Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-31
on the Goth at ST. Petersburg, Russia, and

on the Goth at st. Petersburg, Russia, and
forty persons were arrested.
DURING the t%wenty-four hours ended on
the Goth no trains had arrived at Quebec,
Canada, on account of a snow blockade.
The leaders of the Irish Land League EN-.
phatically disavow any responsibility for
the recent assaultupo Lady Florence Dixie.
The brigantine Lillian arrived on the goth
at st. John, N. F., after having been frozen
in the ice for forty days nine miles off Cape
Spear.
A LARGE employer at ~Birkenhead, Eng,
recently discharged all his Irish workmen,
saying he would not disgrace himself by
employing people who foster assassins.
A RUSSIAN student, who recently at
tempted suicide, says that, having been
commanded to assassinate the Gear at a
certain banquet, he let the opportunity
pass without executing his commission.
Fearing the vengeance of his co-conspira'
tors he attempted to take his own life.
SIR GEORGE JEssEL, the first Jew who
ever occupied a judicial position in Great
Britain, died on the 21st. He was Master
of the Rolls of the British High Court of
Chancery.
The report that the Dean of Canterbury
had received a letter threatening that the
deanery would be blown up onthe occasion
of the installment of the new Archbishop
was pronounced untrue by a London tele'
gram of the Dist.
ALL the Socialists in Vienna have beer
acquitted of the charge of high treason,
ERupT1oNs from Mount Etna were re-
ported on the 1st, accompanied by earth
quakes, which greatly terrified the people
and wrecked many dwellings.
THE Honolulu Commercial Advertiser,
the organ of the Hawaiian Government, de-
MES that leprosy is spreading in the Sand
witch Islands.
A BELFAST Qreland) dispatch of the 21st
says the Crown Counsel had announced his
ability to prove the Armagh Assassination
Society was established by a mar named
Burns, who came from America for the
purpose.
ARGENT demonstration by the Universe
ty students at Vienna, in honor of Wagner,
the famous musical composer, lately de.
ceased, has resulted in twenty duels be-
tween Austrian and German participants.
CARDINAL MANNING, the head Of the Cath
Ole Church in Great Britain, has issued an
appeal for aid for the famine-stricken PEG.
pie of Ireland.
The Governor-General of Canada on the
22d received advices from Windsor Palace
that Queen Victoria's injury was only a
slight sprain of the knee, from which she
was speedily recovering.
Don CARLOS, by a manifesto, calls upon
his partisans in Spain, as Catholics, to op-
pose Socialism and anarchy.
EMIGRATION to America is, it is said,
d%epopulating several Of the districts OF
Switzerland. One village has been left
without an inhabitant.
The estimated expenditures of the Cana
dian Government for the ensuing year ag
gregate $45, 000, 900, of which $13, 250, 900 is
for railways. The debt of the Government
is $167, 900, 1000.
The freshets in Nova Scotia were doing
great damage on the 22d. In nearly every
county bridges had been swept away, and
many buildings were wrecked. Sherbrooke
was flooded, the citizens being compelled
to flee from their homes. All mining haG
ceased.
THIRTEEN men IN trial at Belfast, Ire
land, for conspiracy to murder, were founc
guilty OH the 23d.
BERNARD G1LRoY, of Buffalo, N. Y, who
left San Francisco August 10, 1882, in al
e~ighteen-foot doryf for Australia,was pickee
up by a coaster on the Goth of January, 16
miles from the coast of Queensland, in al
exhausted condition.
AN additional crater opened in Noun
Etna on the 23d, and the lava threatened
many villages, from which the people
were fleeing for safety.
FRAUDS in the postal department at St
Petersburg, Russia, to the extent Of $267,
600, lave been discovered.