Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-11
FOREIGN JOTTINGS,

THE state department has received
official information of the peaceful sur
render of the CHILEAN insurgent steamer
Etata at Iquique. 1t had on board 5000
rifles and also ammunition taken from
the schooner Robert and Minnie off the
port of San Diego, Cal. 1t had no other
munitions of war than those belonging
to the ship and had transferred nothing
to the Esmeralda, with whom it COM
municated off Acapulco, Mexico The
Etata will now be sent back to San
Diego, probably under convoy of a
cruiser. It will be delivered to the
United States court officials at San Diego
and the proceedings against it will be
resumed. The surrender was made
voluntarily by the leaders of the Gillian
insurgents. Their desire had been COM
municated to the Washington govern
ment, which accounts for orders sent to
the Charleston to cease the chase it had
started upon.
ADvICEs from st. Petersburg say the
schoolmaster of the Tersk district has,
by his religious ideas and teachings, ex-
cited the religious frenzy of the peasant
inhabitants of the district, as they saw
in him q power which they considered
inimical to the conservative views they
had been taught and the interests they
deemed their duty to protect They
accordingly held a meeting and as a re-
suit they dug mine under the school
house, and during the morning session,
when the room was filled with children,
they proceeded to fire it. A tremendous
explosion ensued and the building was
completely wrecked. Ten children were
killed outright and twelve others seri-
ously injured.
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD, premier of
Canada is no more. For many days his
life hung in the balance, death being
held at bay by the exercise of his won
derful will power, but at last he lost
consciousness and then the end swiftly
came. The grief in Canada is intense
and church bells tolling all over the do
minion attest the grief of the populace.
His hand had guided the political des-
tines of Canada for nearly half century
and he displayed craftsmanship of the
highest order. In the grief of Canada
is the knowledge that no one at present
appears who can assume, his place as
premier with the signal ability he always
commanded.
TRADE statistics for Costa Rica for
last year show remarkable change in
imports, the United States now having
a larger trade with Costa RIGA than
England, France or Germany. The
total value of imports last year was
$4. $50, 900, of which the United States
furnished 81, 100000. The report from
the British consul to his government
just made public expressed surprise that
the United States should now stand first
on the list. when only a few years ago
its shipments did not nearly approach
those of Great Britain.
FROM India comes the news of another
uprising, this time in the state of Keon-
juhra, where the rebels have swept
everything before them, robbed the
treasury of the maharaiah and prepared
to defend themselves against British in
reference. The cause of the outbreak
appears to have been the conduct of the
maharajah, who has of late been oppres-
sing his subjects with excessive taxa
ton, partly in order to pay the tribute
to the British and partly for his own
enrichment.
LOMBARDY, Venetia and Tuscany were
visited by repeated earthquake shocks.
The center of disturbance was at Verona.
A subterranean noise was heard like the
roar of artillery, which was followed by
three strong shocks. At Marcenigo
three persons were killed and at Badia,
Calavena, seventeen ladies were injured
by falling houses and chimneys. The
movements were undulating in charac-
ter and were more or less over the whole
of the north of Italy.
THERE is great excitement at Iouique,
Chilli, over the decision of the American
admiral to take the Etata without allow
ing the discharge of it's guns and ammu-
milton. The press is very bitter and
considers that the United States does
not recognize the cradle of republican
ideas and commits grave error in thus
indirectly assisting the dictator.
News from Alaska is that the grip is
creating great havoc among the natives.
Hundreds have died at the rate of a
dozen per day. There is no doctor on
the island and no medical stores
THE pope, in order to provide against
all possible contingencies, has just con-
cluded definite will. In this docu-
ment his holiness bequeathes all his
personal property to the holy see.
THE recent census of Ireland shows u
population of 1906. 1862 males and 2,317,-
O76 females, being a decrease of 46s, 674
in the total since the last census.
REPORTS received by the Paris COM
mercial exchange indicate that the yield
of corn this season will be only two
thirds of the average amount.
A PARTY of striking Iowa miners at
Mystic attacked body of colored men
who have been brought in to take their