Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-02-21
FOREIGN.

SEVERE shock of earthquake was felt at
Naples ON the llth, in consequence of which
Mount Vesuyius was in violent state of
eruption.
REAR ADMIRAL CHANDLER. commander OF
the Asiatic station, died on the ilth nj Hong
Kong of apoplexy.
DISPATCHES of the llth say that gold
smith In Vienna poisoned his five children
with cyanide of potassium, and after admin
istering the poison to the children he took
some of it himself and died in great agony.
The new constitution of Japan was pro-
mulgated from the throne on the 18th by
the Mikado. The constitution establishes a
House of Peers with three hundred mem
bers The right of suffrage Is given to men
of the age of twenty-five years and over
who pay taxes to the amount of twenty five
dollars yearly Liberty of religion freedom
of speech and the right of public meeting
are established
Ii was discovered on the 18th that barbed-
wire was patented in France April 10, 1865,
which, under a ruling of the United States
Supreme Court would inyalidate the Gid
/ den and other patents.
INDIANS at Cold Lake, Manitoba on the
Battle River reservation, were ON the 18th
suffering from a peculiar epidemic which
was fatal The muscles of the throat and
neck swelled rapidly preventing the swal-
lowing of food 1t was feared that the en-
tire tribe would be exterminated.
PANAMA advices of the 18th stats that
much anxiety prevailed there owing to am
increase of crime, which was attributed to
the presence of the thousands of laborers
whom the stoppage of operations on the
canal had thrown out of work
GENERAL KoMARoFF, with a strong force,
arrived at Bokhara on the 18th The Ameer
had circulated the report along the FROM
tier that he was advancing for the purpose
of making war upon Russia. 1t was alleged
that he was causing three hundred persons
to be beheaded daily and greatly interior
ing with frontier traffic.
ADvIcEs of the 18th from China say that
the famine in Anhui and Kianqsu was worse.
In one province three hundred thousand
families were starving, and altogether sey-
cral millions were suffering from famine
caused by drought two years in succession.
DOLORES CoRDoNEs, a mulatto girl at
Havana, Cuba, was covered with petroleum
and burned to death on the 14th by man
whose attentions she had refused
ADvIcEs of the 18th say that during re-
cent earthquake not single house in Costa
RIGA escaped injury and many were tota ly
destroyed Whole streets were blocked
with ruins Losses in San Jose amounted to
more than 500, 600, while all the principal
edifices In Alajucla were damaged At La
Laguna the earth had assumed the appear
ancc of a rough sea
ALL the members of the French Ministry
sent their designations to President Carnot
on the 14th.
ANOTHER tragedy was enacted on the 14th
at Lake Starnberg. near Munich when two
persons drowned themselves in it's waters.
Since the suicide OF King Ludwig eleven
persons had drowned themselves in the
lake.
ADyscEs Of the 18th say that yiscount
Arinori More, japanese Minister of Educa-
ton, had been assassinated at Toxic by
religious fanatic The victim was formerly
Minister to Washington.
ALDEN aGvices of the 18th state that the
Russian flag had been hoisted on territory
which under an Anglo-French agreement
belonged to France.
TIE Republican General, Villa Campo,
died in prison at Madrid on the 18th
THE schooner Hippomenes, which sailed
from Yarmouth December for Barbados.
laden with fish and lumber, and with crew
of five men, was on the 18th given up as lost
with all on board
IEPRoSY was on the 18th said to be dying
out In Canada. The report of the Agricult-
ural Department showed that there were
nineteen patients, eight males and eleven
females, IN the Lazaretto at Tweedle, n. b.