AMERICAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1104, 10 February 1872, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS.

, . Fiik, junior, the great railway specu- ; ..-■ later, has been shot by Edward Stokes, / in the vestibule of the Grand Central Hotel, Hew York. He received three khoti, and expired next morning. Stokes • wwanesttd. The grand jury found an ' indictment against Stokes and a Miss Manfield foi attempts to extorc black mail from Kak. The funeral procession was more that a mile long. The revplnthn in Mexico continues. A (despatch fromMier states that Trevino will more on Lunres with 10,000 men to attack Matamora, and Kenegosa, with 6000 men, will o-operate. Queoroga retired from Mier ContJna going to occupy that place. A. great snow.stoim occurred on the Central Pac : sc Kajlroid. The passengers torned out of the carriges and shovelled snow for three days. I smashed 28 locoy motives in ploughing tirongh the snow drifts. Not a single sntw plough is left on the Union Pacific 1 inc. One gentleman had nothing to eat for several days, and , became sick. The charge w* half a dollar for a cup of coffee and tie same for a loaf of bread. Some passengrs were 14 days in the train. • '■ A New York despatch via Loidon says the total number of deaths from mall-po* in London during the last year **« 8000. The average for ninety-one years preceding was 6000. The Medical Jouml calls attention to the alarming increaa, and warns the public to take all precau'uins, and appeals to Government to intense rigid sanitary regulations and estabjah special hospitals, carefully quarfitined,m infected districts.