Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-12

that several of their most important posts
in the North Saskatchewan district had
been %plundered by the Indiana all the
goods carried away or burned, and the
officers and people turned adrift Il stsrve.
General Middleton was preparing to move
on the redskins.
Two DEATHS from cholera occurred at
Marseilles, tFrancc, o u the Goth.
A R a few days ago partially de.
stroyed the Mon Rjou Palace at Berlin.
The works of art and valuable relics were
saved, but many of them were damaged.
Frederick the Great once occupied the
palace as a residence.
"a BATTLE lasting five hours tookSplac. on
the goth between the army of salvador
and the Revolutienists led by Meaandez,
the latter being completely routed, with
the loss of their artillery.
THE French Canadians at Quebecmain-
tanned on Che Goth that Riel must hot b.
hanged, their organ claiming tiAt he
should be magnanimously treated.
IT was announced from Winnipeg o1 the
Goth that big Bear and Poundmakej had
joined forces and would put twelve hun
dred we'll armed Indians on the warpath.
1t was understood that General Middleton
had received orderst from the Govern.
ment to begin a campaign against the In.
dians with the object of crushing them.
IT was announced on the 21st thai a mys-
FERROUS disease had broken out at Paris
Roads, q small town eighteen miles from
Pittsburgh, Pa. All cases proved fatal,
and thus far eight persons had succambed,
while eight others were stricken with the
malady.
THE Canadian Government made known
on the 21st its intention to confiscate any
Importation of goods made by prison labor.
SEVERAL houses were unroofed at Win
nipeg, Manitoba, by a cyclone on the 21st,
and a number of persons were injured.
ADv1cEs of the 21st from Guaymas,
Mex, state that General Carlo had a
bloody engagement with the Yaquis. En-
ty.seven Mexicans were killed and many
wounded. The stronghold of the Yaquis
was captured. Their loss had not been
ascertained.
THE rumor of an outbreak of cholera in
Great Britain was pronounced totally un-
founded on the 21st.
A DISPATCH of the 21st from Calgary, in
the Northwest Territory, reported that
oCAS4oA ooSSAS oOtdAC0 SuuluS OA Aus
way to Fort Pitt, met the Indians and lost
several men in a skirmish. Old-timers ex-
pressed the opinion that the trouble was
spreading, and that all the Indians in the
country would be in arms presently.
BARTHoLD1's statue of "Liberty En-
tightening the World" left the shores of
France for New York on the 21st.
Mr.. GLADSTONE declared in the House OF
Commons on the 21st chat nothing was yet
| settled in regard to arbitration between
England and Russia; nor had it been alb
| solutely decided who should be arbitrator.
VICTOR HUGO, the eminent French poet
and novelist, died in Paris at 1880 on the
| afternoon of the 22d, in his eighty fourth
year.
IT was announced on the ed that Tipu
Taib, a powerful Arab Chief in the region
of tbs Upper Congo, had entered upon the
ready annexed the Congo region in behalf
of the Sultan of Zanzibar, and his army
was on its way through the %Tanganyiks
district, marking its progress with pillags
and massacre.
The crew of the bark Bayard, who ar
rived in Quebec OH the 22d, reported that
their vessel was sunk by icebergs OF the
coast of Newfoundland, and that they
spent three days and nights on the lie be-
fore being rescued.
PoUNDMAKER released the caStured
teamsters and sent q flag Of truce tt Bat
tleford on the Cpd to learn on what terms
he could surrender. A large amoint Of
war material from England, consisting
mainly of field artillery, was being Anded
at Quebec. A prominent French Canadian
had retained two attorneys of Quetec to
defend Louis Riel, and would pay tie ex-
penses incident thereto.