The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-12
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IN Une spanish province OF Valencia
| cholera was increasing on the 9Th. Forty
five per cent. of those attacked die.
In Montreal, Can, snall-po was on the
9Th declared to be epidemic. N
In the city of Serinagur, india, eighty
seven persons were killed and one hun
dred wounded by the recent earthquakes
Reports on the 9TH from other points in the
Vale of Cashmere state that whole villages
| and towns were destroyed.
SIR JULIUS BENEDICT, the composer,
who died OH the 9th in London, accom-
panied Jenny Lind on her tour of the
| United States in 1850.
ACCORDING to advices of the 7th the
earthquake shocks at Serinagur and other
points in the vale Of Cashmere, in India,
continued at intervals which averaged
three hours in length. Whole villages had
been engulfed. The horrors of approach
| ing famine were added to the other results
of the disaster, as many Thousand bushels
of grain in storage had been swallowed
up in the chasms which were constantly
opening. ts
LONDON advices state that Sir Peter
| Lumsden, recently in charge of the British
section of the Afghan Boundary Commits
sion, had arrived there on the 9Th
In Valencia, Spain, the death rate from
| cholera was rapidly increasing on the It'll,
| and the people were fleeing in large num-
| bers from the infected districts.
IT was believed on the 7th that the
French man of war Renard, with a crew
of ninety two souls, had foundered in the
Red Sea.
AT Barrie, Ont, the residence of J..
Wonch was burned few days ago, and
his wife and four children persisted in the
flames.
WINNIPEG advices of the 9th state that
Captain Steele, with seventy mounted
scouts, had a skirmish with Big Bears In
dians, in which three of the loyalists we're
wounded and number of Indians killed.
Big Bear said he would not surrender, and
expressed an intention of driving General
Middleton and his soldiers out of the coun-
try.
/ In the STEAMBOAT quarter of Constanti-
nople three hundred houses, fifty shops
and three mosques were destroyed by fire
on the 7th. One person was killed and
many were injured.
AN authoritative statement was made on
the 9th that all differences between England
and Russia concerning the Afghan frontier
had been satisfactorily settled. The Com
missioners would begin at once to mark
the boundary. The Penjdeh incident was
to be referred to the King of Denmark for
arbitration.
DR.. PALIsA, of Vienna, on the 9Th dis
covered a Olapet of the twelfth m q oruituda
On the Sth the budget in the British
House of Commons was defeated by vote
of 264 to 252, and it was announced that
Gladstone and his Ministry would proba-
bly, resign.
In the mountains east of Lagos, Mex, a
waterspout burst on the Sth, and immense
quantities of water swept down the
mountains toward the well-populated
plains and valleys below, leaving desola-
ton and ruin in. their wake. One hundred
lives were reported lost, and it was feared
that the list would be swelled still larger.
A great many houses were swept away.
Ell MEHDI has proclaimed his intention
of invading both Egypt and Arabia.
IT was stated on the Sth that two hum
dred lives were lost by the recent earth
quake in the vale of Cashmere, India.
1T was reported on the Sth that cholera
had made its appearance among the labor
eers on the Quetta Railway, in India. The
rumor of an outbreak in England was
denied by the Consul General at London.
The ship Juniper had sailed from Valencia,
Spain, where the disease was epidemic,
bound for Baltimore.