Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-10-25
FOREIGN JoTriNoa

LONDON special: The Times ed.
itorially says: 'By degrees the world
has learned the true significance Of
the Cabinet meeting hastily sum-
moned recently. 1t does not appear
that the Government found q single
power willing to cooperate in an at
tempt to stop the var between China
and Japan. The Government in
CURED q needlessly h~umiliating defeat
which cannot but impair Great Brit
aims capacity to intervene with effect
should q fitting occasion arise. They
Numbered incredibly, ignored the
most obvious elementary considcra-
tions applicable to the case, and
courted a rebuff which ought to have
been recognized ut once as inevitable.
Possibly thsre were rumors OF over
lures for peace as based on some
by the British Government
MONTREAL special. Judge Vallee
has returned to Quebec. after a five
months visit to Canadian Labrador,
the Island of Antieostic and other
places. He reports that fishing along
the Labrador coast has been bad and
that unless Government assistance Is
sent many deaths from starvation
must occur before the next winter is
over. The distress is already great
and the outlook is rendered more dis
~couraging by the probability that none
of the timber limits there were
worked this year. AS for coast In
dians, their condition is even worse
than that OF the fishing colonies.
WOODSTOCK, Ont, special: Ned
Hogan. is years OF age, was shot ana
instantly killed by his companion
John Cross. According to the story
told by Cross, the two boys we're alone
in the woods at the time of the shoot
Ing. They proposed playing Jesse
James, and. measuring a distance,
they pointed their guns at each other.
Cross, who claims that he did not
know the hammer of his gun was
cooked, fired, instantly killing Hogan.
Cross gave himself un to the author.
tiles and is now in prison.
FRANKFORT special: The annual
German social Democratic Congress
opened in Bornheim. Il suburb of
Frankfort, in the pre- n of an inn.
mense gathering Of workmen. The
congress vas attended by 200 dele.
gates of both sexes, including nearly
all the socialist m mbers of the
Relchstag and the Diets Of Saxony,
Baden and Bavaria. Also many Aus.
TRAN. Hungarian, Swiss and English
socialists were present. Wilhelm
Liecknecht, the well known socialist
leader. welcomed the delegates.
PARIS special: The Estafette says
the uitlmatum conveyed to Tananarivo
by the French special commissioner to
Madagascar STIMULATES that France
shall exercise an exclusive protector.
ate over that country, and that there
be a permanent French garrison sta.
toned at Ta%nanarivo. Eight days are
allowed Madagascar in which to mako
a reply to these demands.
TEN TsIN special: 1t is reported in
circles that a great battle was
fought between the Chinese and Jap.
anese forces north Of Yalu River. Ne
are obtainable. Chinese all.
thorities claim to have no knowledge
such an engagement. A dispatch
from Port Arthur says the Japanese
Thornton Haven and pro,
to Ping Yang inlet, which
they are strongly fortifying.
HAMBURG special: A sensation has
caused by the mysterious disap.
pearance OF a leather merchant named
ft0thParIt, wife, four children and
brother-in-law named kurtz. The
Of the youngest child was found
in the Elb River. 1t is believed it
will turn out q case of wholesale muir
der and suicide.
CALCUTTA special: 4 Lair paper
publishes an alleged account from ma
tive sources of the death of the Ameer
Of Afghanistan. In the description of
the deathbed scene it is stated that
the Ameer earnestly exhorted his eld-
est son Sardar Habibulla Khan, to re-
main a friend Of the British.
LONDON special: AT a meeting of
the security holders OF the Central
Pacific q committee was appointed to
20 10 the United States to take neces-
,ary steps to protect the interests OF
foreign share holders.
TIFLIs, Russia. special: At Grosnv
large naptha spring became ignited
and the flames spread to the adioin-
ing buildings. Seventeen workmen
burned to death.
LONDON special: A dispatch re.
here from Shanghai states
that negotiations for peace between
China and japan have been reopened.