Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-12
FOREIGN JoTrlNGs.


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. 1t 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.
The Jewish relief committee in Ber-
lin states that the daily average number
of expelled Russian Jews passing through
Charlottcnburg is 600, most of whom are
going to America. Relatives are watt
ing, ready to provide for some of them in
Paris and for a few in London. The police
will not permit them to enter Berlin, so
they spend one night at the Charlotten-
burg station and then proceed by train
toward their destinations. The director
of the relief committee says the commit
tee suffers from no lack of funds, money
and goods being freely given, while a
number Of the eXiles are already sup
piled with money. The explosions con-
tinue in st. Petersburg, where groups of
Jews, including well-dressed women,
are to be seen in the streets under the
escort of gendarmes. going to the police
station before they are started for the
frontier.
TRADE statistics for Costa Rica for
last year show remarkable change in
imports, the United States now having
larger trade with Costa Rica than
England, France or Germany. The
total value OF imports last year was
$3.50, 900. of which the United States
furnished S1,5OO.OOO. The report from
the British consul to his government
just made public expressed surprise that
the United States should now stand first
Oh the list. when only few years ago
its shipments did not nearly approach
those of Great Britain.
The baccarat case, in which Sir Will
liam Gordon Cumming is the plaintiff,
and the Prince of Wales is to be On i'm
portant witness, is one of tho sensations
in London. The prince tried to prevent
trial of the case to avoid the scandal of
a royal gamblers appearance in court,
but in vain. 1t is expected some of the
pursuits of happiness in English high
life will be revealed in the trial and
there is tremendous crush for tickets
of attendance.
IT is reported that the car, in re-
spending to an appeal made by an en-
allied parsonage on behalf of the Jews
in Russia, said he was determined to
continue his measures of repression.
The Jews themselves, declared the czar,
had forced this policy. There had never
been nihilist plot Matched in which
they were not concerned, and they
actively engaged in propaganding all
such measures.
AT a banquet in Paris the imperialists
grew enthusiastic over the prospects of
the re-establishment of the empire
They decided to press their campaign
for the overthrow of the French repub-
lie with renewed vigor.
The pope, in order to provide against
all possible contingencies, has just con-
cluded a definite will. In this docu-
ment his holiness bcqueathes all his
personal property to the holy see.
IN the lower house of the Prussian
diet Caprivi stated that the ministry had
decided against any reduction of the
corn dutirs. as a general state of dis
tress did not exist.
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.
The recent census of ireland shows a
population of 4,7O6, 162 males and 2,317,-
076 females, being a decrease of 46S, 674
in the total since the last census.
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