The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

| Norton, OF the Shenandoah, Handed $50
marines at Panama on the 9th. He had
been instructed by Secretary Whitney to
keep transit open, guard the lives and prop
| erty of citizens of the United States, and
| remain absolutely neutral in conflicts be-
| tween the local forces.
DISPATCHES received at Winnipeg on the
| 10Th reported the killing of fourteen white
| settlers at Frog Lake, eighty miles from
Battleford, by the Cree Indians. ONE
| danger. Battleford was surrounded by
1000 Indians, but no attack had been made
| as yet. general rising was feared.
A PROCLAMATION was issued by General
| Grab am on the 10th urging the Soudanege
| to submit to the British and send in sup
plies of provisions and cattle, which would
| be paid for.
In the House of Commons on the 10th
| Mr.. Gladstone stated that Russia had de-
ma nded from General Komaroff an ex-
| PLANTATION of his conduct in attacking the
Afghans, and that Penjdeh had not been
occupied NY the forces of the Gear.
A DECREE was issued by the Emperor of
China on the 10th reciting that the French,
having humbly sued for peace, he graz
| ciously grants their prayer.
GENERAL M. L. BARILLos was installed
as President of Guatemala on the 10th, and
the Cabinet had been reorganized since the
death of President Barrios.
COMMANDER KANE at Aspinwall report
| cd on the 10th that United States troops
were guarding both ends of the Pan
anna Railroad. Every thing was quiet.
THE discovery of rich gold fields in the
Santa Rosa Mountains, about one hundred
miles west from Santa Rosa, Mex, were
recently reported.
SEVERAL houses were destroyed by an
earthquake on the 18th in Andalusia,
Spain, but nobody was injured.
WINNIPEG advices of the 18th stated
that the Indians had massacred eleven
whites at Frog Lake, and several others
had been taken prisoners. It was also
rumored that the Nineteenth Battalion
had skirmish with Riel, in which eighty
men were killed.
THE Governments of San Salvador and
Honduras signed a treaty of peace on the
18th, and the latter Republic had Joined
the alliance against Guatemala.
AT st. Petersburg war feeling was re-
ported to be overwhelming on the 18th.
Naval and military preparations were con-
| tinued with great energy, and the Touring
mills at Odessa were pushed to their ut
most capacity in preparing food. Two
British memo f-war at Kingston had been
| ordered to Portsmouth to load torpedoes,
evidently for the Baltic, General Komar-
off has been appointed Commander in
Chief in Turkestan.
q THE House of Commons on the 18th, by
a vote of 14S to 80, rejected an amendment
for the immediate evacuation of the Sou
dan.
THE towns throughout Manitoba were
ON the 18th actively engaged in preparing
for defense. Citizens were sending their
families to Winnipeg and other points for
safety. Dispatches also indicated that the
Indians were rising in small bands all over
! the territories and were marching north,
| presumably to join the rebels. It was
feared that the entire garrison at Fort Pitt
had been massacred.
AT Mallow and Cork, Ireland, riots oc-
Cured on the 18th upon the visit of the
Prince of Wales to those cities. Many
people were injured.
IT was thought on the 18th that the
| trouble ON the Isthmus of Panama was at
an end.
THERE was great excitement in London
on the 18th over dispatch from Askabad
that Russian troops to the number of Al, 900
were on the march to Sarakhs. The Gov
eminent had received official dispatches
fully confirming the report of the Russian
advance. 1t was also reported that the
Afghans had made an attack on the Rus
sian outposts.