[ EMPEROR WILLIAM. The Aged Rnler of Germany , Passes Quietly Away. t The Sick Crown Prince Proclaimed Emperor Frederick III. I ^ mm^^ | EMPEROR WILLIAM I. .Emperor \\ imam, 01 uermany, passea away in Berlin at 8:30 A. M. on Friday. The end had been momentarily expected since Thursday morning, and around the bedside of the venerable monarch were assembled all the members of his family, except the Crown Prince and Princess. ' Without was a multitude standing in the avenues leading through the grounds to J 44Unter den Linden"?a mighty crowd, but silent, expectant, fearful for the worst; all eager to hear the first news of the climax in j the great crisis which should decide between j life or death for their beloved Kaiser; all 1 breathless in the dread that the first news might be the news that they least wished to | hear. Never in this century has a multitude | so great and spellbound with emotions so ! profound stood in the thoroughfares of the ! German capital. A platoon of cavalry was , on guard about the palace, but their j oclr woo tin inch nf thft ATIT- ! ious watchers called for check or bin- j drance, no disorderly or unseemly j outburst had to be repressed. Many of I the vast throng had been there since midnight?some since the pjevious day?and nearly all since long before dawn of 'Thurs- | day. A thin, cutting drizzle fell for hours j early in the day; the wind was sharp and bitter, yet the great crowd stood their vigil j through; most of them bareheaded, seme i shivering with the ague of long exposure? j all speaking, when they spoke at all, in tones i subaued, and with their faces drawn behind j their hands. This was the scene without. Within?no chronicler was there to drawl the picture of a monarch's deathbed. At the j bedside, however, were Prince William and | the Princess, his wife; the Crown Prince of Sweden; Dr. Koegel, the Court Chaplain: the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, and all the other members of the royal family now in Berlin. . At noon all the members of the imperial I family, except the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, who were at San Remo, Italy, had been called into a room adjoining that occupied by the Emperor. At 32:25 o'clock Chaplain Koegel administered the last sacrament, though for some time the Emperor had been delirious by fits and starts. Prince Bismarck had been "at the Emperor's bedside nearly all the mornina, but at 2:30 o'clock he withdrew, and visited the Reichstag, announcing that the session of the Reichstag would close on Friday. I By 5:30 o'clock it was generally believed that the Emperor could not survive the night, and at C:4o a false report of his death was sent broadcast. The physicians in attendance had declared in a bulletin that a tendency to somnolence, evinced by Emperor William during the preceding hour or two, was not the re:sult of the injections of morphia which had been administered. From this on I till the end came the waiting multitude hoped, but knew tbat tnev were nop:ng against me inevitable. And when the news came tbat all was over they went away, some weeping aloud, some silently; all heavy with sorrow for their ruler they had loved. I Sketch of the Emperor's Career. 1 Frederick William Ludwig, second son of Frederick William III., King of Prussia, and the celebrated Queen Louise, was born on i March 23, 1797. As a child Williajn was very weak and delicate. His brother, the Crown Prince and heir to the throne, was much the stronger ol the two, and no one dreamed of the circumstances which eventually placed the younger brother first upon the royal and then upon the imperial throne. Prince William and his two brothers received military instruction together when they were very young from an old sergeant i j o \tr:n: i?,4-ill i ll?LIIlt*J Dt>J HIS 1*5 Ui. ill in. Ill AUC" vw unu pretty thoroughly when he was eight years old. I ** FREDERICK WILLIAM, THE CROWN* PRINCE. But his military instruction was not allowed to interfere with his other studies. He read history eagerly, especially Frederick the Great's account of the Seven Years' War. On the 3d of October, 1807, he was made Seccod Lieutenant of the Foot Guar da After this he attended drilll regularly, and took part in parades. In 1&03 his regiment was ordered to Konigsberg, and he accompanied it to its new quarters. In 1813, when the Napoleonic war broke ! out. he was made Captain, and went with his regiment to the Held. Un tue 1st 01 January he crossed the Rhine, near the mouth of the JJeckar, and while crossing witnessed the defeat of the'French on the opposite shore. lie was present at the battle of La Rothiere, the first defeat of Napoleon by German troops 011 JYench ground. At Bar-sur-Aube he acted as Adjutant, and was frequently in the thick of the fray. After this battle ho was decorated with"the Iron Cross for bravery, and re- i ceived, as a further acknowledgement of his j rourage, the proprietorship or the uegunent j Kaluga from the Emperor of Russia. He followed the army in 1S15, and alter the battle of Waterloo went to Paris. He was married on June 15, 1829, to Augusta, the daughter of Charles Frederick, Grand Dake of Saxe-Wei mar-Eisenach. The day of the wedding William and Augusta distributed 4,000 thalers among the poor of Berlin. His son, Frederick William Nicolas, the Crown Prince, was born on October 16,1831. Between then and 1840 his life passed as usual amid military pursuits and other studies. The army he regarded as the backbone of the nation, and he did all in his power to strengthen it and make it efficient On June 12, 1849, an attempt was made on Prince William's life. He was driving from Nieder to Ingelheim, and on passing a field of train two shots were fired from the field in rapid succession. One of the horses and the coachman were injured, but the Prince escaped unharmed. Several arrests were made, but the person who fires the shots could not be identified. While military Governor he was frequently summoned to Berlin to consult on important matters of state. > On Jan. 1857. he had been in the army fifty 1 ft fftars, and tbe event was celebrated at Berlin by an appropriate military display. In Oo-. tober of that year, his elder brother, King Frederick William IV. was incapacitated by illness from carrying on the Government,1 and Prince William was appointed tain-; porary Regent When on the wtn of October,; 1N5S, it became apparent that his brother's' xrind was irreparably impaired, he was made Regent of Pnissia, with the title Prince Regent. In the mean time his son Frederick William Nicholas Charles was married to Victoria Adelaide, Princess Royal of Great Britain. In 1856 his daughter Xouisa was wedded to the Grand Duke Fredtrick of Baden. On Jaminry 2, 1861, Frederick William IV. died, and William ascended the throne of Prussia as King William I He at once inaugurated a firm and determined policy which aimed at consolidating Germany under Prussian leadership. On July 5. 1861, a second attempt was made on the King's life. He was walking with Count Fleming from Carlsrule toward Lichtenthal, when they met a well dressed young man who bowed politelv. After he passed a shot was fired, and a bullet grazed the King's neck. Turning, he and his companion saw the young man who had just Ijassed facing them. In the grass near by ay a pistol. He made no resistance when he was seized by people who had seen him fire. The King continued his walk unperturbed. The efficiency to which King William had brought the Prussian Army was first seen in 186+, in the war against the Danes, whose King had proclaimed Schleswig a part of Denmark. Notwithstanding Austria's jealousy of Prussia's growing power, King William's diplomatists prevailed upon Austria to unite with Prussia in this war, which resulted in the total defeat of the Danes. The Prussian soldiers and their leaders behaved with ?*A*vka?Ornk1<% K??oT-cir>TT nnrl nfter fchlS War Prussia assumed ajxfcition among the first military powers of Europe. , Difficulties now arose between Austria and Prussia concerning the occupation of Schleswig-Holstein. On August 14,1865, the treaty of Gastein gave Austria sole occupation of Holstein, Prussia the occupation of Schleswig, and annexed the Duchy of Lunenburg to Prussia. Soon a new difficulty arose. On January 23, 1S(J6, the Austrian Governor of Holstein allowed an antiPrussian me?ting te be held in Altoona. This led to an acrimonious diplomatic correspondence, and finally Austria submitted the Schleswig-Holstein question to the Federal Diet. Prussia regarded this as a breach of the Gastein convention, anl marched her j troops into Holstein. On June 14 the Diet j called upon all the States of the confedera- i tion to arm against Prussia. This was the j beginning of the Seven Weeks' war, so called, ' Knx.ntic.A in eapfin wanl-e OnmTllptfllv I postrated Austria and her allies. m tne JNorth-Uerman Confederation, formed after this war, Prussia had full control of foreign affairs. All troops were placed under King "William, and it was j voted that every able-bodied man 'should be j obliged to serve in the army. In 1870 Kin.; William fulfilled his mother's command, given to him and his brother after the defeat' of the Prussian army by France during the Napoleonic wars: "Remember this defeat when you are men, to throw off the shame of it and to reconquer the glory France has snatched from us." When Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern refused the Spanish crown Napoleon IIL demanded a guarantee from Prussia that no prince of this house should ever bo a candidate for the crown of Spain. The King refused to give such a guarantee, and Napoleon made this refusal a pretext for declaring war. He relied upon the support of Austria and the'South German States, which had fought against Prussia in 1806; but Bismarck, in whom King William placed implicit faith, had formed alliances with them, and as a result Napoleon found all Germany united against mm. ine King himself took command of the German troops. ~ if. PRINCE WILLIAM, CROWN PRINCE SECOND, HIS WIFE AND SON. During the siege of Paris the King of Bavaria requested King William to restore the German empire. The other German States united in the request, and on January 18, 1871, William I. was proclaimed Emperor of Germany at Versailles, Bismarck reading the proclamation. Definite peace was concluded with France at Frankfort on May 10, 1871, and provided for an immense indemnity and the annexation to Germany of Alsace and Lorraine. Two attempts on the Emperor's life were made in 1878, but although wounded once he escaped serious injury. By Empress Augusta, who survives him, Emperor William had two children, the Crown Prince Frederick William, born October 18,1831, and the Princess Louise, who in 1856 married the reigning Grand Duke Frederick of Baden. March 23 last the Emperor was ninety years o'.d, and the civilized world united in | doing him honor, and the series of public sp- j pearances which the Emperor made at that | Hmo n-orft olmncf: hie TTntll t.llA OrftWn i Prince's illness took on a probably fatal , phase "Unser Fritz,1' as he has long been lovingly known, was universally looked upon as the next King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany. But since the development of the j cancerous disease hot-headed, warlike Prince VVilhelm, the pet of Bismarck, has been recognized as the next successor to the throne. Anxiety for the nation and grief at the sufferings of his eldest son embittered the last days of Europe's most distinguished sovereign. The Crown Prince Made Emperor. Crown Prince Frederick was a few hour* after the Emperor's death proclaimed by the German Reichstag Frederick III. Emperor of Germany anri King of Prussia. The new Emperor and Empress immediately left San Remo for Berlin. The new Emperor forwarde.l from San Remo the following ordinance to the Ministers of State at Berlin on the subject of pub lie mourning: ! "With regard to the national mourning which has heretofore been customary, we will not order any provision, but will rather leave it to every German to determine how he will giva expression to his affliction at the death of such a monarch and how long he will deem it appropriate to restrict participation in public entertainments." ?.ye witnesses or tne scenes at the death of the Emperor state that during the last few hours of his life he suffered no peror, half bending over the couch. He earnestly watched the face of the dying monarch until he expired. The Emperor's remains lay covered with a white cloth on the bedstead on which he died in the Imperial Chamber. The body was surrundod with candles. The emression of the face was extremely peacful and placid. Divine service was held in the mortuary chamber Friday night. At the opening or the Lower House of the Prussian Diet on Fridav Herr Von Puttkamer, Vice-President of the Prussian Ministerial Council, arose and said: "I have the j sad duty to make a most painful communication to the House. It has pleased God to call his Majesty, the Emperor, in the twentyeighth year of his glorious reign, from his earthly existence by a peaceful death at 8:30 o'clock this morning. You will not expect at this most solemn moment, when sorrow and care so deeply stir our hearts, to attempt to depict the feelings with which tne whole nation is filled through the loss of our most beloved, exalted, and venerable ruler. I may, however, safely and confidently say on this day of sore trial that the Prussian people and their representatives will now, more than ever, be penetrated by the consciousness that the sorrows of otir exalted Bovereicn's house ^re theirs, and. that tt* deeper trie universal pain at toe decease or our ever-remembered King, the stronger and more indissoluble will be the link uniting Prussia's Sovereign House and Prussia's people in good and evil days. I leave it to yourselves to take such resolutions as are suitable to the gravity of the situation." Herr Von Roller, the President of the House, closed the sitting with the words: "God protect the Royal House and the Fatherland." Messages of condolence to the remaining members of the Emperor's family were sent to Berlin from all the European Governments, and from the President of the United State* Emperor Frederick on German Soil. The Imperial train from San Remo, containing Emperor Frederick IIL and suite, on its arrival at Charlottenburg, a suburb of Berlin, wis three-quarters of an hour late, having been delayed by a snow-storm. It arrived at that place at a quarter past 11 r. M. Sunday. The Crown Prince William and hi? wife and Prince Henry of SaxeMeiningen entered the drawing car, and each kissed the hand of the Emgeror and embraced Empress Victoria. The emperor ana impress unrneuiuveiy uuguiuu from the train and proceeded through a pavilion, which was profusely decorated with flowers, to their carriage. 1 hey were driven direct to the castle, and were followed by detachments from the Guards. Despite a snow storm which prevailed, the entire route was crowded. The Emperor was heartily cheered, and much enthusiasm was manifested. Thousands of persons stood in front of the castle at Charlottenburg, which was illuminated. There wsi also a Inrro crowd otitairie the railway station, which was guarded by a detachment of the Guards. The Imperial train, on its arrival at Leipsic at 6:38, was met by Prince Bismarck. Count Herbert Bismarck, Count Otho, the Chief Court Chamberlain; all the Ministers, General Albedyll and General von Wilmonski, chiefs of the Imperial Military and Civil Cabinets, j <-> t..I?v.?? auu VUUUb i^UlCUUU UiUUU iuiwiu VA. v^-i emonies. Prince Bismarck entered the saloon to greet the Emperor and Empress. Emperor Frederick stepped quickly toward the door and repeatedly embraced Prince Bismarck. It was noticed that the Emperor stood quite erect, with the Empress by his side. The Empress also greeted the Chancellor most warmly. Emperor Frederick now appeared at the window of his carriage and bowed to the assembled people on the platform, who received him with the greatest enthusiasm. The body of Emperor William had been transferred to the Cathedral. The Cathedral bells began to toll at midnight, when Emperor Frederick arrived to visit the body. The removal was delayed on account of the Emeror's arrival until a quarter to I o'clock. The funeral procession was headed by a squadron of cuirassiers. These were followed by a detachment of the footguards and a numerous train of servants of the Imperial household. Then came the coffin. It was covered with a black pall and was carried on the shoulders of eighteen soldiers of the bodyguard through the vestibule of the palace, where it was handed to a number of non-commissioned officers. The Crown Prince and the other Princes followed on foot. Tne cortege closed with a detachment of cavalry. The streets were lined with double rows of soldiers,every tenth man V?/VMino- o frkivfi TTnnn fchA nrriv/il of the nro cession at the cathedral the toiling of the bells ceased, and the crowd silent'y dispersed. The late Emperor's will has been opened. It directs that his body shall be interred dressed in field uniform, with a gray military cloak over the shoulders and a field cap on the head. Upon the body are to be placed the decorations of the orders of the Black Eagle and Iron Cross, second class; the cross of the Russian Order of St George, the war medals of 1814, 1804, 1800 and 1870 and the Hohenzollern medal of 1849, the Russian medal and the medal of the Grand Duchy of Baden. The whole Russian army, by special order of the Czar, will wear mourning for four weeks, and ,the regiments of which the deceased Emperor Iwas honorary Colonel for five weeks. On the day of the funeral the whole army wore full mourning, and the use of bugles was prohibited. Viewing tlio Emperor's Body. After the announcement of Emperor William's death the aspect of Berlin became indicative of th3 national mourning. Officers and soldiers all wore crape on their uniforms. The dense crowd assembled in Unterden Linden watched the court carriages conveying persons of high rank to and from the palace. Windows and balconies throughout the city were draped, and most of the shop? were closed. Mourning wreaths were displayed everywhere. The German Court has gone into mourning for throe months. The coflin containing the remains of Emperor William as they lay in the Cathedral was covered with purple velvet, with gold ornaments. On each side of the catafalque were three large candelabras, with lighted wax tapers. Tabourets covered with white silk worked in gold were placed alongside ths coffin. The body was clad in the uniform o f the i First Regiment of the Guards, under a gray i cloak. The only decorations on the breast i were the Star of the Black Eagle and the Or- i der Pour le Merite. The Grand Cross of the | Iron Cross was suspended from the neck. A | laurel wreath was placed at the feet. An un- j broken column of people dressed in mourning i passed through the edifice for a last look at the dead monarch's features. I M I HIS LAST HOUKS, . I i Another Account of the German Emperor's Death. The strong constitution of the Emperor . caused the strnggle at the end to be a hard ] one, a'though for the last fifteen hours he ' suffered no pain. On Thursday afternoon j about five o'clock, lii3 Majesty's pulse ceased beating for some time. Those around the i DCa mougin mat us inurntiit >vu> ing for them to kneel down and pray for the departing soul. Suddenly the pulse began to beat again, and the Emperor opened his eyes. Prince William bent over him, and asked if he wished to take anything. Upon his answering in the affirmative, he handed him a plate of soap. When he asked him if he liked it he said: "I cannot exactly say I do." They then gave him a glass of champagne, which he eagerly drank, and his pulse beat stronger again. Prince William inquired if he knew that he had taken bold of the hand of the Empress, to which he replied: "Yes." Chaplain Koegel then repeated a verse in order to find out whether the Emperor was quite conscious. His Majesty repeated the ^ words and remarked that they were very i beautiful. ' A remarkable thing during his last hours is 1 that after the long silence which was so omi- * nous, the Emperor's first remark was about I military matters. Later on he conversed with Prince Bismarck and gave orders ror ins "< funeral procession to proceed from the Royal 1 Chapel. Prince Bismarck answered: "\Ve t have not got so far as that, your Majesty, ? and it will be some time before we do, and t besides, these things have been thoroughly t settled by your Majesty." The doctors were I much astonished to notice this change for the I better, but said that the temporary improve- I ment was by no means proof of the crisis e being past. Prince Bismarck and Count von ? Moltke were more hopeful. s Toward 6 o'clock Friday morning the Em- 1 peror became unconscious, and after that t time was not able to recognize anybody. The I Empress had been led away from her hus- c band's bedside before this, and the Grand ? Duchess of Baden was so overcome that she, s too, had to leave the deathbed. Suppressed ? sobs were heard throughout the room. Prince i William stood during the whole time at the t bedside, and never once took his eyes off his * grandfather. All at once the Emperor moved d his arms, as if trying to raise himself; hi8 t chest heaved: with a deep sigh he fell back on F his pillow, and all was over. i Tnose present then kissed the hand of the s de~< ased, and the court chaplain blessed him. The room in which Emperor William died * is very narrow, and contains only the most 6 necessary furniture, including the iron camp d bedstead on which he died, a washstand, and B a small table. The whole is marked with the c utmost sirrmlieitv. In one corner of the v room are the Emperor's boots. At the foot 8 of the bedstead is a movable shelf and a 8 writing case. The latter contains all the late Emperor's orders. 5 t 1 e News has reached Belfast, Ireland, of n u shocking case of hydrophobia which has just g occurred near CarrigalJen, County Leitrini f Over thirty people ate of a pig which had u been bitten by a rabid dog, and about a week t afterward a whole family, named Stewart, s was seized with hydryphobia. o There is not a single farm in Liberty j County, Ga., that is under mortgage, and it s is said that several other counties in the State j, can claim a similar distinction. j AN EASTERN BLIZZARD". The Worst Snow Storm in New York's History. Almost Entire Stoppage of Business in the Metropolis. The storm that visited New York on Monday reduced everything to a condition of suspended animation. Traffic was practically stopped and business abandoned. The elevated railway service broke down completely, but not without supplying a tragedy to the history of the clay; the street. c* q t*q nroro valiialoca* f.Vta onhnrhftn rnil ways were blocked, telegraph communications were cut; the Exchanges did nothing; the Mayor didn't visit his office; the city was left to run itself; chaos reigned; and the proud, boastful metropolis was reduced to the condition of a primitive settlement. The wind and snow did it all. The mischief began brewing on Sunday with drizzling rain and | gusty winds, which steadily increased in force. When the city awoke Monday morning, it j was staggered and amazed. Great rifts of snow that kept shifting and twisting were j piled up at the doors; sidewalks and streets were invisible, the air was filled with sleet and fine pellets of hail, which, impelled by the force of the wind, pinched and stung like hot needles, and clouded the vision with what looked like clouds of white smoke. Getting to business proved to most people who essayed it an insurmountable task. In the earlier hours of the morning here and there a street car might have been seen lurching like a ship in a storm behind four or eight horses. Most of the people who succeeded in getting down town had to foot it or endure the extortion of some mercenary Jehu. Fabulous prices were demanded and often paid for carriage hire. To add to the difficulty of locomotion was the danger of getting one's legs snarled up in the wrecked telegraph, telephone and electric light wires that were- plentifully strewed about. The storm stopped the work of the law courts: the legal mill ceased to grind and for a day offenders went "unwhipt of justice." Said was the plight of many who had come into the city on the earlv suburban trains and when they started homeward learned that there were no trains. To make matters worse when they hurried to the telegraph offices to send reassuring messages to their wives and families, they were frequently told that the wires were "down" and there were no "communications open." Many people rather than put up with the discomfort of a return uptown on foot, stopped for the night at down-town hote.'s. Taken all in all it was a unique experience for New York, one that New Yorkers will talk about for many a day. Up to 3 o'clock, two feet of snow had fallen. The blockade on the railroads was complete and there were no trains out of town all day. Superintendent Toucey, of the New York Central, said that some forty trains wore snow bound between 110th Street and Woodlawn Junction on the Harloin Road ^and Spuyten Duyvil, and that the blizzard had captured all the trains within a distance of at least thirty miles. But two trains were dispatched?one of them the newspaper train with two engines, and the other tne Southern express with three locomotives. Both were sent out wild, with out reference to the time table. All telegraphic communication was cut off between New York and the Jersey coast The telegraph wires began to give out shortly after 1 o'clock a. m. Ibis was kept up until daylight, by which time there was only one or two in operation between New York and Chicago, half a dozen or so to Southern points, and a few to Boston, Springfield and other New England cities. These did not last long. At noon communication with the West was almost entirely cut off except at intervals. Then the Southera lines went down, except at Philadelphia, where a wire was occasionally obtained for a lew moments and then lost. It is calculated that not less than 500,030 men. women and children, who are classed as wage-earners, were idle in New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Jersey City and Hoboken in consequence of the blizzard. Then there about 40,030 men who are employed in various capacities by street, 6teain railroad and elevated railroads who could not work. They are emp'oyed as drivers, conductors, freight clerks, freighthandlers and checkers, yard and switchmen, truck-drivers, expressmen. Streets which generally are lined with moving freighted wagons and trucks were deserted. It is estimate ! that 'JO,000 truck and wngon drivers did not work. Thousands of porters, cab-drivers, store-clerks, printers, agents, collectors, slaughter-house men, lumhni'.Vint>flloi-c 10 rK.f) InrxrsVmrMmpn dnnk laborers,brick-handlers, blue and brown-stone cutters, coal-yard employes, granite cutters, derrickmen, hod-carriers, laborers remained at home. When dusk came there was no abatement of the fury of the blizzard. It howled more and more loudly, accentuated by the darkness and absence of all distracting sounds. New York had at last experienced at least one day with a Western blizzard. Business was totally suspended in Wall street, the Exchanges, the Clearing House, the banks, the Sub-Treasury, the Custom House, an 1 the business that centers about them. All Che great Exchanges were practically closed at noon. A collision occurred on the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad in which one person lost bis life and several passengers sustained injuries. A serious accident occurred at Dobb's ferry, 11; wmcn several persons wereinjureu, md one very seriously, and it is almost a niracle that there were not a number tilled. The ferry-boat Oswego, of the West Shore line, came in collision irith a schooner on the North River, A.n unknown woman who was a passenger on ihe ferrvboat, lost her life through the accilent. The mail servioe was at a standstill; ;he carriers could not make their rounds, ind no mails were received from the outside ivorld. The loss entailed on the ;ity by the storm is simply incalculable. Figuring only on the few cases h which definite amounts are obtainable ;he losses mounts up into hundreds of thou>ands, and if estimates based on the total suspension of business in all branches be iniluded the total will reach far into the nillions. The Day After the Storm. The 'day after the storm New York City was completely isolated from the rest of the pvorld. Business was at a stand still, rhe greatest precautions were taken to prevent conflagrations, the firemen and . entire reserve police force patrolling the 1 business sections all day and night. One-third of New York' spilot-boat fleet lay i vrecked along the shores of the harbor and ower bay, and serious fears were enertained for the fate of fifteen other tanch boats ' that were last heard >f cruisine- off the coast. The irsfc news that came of the mislaps to the pilots was brought by the tugjoata Zouave and Richards when they de>osited their load of fourteen castaway pilots it Stapleton. They were brought from Sandy Hook, where five pilot-boats were unk or stranded in the Horseshoe. Not ong afterward came the news of three pilot>oats wrecked at Bay Ridge and another at tort Wadsworth?in all nine vessels. The irews floated ashore on huge blocks of ice. Several prominent citizens became lost in the now drifts and perished. 1 The appearance of the city after the storm n the early morning was a picturesque specacle never to be forgotten. The streets rere chocked with ieo and snow, varying in lepth from two to fifteen feet. Narrow horoughfares were blockaded com lctely for all kinds of vehicles. 1 Juildinjjs -were ornamented in fantastic t tyle with deposits of suow and festoons of ] ce. Signs were obliterated and doorways i rere hidden behind enormous drifts. On < ome of the cross streets there were j I-:'*- AO flin ctnrioc i II 111*9 OS UJ^U UJ v??C ouvviiu v?v. .w nd mountainous ridges of snow extendd along the curbs like bulwarks. The parks j cere literally buried, and broken trees and hrubs scattered over the white desert were t ilpnt but eloquent testimonials of the gale; * j Not a surface car track cou.d < ? seen, and only the . long locks of buildings markod the chan- r tela of travel. The elevated railroad struct- 1 ire was the most unsightly obiect above i .Tound. Many hats and caps blown from ] pedestrians' heads and not recovered lodged i [i out-of-the-way places. Broken .windows, c rrecked signs ana awnings, and abandoned ' now-bound cars and wagons were conspicu- c ur monuments everywhere. { The river fronts were interesting points to t tudy marine pictures and arctic scenes. Tho !ast Biver was gorged with ice from shore to s horo below the Brooklyn Bridge, and people g iter crossed on the solid floes. The North \ liver was open, but filled with enormous a ! eases ot ice. Many people crossed from city to city on the ice during the morning. The general description of New York by daylight would also answer for Brooklyn and Jersey City. In the height of the great storm the roofs of a block of five tenement houses in Brooklyn were blown away, and several children were seriously hurt, The Storm Elsewhere. The disastrous effects of the great storm have been widespread, though confined for the greater part to the States bordering on the Atlantic coast The storm did not extend west of Buffalo, N. Y., and the trains westward continued running as usual. Wi thin the area covered by the nearest approach to a blizzard the North Atlantic States have experienced for very many years the ruin and desolution which resulted was fearful. The telegraph wires have been thrown down; the railroads have been compelled to cease operations; trains filled with passengers, have been stopped, in many cases far from stations or any place where supplies could be obtained; stock in transitu on the cars has been frozen to death; the country roads have been so blocked as to render travel upon them impossible; in the various towns and villages the schools and many of the public buildincs have been closed, and a general prostration of business has resulted. At Albany the storm raged with great fury, and the Legislature was compel led to ad journ without a quorum, many of the legislators being snow-bound at their homes. Advices from Pittsburg, Harrisburg,Bradford. Carbondale and other points in Pennsylvania stated that the storm was the worst in many years and that the business of the ranroaas was completely paraiyzea. All Eastern and Southern New York was buried under huge drifts of snow, and business was practically suspended. In and about Boston the storm was comparatively light, and travel was not seriously impeded. Washington, D. C., was cut off frcm the rest of the world for two days, many telecrach poles and wires havinz blown down. Tlie Work of Recovery in New York. The first day of the storm witnessed an absolute blockade. On Tuesdiy the people forced their way out of their houses to gaze upon the spectacle of the greatest city on the Western Hemisphere thoroughly paralyzed by the elements. On Wednesday after the storm, when the city awoke, it was to realize that something must be done and at once to restore a normal condition. Streets buried in softly irregular billows of fleecy whiteness, with no small degrea of beauty in the general aspect, were changed into narrow channels of yellow slush through which horses and men floundered. "When the sidewalks had been cleared, and piles of snow along them built up so high that one could not see across the streets from one side to the other. various devices were adopted in some localities for getting rid or the obstructions. Many men dug caves in the big banks, and built fires In them to melt the snow, while others, where there was suitable apparatus, turned streams of hot water upon the big heaps. Five thousand men and 900 horses were engaged before 10 o'clock. It might be said that the Street Commissioner had organized a veritable shovel brigade, constituting himself a commander-in-chief. Tbe brigade wns broken up into detachments and assigned the various points at which to attack the common enemy, snow. Operations were not suspended when night set in. It would be almost impossible, however, to calculate the amount of suffering that was endured throughout the city from lack of coal, wood, milk and eggs. No milk was to be had, because none bad been brought in on any railroad s nee Satur.iay. Coal and wood could not be delivered in many streets because of the mounds of snow which lined the sidewalks, and the supplies in the yards were not plentiful. In soine cases coal was sold for sixty cents a pail, or at the rate of $43 per ton, while kinding wood could not be obtained at any price. iuv teiegrupu uuu wsiepnone companies made but iittie progress in restoring their lines. The telephone linemen were impeded by the quantities of snow on the houses over the roofs of which it was necessary to string wires. It was both difficult and dangerous to work under such circumstances. The blockade on the railroads was partly broken, but scores of trains, some flllea with passengers, were still in drifts within a few miles of the city. Every effort was made to get them out, but as their rescue must be accomplished byjshoveling'the process was slow. The surface roads in New York made herculean efforts to resume operations. Conductors; drivers, andstableman wore enlisted in the shovel brigade and were excavating the buried rails as rapidly as possible. The elevated roads were running with almost rmoi reeularitv LATER NEWS. The trial of the case wherein Miss Rosalie C. Butler, niece of Mrs. A. T. Stewart, att :rapt? to break her aunt's will, has begun in New York City before Surrogate Ransom. Six men were drowned by the wrecking of the schooner Harold C. Beecher,of New London, Conn., off Branford Beacon. The great blizzard swept over a part of Naw Frrrlnnr? with iinflTnnm'ftrl fnrv. rails- I ing considerable loss of life in some towns and a general railroad blockade. Seven deaths were reported in New Haven. Judge Gresiiam lias decided that th?docomotive engineers may quit work if they choose, and that Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood ot Locomotive Engineers, cannot be held responsible for their action or the stoppage of railroad traffic. This was considered quite a victory for the strikers. Three men were killed and three injured by a boiler explosion at Logansport, Iud. It has been decided to erect two monuments in Eerlin to Emperor William. The market place at Cabin, Hungary, was burned to the ground and many lives lost The Meuse has overflowed its banks and inundated Heughem, Borgharen and Ifcteren, in Holland. The bridge at Sassin was broken by drifting ice, and fully fifty persons were thrown into the water, many of whom were drowned. Eleven bodies have been recovered. Gkkmaxy receives with marked approval the peaceful manifestations of the new Emperor. French papers all commend his pacific utterances, and President Carnot, out of respect to Emperor William's death, held no reception. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Proceedinjfs. 53d Day.?Mr. Beck's bill to provide for the retirement of United States legal tender and national bank notes of small denominations, and to issue coin certificates in lieu of gold certificates was considered ? Mr. Hale called up the resolution for the appointment of a special committee to examine fully into the present condition of the civil service in all branches of the Government, and after numerous amendments had been rejccte J the original bill was passed. 54th Day.?Mr. Brown, of Georgia, spoke in advocacy of his bill to repeal all internal revenue laws. The remainder of the session was devoted to routine business. House Proceeding*. CIst Day.?The consideration of the Omnibus War Claim bill was taken up. and the amendment appropriating $"2(),(HJ0 to the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary ind High School of Virginia was vigorously apposed by Messrs. J. D. Taylor and Ken- I ledy, of Ohio. After considerable debate it was agreed to, and the bill passed as a whole i ? Tfie remainder of the day was consumed ' ii the consideration of private pension bills .... At the regular Friday's evening session ( hirty-four peusion bills were passed, inelud- . ng one increasing the pension of the widow , )f General Robt. Anderson to JIUO a month. ( (!2d Day.?Bills were reported for the ad- ( nission into the Union of Dakota, Montana, Washington and New Mexico The Grosrenor resolution was adopted, directing the 1 Military Affairs Committee to inquire 1 vhether any unofficial matter has been in- 1 orporated into the Civil War records.... I rhe Secretary of War sent to the House a ' Iraft of a bill making enlisted men of the c signal Corps responsible for the property in heir charge. a Day.?Speaker Carlisle, who had been t ick, resumed his post of duty, and was v greeted with a round of applause. There was c ery little business dispatched, and the House 1 idjourned at an early hour. r \ t TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and MiddleStatea. The premature discharge of a blast in a 1 quarry at Bethlehem. Perm., killed Foreman George Stuber and his seventeen-year-old nephew. 0. F. wnitk, a business man of Jamestown, N. Y., has committed suicide to escape financial trouble. Two slecping-cars jumped the track at Scio. Perm., and one lady passenger was killed and fourteen seriously hurt The Lehigh coal miners' strike has been declared off. Three trainmen were kil'ed and several passengers injured in an accident caused by the blizzard near Huntingdon, Penn. Henry Bekoh, lawyer, lecturer, dramatist, poet, shipbuilder, traveler, diplomatist and rounder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, died at his homo in New York City, He was born of German parentage in 1S23, and had consecrated his life to the protection of dumb brutes. A number of vessels were washed ashore at i>ewis, jjei., ana twenty-live lives were reported lost. South and West. A desperate fight occurred between friends of two rival merchants of New Era, Tenn., named Rufus Kittrell and F. Ernstine, in which four persons were killed and many more wounded. The Williamson county (Tenn.) Poorhouse burned, and two cra2y inmates perished in the flames. Macey Warner was hanged at Jeffersonville, Ind., for the murder of a convict in the prison of that place. The Methodist Episcopal University of Mitchell, Dakota, was destroyed by Are, and all the professors, students, and servants bad to leap from the burning building for their lives. The list of victims includes one dead, three fatally injured, and eight seriously hurt Joel Burnett and his six grown sons, of Ravena, Texas, have been arrested charged with murdering an old hermit named Morgan for his hoardings, about $1,800. Judge Dundy, of the United States Court at Omaha, issued an order retraining the engineers of the Union Pacific Railroad from refusing to haul the freight of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road; also restraining the engineers from striking, combining or conieaeranng ror the purpose of organization, or advising a strike. Charles Richter, the youn^ son 0f a wealthy citizen of Evansville, Ind., in a fit of insane jealousy, killed his cousin, Louisa Schmitt, and himself. H. G. Thomas, a wealthy planter of Tampa, Fla., nnd his overseer, Thompson, ended a ?>ree?by drinking arsenic and both are dead. hree of the Thomas family drank of the same poisonous mixture with fatal results. The three-year-old son of J. C. Dills, of Leon, Kan., in sportive imitation of a hanging he had recently witnessed, put a noose around his neck and leaped from a wagon, killing himself. The Republicans and Democrats of Mil waukee have united on a local ticket against the Labor party. A boiler explosion at Kavanaugh, Indian Territory, instantly killed one fanner and fatally injured ten. A premature explosion of dynamite at Bremen, Ga., killed three convicts working in a quarry. The town of Towsontown, Md., a suburb of Baltimore, has been completely destroyed by fire. Washington, The President and Mrs. Cleveland Rave a dinner to ex-Senator Francis Kernan of New York. . The ladies and gentlemen of the English. German, Russian, Austrian, Danish ana Italian legations at Washington are in deep mourning for the late Emperor of Germany. Mr. Buttebfield, of New York, has been appointed Consul to Ghent. The Chinese treaty has been signed. It prohibits the entrance of Chinese labor into the country during a period of twelve years, and gives an indemnity of $275,000 for violence to the Chinese. The great snow storm left Washington practically cut off from telegraphic communication with the rest of the world for sever ai uajo, mtiiij nua auu puics uemg u1uwu down. Foreign. TnE British bark Lanowa was wrecked near Weymouth, England, and thirteen of the crew drowned. The British bark Tasmania?collided in the English Channel with the ship Corinthe, and twenty-eight lives were lost. Five of the Buxton (Eng.,) Life Boat crew were drowned while attempting to rescue the passengers of the stranded steamer Isle of Wight Twelve passengers were saved, but quite a number perished. The American warship Enterprise has arrived at Tangier, Morocco, and demanded the immediate release of the imprisoned Moor, who is under American protection. Satisfaction hns demanded also|from the Moorish Government for the illegal arrest. The Prince and Princess of Wales have J just celebrated their silver wedding. The I Queen and all the participants were dressed { in deep mourning in memory of the dead i German Emperor. The Government of Denmark has promul- I en ted an order forbidding tto use or importation of American bacon, steam lard and other pork products. General Antonio Flores has been elected President of Ecuador. The Soudanese have made another attack on Suakin and killed the Governor of the town, but were repulsed. Emperor Frederick, of Germany, has promulgated a proclamation, eulogizing his ' father, the founder of the Empire, and j promising to follow his footsteps and make Germany the centre of peace. The steamer City of Exeter has foundered in the English Channel, and of the large crew only one was saved. J,., TEE LABOR WOBLD. Ohio has over 22,000 coal miners. Women carpenters have appeared in I London. A railroad's coal bill is 11 per cent, of its i | running expenses. "Within two months 301 shops have started to work in the South. Whalebones are prepared and shaped by steaming and pressure. , Steam foundry work is to be abolished in the New York State Prison. A North Wales, Penn., factory makes : 23,000 yards of suspenders a week. The shoe trade reports an advance in busi- 1 ness of 20 per cent, over last year. ! A man in Ypsilanti, Mich., has a collection of ninety-two axes of different kinds. The Jeffersonsville, Madison, and Indianapolis and several other railroads have ad- < vanced wages. I The journeymen painters of Pittsburg and j Allephany, Pena, have made a demand for $3 a day and nine hours' work. Destitution is said to prevail among the j silk weavers of Union Hill, N. J., in cons?- I quence of a lack of employment. . The Russians and Foles are crowding into I the New York city factories where sewing I is done. For several reasons they are strongly objected to by the other nationalities. Type rubbing is one of the best paying in- j dustries for women. The work consists of j rubbing the type after it is cast and to the ; point of polishing, which is done by men. j Some handkerchief hemmers in Glasgow, \ Rcot!;:nd, are on strike because their employer , wished to take seven pence off the pay for svery hundred dozen handkerchiefs hemmed, i The girls earn about $1.25 a week. j The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy strike :loied all the coal mines at Bevier, Summit ind Lingo, near Macon, Missouri, as there was no way of getting coal to the market Dne thousand men were thus thrown out of jmployment ( The making of thread spools is a thriving j > ndustry in a number of Maine villages. The j nost novel feature about tho business is the ^ vay the spools are polished. They are simply i jlaced in barrels, which are kept revolving r jy machinery until the spools have the re- j luired smoothness. c The operatives in the Social Mill, Woon- s; ocket, R. L, were surprised recently when g hey received their pay to find 'ihat their ? vages had been voluntarily advanced 5 per ( ent. The employes of the Nourse and Globe C dills, owned by the Social Company, have 3 ecei ved tbe same advance. This affects 'tQQQ j istui rraucucu ix utu mui^ ivuug auu iwur hauia bringing advices that the Imperial' Commissioner who was appointed to Investigate the loss of life in the Yellow River inundations has sent an official report to the Emperor of China that the total number of persons drowned is over 100,000, and the number destitute is 1,800,000, apart from tho:e who have been driven into other districts. ,, NEWSY GLEANINGS, As "ink lake" has been discovered in Colo ^ rado. There are 307,949 acres of artificial forert I in Kansas. . _ De Brazza, the explorer, has returned to Paris from Central Africa. The latest census of the Russian Empire shows a population of 108,787,235. ~ ;, There is a movement to hare Congress issue $75,000,000 fractional currency. Me5 are deserting by the hundreds now from the great European armies. ?r . A violent sand storm has been raging iff Egypt, stopping traffic on the tiuaz Canal i Seventy officers and men are implicated ,V in the robbery of Government stores in London. ) i ^ It is said in England that the Russian ' wheat crop this year has been better than for ten yean. %:'g It is proposed to reorganize the United States Signal Corps and accomplish a saving of $120,000 annually. I '% Extreme activity prevails at all of the French arsenals, and a fighting fleet is being prepared for active service. Farmer Hanna, of Indiana, buried, two pounds of dynamite with his daughter's remains to keep off body snatchers. M The German Government will take part officially in the Paris Exposition by sending exhibits to the fine art department j * Various valuables which were presented to the Pope as jubilee offerings have been, stolen, among the rest achalice worth $10.000. |j An Lin Sin, the richest Chinaman in San Francisco, is a millionaire, and there is a Chinaman in Laporte, CaL, whose fortune is reckoned at $2,000,000. . | Magistrate Benjamin Wesson was shot and instantly killed at Olive Branch, Miss., by County Surveyor W. H. Moody, in a /min ft'nl o lna/l r\9 wrA/vl ,i ^uuucivru u ?wuu v4 t* vvv*. f | Dr. Scott's twelve-year-old son found a stick of dynamite in his father's office, at Sherman, Texas, and attempted to whittle a whistle out of it, when it exploded and blew off both his hands. . * The sum of $2,2-50 has been set aside by tha American Baseball Association for prizes, for the leading clubs at the end of this season's play. The money is divided into sums of $1000, $750 and $500. y , < A teaix on the Alabama and Great Southera Railroad dashed through a drove of fifty mules at Akron recently and killed eight of them outright The locomotive kept on its way without leaving the rails. . i A submarine cable has been laid acroa the Formosa Channel, from Keeling, Formosa, to Foochow, on the China main land, thus bringing Formosa into telegraphic communication with China, Europe and America. " . j v Three persons w re killed in the streets oi) New York City during the month of FebruJ ary by reckless driving of carriages. I =============== - - rl THE MARKETS. f 1 * i 11 NEW TO UK. . 1 ' 1 Beef, good to prime.. g i Calves, common to prime.... & & ? ' Bheep g f | | Lambs ' @ . ?- a Hogs-Live... 64? S 8U Dressed.............. Flour-Ex. St .good to fancy 4 40 @ 4 75 West, good to choice 3 55 @ 4 15 Wheat-No. 2 Red Ry&?State ?6 @ ? Barley?State.. ............ 82 @ ?5 . Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... @ ^ Oats-White State 39^0 40 Mixed Western ?3 @ 40 , Hay?Med. to prime 85 @ w Straw?No. 1. Rye _ $ Lard?City Steam o! Butter-State Creamery.... ? @ gA Dairy ? @ 29 , West Im. Creamery 34 <0 26 ^ Factory ?? @ ?*. . Cheese?State Factory ? <3l 12* Skims 5 @ 8>| Western 11 0 11)* Eggs?State and Penn 17ji@ 17>? buffalo. i Steers?Western 4 3.5 @ 4 85 Sheep?Good to Choice 4 50 @ 5 50 Lambs?Western 4 75 $ yorn?State Yellow 57 $ 57# 3ats?Mixed 37 (ct 30 iye?State 52}?kunk, half-striped 65 @ 75 ; Jkunk, striped 80 @ 35 ! ikunk, white 15 6> 19 ! )possum, laree, cased 38 @ 43 )possum, medium and open. 20 @ 23 luskrat winter 16 @ 18 j luskrat, fail 13 @ 15 .