The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-07
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LADY GooCH, wife of Sir Francis
Gooch, we'll known In connection with the
attempt to palm c A spurious child on her
husband, 10 dead.
THE official return to be laid before
the chamber Of Deputies. shows S,O65 com.
munists amnestied, 1900 being prisoners
and 100 condemned by default. About
l,OC0 remain excluded.
THERE have been heavy rains through.
out Spain. At Malaga a waterspout up.
rooted trees and injured many persons. At
Vera, in Almeria, the river overlooked and
Hooded the mines, throwing 1900 men out
OF work. Twenty.one persons were drown.
ed and thirty houses and five hundred thou.
sand pisetas' worth OF ore carried away. At
Cuevas several lives were lost and one house
destroyed. Toe Sargossa and Barcelona
railway Is submerged for a distance OF six
teen kilometres. The river Agly has over.
flowed its banks inundating the village Of
Maury, the neighboTing territory and the
town OF E'tagile. Great damage was done
70 property.
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch says IL Is
aid the govern ment has received informa
ton that Gen. Terqusakof has sustained a
fresh disaster In Turkestan, and been
NS'b~N W tSSS0s WIN buC lOab Oh
baggage.
The proceedings OF the congress at
Naples, on the 26th, to promote general
disarmament throughout the worlj, termin.
ated in a scene OF indescribable confusion,
amidst hiEsing, hooting and other demon.
stratiors, owing to the opposition OF SEQ.
ton who disapproved Of The object OF the
congress-. Placards bearing the words
Live Trieste" olive Trent" Death TO
Austria" were posted on the walls OF Naples
IN the morning, but were torn down by the
police.
AN Alexandra correspondent reports
that Cleopatra's needle, while being re.
was seized by the creditors OF the Egyptian
government.
TIE reported capture of the Peruvian
ram Huascar Is confirmed.
OFFICIAL statistics OF the recent in.
undation in Murcis, SPAR, show that four.
ffths OF the arabic land IL ruined, and 5000
persons missing.
A IIvIsIoN Of Russian troops, mum.
benng 10000, has been ordered from the
Caucasus 10 Central Asia-also several off.
cars OF the general staff at g.. Petersburg.
FIVE men were hanged for completely
in the massacre OF the British embassy in
Afghanistan. including the Kotwal OF Cabul,
head Of the city Wollshs, aud two generals,
one Of royal b God. 0ne OF the generals, II
is charged, dragged the head Of Maj. Cavag.
mari from the British TeSidency 10 Bala
HissaT.
THE cholera In Japan Is rapidly sub.
siding. There have been 900 cases since
April, and IS 900 deaths. It's suppression IL
dus to the unprecedented &C erRy Of the
government In sanitary expenditures.
In the central criminal court, Lon
don, on the 25th, William RinggoId Cooper,
the American, who committed the forgeries
on GlyD, Mills & Co., and the Bank OF Eng.
land, was sentenced 70 Ave years penal ser.
vitude.
A CABUL dispatch states that the Kat
wal Of Cabul and four others have been
hanged for completely In the massacre OF the
British embassy. There has been fighting
between Ali Kheyl and Shutargardan, in
which the enemy was defeated with heavy
loss and communications have since been
reopened. A Cabul dispatch says the tribes
which were investing shuturgarden have
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