Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
Four members of the Black Hand Society

Four members of the Black Hand Society
at Xeres, Spain, were onthe Goth sentenced
to death for murder.
IT was announced on The 39th that the
Pope would soon supplement his circular
to the Irish Bishops with an encyclical let
ter denouncing secret societies and %enjoin.
ing the clergy to refuse the sacraments to
all persons connected with seditious move
ments.
AN arrangement, to be approved by the
stockholders, has been effected between the
Suez Canal Company and the British Gov.
eminent for the construction of another
canal.
ROME advices Of the both ult. say that
the Pope's Peters pence was decreasing 50
rapidly that he had addressed a note %
the Bishops urging them TO exhort tae
faithful to more hearty support of the Holy
See.
RAr1F1cAr1oNs of the treaty between tho
United States and Corea have been ext
changed at the Corean capital.
AT an Irish National League meeting in
Dublin on the Both ult., Mr.. Sexton, NJ. P.t
said the recent action of the Pope indi1
Gated a perilous and intolerable interver7
tion in the future political course of the
Irish people.
GREAT fires occurred on the Goth ult. ID
Paris and st. Petersburg. In Paris tie
conflagration ragged along the river fro1t,
destroying property of value. At
st. Petersburg an iron factory was burn,d,
the loss amounting to $500, 900.
TIE Montreal Conference of the (Me,ho.
dist Church of Canada held IT'S first meet
ing at Ottawa on the 30th u1t.
CALCUTTA advices of the 31st ult. state
that fierce fighting has been in progress
between the Ameer's forces and the Shin
cuarris in A%fghanistan. Raft loads of dead
had been brought down the Cabul River.
DURING the recent riots at Rostoff, Bus
STA, one hundred n thirty Jewish houses
were destroyed, while fifteen of the rioters
were killed by the military.
AN engine and thirteen cars went
through a bridge at S~tratford, Ont, on the
Grand Trunk Railroad a few days ago.
The engineer II fireman were instantly
killed and a brakeman was mortally hurt.
TWENTY-FIVE workmen were drowned a
few days ago at Oleggio, Italy, by the cap
sizing of a boat.
GERMAN m with Chinese waters
was on the 3lst ult. threatened by the trou.
BILE between France and Tonquin. If the
French blockade the ports it was believed
England and America would join with the
Berlin Government in entering a protest.
THE recent defeat Of a French recon
noitering party in Tonquin was followed
by the massacre on the succeeding day OF
all the Frenchmen who had been captured.
Trr rryN ~, 1f n,,11sa -. IT.. - 80.
toned Premier Gladstone for the commu.
tation of the sentences of Mccartney and
Kelly, condemned to death for completely
in the Phoenix Park murders.
ADvICEs of the LIST from Oposura, Sonora
indicated that the Apaches, learning OF
General Crooks advance, had left Their
ranches in the mountains and were seeking
security in the interior of Sonora. The
Mexican force was insufficient to intercept
them, and fears of an outbreak were ex
pressed.
Two ports in Northwestern Madagascar
were recently bombarded by the French
destroying a large amount of property be
longing to British and other residents.
The Nihilists were on the 1st alleged tx
have abandoned the system of terrorism
nlGnerCo pursued IN RUSSIA, anu were SalC
to be preparing for q series of coups d'etat
n revolts in various parts Of the Empire
A PARIS dispatch of the 1st states thai
Captain Riviere and fifteen marines, capt
ured by the Anamites at Hanoi, suffered
death by implement.
premier GLADSTONE announced in the
British House of Commons on the LIST tina,
the whole of the great African country
lying north of the Orange Free State and
west of Transvaal had decided to submit,
to the Colonial Government at the Cape
1t had been driven to join the British colo,
MES by Dutch aggressions.