Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-05
FIVE HUNDRED dwellings and consider

able other property at Kataw Iwanosko, in
Russia, were destroyed by fire a few days
ago.
REPORTS were received on the 18th of a
terrible hood i'll Yahuahia, Mex. The river
rose so rapidly that the people could not
escape. Six were drowned, and much val
liable property and stock was swept away
A LEADING Berlin journal states it is
probable that if a monarchy is restored in
France war would be declared, under GER
tain conditions, on Germany without warn
ing.
The second of the Phoenix Park murder
trials in Dublin, ireland, resulted on the
18th in a verdict of guilty against Daniel
Curley, and he was sentenced to be hanged
May IS.
THE greater part of the village of Oak
vile, twenty miles from Toronto, Can, was
burned on the 18th.
The London Daily Neecs advises France
to consider well before she undertakes to
blockade the ports of AMMAN, stopping
trade between China and America, Ger
many and England.
THE British Home Office offers a reward
of f1W for information leading to the arrest
of any person engaged in the illegal manu-
facture of explosives.
TEN of the twenty-six members of the
South Russian Workmen's Federation, sem
fenced to imprisonment for Nihilism, have
petitioned the Car for a mitigation of
their sentences. r.
NORMAN, whose proper name is William
j. Lynch, one Of the six men arrested in
England for being dynamite conspirators,
turned informer on the 18th. He was born
in America, and worked in Brooklyn, where
he joined one of the Emerald Clubs, whose
purpose was to free Ireland by force. He
claimed he was sent on his mission by DR..
Thomas Gallagher, of Greenpoint, l.. l., and
met the other conspirators in London. He
detailed the inner workings of the New
York clubs, conversations with the other
plotters touching the wrecking of struct.
ures, and said that among the societies
O'Donovan Rosa was known as ''the old
man."
THE Parliament buildings at GU ebec
were destroyed by fire on the evening OF
the 10Th, the flames first appearing in the
upper story. Many public documents and
copies of acts of Parliament awaiting ex.
ecutive sanction were burned.
MEXICAN troops on the 10Th claimed tc
have killed most Of the hostile Apaches in 9
series of running fights between Ures and
Candies.
A HEAVY snow-storm prevailed in Mon.
treal on the 10Th.
EIGHTEEN more Nihilists wore convicted
at st. Petersburg on the 10Th, six being
sentenced to death, two to life servitude,
ard the others to fromfive to twenty years
imprisonment.
A o containing powder was found on
the 18th in the rear Of the London Times
Office. A train was laid for an explosion
LORD g. MUNCE, wholesale produce deal
ers at Montreal, have failed for $1S3,OOO.
AN English and a Spanish steamer col
lided off Bilboa, Spain, a few days ago
resulting in the drowning of sevenpersons
The hardware firm of Pedraja & Planet
la, of Havana, Cuba, have absconded, theil
liabilities exceeding their assets $500, 900.
THE jury in the case of Timothy Kelly
tried at Dublin for completely in the Phoe
nix Park murders, disagreed on tho Doth
and the prisoner would have to stand an
other trial.
THE Bustamente tract, a million acres il
Zacatecas, Mexico, has been sold for g,
100000 to a London syndicate.
THREE THOUSAND emigrants sailed from
Liverpool on the Goth, most of them intend
ing to settle in Manitoba.
The examination of the dynamite con
spirators proceeded at the Bow street Police
Court, in London, on the goth. The evi
dence tended to show the connection Of
Wilson and Whitehead with the ,,an,fo of
ure inc distribution Of nitro-glycerine
Without concluding, the examination was
continued until the 2Gth.