Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
FOREIGN.

state that one thousand lives had recently
been lost in earthquakes on the western
coast of Asia Minor. Several small vii
lagos were completely wrecked, and over
twenty thousand people We're homeless and
entirely destitute.
The safe of the Canadian express office
at Port Hope, Ont, was robbed of $4,000
on the 18th.
AT the Parker House in Halifax, N. S.,
the police on the 18th arrested two
strangers carrying loaded r~eTolvers and
dynamite cartridges, and in sachels in their
room was found forty-one hundred pounds
of dynamite.
Allegro, a town near Bresch, Italy, was
destroyed by fire On the 18th, and one thou
sand people were homeless.
MARIA MCCABE, of Hamilton, Ont, who
drowned her child, has been sentenced to
execution December IS. Her shrieksin the
courtroom nearly drowned the words of
the Judge.
CoAL-M1NERs of Wigan, Eng, to the
number of thirty thousand, on the 18th de-
manded an immediate advance of fifteen
per cent. in wages.
AT st. Petersburg, Russia, the trial of
sixty-three members of the Nihilist Red
Cross Society concluded on the 18th, and
all were sentenced to be sent to Siberia.
The testimony of informers and others
proved the society had qualifications in
every part of the Empire.
PARIS advices of the 18th give the par
t~iculars of a massacre of natives at Hue by
French sailors. 1t was reported that after
the natives ceased to resist they were
driven from the burning village unarmed
and then shot down in piles, the French
men afterward numbering the wounded.
LONDON advices of the 18th state that
high tides and terrific gales were prevail.
ing all along the coast, and many casual.
ties were reported. Limerick, Ireland,
was partially flooded.
OWING to the appearance of the plague,
the cattle market at Breslau, Germany,
was closed on the 18th.
ADvIcEs of the 18th report that yellow
fever had been raging at Alfalfa, Mex, on
the Gulf of California, and while the pesti-
lence was at its height, the deaths num-
bering twenty a day, a hurricane came up.
on the town, destroying the greater part
and killing several people. The inhabit-
ants then fled to the mountains.
Four deaths from cholera occurred on
the 18th in a village near Alexandria,
Egypt.
S. R. WARREN & Son, of Toronto, famous
as manufacturers of organs, lave been
compelled to suspend.
SEVENTEEN peasants in Styria were on
the 18th condemned to imprisonment for
robbing Jews.
LONDON bill-posters on the 10Th refused
to placard the announcement of a lecture
by Michael Davitt.
AN explosion occurred at a colliery in
Wharncliffe, Yorkshire, Eng, on the 10Th,
and twenty miners were killed. Five who
were in the shaft escaped with their lives.
BERLIN advices of the 10Th state that ter
rible gales had prevailed along the Baltic
coast and through Northern and Central
Germany. Many lives had been lost and
buildings blown down. Fishing boats and
other vessels were wrecked near Lubbock.
TWELVE %brigands were sentenced to
death on the 10Th at Palermo, Italy, and
eleven others received life sentences. They
infested the Amarosi district and muf-
dered fourteen persons inthe pastsixyears.
LATER NEWS.
w. A. KLEIN, under Indictment for the
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