Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-26

SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD, the Canadian
Premier, is alleged tohave been threatened
by New York d%ynamiters.
AN excursion train from Grimsby, on the
Great Northern Railway, in England, col
lided with a Midland Railway excursion
train on the 10Th. Many s:erscns were in
jured.
The French Chamber of Deputies on the
18th, by a vote of 35S to so, sustained the
action of the Government in sending
troops to Anam by voting the required APP
preparation.
The London Times Of the 18th says: Sin
variety and completeness of illustration
the United States collection at the Fisheries
Exhibition is not surpassed by any of the
foreign contributors"
TWENTY of the crew of the bark Arabia
died of smallpox on the voyage from New
Orleans to Revel, on the Gulf of Finland, a
few days ago.
Two Americans named Paustand and
Mudd, accused of the murder of a wealthy
contractor named Wickland, were taken
from Jail at Monterey, Mex, a few days
ago, and hanged.
FITz-HARRIs, alias "Skin the Goat" the
cabman who drove the Phoenix Park muir
derers, was convicted on the 10th at Dublin
as accessory after the fact, and sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
A DYNAMITE bomb exploded q few days
ago in a village near Lisbon during a popq-
lar fete, killing four persons and wounding
twenty others.
CHOLERA is reported in the East Indies,
and vessels arriving from Bombay are
being q%uarantined at Suez.
CLAIMS are set up by a German jour
nal that the danger of contracting trichi-
nosis from American pork is sixty times
greater than from the German product.
The Pope's letter to the Irish Bishops was
the subject of discussion at a meeting of
the Irish National League at Dublin on the
10Th. One speaker said Irishmen should
take their theology and not their politics
from Rome, and that the letter was a
shameful insult to the Irish people.
JAMES MuLLEr, Edward O'Brien, Edward
McCaffray, Daniel Delaney, William Moro
ney and Thomas Doyle all pleaded guilty
at Dublin, Ireland. on the 18th, of conspir-
acy to murder, and five were sentenced to
ten years and Thomas Doyle to five years.
penal servitude.
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London, lave failed for ST. 100, 1000.
A PASSENGER steamer on the Volga
River, in Russia, was destroyed by an ex-
plosion of it's boiler on the 18th. Twenty
seven persons were killed and many others
were wounded.
A cABLEGRAM Of the 18th from Rio
Janeiro states that the Brazilian Ministry
had resigned.
BISMARCK said on'the 18th that the Vati.
can would repent if it refused the offers
now made by Prussia for a settlement OF
their differences, as such favorable terms
would not be proffered again.
1T is announced from Paris that De Les
seps proposes to construct a second canal
across the Isthmus of Suez.
DANIEL CURLEY was the second of the
Phoenix Park assassins to pay the penalty
of the crime, his execution taking place in
no confession.
THE st. Petersburg police on the 1stf
were informed of a plot to brighten the
horse of the Gar during the coronation
procession at Moscow, and in the, confusion
to take his life. ~,
ADvIcEs of the 18th state that another
battle had taken place between the Haytiar
troops and the rebels under B%arzalene, the
loyal army being defeated with grea,
slaughter. Two Haytian ships that en-
deavored to assist the land force were SUM-
by Barzalene's guns.
AN officer of the Russian army who had
been arrested on the charge of being
member of a military revolutionary club
made disclosures upOn his examina.
ton on the 18th indicating that the organ.
ization was an extensive one, although IL
has no connection with the Nihilists.