The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Frances Anne Kemble Mrs. Pierce
Butler the wellknown actress, died
last week in London.
The cotton mill at Ozarkoff, one of
the largest in the Russian empire,
was burned. Loss, 500, 900 roubles.
BY a vote of tifty-four to forty-twO
the Australian colonial parliment
declared a want of confidence in the
government.
1t is stated a deficiency of 5000, 600
francs exists in the Rome branch of
the Bank of Naples. The branch
cashier has been arrested and one of
the directors has absconded.
A cable dispatch from Honauras,
says the Louisiana Lottery company
has been granted charter by that
republic, and will remove it's business
there on the expiration of It's present
charter, January l, 1894.
Never within the memory of man
has Canada suffered SO continuously
from intense cold weather as during
the last month. For sixteen days
the thermometer was below zero, and
most Of the time from fifteen to
twenty degrees below. s.
One of the most daring robberieS
ever perpeted in Canada occurred at
Toronto, when five masked men
entered the jewelry store of e. F.
Roberts, bound and gagged Roberts
and his clerk, John Ward. and rifed
the store, securing many thousands
of dollars worth of goods. There is
no clue to the thieves.
A delegation of 25O idle and starv-
ing wOrkmen tramped from Client to
Brussels-thirty-One miles-through
heavy snowdrifts, and demanded
work of the minister of public works.
An immense crowd of Brussels unem-
ployed joined them, and trouble was
feared for time. Extensions of the
public works was promised as tenn
pOrary relief.
The French government has begun
campaign against foreign news
paper correspondence in Paris. The
ministers have been annoyed from
the first by the attacks of English
and German newspapers. Several
Paris dailies have suggested that both
England and Germany had sufficient
dishonesty at home to prevent them
from casting stones.
The Italian steamer San Marie and
the French steamer Algerie collided
in the Straits of Messina. Both YES
sells sank and all except five Of those
on board the Algerie are missing and
are supposed to have been drowned.
Two of those aboard the San Marie
are missing and are supposed to have
been drowned. Both steamers were
small vessels in the Mediterranean
trade.
1t IS reported that eX-king Milan |
Of Servia arrived at Biarritz Oh jan
|, and at once proceeded to Queen
Natalie's villa. The latter was
greatly surprised. Ito see her divorced
husband. 1t isdsaid that the scene
at their mcetslg was moving one
and that the visit of the king resulted
in the reconciliation. OF the estranged
couple. Ot1icial advices however do
not confirm this report.
The cold weather on the continent
is unabated. The Rhine is frozen
from Hermersheim to Bingen, the
Meckar from it's source to the mouth,
the Mein and Moselle partially. The
supply of fresh vegetables in Berlin
is cut off and several deaths of
travellers near Thorn are reported.
Many deaths from exposure occurred
in all parts of France. Deputy Des-
caures got snowbound on train near
Amiens, and as the cars were not
heated he fr0Ze to death. At RifOf-
jOrd, Sweden, the passengers were
obliged to leave the steamers and
walk over miles Of ice to Landedrag
and proceed thence by sledges to
Gothenberg.