Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-29

bia, on the 5th passed resolutions urging
their representatives at Ottawa to secure
the introduction of measures against the
Chinese or withdraw their support from
the Government.
PRESTON, the mulatto who burned the
city of Colon, was said on the 5th to have
seized three steamers at Porto, and threat
ened to make further trouble. A quarrel
between Columbian soldiers and a party
of Panama canal laborers led to the mas
sacre of twenty-five of the latter in their
barracks and the %wounding Of twenty
others.
ADv1cEs of the 9th say that Maxwell, the
alleged murderer of Preller at st. Louis,
was arrested at Auckland, New Zealand,
Upon the arrival of the steamer in which
he sailed from San Francisco. An officer
from st. Louis would be sent after him.
THE Chinese steamer Lin Yum collided
with the steamer Orestes near Shanghai a
few days ago, and seventy-five persons on
the Lin Yum were drowned.
SuAK1M advices of the 9th state that
General Graham surprised the rebels at
Tackhol, killing sixty of them and captur-
ing many cattle. The British loss was five
men.
The Indians at Qu'Appelle left their
reservation on the 9th, and q general up
rising was feared.
THE King of Denmark on the 9Th made
known his willingness to act as arbitrator
between Russia and England should his
services be desired. It was reported from
| Simla that Sir Peter Lumsden resigned
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inability to agree with the policy ruling
in London.
The cholera was spreading on the .th at
Rangoon and other places in India.
WHILE the steamer Vile de Marsailles
was on her way recently to Buepos Ayres
the emigrants on board mutiniee, and ten
of the passengers were killed sod several
others were wounded.
JOSEPH SMITH, who testified against the
| assassins of Cavendish and Burke in Dub
| lin, and was ever since believed to be liv-
ing in India, ended his life in London on
the 18th by intemperance.
RUMoRs were current inParis on the It'll
of a steady and CONTINUED Russian ad-
vance in Afghanistan. 1t a special meet
ing of the English Cabinet Council it was
definitely decided to oegin the partial
evacuation of the Soudln.
THE opinion prevailed at Winnipeg on
the 18th that Otter was compelled to retire
after his recent engagement with Pound
makers Indians, who were considered to
have achieved a victory. Reports from
the West showed that the Indians were
numbering and capturing the whites, and
subiecting the women to horrible indigni-
ties.
Two OF the Columbian rebel leaders who
We're responsible .or the recent troubles OH
the Isthmus of Panama were tried by
court-martial AMI hanged on the 7th.
AN avalanche from the mountains near
Lake Van, in Armenia, overwhelmed a
native caravan a few days ago and caused
the death of sixty-eight persons.
= The Russian Ambassador impaired to
| Earl Granville on the Sth the substance OF
a note from M. De Giers with reference to
a basis for the Afghan frontier negotia-
tions. 1t was said that it was not salts
factory to the British Government.
THE sudden death at Honolulu of Queen
Dowager Emma, of the Sandwich Islands
was announced on the Sth.
A of four hundred United
States marines left Panama on the Sth for
New York.
The report that Earl Dufferin had re.
| signed his position as Viceroy of India in
consequence Of the disastrous Ell ect upon
British prestige in India of Mt. Glad
stones policy was on the Sth denounced as
untrue by prominent officials.
REPORTS reached Dongola on the Sth
that the Mehdi's forces had suffered fresl
defeats at the hands of the insurgents in
Kordofan. aided by tho SEMINAR garrison
The remnant of the Mehdi's forces had re.
treated to Abu- Haraz.