Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-30
FOREIGN.

The trial of the dynamite conspirators
of Birmingham, Glasgow and London was
begun at the latter place on the 18th, when
the informer Lynch, alias Norman, gave
his evidence.
ADvIcEs of the 18th state that famine
exists in the Kurdish districts of Asia
Minor, resulting in great mortality. Grain
was selling at six times it's ordinary value.
The Catholic Archbishop of Quebec has
prohibited his co-religionists from belong
ing to labor unions.
YELLOW Of a malignant type is
claiming many victims at Vera Cruz, Mex.
A aREAT storm in the vicinity of Pres
colt, Ont, the other night, resulted in
much damage. The waves from the St.
Lawrence washed away the railroad track
and flooded the depot, and We're so high
that Ogdensburg could not be seen from
the Prescott wharvcs.
The Marquis de Ray and seventeen con.
federates in an emigration scheme of a
fraudulent nature were on the 18th put on
trial in France upon the charge of man
slaughter. 1t was claimed that several
hundred dupes of the spectators lost their
lives i'll the voyage to and after their arrival
at the island of Port Breton, Oceanica.
A BOILER explosion on a tug at Buenos
Ayres on the 18th killed eight and injured
nine persons.
Ten persons were killed a few days ago
and several were injured by the collapse
of the barracks at Kaluga, Russia.
FURTHER advices of the 18th state chat
the recent powder magazine explosion at
Scutari, Turkey, killed one hundred and
Gf%1, 11l ,o,.io Gck. H..
others.
THE Car Of Russia has committed the
death sentences imposed upon four Mini
lists, and reduced the terms of 1imprison-
ment to which a number of others were con-
demned.
THE trial of the men at London charged
with being dynamite conspirators resulted
on the 18th in DR.. Gallagher, Wilson,,
Whitehead and Curtin being convicted and
sentenced to penal servitude for life, while
Ansburgh and Bernard Gallagher were
acquitted.
AL named Belden was killed and eat
Ell by a bear at Annoyance, N. B., q few
days ago. /,
The police of Dublin o the 14th claimed
to have information of the existence of a
"ONASoJ NS"iAA"So to1 oAo oPSS1o1 pu1 pScC
Of making way with the informers in the
Phoenix Park assassination trial.
PANAMA advices of the 14th state that an
earthquake in Ecuador on the 10Th of May
caused great alarm, and some villages
were almost destroyed. The eruptions
from Mount Cotopaxi intensified the fears
of the people, who anticipated a calamity
similar to that of March, 1867.
A FIRE on tine 14th destroyed the village
of Valloires, France. one hundred head of
oxen perishing i'll the flames. The inhabit-
ants escaped with great difficulty. \
A FIRE a few days ago in the business
part of Sterling, Ont, caused q loss, of
$125, 900.
THE London Conference of the Methodist
Church of Canada voted on the 10Th against
the proposition to unite with the other.
branches Of the Methodist Church in the
Dominion.
TIE Portuguese Government proposes to
abolish the hereditary Chamber Of Peers
and create a Senate instead. Mello, the
Prime Minister,was on the 18th reo1ganiz-
ing the Cabinet.
-FOUR persons were burned to death in a
tenement at Inverness, Scotland, a few
nights ago.