Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-02
FOREIGN JOT1lNGs.

OTTAWA. Ont, special: Tho Domin-
ion Government will come to the aid of
the Canadian interests OH which tho
new tolls i'm the St. Mary's Falls Canals
you'd otherwise bear heavily, and will
pay the tolls out of the public chest
Tor the present season of navigation at
any rate Hon. John Haggart, minister
OF railways and canals, who is the most
important minister in the Dominion
Government now in the capitol, in
speaking of President Harrison's re-
taliatiOn proclamation said:
the policy of the government with
regard to the u%nfriendly action of the
upon Canadian shipping passing
through the st. Mary's Falls Canal will
be TO see to it that Canadian vessels are
placed on the same footing as United
States vessels, even if we have to re.
coup them out of the Dominion
Treasury. The new tolls will moi come
into force until the first of next month,
and will cease whenever payment of
rebate on Welland Canal tolls cease, as
it will at the end of this season.
am confident 20 that by the end of
next suinmer ut the farthest our canal
at Sanlt SITS. Marie will be finished.
We shall then have q lock 800 feet long
and sixty feet wide, which can hold a
whole tow and make locsagcs in half
the time now taken in the United
States side. A canadian vessel can
then travel from Port Arthur to Hall
fax without having to enter the United
State waters Work on our canal will
be push forward night and day. Mean
while the government will take care
that Canadian vessel owners and ship.
pcrs shall not suffer.
ST.. pETEHsEui.G SPECIAL: During the
recent rioting at the Hughes Steel
Works, the mob resisted the Cossacks,
one officer being severely injured. The
Cossacks attacked tho people, and 2OO
rioters and twenty soldiers were dis
ablcd. The crowd then sacked the
pharmacy. Later in the evening the
mob, excited by drink, tried to set fire
to tho village. lsioling was resumed
terrorized the village, killing several
Jews. They burned the village inhab-
tied by people employed i'm Hughes
Works, not Il house being spared. They
then invaded the factories, destroying
everything. The damage amounts 10
several million roubles. Order WAS not
restored until the third day when
W regiments and IL battery of artillery
arrived OH the scene. The agitation
continues and is spreading to the min
ing districts. Further trouble is feared.
HONOLULU special: Tho cabinet is
still incomplete. The attorney gener-
alsIip'is not yet filled. With regard to
the annexation of Johnston Island us
territory of Great Britain by her mai
eStys ship Champion, the Minister of
Foreign .Atfairs states that the cabinet
has not been officially informed of the
occupation vi JOhnstown Island. but
that the Government believes Johns
town and the kalunn Islands are still
portions of Hawaii, aud the Govern
ment moi having received any informa-
ton OF seizures. the Hawaiian Govern
ment considered i, nnadvisable to enter
Il protest. believing that Great Britain
on ascerlaining tho facts will withdraw
without the necessity of a formal pro-
test. In reply 10 Il question the Minis
ter said the Hawaiian Government had
never suggested the transfers uf Pearl
ltarbor To the United States or any
other foreign power.
VIENNA special: Fritz Pachcr, a
workman in the Noscl Iron Works at
Wartbcrs. fell ASLEEP in n tluc in lhe
foundry. He was brickcd i'll by men who
did not know of his presence and when
the flue was opened his charrcd skelc-
ton was found.