot be used and gangs of men
with
sHovELs AND PICKS
are endeavoring to clear up the roads The
| Fast river is frozen solid this a. M, and
many Brooklynites walk across to New
York, Few trans, il any, have reached the
| different terminals in New York and Jersey
City. Many trains are stalled between
stations on the New York Central. The
officials said yesterday that DO trains were
showed in. Not u train reached the Cen
tral depot during the day. Most of the
roads report similar condition or affairs.
Passengers suffered great discomfort.
Ferry boats are only run at long intervals.
Ali eastern wires are down. A communi-
cation from Philadelphia last night said
| the storm there was the worst for over
thirty yeals. No trains are running. Many
ure snow bound even in the city. East bound
showed In II miles from the city. Business
Is suspended and all the telegraph wires
| are down.
Most of the people who gotto their places
| of business yesterday were unable to get
home last night. The hotels were strained
| to their utmost stories, offices were con-
verted into sleeping apartments for the ben
compelled to acceA such quarters. A ma
! jority of the theatres were closed last night.
A milk famine is threatened If the blockade
Is not soon cleared The produce, coffee and
cotton exchanges all adjourned for the day.
Last night was the worst ever experienced
along the banks of the Hudson aud along
the West Chester shore OF the Sound. The
mercury at 9 o'clock this morning, at
Dobb's ferry on the Hudson and Port
| Chester on the Sound, marke zero. The
gale
SWEET WITH FEARFUL VELOCITY,
and traffic on Long Island was entirely
blocked. Thousands OF men were at work
digging out the tracks. Snow plows cannot
! be used. President Austin Corbin, of the
Reading lines, is snow bound at Jamaica
He had left on the train for Brooklyn yes
! terday morning. Geo. ID. Barrymore. the
we'll known importer and dealer in hops, ut
! No, Water street. was found frozon stiff
in snow bank on Seventh avenue. Barry
| more lived with his wife and family in Os-
borne Flats, 5lst street and Broadway: He
started for Mis- office down town yesterday.
1t is supposed he became exhausted and
dropped by the way unnoticed. The body
of Annie Halpin Fisher, aged about 80, was
found last night frozen stiti in hallway.
UTICA. N. Y, March lS.--The storm has
absted but the extraordinary fall of snow
completely blocks travel. The fast mail
this morning, are at the depot. No trains
arrived to-day and none are expected.
PIrrsBuRs, Pa, March 13.-Business on
| the Pennsylvania railroad between this city
| and Philadelphia is completely paralyze5.
No trains have arrived from the east since
last night. Everything Is blOckaded with
SNOW. All the trains are snow bound, and
there is little prospect OF their getting out
for twenty-four hours. At some places the
snow has drifted as high as seven feet, and
there are miles and miles OF freight trains
waiting to get through. Never before in the
I history of the railroad has there been such
a blockade. The cold weather will be very
severe on train,nen and passengers, as the
| thermometer ut most places is below zero.
| No mails have arrived from the east since O
O'Clock last evening, and 1t is estimated that
| 20. 900 letters are snow bound between Pitts
burg and Philadelphia. Telegraphio conf
| munication is still cut almost entirely Off,
| but there Is no trouble west.
KNOCKING DOWN wInEs.
| CHICAGO. Msrch lathe wires of the
Western Union Telegraph company, which
! were completely dem olished between Chica-
| go and eastern points by yesterday storm,
are still in very bad shape Local officials
| have as yet no means OF knowing the ex-
tent of the trouble, but there Is only one
duplex wire to New York that can be used,
while Washington, Baltimore and Phila-
! delphia are completely cut oil from direct
communication with the west. The storm,
| it il reported, has subsidized to-day.
IT REACHs OUT TO SEA.
BALTIMORE, March 13.-For the first time
| in existence the telegraph office at Balti-
more was cut of from Communication with
New York and Washington for over twenty
| four hours from Sunday night Not only
! were the wires down but hundreds of poles
also. The wind blew gale and thermom-
eter fell 40 degrees in ten minutes. The tide
WAS lower than was known in the memory
of wharf men, being at least 12 feet below
the level Of ordinary low water, No vessels
could live In the bay Sunday night, and
which will be reported when the vessels be-