Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
Rev. ARCHBISHOP BoYD. religious writer
died at London, Eng, on the 11th.
| NEARLY all the cultivated land nesr Becken
ried, Switzerland, was ruined on the 10th By
storms and land slip.
| ADv1cEs from Durham report battle be
tween Cetewayo and Oham. The latter chie1
was routed and captured.
The English government has entered into
an agreement with De Lesseps for the building
OF another Suez canal. England agrees te
lend the canal company $4,000, 900 at 81 pc,
cent, for so years. The new canal is to bt
| completed in 1883.
CLOUD burst early on the morning Of tht
18th at London, Ont, with frightful results
Tho Thames River was flo oded, the bridges
boween Fast and West London swept
away, buildings in Petersville, submit
| occupied mainly by well-to-do mechanics and
business men crumbled by the water or washed
from their foundations and wrecked. Fifty
lives are known to have been lost The
pecuniary damage is estimated at $4,000, OOO
The storm was also severe at Lucan, Ont,
washing away mile OF track on the Grand
Trunk road, wrecking train, destroying
fences, bridges, etc.
AT Mansurah on the 9th there were 81 deaths
from cholera, at Samanoud z, at Shirbins2
Fifty Europeans have died at Damietta from
cholera since the outbreak of the disease. On
the 10th at Damietta there were 10 deaths, al
Samanoud II, and at Mansurah 101. No one
is allowed to leave Mansuzah and no provisions
are allowed to enter the town.
The Cretes on the 10th rebelled against the
paymant of taxes.
ROBERT STEELE & Co., ship builders, of
Greenwich. Eng, failed on the 10th. Liabili-
ties $1,000,0O0.
CHOLERA broke ont at Swatow, ..China, on the
9th. Ayacht is in readiness to take the khe-
dive of Egypt to Naples should the spread ,ot
the plague make it necessary. Deaths at
Damietta on the 8tb 88, 64 at Mansurah, 9 lat
Samanoud, z at Shirbin aud at Alexandria.
Provisions are giving out at Damietta and it is
probable that the, horrors of famine will be
added to those of the plague.
The conspirators Tandy, Rogerson, Hough-
ton and Kelly, were sentenced on the 9Th. to
imprisonment of IA, 12, and 2years.
AT meeting held on the 9Th, at 1larseilles,
France, resolution was adopted protesting
against the sentence recently passed upon
Louise Michel; also pledging those present to
murder the jurymen who convicted her.
REPORTS from Egypt on the 9Th, give no
change in the cholera situation. All the
foreign powers are using strict quarantine
measures to prevent its spreading. The deaths
at Damietta average 120 dav.
On the 7tb, at Sligo, Ireland, Rogerson,
Tanzy, Kelly and Houghton were found guilty
of being implicated in the murder conspiracy.
Informers testified that in March 1882, the
prisoners bad attempted to blow up the Wes.
ton House, Galway, with dynamite, but sue.
ceeded IN doing only slight damage
A PRISONER at Copenhagen on the 9Th, con.
fessed having set fire to the London docks in
1881. which crime had been charged to the
Fenians.
Foun HUNDRED striking italian oil workers
attempted to wreck the factory at Marseilles,
Frsnce, on the 9Th.
Two freight trains collided on the 9Th on the
Grand Trunk Railroad, rear Port Hope
Canada. A brakeman was fatally injured
Two locomotives and twelve cars were demol
ished. Loss 5000, GOO.
MAN OF WAR raised the French flag on tht
New Hebrides Islsnds, N. s. w.. on the 9Th.
The remains of Senator Cysram were crc.
mated at Rome, Italy, On the 9Th.
THE Duke Of Marlborough died on the 5th
OF cardiac syncope, aged G3 years.
The king of saxony, who is making for
eign tour, was ascending IN elevator in fac.
tory at Milan, on the 5tb, when tho weight
attached to the car, fell, killing the governor
of the district, who accompanied him, and in
juring the manager Of the factory.
At Damietta Ill deaths from cholera: al
Mansourah 49,: at Shirbin aud 4 at Sama.
noud on the 5th.
TIE Burke Spinning Mill at Mosoley, Eug.
'aud' burned on the 5th. Loss $25,0oo: