Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-26
FOREIGN.

EARTHQUAKE shocks OF several day,
duration were reported on the I'd to hay,
occurred in the vale of Cashmere, India
A portion of the city of %Serinagur was de.
molished, and fifty soldiers lost their live.
in the barracks. The inhabitants were en-,
camped in the fields. Large numbers o
cattle were killed. At Saguir the mosuu,
was destroyed and two hundred person,
were killed.
ASIATIC cholera was on the Sd declared
epidemic in the Spanish Province of Val.
encia.
The Navy Department at Washington
received a dispatch from Admiral Jouet
on the Sd to the effect that he had been EN-.
powered by the President of Colombia t
mediate between the contending parties in
that country. The Admiral thought that
the revolution would soon come to an end
CAMBoDIAN revolutionists on the Sd at.
tackled Namwang, the capital of Cam
bodia, and drove the European resideiln
out of the city. The refugees sougM
shelter on board a French ship.
AN explosion on the Sd in the Philadel.
phia colliery, near Durham, Eng, caused
the death of twenty-five men and boys
Fire at once broke out, imprisoaing over
three hundred miners, for whose release
energetic efforts We're being made.
ADvICEs of the 4th from Battleford, in
the Northwest Territory, reported that
Colonel Strange had had three engage.
ments with Big Bear.
TWENTY English vessels, loaded with
material for the proposed railway from
Suakim to Berberl were unable to land
their cargoes at Cyprus, and would return
to England with them.
NAVAL officers who were engaged in the
recent expedition TO Panama state that the
people there desire the United States to
make its occupation permanent. Admiral
Jouett reported on the 4th that the Colom-
bian authorities lad ample garrisons to
protect the line o! transit, and that the
1sthmus had a stronger Government than
for many years.
A CYCLONE at Alden, Arabia, the other
night caused damage estimated at $3.50, 900.
PREMIER GLADSTONE admitted in the
House of Commons on the 4th that Che me-
gotiations between England and Russia
concerning the delimitation of the Afghan
frontier remained unconcluded.
CHOLERA was increasing on the 9th in
wv SpuAiou VI clC TOluys
five per cent. of those attacked die.
The City Vaccinator at Montreall has
been sued for $4,000 damages for causing
the death Of two children by using inn
pure vaccine. The official alleges that the
children died from measles.
DURING a quarrel at Matamoras, Mex,
on the 9TH Jules Moncla. aged sixteen
killed his half brother, Miguel, and then
killed himself. Both were sons of wealthy
Mexicans.
SMALLPOX was on the 9TH declared to
be epidemic in Montreal, Can.
A JURY at Rio del Sui, Brazil, recently
unanimously acquitted Consul Mackey OF
the charge of shooting an editor who had
libeled his mother.
ElGHTY-sEvEN persons were killed and
one hundred wounded in the city of Ser
inagur, India, by the recent earthquakes.
Reports OH the 9Th from other points in the
Vale of Cashmere state that whole villages
and towns We're destroyed.
SIR JULIUS BENEDICT, the composer
who died on the 9th in London, accom-.
panied Jenny Lind on her tour Of the
United States in 1850.