HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.
♦ _ (Per Press Association.) New York, Jan. 25. A terrible blizzard passed over Kansas, lowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. During the storm the mercury fell fifty degrees. The railways were blocked. Many lives wore lost. Paris, January 25. At a pigeon match at Monte Carlo, Donald Mackintosh, a Victorian sportsman, killed his nineteen birds without a miss, and divided £145. Vienna, January 25. The Austrian Episcopacy has issued a manifesto demanding votes at the coming general elections to secure to the church the control of the education system, St. Petersburg, January 26. M. Muravieff will visit Berlin, and is also expected to stay at Vienna. Rome, January 26. The Italian Government is taking steps to expedite the transhipment of colonial mails at Brindisi. Calcutta, January 25. The Bombay newspapers admit that there have been 10,000 deaths from the bubonic plague in that city.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 175, 27 January 1897, Page 2
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