The record-union., 1891-01-20
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Extremely Cold Weather Through
cut the Continent.
GREAT SUFFERING AMONG THE
POORER CLASSES.
Treaties OF Commerce Discussed in tho
Chamber of Deputies-Prospect of
an Early Settlement of the Dispute
Between England and Portugal
Chilean Affairs.
Special to the REcoED-UNroS.


BERLIN, Jan. 19.-Reports from all parts
OF the country show that the thermome-
ter has touched many degrees below zero,
Fahrenheit, but that the cold is bearablc
in the absence Of wind. The ice here is
eighteen inches thick.
The sea between Stralsund and Rugen,
five miles in width, is alive with skaters
and sleighs. Ponds are frozen TO the bot
tom.
Twenty-one head of deer in the royal
forest at Benrath have died. In Holland
and Belgium the severity of the snowfall
put stop to railway and street car traffic
Thousands OF men are engaged in clear
ing the roads.
On the coast of Holland the sea is frozen
for great distance. There is . bank Of
ice on the shore of extreme beauty.
Advices from Naples report the death of
two persons from cold. The Italian rivers
are incumbered with ice. The roof Of a
school for boys at Sandematrio gave way
beneath the burden of snow and ice, and
the whole mass went crashing into the
schooi-room below. Twenty-Five pupils
were injured.
On the frontier, near Geneva, man was
found frozen to death.
Several vessels have been wrecked in
the Bay of Biscay and number of lives
lost. Gales throughout Europe are the
severest of the year.
VESSELS IN DISTRESS.
BERLIN, Jan. 19.-Several steamers in
the ice-blocked river Elbe lost their pro-
peliers by dashing against the ice foes.
A number of vessels parted their
anchor chains, and are drifting helplessly
in the stream. The strongest cannot
leave the harbor of Cuxhaven on ac-
count of the ice. Citizens are assisting
the military to blast the ice with
melinite.
CoLDEST OF THE YEAR.
PARIS, Jan. 19.-Saturday and yester-
day the most intense cold of the winter
was experienced throughout France.
Yesterday an aged man was found
frozen to death in his lodging S in this
city.
The thermometer yesterday touched 70
above zero, Fahrenheit, at Macon, 90
here, 120 at Toulouse, and Sc at Grenoble.
Wells are frozen at Perpignan, where
a man has been found frozen to death in
the street. A woman was found frozen
to death in bed at Epignal, where the
thermometer indicates 40 below zero.
Slight snowfalls are reported from the
Riviera.
Dispatches from all parts of France tell
OF great inconvenience and suffering,
caused by the intense cold weather The
harbors of Toulon and Laseyne are
frozen over, for the first time on record.
The olive crop in the department of Gard
is fast being ruined. Whole communes
in the neighborhood of Perpignan, in
Pyrenees, are cut off from communica-
ton, and wayfarers were frozen to DEATH
AT Saragossa, Spain, the mercury is 14o
Fahrenheit, and snow is falling. A large
number of vessels are ice-bound at Bor-
deauX.
Packs of wolves and wild boars are in
vading the isolated districts. The animals
have become desperate through hunger
and fearlessly prowl about the houses, to
the great CONSERVATION Of the people, The
same state of affairs exists in Spain.
Advices from Algiers are to the effect
that the country is covered with snow
and traffic is blocked.
The municipal authorities tonight
lighted hundreds of fires in the streets of
the city, and large numbers of wretchedly
poor persons crowded around them to OBJ
tain some relief from the intense cold,
which prevails. Every effort is being
made to relieve the great distress, and the
Palace De BeauX Arts has been converted
into a night shelter for the homeless,
and is provided with a soup kitchen.
The municipali buildings elsewhere are
also used for similar purposes.
SUFFERING AMONG THE PEOPLE.
LONDON, Jan. 19.-The severity of the
weather recently experienced in Great
Britain is increasing. There is much suf-
fering among the poorer class, and from
various sections of the country come ac-
counts that many cattle, and in many in
stances, human being were frozen to
death. Several trades are at standstil.
A lady was found to-day frozen to death
in railroad carriage at one of the stations
in this city.
COVERED WITH ICE.
KEEL, Jan 19.-The Baltic sea, so far as
can be seen from the lighthouse, is
covered with ice. The Lake of Constance
is covered with ice. Navigation is sus-
pended.
VIENNA, Jan. 19.-Nearly all the roads
and railroads throughout Austria are
blocked with snow, causing considerable
delay. In addition, number of towns
are completely isolated, and are likely to
remain so for some time. These towns
are suffering from inability to renew