Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-18
an named Paquet and two children were

an named Paquet and two children were
drowned while crossing the Lower st.
Lawrence during a storm on the 31st ult.
THE London Times of the 31st ult. says:
1--WE are able to state that official news
has been received from a Continental CApi.
tai that a most dangerous Nihilist conspir.
acy has been discovered in Russia. A
great number of people are implicated.
Many arrests have been made."
A MOB entered some houses on Abbey
street, Dublin, on the night of the 31st snd
seized buildings, furniture and other atti-
cles with which to make bonfires in cee.
bration of the death of James Carey.
Ehigies of Carey were burned and mock
funerals were held in various Irish towns.
A LARGE building in Berlin used az u
mandatory of velvet vas burned a lew
nights ago. The loss was 625, 900 marks, end
nearly onethousand employees were thrown
out of work. Three firemen were killedby
falling walls.
ANOTHER earthquake shock was felt in
Ischia on the 1st, but no damage was dohe.
THERE were .SS7 deaths from cholerai i'll
Egypt on the LIST, including 273 at Cairo.
The total number of deaths from Che
scourge since the first outbreak to date
was reported at 1000. Cholera had also
been declared epidemic at Bombay, India,
where 101 deaths had occurred.
MISS SP1RLEY SEARS, a teacher in the
American Ladies' College at PANAMA,
Cuba, died in that city of yellow fever a
few days ago. She had only recentlySar-
rived from New York.
The telegraph operators on the Mexican
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increase Of thirty dollars per month The
movements of trains were interrupted.
IT was estimated on the ID thai eight
thousand persons lost their live by the
recent earthquake shock at Ishia, in
Italy.
The Emperor of Germany has directed
that the four hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Martin Luther be oberved by
all Protestant peoples.
FOREST fires were raging in British Co
lumbia on the I'd. Three hundrd and six
ty cars of giant powder were ignited by
flying sparks at Onderdonk's mill, near
Yale, blowing up the place AMI breaking
windows for miles around. 10 one was
killed although several were bdly hurt.
JOSE CARBON, of Rahones, iexico, cut
his wife to pieces while drunk few days
ago.
DEATHS in Egypt on the Cd from cholera
numbered 702, including 1876 at Cairo. The
weather at Cairo was intensely hot.
AN attempt, attributed to i7enianism,
was made on the Sd to blow up q linen
factory at Cupar Fife, Scotland. A box
of dynamite with a lighted fus attached
was discovered in the building in time to
extinguish the fuse before it nached the
explosive.
A NJ was current in ParS on the Sd
that d plot to restore the monarchy in
France had been discovered.
SIX persons were killed and mny others
were wounded by a recent explosion in a
powder-mill at Angouleime, France. The
property damage was 100000 fr;ncs.
1T was stated in the British House of
Commons on the Sd that pleuro-pleumonia
existed in the Eastern States of america,
and the Government was unable to dis
criminate in favor of the West.
THREE informers i'll the Phoenix Park
murder trials were OH the Sd prohibited
from landing from a steamer at Melbourne,
Australia.
EARL GRANVILLE, of London, Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, has instruct.
ed the British Ministert to Morocco to mike
an earnest appeal to the Sultan of Moroc.
co to consider whether it is not tims to
place his Empire on a level with the other
civilized powers by abolishing slavery.3
In the Sligo Qreland) assizes on the 3D.
Edward Fox, Patrick Connolly and Will
lam Driskin were convicted of manslalgh.
ter for participation in the killing Of a
bailiff attached to the estates of Lore
Ardilaun. They were each sentenced tt
twenty years. Imprisonment.