The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-29
FOREIGN Intelligence

'ft IN 4MeAAc0 ene uFOuS IN anu bn6 LOCUST
plague had on the 28d caused an advance
of fifty per cent. in meat at the capital and
driven corn to 500 per bushel at Chihua-
hua. Beans were twelve dollars per bushel
at Durango. is Fl 4. nse ssrrot 0t
n In the Canton of Bernie, Switzerland,
Salvationists have been prohibited from
holding meetings, on the ground that tho
meetings arenot religious. Ta,.... ~, a
4 CABLEGRAMs of the 22d from Paris state
that Admiral Courbet had instructions to
lombard the arsenal at Foo Chow, land
troops and destroy the vast stores of war
material. The French forces at Keeling
were ordered to occupy the, fort and hold
the coal mines as security for the indem.
nifty demanded This action was consid-
cred equal to a declaration Of war on the
part Of France. 9s wv itt433R IsRs
4 The Chinese arsenal at Foo Chow was
destroyed on the 23d after three hours'
bombardment by Admiral Courbet's
squadron. Seven Chinese gun boats were
sunk and two escaped. Only one Chinese
battery replied to the French guns the
French feet sustained no damage. iiosiY !.
BoURTEEN deaths from cholera occurred
40 sMarseilles and five at Toalon during the
twenty -four hours ended at nine p. M on
the 24th.E In the southern departments of
France the deaths were: Pyrenees Orien-
tales, fourteen; Herault, eight; Gard, ten;
Aude, thirty The cholera was increasing
in Italy. & In the Province of iCuneo fifty
eight deaths were reported and in adjoin.
! ing villages there were forty eight deaths.
The total number of deaths in France to
datefwas reported at 3,952aise8G9 sitlf
Il BITTERNESS against the Jews was on the
/ oath said to be increasing in the Russian
Provinces. A mob assaulted the Jewish
quarter of Kutais, and made threats of q
general massacre. e,as ny g-4io ,f
ADyICEs of the oath from London state
that fire had been raging for three days
In Austrian Galcia. Three hundred houses
were burned, and 5000 persons were home
less. The fire also destroyed 114dwellings
and 327 farms in and about the large mar
ket-town Of Roz wadow, Austrian Galicia.
The harvest, just gathered, was all con.
Sumed.
The death Of the King of Ashantee, in
Western Africa from smallpox, occurred
a few days ago, and three hundred of his
subjects we're sacrificed at the funeral z
p In a recent gale on Toronto Bay several
pleasure-boats were capsized, and num-
Der Of lives were lost. ot' l
CHINA formally declared war against
France on the 25th. General Millot, the
commander of the French in Tonquin, said
he was fully able to resent Chinese az.
gression. The bombardment of the Foo
Chow forts was continued, but the French
were temporarily repulsed in their attack
on the forts at the mouth of the river.
The other day William Norris, a school
master at Markdale, Ont, shot his first as
sistant, Miss Ford, iii the school-room, be-
cause she refused to marry him, inflicting
a fatal wound. Norris then shot himself
dead. I3s ii 5IlaGl e3s@ 9Gt 3o ggdfl9
Six deaths from cholera occurred at
Toulon and two at Marseilles during the
| twenty four hours ended at nine d. m. on
the 25th. In the southern departments of
France the deaths were: Herault, seven;
| Aude, one; Eastern Pyrenees, twenty-one.
| The deaths in Italy were Bergame, eleven,
Cuneo, eleven; Carrara, fourteen. Russia
proposed to establish a sanitary Gordon
! on the western frontier to prevent peo-
| pie from France and Italy entering the
| country.
FIFTEEN fishing smacks were lost at
| Outer Cove, during a recent storm OFF the
| Newfoundland coast, the schooners Petrol
and Elizabeth were sunk in White Bay,
and fishing smack with four men and
two lady passengers was lost off Cape
Broyle.
REPORTS received at Cairo on the 18th
from Berber stated that there were 63d
Egyptian officers and soldiers in the hands
of the Mehdi and his .leutenants, who
treated them worse than slaves. The
Mehd's followers looked upon their chief
as divinely inspired; and repudisted the
Sultan. an sfaa i'faiiia i@