Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-17

(Frapce) brewery burst the other day,
wrecking two buildings, killing five per-
sons and i%njuring many others.
ACTIVE preparations were being made
on the 23d for the trial at Regina Of Louis
Riel and about sixty others engaged in the
Northwest rebellion.
ADv1cEs of the 2$d say that Captain
Lawton was obliged to abandon the(t trail
Of the hostile Apaches in the Sierra
Madres, in Mexico, owing to the exhaus-
tion OF his horses.
HTHE Royal Geographical Society will
send out another African exploring exps-
dition, to start from Zanzibar in August.
AN explosion recently in a powder-mil
at Lucca, Italy, caused a heavy loss of
life.
IT was stated on the oath that the Russians
were secretly operating extensive gun
works, under tho disguise of hospitals and
asylumns, at Batoum, on the Black Sea
coast.
MISS MILDRED CoLERIDGE, daughter O!
the Lord Chief JUSTICE of England, was
married on the oath to Charles Warren
Adams. Her father refused to attend the
wedding.
GuyMAs (Mox.) advices of the Gath re-
port two engagements with tho Yoquis
Indians, in which two hundred Indians
and six Mexicans were killed. Three
Americans were reported to have becu
killed near salmaripa by q part Of Gero-
nimo's Apache band.
THE differences between Russia and Tur-
key, growing out of the demand Of the
fermer upon the Porte for the removal OF
the Governor of Salonica, have been amic-
ably settled.
TIE Dominion House of Commons has
passed q bill increasing the Northwest
mounted police to one thousand mon.
OF n hundred immigrants recently
landed at Montreal, thirty-six wero deaf
mutes.
The French army in Tonquin was on the
25th being decimated by disease. Three
thousand sick soldiers had bsen sent homo,
and three hundred more awaited trans
portation.
SEVERAL slight shocks of earthquake
were felt on the 18th at Inverncss-shirs,
Scotland.
A REPORT was received at the Navy De-
partlnent on the 25th from Admiral Jouett
announcing the failure by the parties in
terested to settle the disputes in the United
States of Colombia. He said tho political
differences between the two parties We're
of such a nature that 4 peaceable settle
ment was quite impossible, and that hos
Utilities were likoly to continue indefinitely.
A vIoLENT earthquake was felt in Nord,
Franco, on the goth. The damage was
slight.
WITHOUT waiting for the ratification Of
the treaty Of peace with China, France is
sued an order on the 26th to raise the
blockade Of Chinese ports and to cease
searching vessels IN the high seas.
KTHE Pacific Mail Company's steamer
City of Toxic, reported stranded in the
harhor of Yokohama, proved a total wreck
or tho Goth. Tho loss to the company
would be- 81, 1000.
FRENCH Canadians of Quebec have
organized to raise funds for the purpose
az defending Riel and other half breeds
engaged in the Northwestern revolt.
THERE were A54 new cases Of cholera and
2o9 deaths in Spaia during the twenty
four hours ended at six p. m Oh the Goth. I;
AT Toronto on the 26th Thomas White
and Charles Bent were convicted of utter
Ing forged circular notes Of the Bank Of
Scotland. Confessions of two of their con
federates showed the existence of q gang
of forgers, whose members were scattered
through America and in nearly every
country of Europe.
The recent financial DEGREES of the Mex
lean Government have produced great
monetary stringency in the republic.
Leading banks at the capital have sus-
pended their discount business, foreign
exchange has advanced, and many failures
are apprehended.