Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28

much excitement in Paris over the accusa-
ton. e
A p1sPATc from Cairo received on the
4th stated that as q measure of economy
the Egyptian Cabinet would be reduced to
four members.
THE report of Osman Digma's death was
denied on the 4th.
THIRTY half breeds concerned in the
Riel rebellion entered pleas of guilty to
treason-felony at Regina on the 4th. Two
of the prisoners were discharged, and sent
ence on the others deferred.
The United States Consul at Vera Cruz
reported on the 4th that the yellow fever
was fast increasing at that place. Forty
six deaths had occurred within the past
two weeks.
FROM Rome came the intelligence on the
4th that the King Of Abyssinia would
send a large army to relieve the beleag-
ured garrison at Kassala.
ALEXANDER GAzARINE, a. Russian
Prince, committed suicide on the 4th, ow.
ing to heavy gambling losses at Monte
Carlo.
ENGLAND was on the 9Th said to have
given the Shah of Persia a subsidy to be
used in the construction of a military road
from Bushire to the Afghan frontier, de-
troops from the Persian GUT toward
Herat. Strong Russian forces had on the
same day been massed near NPepjdeh,
owing to rumors that the AfghaYFtsi weso
massing near that place.. ,ts~Ah
The Berlin and Frankfort Bourses wero
on the 9TH seriously affected by the war.
like utterances of leading German and
French journals.
BY q collision of freight-trains on tho
Canadian Pacific Railway on the 9th, not
far from Toronto, Ont, ono man was killed
and six others wounded.
Mr.. FRANCIS, the retiring United States
| Minister to Austria, was OF the 9Th assured
| by Count Kalnoky, Austro-H Hungarian
Foreign Minister, that the present cloud in
the relations between America and Austria
would soon blow over.
THOMAS WHITE, a Montreal Journalist,
was on the 9Th installed as Minister of the
Interior for the Dominion. His appoint
ment was said to be the first move toward
a reconstruction of the Cabinet.
AN epidemic was prevailing at Colon on
the Isthmus of Panama or the 9th, and the
mortality vas appalling. Yellow fever
had broken out at Mazatian and Tehuan-
tepec, Mexico.
1T was reported at Bombay on the 9th
that Yakoob Bey's son had, with Russian
assistance, occupied Kashgar, and was
menacing Koaldja, a province claimed by
China.
LATE news from Peru was to the effect
that all effort at reconciliation between
the c%ontending factions was atan end, and
that the struggle for supremacy would be
continued.
The Emperors William and Joseph met
at Gastein on the 9Th.
ENERGETIC measures were being taken
by the British Government on the 9th to
keep out the cholera. Tie importation Of
rags from Spain has been prohibited and
stringent local regulations ordered en-.
forced.
Coal and iron miners in Derbyshire,
Eng, were engaged in riot many hours on
the 9th. During one of the battles with
the police nine miners were dangerously
wounded.
The panic in Spain caused by the rapid
spread of the cholera was increasing on the
9th. Many villages had been deserted by
the Inhabitants, the sick being abandoned
and the dead left unburied. Thirty thre.
deaths from cholera occurred at Marseilles
on the 9th, and 1000 new cases and nearly
LOO deaths were reported in Spain on the
9Th.
FRENCH and German newspapers on the
9th continued to indulge in mutual recrim.
nations. The Cologne Gazette urged al
Anglo-German Alliance, and warned
France of a policy of revenge.
In the House of Commons on the 9Th
Lord Randolph Churchill introduced the
Indian budget. Thu deficit was G1, 100000