Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-04
FOREIGN.

ALL prisons, docks, bridges md public
buildings III London were guarded on the
18th by armed men, OH account of anon
ymous threatening letters received by
the Lord Mayor. Policemen We're also
stationed around Gladstone's residence.
THE Turkish town of Abadia was a few
days ago badly damaged by a hurricane.
Six ships and fifteen coasting craft were
also wrecked, their crews being drowned.
JOSEPH POOLE was hanged i'll Dublin,
Ireland, on the 18th for the murder of
John kenney. The latter was killed on
suspicion of giving information concern
ing the murders i'll Phoenix Park.
THE Beaver Lumber Company of Yama-
chiche, Quebec, failed on the 18th for $685.
coo.
The Government dock-yard, several
warehouses;, and the training brig Came
ocus were burned at Lisbon, Spain, a few
days since. Loss, fl0o,00o.
BAKER PAsHA was on the 18th given SUI
preme command of the Egyptian army in
the Soudan, with instructions to endeavor
to conciliate tho tribes. English artillery
men, to the number of 100, had gone to
Egypt.
THE heat was oppressive at Rio Janeiro
on the 18th, and yellow fever was increas-
ing.
THE authorities of Glasgow, Scotland, on
the 18th presented Lord L.orne with the
freedom of the city. In his address he re-
marked that Canada would be in Il danger
Gus position in the eventof hostilities from
any great power.
SEVENTEEN cars of freight and two en-
fi,,ac 1vapn <1ocfrnrn1 ON %Ln CNocolo
Southern Road Oh the 10Th by u collision
near Rodney. III loss was 100000.
FURTHER advices of the 18th from Con-
stantinople state that the recent storm that
swept over the Black Sea caused great de.
struction of life and properly. Hundreds
of houses in the villages along the northern
coast were utterly demolished and many
persons killal in tho falling structures. AT
sea over two hundred and fifty persons
were drowned by the wrecking of vessels.
In Servia twenty Radicals, including
their leader i'll the Skuptchina, were on the
10Th sentenced to death. There would be
no Radical party in the next Legislature.
KERR1GAN, the informer, whose evidence
resulted i'll the hanging of six persons,
was shot dead on the goth at Cong, Ire.
land.
ADvIcEs Of the Goth state that tile Span
ish mail steamer st. Augustine burned in
the Bay of Biscay. E%ighty-two persons
got off in boats, and thirty were left on tho
burning craft. One boat and its passengers
were missing, and nothing was known re-
garding the fate of the people remaining
on the steamer.
A sPATc of the Goth from Hong Kong,
China, states that a desperate battle had
taken place near Sontay, its result being
the occupation of five fortified villages
about the city. Admiral Courbet had sew
ell thousand men, of whom two hundred
privates and fifteen officers were killed or
wounded. The Chinese held the fortress.
jon MoYLAN, just returned from Ameri-
ca, who had taken possession of a vacant
farm at Clonbar, near Galway, Ireland,
was shot dead by an unknown man a few
days ago in the presence of his wife.
SIR JOHN GLOVER, leader of the Britis!,
expedition to Ashantce, has again been
appointed Governor of Newfoundland.
In a recent lecture in London Lord
Lorne said the Irishmen in Canada were
as happy and contented as the English res
idents OF that country.