The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-13
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OFFICIAL dispatches have been received giving
further details OF the recent hurricane in the
Philippine islands. Twenty vessels Of various
classes were wrecked, including four foreign
hisates, and n larg number OF other vessels
were damaged. f@ty-Six persons were
drowned.
wrm regard TO tho executions in Cabul.
Gen. Roberts biographies; before November
u, 1879, about seyenty-three Young mea wels
executed, viz; The city kotwal. (msgistrate,l
and six others convicted Of dishonoiing the
bodies Of officers OF the british embassy; severn
tecn convicted for attacking escorts to the
in their possession, and forty-nine for proved
murder OF camp followers aud implication In
the attack on the british resideney. Since No
yomhcr 18th nine were executed On conviction
for attacking the residency, AMI iftecn marc
have been sentenced 10 death f@ killing
wounded soldiers and for implication In the
attack on the residency."
Tux british parliament was ceremoniouSly
opened on the 5lh. Therc Vas thu usual search
for Guy fawkes IN the cellars of the house Of
commons IN the morning.
Tne calamity which occurred On the Circular
railroad at Chchy, France, ON tho Sd MAS oven
more horrible than was estimated from frat re-
ports. Eleven persona have already died, tho
most notable among them heing the Count dc
Pryfaret. The number 81 wounded IL conn
puted az 60, and Of these some arr likely 10 die.
NJ. Maret, of the Place vendome, an eminent
architect, was among the killed. He had insur-
cd his life for sSO,OOo few hours heforr hc
took the train,
The distrcss in lrelandis said To To appalling.
THREE hundred thousand people arr slowly
starving, and can only la kept alive by super
human efforts on the part of their fellow erea-
~ tk... hxEtns
daily, OF tnrnips or OF meal. Thousands moro
are consuming their last potatoes.
Bra railway collision at Argenteail, DEPART
nent Of the Seine OF Loire, France, seven per
suns we're killed and twenty wounded.
THE force Of the Russian expedition against
Tekke, is tobe 100000 men.
A REcESr ami terrible hurricane in the Phil
hppine islands did much damage ON shore aud
to shipping. A Spanish gunSoat is rported
wrecked and the crew all lost.
4 vienna correspondent says Trustworthy az
counts represent that the internal condition Of
Russia Is becoming daily more critical 4 num-
Der u officers high in command became dir
affected, while those who were not promoted
after the late war with Turkey hayc, with few
exceptions, Joined the reyolntionists.
4 DISPATCH from Ccnstantinople says thou
sands OF Moslem refugees arr slowly perislling at
PhiRppopois, from cold aud starvation. They
are only aided by foreienes. The Balearans
will give nothing toward their relief, and say
tho statements Of misery are gottea up by Turkish
and English intrigue,
THg warehouse VI the British and Foreign
steam wharf, Wrapping, England, burned.
Damages stated at faoa,0O0.
A LoNpoS dispatch Of the sist says that
rich land owner near barcelona, Italy, his wife,
three daughters, SON aud two woiaeu servants,
have all been found murdered la their beds.
The deed was apparently done with q hatchot.
The house was rsnsaeled, A swiReherl aud
his two SONS we're arrested.