Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03

on the 9th. This action was determined
upon at q prolonged Cabinet council.
When the Premier arose in Parliament to
announce the designations, he received .
hearty ovation from his admirers.
In q decision recently rendered by Chan
cellor Boy, of the High Court of Toronto, it
is held that the Indians in Canada have no
proprietary right in the soil.
ALL the principal buildings in St
Cesaire, Quebec, were burned the other
night, involving a loss of $500, 900.
In the Dominion House Of Commons a
few days & Sir John Macdonald said
that volunteers who had served against
the Northwest rebels would be rewarded
in a substantial a
FRANCIS REAMAN, a half-breed who ar
rived at Calgary on the 10th, said that his
family and those of three neighbors were
massacred by the Indians. Advices from
Middleton reported him at Turtle Lake,
but ten miles behind Big Bear. Major
Lewis and two soldiers were drowned
while crossing the Saskatchewan.
: PREMIER GLADSTONE had notion the 10th
left London for Balmoral to place his res
ignation in the hands of the Queen.
Things were at a deadlock, and no one
knew what the Ministry was going to do.
The question of retaining the Gladstone
Ministry was still unsettled on TIE 18th.
sultation with the Queen. "
ADv1cEs of the 18th state thS earth.
quake shocks continued in Cashh-lsA, In.
dia. Two towns had been utterly ruined
and four hundred persons killed.
FIVE cases Of giant powder exploded jim
a silver mine near Zacatecas, Mex, onsthe
18th, killing ten persons and woundiig
many others. The mine was completely
wrecked.
CHAMBERS caused the death of two men
at Montreal on the 18th.
TaREE-QUARTERs of the town of GrodnS,
Russia, including the Government Offices
and numerous churches were destroyed ~
fire a few days ago. The loss amounted u
several million rubles.
The Norosti, of st. Petersburg, IN the
18th reaffirmed it's statement that the
Ameer of Afghanistan is dead, a victim
of assassination.
A A stone stairway in the cotrt-
house at Theirs. France, fell upon a crowd
of people on the 18th who were making
their exit from the building, killing TWEEN
ty-four persons and injuring 1G5 others
MARTIAL law has been declared in the
State of Panama.
FORTY. FIVE new cases of cholera were
reported st Valencia, Spain on the It'll.
The disease was spreading in CASTLE and
Murcia.
CHOLERA made its appearance o the
18th at Toledo, Spain. Two new cases
were reported at Madrid.
WINNIPEG advices of the 18th state that
General Middleton had abandoned the
chase of Big Bear and had decided to res
turn home at once. The roads were ID
such condition that the transportation Of
troops vas impossible.
NEWS reached Guyamas, Mex, on THE
10Th Of an engagement between the Yaqqi
Indians under Cajama and Mexican troopt.
The Federal loss was severe, and many Ii.
dians were reported to have been killed.
DISPATCHES of the 10Th state that an
earthquake in the Eastern Caucasus CONF
pletely swallowed up the town Of Sikuch.
MANY lives were on the 10Th supposed to
have been lost by the wrecking of fishing
boats in a heavy storm off the Newfound.
land coast.
In the British House Of Commons on the
10Th Mr.. Gladstone announced that the
designations of the Cabinet had been &C.
copied by the Queen, and that the Marquis
of Salisbury had been summoned to form
a new Ministry.
WILLIAM EDDY, a farmer of New Ban.
don, N. B., was gored to death by amad
bull a few days 60. On the remains be.
ing taken into the house a daughter of the
deceased dropped lead from the shock.
SEVEN men were drowned a few days
ago at the Quinze Rapids lumber camp on
the Ottawa River, in Canada.