Evening star., 1895-02-09
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

High gales began early yesterday MORN
iEg at Toronto with heavy snow. Street
cars are stalled and trains are delayed.
The thermometer indicates ten degrees
below zero. Many cases of exhaustion
from cold are reported among laborers
engaged in cleaning streets.
During the storm yesterday cyclonio
wind struck the shoe shop of E. F. Davis.
at Amesbury, Mass, wrenching 1T from
it's foundation and carrying it some dis
tance. The building was split apart and
badly wrecked, but no one was injured.
The jury in the case of William Bibler.
who was on trial for shooting DIR. Riegel
at Belvidere, N. j., yesterday, returned
verdict of guilty. The jury was out over
twenty-four hours.
The Hamburg-American line steamer
Augusta Victoria, Capt. Kaempf, which
is carrying an excursion party from the
United States, arrived at Eillefranche yes
terday.
Rufino Blanco Fr1nbana, the Venezue-
Ian consul at Philadelphia, who was fined
$500 in New York Tor carrying concealed
weapons, yesterday paid his fine.
A severe lime fire, almost rivalfn2 that
of few years ago, broke out along the
water front at Rockland, Me-. yesterday.
A. ]. Bird & Co.. Farrand, Spear & Co.
and the Gay Bros. slost about 1000 casks
each.
The fishing schooner Addie Emma Of
Gloucester went ashore off Wood Island.
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gale and will be total wreck.
A special commissioner of the board of
trade has arrived at Aberdeen, Scotland,
to open an inquiry into the loss of the
Ellie
Before a bench of judges at Vienna yes
terday DIR. Paiitschek Won Palmforst, for
naerly consul general of Austria Hungary
in New York, and commissioner general
OF Austria-Hungary to the worlds fair at
Chicago, was tried and acquitted of ems
beZzlement.
Alexander Martin. aged forty-two years,
a night miner while ascending the slopS
ir cage at Maple Hill collery, at Ash
land, Pa, yesterday, fell out and drops
ping to the bottom of the slope was in.
stGntly killed.
Seventy-six men were killed and 23s
fatally injured while mining coal in the
Wyoming district of Pennsylvania during
1894
The trustees of Lafayette College havS
conferred the degree OF doctor of divinity
on Rev. John G. Cunningham of EdinI
brrgh. Scotland. and the degree of doctof
of laws on Prof. John Ashhurst. jr.. Of
George T. Purves. d. D., of Princeton
Theological Seminary.
The steamer Pilgrim has arrived at Fall
River.
In the house OF commons last evening an
amendment offered by Mr.. Jeffreys to tha
address in reply to the queens speech cen-
suring the government for ignoring the
claims of the agricultural classes and the
unemployed was rejected oy a vote of 273
to 81. The Parnellites voted against the
government.
The Spanish parliamentary committee
to which the matter was referred has ap-
proved the proposal to increase the duty
on foreign corn.
Ten men, all the crew of the British brig
Nelson Rice. have been drowned by the
wrecking of that vessel on the rocks or
Douglass, Isle of Man.
dispatch to the London Times from
Yokohama says that China has declared
her intention to telegraph corrected Gre
dentials to her peace envoyS to Japan, who
were instructed by the emperor to remain
at Nagasaki for further Instructions.
One hundred and fifty of the two hum
dred employees in Maurice Flynn's boot and
shoe factory, at Lynn, Mass, struck be-
cause three non-union men have been em-
ployed there. Mr.. Flynn declined to dis
charge the. men. There is no difficulty on
the wage question.
The Dominion line steamer Labrador ar
rived at Halifax yesterday afternoon at 8
o'clock. She left Liverpool January 81 and
Teutonic. The Labrador reports good
weather till she reached the coast of New
foundland. She saw nothing of the La Cas-
cogne or of the Teutonic. and her officers
expressed great surprise when told that the
two ships had not arrived at New York.
The London Times and Standard this
morning both commented upon the narrow
escape of the government from defeat on
the Jeffreys amendment.
Flags hoisted the signal stations at
ST. Petersburg indicate temperature of
fifty degrees below freezing, although the
weather is bright ard sunny.
In many places in Germany the mercury
registers fifteen to twenty degrees below
zero. The Rhine Neckar and Main are
frozen for long distances. Many persons
have died on the road.
A severe storm is prevailing at Trieste,
Fiume and other places along the Austrian
coast The weather is SO extremely cold
that the streets in Vienna are deserted
and the theaters closed. A hurricane at
Pressburg has done much damage. Nu-
merous deaths caused by the cold are re-
ported from the country districts.
The severity of the winter has caused a
great increase in the mortality in Spain.
A partial thaw yesterday, accompanied by
rain, flooded the Ebro Tia gus and Guadiana
valleys The Guadalquivir river rose sew
eral meters and inundated the low-lying
suburbs Of Cordova and Seville.