Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

OWING to decomposition the authorities on
the LIST decided to remove no more bodies from
Ischis, the scene Of the earthquake horror.
Disinfectalts were employed and the island will
be converted into vast cemetery. The num-
Der lost is placed at 1900.
AwoxAN named Paquet and two children
were drowned on the S1st while crossing the
st. Lawrence near Montreal.
A LARGE building in Berlin, Germany, used
a. velvet manufactory burned on the 9fBf.
Three fremen were killed by falling walls.
In the town of semenov, Russia, 180 houses
were destroyed by fire on the 29th.
An analysis Of the water Of the Nile shows
that it is infected with putrid matter. :
A LONDON dispatch OF the 29th states that
James Carey. the informer, was shot and killed
by man named O'Donnell on the steamship
Melrose, when she arrived at Port Elizabeth,
Africa.
On the 29th there we're $50 deaths from
cholera at Cairo, and AS at twenty other towns
in Egypt.
MISS ELLEN BAKER, daughter of SIR Samuel
Baker, the explorer, suicided at her fathers
residence in Newton Abbot Devonshire, Eng,
on the 30th, by cutting her throat with PEN
knife.
JOSEPH HAYS, first officer, and g. Hays and
Albert Gordon, of the brigantine Olio, load
ing at Matane, Ont, were drowned by the up
setting of q boat on the 28th.
Ar Cairo on the 9th there were 277 deaths
from cholera. Among the number were three
British soldiers. At Chibin there were 1O5
death; at Mehalla, 50; at Tantah, %, and at
Ismailia 3-including one British soldier.
A MAN named Terry left Dover, Eng, At
o'clock A. M. on the 28th on floating tricycle.,
to cross the channel to France. He arrived
safely at Calais at s P. N.
On the 27th the ship Marco Polo was wrecked
on Prince Edwards Island. The passengers
and crew were saved.
AN explosion occurred in . mine at Caltani-
setta, Sicily, by which IS miners were killed.
On the 26th the khedivc OF Egypt was strick-
en- with cholera.
ADv1cEs from Tamatave, by way OF Alden,
dated the 26th, say the British commander
there demanded Of the French that the state OF
siege be raised, but Admiral Pierre refused to
comply.
TIE number of deaths from cholera at Cairo
on the 26th was 311, at Ghizet Sc, Chibin 48,
Mehalla 40, Tantah A, Mansurah Ia and Kafrr.
el-Hamza Is.
On the 26sh news came from Laredo, Tex ,
that the Spanish consul at Montery, Mexico,
had been Withdrawn, and trouble between the
two countries was anticipated.
DR.. ZUpPUT11Tz, professor Of political
economy at the Berlin University, committed
suicide On the Goth.
ADv1cEs from Durham, Of the 26tb, say the
report OF the death of Cetewayo is confirmed.
He was the son of Panda and nephew of
Chaka, the Zulu Napoleon. Ceteway succeeded
to the throne upon the death Of bis father,
and in 1876 he engaged in war with England,
refusing to obey the mandates of the English
government. He was defeated and in 1879 was
fugitive with q email number of followers.
He was captured, taken to Cape TowD, confined
for aDcut two years, taken to England and in
1881 was again crowned monarch Of Zululand.
He leaves one son about Is years of age.
THERE were 422deaths from cholera in Cairo
on the 25tb.