Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-01-13

Many Countries in Europe Are
Still Ios-Bound.
Crest Distress Among the Working
ciAssss IN England AA4ny Die
q hunger and Cold.



PANS. Jan f2.-The Seine and other
French rivers are frozen except in mid
stream At Epinzl the thermometer is
four degrees below zero. The harbor
Ut Geneva Is frozen over for the first
time since 1880 and all navigation Is
stopped.
BERLIN, Jan. l2.--on Saturday En-
peror William drove in sleigh over
tho River Havel To Potsdan- The ice
was thirteen inches thick. and the En-
peror upon arriving at Potsdam ordered
the troops Of the garrison, including
the artillery. To turn out and exercise
IT crossing the ice.
The severity OF the weather Is causing
wolves TO become dangerously hungry,
especially ia the case Of those which are
beginning TO infest the woods near
many villages In the northern part Of
Hungary. Bears have appeared in the
Syrian mountain.
LONDON, Jan. l2.-rhroughout En-
gland intense cold weather continues
TO prevail In addition dense fogs are
gene raj, but there has not been any
moro snow. In the Hebrides, or West
ern Islands. the temperature registered
u 50 degrees
The continent is still suffering from
press trains between Hamburg,
Cologne, Berlin and Vienna have been
showed up. The mails have been con-
siderably delayed throughout Europe.
LONDON. Jan. IL. - The rigorous
weather continues and the distress
among the working classes. caused by
seven weeks of frost and snow, has as
sumed terrible proportions. In London
alone it is believed there are nearly
zoe. 900 men without work, and every
city in the kingdom reports
. proportionate number. Most of
the local authorities have lalnentably
failed in their duty toward the suffer
ing poor, and private charity, although
given everywhere in generous measure,
has proved sadly inadequate owing to
the tremendous magnitude of the evil.
The Socialist agitators never had more
promising material for their purposes,
and they are seeking to utilize it
TO the fullest extent. The Government
has received information which proves
that agitators have for weeks past been
busily engaged among the poor people
melting them to violence. Starving
men are told of abundance, wealth and
Astounding luxury in the West End, and
are urged to seize fOrcibly that which
they viii never obtain by quiescent
suffering.
Saturday afternoon the alarm reached
police headquarters that q mob was
marching upon Northumberland ave-
nue. and Pail Mall with the avowed in
tention + looting the big hotels and
the aristocratic clubs. The warning
was Immediately sent to st.
Georges barracks, hard by Trafalgar
square, and the police reserves were
summoned by telegraph from all
parts of the metropolis. A mob of
about 200 tattered, hunger-pinched
men actually did march along the
Thames entertainments, but their stom-
achs were too empty for fight. They
advanced as far as the Savoy Hotel, and
there catching sight of strong body of
police promptly followed the example
of their leader, q well-known revolu-
tionary spouter, and bolted into space.
1t is hardly an exaggeration to say
that the unusual cold has completely
upset the English. hundreds of people
of advanced years having been actually
killed by it, not alone by the creation
of pneumonia and pulmonary diseases,
but by the actual severity of
tho weather benumbing and
freezing them to death. The
death notices are phenomenally
numerous and the hospitals are over
crowded with those who, unused to the
slippery walks, have fallen and broken
arms or legs But more severe than all
else Is the fish and vegetable famine
prevailing. Fish is such luxury that
ii commands the highest prices Veg
etables are at just double their former
figures, and in buying one is sure to
find many that are frost bitten or other
wise spoiled. This serious condition of
the produce market has filed the police
courts with men and women charged
with stealing food, or that which they
might exchange for food, and many of
the poor creatures actually crave the
fare of the prison TO save them from