The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-04-18
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

1Sbn gave 08It1mO1o, MO., pOpulaG0n OF
five hundred thousand.
FOREIGN INTELL,eENcE.
GENERAL BouLANGER was on the 9Th or
dered out of Belgium.
REPORTS on the 8th from India say that
fifteen thousand persons were rendered
homeless by tho recent great fire at Surat
To add to the prevailing distress, cholera
had broken out in the town.
OFFICIALS in charge of the Eiffel tower In
Paris said on the 9Th that from the top of the
tower . view could be obtained to distance
Of forty miles.
DISPATCHES of the 9th from Western India
announced the failure of the pearl fisheries
owing to the prevalence of cholera
A WAGER was made by four Russian Off.
GERS on the 9th that they could ride on
horseback from St Petersburg to Paris in
torty-five days They will start in May.
In the Erin colliery at Castrop Australia,
an explosion on the 10th caused the death
of twenty five persona
heavy gales off the coast, interrupting tele.
graphic communication, delaying mails and
steamers, and doing great deal of damage.
The death Of NJ Michel Eugene Chevreul,
the distinguished French chemist, occurred
in Paris on the 9th. He was born in
Anglers, August l, 17S6, and was therefore
nearly one hundred and three years of age.
ADv1cEs of the 10th from London say that
the spring emigration to the United States
had assumed large proportions All the
available steerage space on the several
steamers at Liverpool and at continental
ports had been taken up for intending en-
igranta The movement was more volun-
tary In character and less the work Of
agents than hitherto, and the people were
OF the better class
ON the 18th fifty three hundred emigrants
sailed from Bremen and Hamburg for New
York.
On the 18th the trial of General Boulan-
ger, Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort was
commenced before the French Senate.
Upon arriving at Queenstown on the 18th
the Inman steamer City Of Chester reported
having sighted the steamer Danmark of the
Thtngvalla line, on April in disabled
and sinking condition, having apparently
been abandoned in mid-ocean. The Dan
mark, when she sailed from Christiania,
Norway, for New York, had about seven
hundred persons on board, and the infer
enoe was that these had either been lost OF
were at sea in the ships boats
| MEXICO advices of the 18th say that four
of the men arrested on q charge of being
implicated In the derailment Of President
Diaz's train had been shot
LATER.
The street car strike In st. Paul and
Minneapolis still continues. On the 18th
President Lowry issued notice to the
strikers that they could return to work on
tho 18th at the reduced scale Of wage.
and IL they would not accept the PROPOSE.
ton they could consider themselves dis.
charged. Several disturbances occurred
in Minneapolis but none in st. Paul. The
cable car mon are not involved in the
strike. Mr. Lowery refused to arbitrats
the dimculttos ~ proposed by q committee
Of citizens.
OK tho morning Of the 18th at st. Louis.
NO., Louis Napoleon the janitor Of tho
st. Louis grain elevator Office found John
Jackson, president of the elevator COM
pany, hanging to q post of the oonnter
railing dead anc tho body cold. Letters
were found showing 1t was suicide.
The steamer Rio Grande was damaged
t25, 600 by 6re at the dock at New York, tho
18th.
CHARLEs HoDaBs and Evan Madden
were passing through an abandoned mine
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, the 18th when their
lights iguited large amount Of accumu-
lated gas and both men were blown to
pieces.
Masked men at Hemstead, Tex, the
18th took George Griggs colored, who was
charged with attempted rape on q white
woman, and hanged him to tree.
The striking switchman on the Eric
railroad at Buffalo, N. Y, became obstrep,
erous tho 18th. Several conflicts occurred
and tho crowds had to be dispersed by the
police.
Ar sibley, Iowa, on the 18th nearly $50
farmers met at the court house and Or
ganized against the Irvine trust
OLE NILSSON employed in the stone
quarry OF l. A. Carlson. Rcd Wing, Mimi,
was killed tho 18th by being participated
over ledge Of rock.
Of tho interior under President Lincoln
died in Philadelphia on the 18th.
JOIN A. KAssoN. Of Iowa, William WAL
tor Phelps, Of New Jersey and Geo. b
Bates Of Delaware, the commissioners to
represent the United States at the Berlin
conference on the Samoan question, sailed
from New York on tho 18th.
Ta1 London, Eng. Weekly Dispatch
says that William OBrien has entered q
libel action against Lord Salisbury tor
|Coxt8lU T0m8fK0 m8Q9 0Y the latter In n
recent speech Ut Wexford
AMoNo tho latest items from tho Okla
homa country 10 one that bloody tragedy
occurred few days 3go in tho western
part between two mon from Kansas and
two from Texas for the possession Of Q
claim. Guns were freely used and one OF
the Kansas men was killed and Texan
fatally wounded The other two called Z
truce and started with their wounded oom-
rades for . neighboring ranch. Before
|they reached there the 1ght was renewed
and lster the whole party WA discovered
stFotched gut o. the pratRtai'
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