Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-02
FOREIGN!

BISHOP DUHAMEL, OF tho diocese of Otto-
wa, Can, on the 14th issued : circular de-
ncuncing the knights of Lah@r and warm
ing Catholics against joining them.
GREAT excitement prevailia in Halifax,
N. s., on the 18th over the rfult of the re-
cent provincial elections, tic vote being
overwhelmingly in favor of accession from
the Canadian Confederation.
TIE State Department Mt Washington re-
ceived intelligence on the 18th that the
British Cabinet did not indotse the seizure
of American fishing craft ~ tho Cana
dians.
FURTHER advices Of the 18Th state tibet
twelve lives we're lost in the recent great
FIRE at Vancouver, b. G.
ADvlcBs of tho 10th say that the seces-
sion issue in tho Parliament of Eovs Scotia
will have the support Of nearly thirty
members of the House, out of thirty-eight.
DURING the recent election in Santiago,
the capital of Chilli, q riot occurred in
which forty persons were killed and many
others were wounded.
A%DIspATcH of the 10th from Paris states
that there have been fresh massecres of
Christians in AMMAN.
ADv1cEs of the 18th say that during a re-
cent earthquake in Nicaragua the city OF
Managua, the capital of the country, con-
tanning ten thousand Inhabitants was com
pletely destroyed. Tho place was buried
beneath hot volcanic ashes, and many lives
were lost.
The British Conservatives have selected
Colonel Campbell Walker to contest Mid
lothian with MI. Gladstone.
A CAIRO dispatch of The 18th says: APP
palling mortality is reported among the
British troops stationed at Assouan One
hundred and six men If the Dorset regi-
ment have died within the last two months.
Mn. GLADSTONE start,d from London fo1
Scotland on the 18th to enter upon his
Scotch campaign. AT very station along
the route he received IN ovation, aud at
Edinburg forty Thousand people lined the
1~'streets and enthusiastically cheered the
Liberal leader.
THE Young Mems LIBERAL Club of To.
ronto adopted a platoon OH the 18th de-
handing for Canada independence, a tariff
for revenue only, a commercial union will
the United States and tttal prohibition.
THE French Senate committee on the
18th rejected by a vote IF six to three al
proposals for the expulsion of the Princes
REPORTS reached Loldon on tho I'LL
that a French military and naval expsdi-
ton took possession of tho New Hebride!
Islands on n l.
In a fight on the 18th between a prison
guard and soldiers at Bogota, the capita
Of the United States of Colombia, one Gen
oral, several officers and thirty soldiers
were killed.
CHOLERA had appeared on to 18th a,
Cadigora, on the Pc, eight miles from the
Adriatic. Sixteen new cases, on an aver
age, were reported daily at Venice.
ADvIcEs of the 18th say that fifty thou
sand acres Of crops and two villages hav.
been destroyed by floods in Hungary
Greater damages we're threatened
AT a meeting of tho Dominion Cabinet
on the 18th Premier Macdonald %censurce
the Minister of Fisheries for adopting Ger
tain measures which jeopardized the right
of Canada. 1t was decided that American
fishermen could purchase bait and tarry
twenty-four hours at a time in Canada,
norris.