Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-07
EoREIGN.

LIGHT snow fell at Montreal on the 18th.
the first of the season.
AFTER the celebration Of mass on the
18th in st. Peters Church, London, the
Bishop and five hundred followers
marched to Westminster Abbey and
prayed for the conversion of England to
the ancient faith.
JAMES CAMPBELL g. Sons, of Toronto,
the oldest publishing house in Canada,
suspended on the 18th, with liabilities of
100000.
The sessions of the French Chambers
commenced on the 14th. A bill was in
troduced asking for Il, 200, 900 francs for
the expenses Of the operations in Ton.
quin.
In London on the 14th Lord Montague
Paulet, son of the Marquis of Winchester,
welded Ida Revere Foote, daughter of an
American Naval Captain. Queen Victoria
presented them with a diamond bracelet
and gold breakfast service, and the Prince
of Wales sent Il diamond necklace and an
India shawl.
ADvICEs Of the 18th state that during q
recent engagement between the French
and Chinese forces i'll Tonquin the Chinese
lost three thousand men, including their
chief commander. The French losses were
twenty men, and ninety We're wounded.
THOMAS HARRISON, the boy preacher, of
Boston, has commenced a series of evan.
gelical services in Elm Street Methodist
Church, Toronto.
DURING the twcnty-four hours ended at
nine p. III. on the 10Th there were 235 NEW
cases Of cholera in Italy and 10 deaths, OF
which So new cases and 40 deaths oc-
Cured in Naples.
The Mexican Government has furnished
the Governor Of Jalisco five thousand sol.
diers to suppress outlaws operating in
that State.
CA1no advices of the 16tl stated that
provisions We're extremely scarce through
out the whole country from Berber to
Khartoum, and from the River Nile to the
Dead Sea. Much suffering was feared.
A DETECTIVE at Liverpool arrested a
Hungarian on tho 10Th who had just ar
ri Jed from Philadelphia, and found in
his baggage thirty small packages ofdyn-
amite.
AT Pilbury, Ont, a Canada Southern
passenger train collided q few days ago
with a construction train on Il curve. En-
gineer Cox was crushed to death, and six
other persons were injured.
THE schooner Charles Valentine, from
Halifax, was wrecked off Louisherg the
other night, and the crew Of six men were
supposed to have persisted.
SMITH, the head OF the patent medicine
firm Of Smith, Bro. & Co., in Montreal,
was'on the 1G5h said to have absconded
across the border, leaving liabilities OF
$40 600 and vorv little acvatc
ALEXANDER NJ. SULLIVAN, one of the
founders of the home-rule movement in
died in Dublin on the 18th, aged tifty.fou
years.
The railway laborers and whisky sellers
were on the 11th said to hold sway in
Michipicoton, a Canadian town on Lake
Superior, and were driving out the respect
able population. They had broken open
the Jail and let the prisoners escape, and
had killed two constables. An armed force
was being organized at Sault Ste. Marie tc
overawe the rioters.
THERE were 100 fresh cases Of cholera
and siXty-two deaths in Italy during tho
twenty-four hours ended at nine p. IN. OF
the 18th.
One university students a
Moscow recently broke the windows Of
newspaper office, and were arrested. Tn
Chief Of Police at st. Peter burg hat
ordered the proprietors of hotels ant
restaurants to remove the portraits of TIN
Car because Of disrespect shown by tn
public.