Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-31
FOREIGN.

GENERAL De CoURCEY telegraphed from
Hue on the Sth that the French were abso.
Lutte masters of the situation there. The
royal palace containing 5000, 600 francs in
bar silver, besides rare artistic treasures,
was intact. The Anamite forces were dis.
persing.
TRANSACTIONS from Louis Riel's diary,
which was found at Batoche by General
Middleton, have been published at Toronto.
They were claimed to abound in claims by
the writer to Divine inspiration, and in
prayers to the Virgin Mary and the saints
for the success of the rebellion
IT was reported on the 9Th that the En-
glish Premier had issued a ~cir,:nlar to tho
interested Powers urging thcl to ratify
the Egyptian financial convenvi\n.
FIRE on tho morning of the 9TH destroyed
the northern wing, the library, til labora.
tory aud the museum of the DIVERSITY
College of Wales, in Aberystwithl
IT was reported on the 9th that o. Mex.
lean Government threatened to withdraw
the appropriation from all technical
schools and donate the money to primary
instruction, on the ground that the higher
schools had proved to be nurseries Of
treason.
FIVE THOUSAND citizens Of Quebec OF
the 9th attended a meeting called to ex-
press sympathy for Louis Riel, at which
a subscription was opened to defray the
cost of his defense in the approaching
trial. Considerable sums had already
been pledged.
IT was stated on the 9th that shocks of
earthquake continued to be of almost daily
occurrence in the Vale of Cashmere.
LATE advices say that a battle between
the Peruvian regular forces and the insur-
gents under Caceres, near Jaurja, IN the
4th inst. resulted in severe losses to both
sides and a victory for neither.
THE French Government on tho 9th
authorized General De Courcy to depose
the present King of Anaam if he refused
to submit to French authority, and to place
on the throne another membero of the reign
ing family.
AREvoLUT1oN had broken out in Ven
ezuela on the 9th, and the insurgents had
seized the steamer Libertadon, with sew.
eral Government chiefs on board.
1t was announced on the 10th that Prince
Henry of Reuss, now German Ambassador
at Vienna, will take the Regency of the
Duchy of Brunswick.
A BOILER explosion in the West Flam.
borough pa per-mills, near Hamilton, Can,
on the 10th resulted in the death of two
men, Edward Maloney, a fireman, and
John A. Stuff, one of the owners of the
mills.
THE total number of new cholera cases
reported in Spain on the 10th was ,459 and
the total number of deaths $50. 1t was
thought the disease was abating. A fatal
epidemic, the nature of which was yet un-
known, had broken out in Portugal
GAL1cIA, Poland, has recently been vis-
tied by destructive floods. Large portions
Of the city of Cracow and the town of
Skavina were under water.
FRENCH dispatches from Anam of the
10th stated that a great number of the reb-
els had laid down their arms under a
promise of amnesty.
A CAIRO dispatch of the 10th says that
unless measures for relief are taken before
September 1 Egypt will be completely
bankrupt.
THE Belgian Chamber of Deputies on the
10th rejected the bill to tax imports of
grain and cattle.