Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21

there were one hundred and twenty-five
deaths from cholera at Damietta, Egypt,
thirty-two at Mansurah, four at Samanoud,
four at Shirbin and three at Port Said.
E1GHTTHousAND iron-workers in Stafford
shire and Worcestershire, England, struck
on the 4th against a reduction of wages.
PANAMA advices of the 4th state that
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have
been of frequent occurrence in the Central
American republics, in some instances
whole villages being destroyed.
WHILE a train was descending an incline
near Huddersield, England, a few days
ago, one car turned over OF its side, two Of
the occupants being killed and thirty
wounded.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the morning of the 9th one hundred and
! sixteen persons died of cholera at Dami.
eta, Egypt, and forty-seven at Samanoud.
ABOUT st. Thomas, Ont, the creeks were
overlooked on the 9th, farms were sub
merged, md houses and railway tracks
had been washed away.
The Duke of Marlborough, who retired
on The night of the 4th, at London, in ap-
parent good health, was found dead on the
floor of his apartment the next morning.
FIFTY buildings in Friedrichstadt, Rus
STA, were destroyed by fire on the 9th.
The Broke Spinning Mill at Mossley,
England, containing $1,000 spindles, was
burned on the 9Th, together with a large
stock of cotton. The loss was placed ut
$125, 900.
NEAR Ennis, Ireland, n farmer named
Griffey was shot and seriously wounded
q few days ago for taking possession of q
boycotted farm. = :
ENGLISH iron-workers on a strike, to the
number of ten thousand, marched to Dud-
leyport, Upton and Maxleyo on the 9th, en-
tered the mills, and quenched the fires in
the furnaces.
CAJAME, Chief of the Yoqui Nation, in
Mexico, was assassinated while coming
from mass during the feast at Yoqui River
on the 4th. 1t was believed that his death
would throw all the rich lands and mines
| open to the white men.
Two GRAND TRUNK freight trains col
lided near Port Hope, Ont, on the 9th, the
locomotives II twelve cars being demol-
ished and a brakeman fatally injured. The
| property loss was placed az $200,0 DOC.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
nine O'Clock on the evening of the 9Th one
hundred and nine deaths from cholera were
reported at Damietta ard sixty-eight at
Mansourah.
FLOODS in the Surah District, Hindostan,
had on the 9Th effected great damage. Five
hundred house alone had fallen at Surat,
and thousands were homeless. Whole vii
lagos had been destroyed,
A DETACHMENT of British troops were re-
Gently attacked by natives in India at a
village in Assam, and fifty of the villagers
were massacred. The troops suffered no
loss.
Mr.. TREvELYAN, Chief Secretary for Ire.
land, stated in the House of Commons on
the 9Th that of one thousand emigrants who
had gone to the United States two. families
had been inmates of the work house at Bal
mullet. He said he understood emigrants
were being sent back because they were un-
desirable settlers.
A cATTLE-PLAGuE has broken out in
Egypt, killing ninety per cant. of the ami
mails attacked.
AT a meeting in Dublin on the 9th Irish
Catholic Bishops condemned State.aided
emigration, maintaining large tracts of
uncultivated land, if titled, would support
the surplus population.
A CLERK in a clearinghouse at Turin,
Italy, who embezzled 500, 1000 lire and fed
to the United States, was captured in New
York on the 9th.
AT Ricksdorf, a Berlin suburb, a few
days ago the wife of a shop-keeper cut the
Threats Of her two children, set fire to the
house, and theu used the knife on herself.
A MAN named Nielsen, who was arrested
at Copenhagen a few days ago for arson,
confessed that he fired the Victoria docks,
in London, two years ago, for the purpose
Of plumber.