Governor Stoneman presided at a meeting in San Francisco, where
arrangements were made to hold a world's exposition in 1887.
The mercury at Charleston, S.C., was 13 degrees below zero January 4th.
Through New England the weather was extremely cold.
Mary, the seventeenth wife of the late Brigham Young, died at Salt Lake
City Saturday from blood poisoning. She has fourteen survivors.
A pie made of tainted meat caused the poisoning of sixteen boarders and
three Sisters at a convent in Montreal. Two of the former are
dangerously ill.
It is announced from Paris that the French government is intending to
sell the railways owned by the Republic. The Rothschilds stand ready to
purchase them.
By a railroad accident near Fort Dodge, on Wednesday last, three persons
were killed and several wounded. Among the killed was Mrs. J.H. South,
of Bureau Co., Ills.
Mrs. Holcomb, daughter of the murdered millionaire Crouch, of Michigan,
has committed suicide. There is some suspicion that she knew something
about the murder.
A nihilist proclamation has been issued threatening the Czar. There is
much anxiety at Gatschina palace.
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