The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

Mr.. GLADSTONE stated in the House of
Commons on the 14th that peace negotia-
tions were making satisfactory progress.
1t was considered that the trouble was as
| good as settled.
WINNIPEG reports of the 14th state that
| Poundmaker's Indians captured train of
| thirty -one loaded teams near Battleford,
with most of the drivers. Two men were
killed in the Fight, one of them being a
mounted policeman.
AT Monaco, Italy, F. j. Fargus, we'll
known as "Hugh Conway" author of
Scaled Back" died on the 18th, aged
| thirty seven years.
| IT was reported on the 18th that cholera
| in Valencia, Spain, was rapidly abating,
owing to the incubation of thousands with
| the cholera germ by DR.. Ferran.
EARLY on the morning of the 10Th cop
les of the revised version OF the Old Testa-
ment were given to the London newspa-
| pers. The work of revision was COM
menced fourteen years ago.
| ACCORDING to reports of the 18th the loss
of the Canadian half-breeds in the
recent fight at Batoche amounted to over
| fifty killed and nearly two hundred
wounded. s.,.
THROUGHOUT Austria and Hungary a
| terrific snow storm was prevailing on the
| 18th. Numbers of persons had been frozen
to death, and the crops generally had been
destroyed.
A LARGE army has been collected by the
rival False Prophet Of the Soudan, and on
the 10th he was advancing on Khartoum to
give battle to Ell Mehdi.
THREE scouts captured Louis Riel, the
| half breed leader, on the 18th near Ba-
toche. The rebel was unarmed, but was
accompanied by three armed followers
| He made no resistance, but asked that he
should be protected from the troops. Fis
wife and children, he said, were not far
off. He declared that he was on his way
to give himself up, and expressed a hope
that he would be given q fair trial. The
half breeds near Batoche surrendered
ninety five stands of arms. Itwas believed
that the rebellion in the Northwest was
practically at an end.
| AN address was issued on the 10th at
Suakim by General Wolseley announcing
the withdrawal of the British troops from
the Soudan.
HERMosILLo Mex advices of the 18th
say the Mexican troops attacked the
Yaquis near Misa Three hundred Yaquis
were reported killed, the Mexican loss be-
| ing eighty killed and wounded.
| AN uneasy feeling was created in
Europe on the 18th by the news of the
Gar having presented swords of honor to
General Komarof and General Zakrjews-
| XII, and fears were expressed that the
present peace was only an armistice, and
that the arbitration proceedings were the
merest mockery.
A RECENT fire entirely destroyed the
town of Farewell, situated on the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad. Nearly two hun
bred buildings were burned.
ON the 18th Cunningham and Burton,
accused of causing the recent dynamite
explosions in London, were convicted and
sentenced to penal servitude for life.
IT was stated on the 18th that, contrary
! to orders, Colonel Otter attacked the In
| dian Chief Poundnaker at Eagle Hin, the
Canadians losing forty killed. Pound
maker and 125 others were taken prisoners
In twenty towns Of Spain Asiatic chol-
era is epidemic.
AT Somerset, Quebec, nearly one hun
bred houses in the village were swept away
by fire few nights ago. MAny citizens
were left destitute.