Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-13

killed by Middleton's cannon or Calling.
They shot too high. He has poor opinion
OF Middleton's men as fighters.
Capt. Steele with seventy mounted police
had a brush with Big Bear at Two Lakes,
fifty miles southeast of Fort Pitt on the 9th.
He drove the Indians across creek but did
not have force enough to follow them. He
saw no prisoners but sent an interpreter
with flag of truce to offer to stop fighting
it the Indians would release the prisoners.
They fired on the flag of truce but the in
terpreter got near enough to make the offer
and the Indians replied 1--WE intend to clean
you out.''
THE OLD WORLD.
No progress has been made during the
past week in allaying the discussions in the
British cabinet The government is on the
verge Of disruption. Mr.. Chamberlain, am
bilious to become an English premier, and
Sir Charles Dixie, radical, still stubbornly
refuse to assent to Gladstone's announced
policy Of renewal of the Irish crimes act.
1t is true that the sgrand old man, retreat
cd from his original position on this ques-
tlon far enough to admit that the govern
ment now was only to renew the billmodi
fed, but the rebels in the cabinet insist that
there exists in Ireland to-day no reason and
no prospect of any reason for renewal in
any form While neither Mr. Chamberlain
nor Sir Charles Dixie has personally stated
IN public that he will resign from the cabinet
If the premier persists in his renewalifolicy,
tits generally understood, though they have
not actually threatened to do so, and it is
not believed that the modified policy an
nounced yesterday has in any way altered
the threat.
The Pail Mall Gazette SAYS: We are
glad to be able to state upon the high
est authority that the iong standing stres-
ton OF difference between England and
Russia concerning the northwest frontier
has been finally and satisfactorily settled.
A definite agreement has been arrived at
on all questions of principle. The commits
sioners will forthwith commence to mark
precisely the delimitation. They are nov
on the spot. The Penjdeh incident will be
referred to the king Of Denmark, who has
informally agreed to accept the office Of
arbiter. The arbitration will be rigidly
confined to the interpretation of the sacred
covenant of March 16.
A terrible accident occurred on a. Russian
railway from kosloff to Rostoff on the
river Don. A bar of iron was placed across
the track by robbers, and the first train.
which came along was thrown from the
track and demolished. The number of
killed and wounded was seventy. The
robbers, who We're waiting for the smashup.
plundered the train. The wounded and
other survivors were completely terrorized
and could make no resistance
Princess Lid Dolgorouki, daughter of tile
late cars morganatic widow, has caused
quite social sensation in Berlin by an
pearing as public performer on the violin.
in gardens, concerts and exhibitions Her
conduct has disgusted her. family and
society friends. The princess is an i'm
mense card and she never fails to draw
The SANDER case of Charles w. Adams
against Lord Coleridge has been compronl-
ised. The compromise or settlement. re-
qEirae til 4 Lord s1ruu give to MI.
Adams $4,000 on the occasion of the mar
rage of Mr. Adams to Mildrid, daughter of
Lord Coleridge.
Herr Interbach, a prominent Journalist Of
Berlin, died, it was supposed, of hemorrhage
of a diseased lung. just as he was about to
be buried, it was found that he had been
killed in a fight in restaurant. The muir
derer is unknown. The matter causes a
sensation.
Dispatches from Rome state that the
Catholic bishops Of Erie, Nebraska and
Dakota, have left the city for home. Bish-
op Richter of Grand Rapids, Mich, and
the Bishop of Cleveland have arrived at
Rome, and been received by the pope.
The Gladstone ministry has suffered a
serious defeat. The effort to place England
on war footing by increasing the tax on
beer and spirits was voted down by 2f5 to
252. It is probable the Gladstone mutiny
will reign
Richard Lesclede, Hugo's private secreta-
~, is about to publish volume of Hugo's
table talk. 1t will take fifteen years to pub
lish all his works. plays and correspondence
left in MSS
LIZ uOdoA IaCo Ill Oi1o RdlcuCld ClOlorl
doubled. HThe people are fleeing from the
infested districts. Notwithstanding any
statement to the contrary it is absolutely
certain that there is genuine cholera in
Madrid.
Three hundred houses and fifty shops
and three mosques, in the steamboat quar-
ter of the city, were destroyed by fire. on
Sunday. One person was KILLED and many
were injured.
The Turkish government has sent 1,7OO
troops to Salonica on account of the
threatening attitude of Russia on the
Belgium frontier.
The French man-of-war Renard, with a
crew of ninety-two souls, is believed to
have foundered in the Red sea.
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
The Grand Royal Arch chapter of Masons
for Dakota, met at Fargo this week and elect
ed the following officers for the ensuing year:
William Blatt, Yankton, M E. grand high
priest; Peter Picton, Fargo, r. E. deputy
grand high priest; T. F. Hanley, Sioux Falls,
R. 3. grand king; Sol Starr, Deadwood
R. b. grand scribe; O. n. Russell, Canton
RE. grand treasurer: Thomas 7. Wilder