Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10

winter in Iceland was the worst ever
known there. Almost all the cattle per.
ished, and up to the middle of May heavy
snow-storms were still raging.
LONDON advices of the 10th annd1nce
the definite acceptance of the Premieship
by Lord Salisbury.
THE ravages of cholera in the provii ces
of Valencia, Castellon de la Plana andlur-
cha, Spain, and in the city of Madrid Mere
increasing on the 10Th. Thirty thoustnd
people had fed from Murcia to escapeths
plague.
NINE prisoners of war recently captured
by a native Chief on the Brass River in
West Africa, were killed and eaten bJ the
tribe because their ransom was not fdth-
coming.
FIELD-MARsHAL BARON Won MAN1tuF-
Eel, the distinguished German Comnind-
or and Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, died
suddenly on the 18th of congestion Oh the
lungs.
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed the a.eat
bazaar and mercantile establishment Of
William Whitley, in London, causi1E a
loss of $3.50, 900.
THERE were 23S deaths reported Aom
cholera in Spain during the t~wenty-bur
hours ended Oh the 18th, and 491 bw
cases.
THE British steamer Lake Manitoba, Nth
five hundred head of cattle, was rece1ly
wrecked off the Newfoundland coast.
IT was discovered on the 18th that RIB.
ert Laing, an official Of the Canadian h.
terror Department., had been issuing boS1s
land patents to settlers in the Northwat
Territories and pocketing the proceeds. :
The towns of Ayrnau and Leutsckan,
in Hungary, were recently destroyed by
fire, over five hundred houses being
burned. Fourteen persons lost their lives.
DURII.G the twenty-four hours ended at
six p. m. on the 18th there were 632 new
cases of cholera in Murcia, Castellon de la
Plana and Valencia, in Spain, and Isl
deaths.
THE German bark Marguerite arrivedat
Quebec on the 18th from Granton, Sc,t-
land, after a passage of eighty-five days,
the delay having been caused by %innunsr-
able icebergs.
AN explosion caused by fre-damp oc-
Cured on the 18th at the Chiffon collary,
near Manchester, Eng, where $40 miners
were at work. The number of lives lost
was believed to have been 100.
DISPATCHES received on the ISL ut
Paris confirmed the reported loss recently
of the French man-of-war Renard. The
vessel foundered in the Indian Ocean dur
ing a cyclone and every one on board, 1917
souls in all, persisted.
AN earthquake shock BLASTING several Sec
onds caused great alarm at York, Eng, on
the 18th.
MIR. GLADSTONE on the 18th surrendered
the Prime Minister'S official seals to the
Queen.
HANLAN, the oarsman, was nearly
drowned in Toronto Bay on the 18th by
the falling to pieces of u new BOAT he was
testing. When rescued by some sailors he
was completely exhausted.
OWING to the closeness of the vote on
the foreign estimates in the Italian Cham
Der of Deputies the Ministry rendered it's
resignation on the 18th.
SCOUTS from Colonel Otter's camp on
the 18th found portions of Big Bears out
fit in the Turtle Lake region. The Indian,
decamped hurriedly, pursued by Colone
Herchmer. Riel had requested his friend
to apply for a trial in the province of Que!
bee. He was hopeful as to the result.
N HUNDRED houses in the native quar-.
ter OF Lagos, West Africa, have recently
been destroyed by fire.
ADvIcEs of the 10th state that OYER 16(
persons were killed by the recent explosion
in the Pendlebury colliery, near Ma5nches-
ter, Eng.
THERE were 2S4 deaths from cholera anc
SOS new cases in Spain during tho twenty.
four hours ended at six p. M. on the 10Th.
By a vote Of 296 to 100 the French Cham
Der of Deputies has refused tc exemp,
priests from service in the army reserves