Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-23
FOREIGN,

HEAVY rains continued or the Goth ult
throughout the southern part of Mexico.
Traffic was still partially suspended on
the Central aud National railways on ac-
count of the floods.
The Irish loyalists were on the Goth ult.
raising a fund for the benefit of all per-
sons who had been boycotted. The Xii.
larney National League would boycott all
stores dealing in English goods.
DISPATCHES of the Goth ult. state that
shocking restitution and suffering pre-
vailed among the half breed women aud
children on the Saskatchewan River, in
Manitoba, in consequence Of the killing,
fight or Imprisonment of the male poru.
lation.
EARL D%UFFERIN, Viceroy of India, tele.
graphed the Home Government on the goth
ult. that necessity had arisen for armed
Intervention in Burmah, which pointedto
an early annexation of that country to
India.
THOMAS LuMsDEN, a wealthy stojk.
grower, and u brother of the famous Sir
Peter Lumsden, was gored to death by a
bull near his farm in Manitoba a few days
since.
1T is said that the Cuban tobacco crop
will be larger and of better quality than
for many years past.
ADvIcEs of the Goth ult. from Tonquin
state that the Black Flags were again in
motion, and that a Chinese Generalha
invaded Annam against the French.
FLOODS in Bengal had on the Goth plt.
destroyed a vas1 amount of property. An
area of $500 square miles was under
water. Many lives had been lost.
DURING the recent storm at False Point,
on the Bay of Bengal, three hundred per-
sons persisted and many vessels were
wrecked.
HEAVY floods were reported on the Both
ult. throughout the eastern portion Of
Switzerland. The whole of the upper
Rhine Valley was inundated.
SIR ANDREW CLARK, Mr.. Gladstone's
physician, said Oh the 3Oth ult. that Mr..
Gladstone's throat was in q condition
that would allow him to deliver speeches.
BAsHI-BAzouKs have sacked and burned
several villages in Eastern Roumelia.
The prompt action taken on the Goth ult.
by the authorities at Montreal overawed
the anti-vaccination mob, and mpa
tive quiet had been restored.
THE business portion of the town of
Iquique, Peru, was destroyed by fire the
other night, the loss being estimated at
$4,000, 900.
-Four workmen in Cuba, who took refuge
recently under a cart during a thunder
storm, were struck by lightning and in
stantly killed.
NILE. NEVADA, the American pri,na
donna, was married at Paris on the 1st to
DIR. Raymond Palmer, of Birmingham,
Eng.
The Earl of Shaftesburv, the English
philanthropist, died in London on the 1st,
aged eighty-four years.
REPRESENTATIVES of ne great powers
met at Constantinople on the LIST to con-
slider the Roumelian question, but took no
action, and adjourned to await instruc-
tions from their respective Governments.
The Sultan issued a decree on the LIST
ordering the Turkish troops to mass at
Adrianople. Servia had 80, 900 meg nnder
arms.
FORTY FOUR deaths from smallpox ot-
Cured in Montreal on the I'd.
THERE were 1913 new cases of cholera and
eighty deaths reported in Italy on the &C.
The disease had reached Genoa. in Spain
416 new cases and 1872 deaths were reported.
TRANSFERS who were transporting a
large quantity of merchandise from Pied
ras Negras to New Laredo. Mexico. were
attacked on the Cd thirty miles from tie
latter place by highwaymen, who bound
them to trees and carried off most of their
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