Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-14
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DURING a performance in a small taeater
at Dervio, in Italy, or the evening Of the
oath, a fire broke out, and in the panic
which ensued forty-seven persons per-
ished, while twelve others were wounded.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake were felt on
the 25th in the western portion of England.
No damage was reported.
AT the Currah of Kildare, Ireland, the
other evening an ARRAY occurred between
North MAYO and Dublin militiamen, orig
mating in a gambling dispute. Five men
we're killed and seventeen others were in
jured.
SEVERAL buildings on an island in the
Neva, at st. Petersburg, were destroyed by
fire a few evenings ago, causing a loss of
100000 rubles.
The jam of ice along the shores of Lab.
rador was so great on the 25th that spring
supplies had been almost cut off, and some
deaths from starvation had already &C.
Cured.
EIGHT persons were killed by a recent
collision ON the Havana e. Matanzas Road,
in Cuba.
ADv1cEs of the Goth from Vera Cruz,
Mex, state that yellow-fever had become
epidemic and the deaths averaged fifteen a
day. So virulent was the disease that it
resulted fatally in every six cases out Of
seven.
THERE were fears at Tourabaya and
Rembang, Java, on the Goth, of a rice fam.
inc. Disease had destroyed 100000 acres.
A FIsHING-BoAT, carrying seven men,
foundered off Trepassy, newfoundland, a
few evenings ago, and six Of the fishermen
were drowned.
DURING a recent thunderstorm at Chat
ham, England, four soldiers were killed by
lightning.
In the recent operations of the British
against Chief Glepome, in West Afrca,
the European soldiers who fell into the
hands of the natives were horribly butch
cred and mutilated.
CHOLERA on the 26th swept away sewn.
ty-three persons at Damietta, Egypt.
Fatal cases were reported from Mansu,ah
and Port Said, and Europeans were fleeing
from Alexandria. A quarantine against
vessels from Egypt had been ordered at all
Turkish ports.
Walter Gardner, supposed to be a cattle.
dealer, suddenly left Toronto, Ont, on the
9th, after victimizing the banks out of
$4,000 by forged drafts on New York and
Chicago.
ANOTHER cable company has been
formed in London to lay two submarine
| wires between Great Britain andthis coun.
try. The new company has a capital Of
| E1, 800, 900.
NEGOTIATIONS between Russia and tie
Vatican lave been concluded. Freedom
in matters of faith is conceded, but no in.
reference by the church with questions o!
| State will be tolerated.
TREvELYAN, the Irish Chief Secretary
denied in the British House of Commons
on the 2Sth that any paupers had beer
shipped to America by the Government
and said those sent by the Commissioner
had been supplied with funds.
AN exploring party left Melbourne, Aus
tralia, on the 2Sth for New Guinea, for the
purpose of formally annexing the unoccu
| pied portion of the island to the British
Empire.
NUMEROUS arrests were made at Berlin,
Dresden and Cologne on the 2Sth, on &C
count of a conspiracy to betray secrets rel
alive to the army of Germany. g
The British House of Lords on the 28tl
rejected the bill permitting marriage witt
a deceased wife's sister-145 to 140.
In the twenty-four hours ended on tn,
2Sth one hundred and thirteen persons die
at Damietta, Egypt, from cholera. Fou
deaths from the disease had occurred OF
French iron-clads at Port Said.
On the train from Calais to Paris on tn,
2Sth an attempt was made to murder ant
rob Rev. Mr.. Witchborne, an Englishman
The latter was stabbed five times with
chisel, and might not survive. The assail
ant, an E~nglishman, was arrested after
desperate attempts to escape.