Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-07
FOREIGN.

ADvICEs Of the 18th state that q humber
of Afghan chieftains who were suspected
of favoring Ayook Kahn had been exc
cuted and others banished by order of the
Amer of Afghanistan, and three of the
leaders in the recent revolt in Servia were
shot near Belgrade.
A A of the 10Th from Halifax
chronicles the loss of the Norwegian bark
Plormanden on the rocks of Green Island,
her Captain and ten men being drowned.
MONTREAL dispatch of the 10Th says
that a nan named Fousigrant, with his
wife and five children, were drowned
while crossing the river in a boat from
Gentilly to Champlain.
EIGHTEEN workingmen were drowned on
the 10Th at Douarnenez, France, by the
capsizing of a ferry-boat in which they
were crossing a stream.
A CYCLONE swept over the town Of Alta.
ia, Mex, a few days ago, destroying every
house, INC killing and woundink several
people.
BRIsCo SANCHEZ, a famous Mexican brig
and, who defied the law and terrcrized the
unprotected inhabitants, was, with.%ais
band, surrounded near Chiantla, in Puebla,
on the goth, and after q desperate resist
ance the body of Sanchez was riddled with
bullets and his followers were dispersed.
THREE cars of a passenger train rolled
into a ditch near Hampton, Ont, on the
night of the Goth, and sixteen travellers we're
injured, some fatally.
The Central Prison at Toronto, Car, in
which five hundred convicts were incar-
cerated, was damaged by fire to the extent
4 1e UlnO 0n1 ~, A. o~-a-:-. &c Al nnLl
IT was announced on the Goth that great
restitution prevailed among Irish immi-
grants at Ottawa, Ont, and inquiries were
being made if The British Government
could not be made to repay the money ex-
pended in alleviating their distress, seeing
that they had been expatriatel by its
policy.
The boilers Of the tug Erie ~Belleexploded
on the 21st at Kincardine, Ont, tearing the
boat to atoms, killing four men, and blow
ing eight others into the lake, wlence they
were rescued.
LONDON advices Of the 21st state that
James Davis, Secretary of the London and
San Francisco Bank, had absconded with
$3.50, 900.
H French brig Vocoberg sank in a col
lision off st. Pierre, France, a few days
ago, and lightweight persons who were on
board were drowned.
MOODY and Sankey on the 21st began the
second fortnight of their work at Wands-
worth, Eng, with two services, each at
tended by three thousand people.
THE cattle. plague at Odessa, Russia,
showed no signs Of abatement on the 2lst,
eighteen hundred head of cattle having
died within seventeen days.
A SPANISH Republican society on the
DIST issued an address declaring that if
the Government did not establish uni
versal suffrage the society would adopt a
revolutionary attitude.
CAIRO advices of the 22d state that the
Egyptian army under Hicks Pasha, aggre-
eating 10000 men,, was totally annihilated
by the forces of Ell Mehdi, the False
Prophet, during the first week of Novem-
her, near Ell Obeid. 1t was said that the
victorious army numbered 100000 men.
Such Egyptian troops as remained in tie
Soudan were to be concentrated at Khar-
toum.
ARASsoM of $4,000 was paid on the 22d
for the Duke of Castlemente, who was
captured by brigands near Naples, Italy.
The new standard time has been adopted
at Quebec, Canada.