Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-08-14
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
Many Americans offer to serve in the
Japanese army in the war with China
The Carina wins the yacht race for
her majesty's cup. beating the Vigilant.
The Vigilant is disqualified.
G. l. Benfie, a rich mine owner, was
assassinated at San Nicholas del Orc,
Mex, by Benabe Boyes, who escaped.
A death from cholera is reported at
Amsterdam. Cholera is reported at
Marseilles, France.
The evicted tenants bill passed it's
third reading in the house of COM
mons by vote of 100 to 167.
Indians of Labrador are said to be in
danger of extinction from starvation,
owing to the scarcity of game and fur
bearing animals.
Russia is credited with an intention
Of seizing one Of the most important
ports of Corea and establishing a sov-
ereignty over it.
A dispatch from the London Stand
ard from Athens says that a bomb
exploded with terrific force in the jew
ish quarter of the city of Corfu, killing
seven persons and doing considerable
damage to property. There is no clue
to the perpetrators Of the outrage.
A special dispatch to the London
Times from Quito says that owing to
the protest Of English holders of the
Ecuadorian bonds against the suspen-
sion of interest on the public debt,
congress has decided that the money
necessary to pay the interest shall be
deposited in the Bank Of Ecuador
pending negotiations on the subject.
The head of the Corean traitor, Kim
ok-Kium, which the government intend
ed to exhibit in all provinces, was
stolen a few weeks ago while the
watchman who had it in charge was
asleep. The king has offered big
reward for the discovery of the thief.
1t is said that since the theft the father,
wife and daughter of the conspirator
have been beheaded.
General.
Bowen and Carroll fight twenty-one
rounds to draw
Many more foreigners leave the
United States for Europe than arrive
Corn makes Il jump of seven cents
in Chicago.
Two large mills, a grocery and sev-
eral small business houses burned at
Marion, Iowa. Loss, $4,000.
The Citizens Savings bank of Ports
mouth, Ohio, is in the hands of an as
signee.
G. L. Ferris, proprietor of one of the
largest retail hardware stores in Cen
tlal Missouri, has assigned.
week, the unprecedented number of 81
We're due directly to the heat
Three hundred mines at Mystic, Iowa
struck yesterday because part of their
wages is held back every pay day.
The miners strike at Dunfermline,
ILL.,, is practically over. The men have
been ordered to take their tools from
the pits. Negroes will be put to work.
The large receipts Of fruit at San
Francisco have sent the price of
peaches and plums down to 5 cents a
basket.
Fifty thousand acres of land have
been purchased in the State Of Arkan-
sas by the Slavok Colonization company
of Pittsburg, Pa.
A rich strike of lead carbonate, the
ore which gave Leadville, Colo, it's
great boom, has been made on Mineral
Hill, Cripple Creek, Colo.
At the camp meeting of the Indiana
Spiritualists fifty mediums indulged in
war dance while under control of In
dian spirits.
Extra meetings are necessary to ac-
commodate the crowds of visitors to the
Moody conference at East Northfeld
Mass.
Over 300 women voted in the school
election at Canton, Ill. Mrs. Carrie
Black defeated Ephraim Shadley by
two votes
At the national convention of Colored
Voters leagues in New Castle, Pa,
measures looking to the social and po-
litical advancement of the race will be
considered.
The Chinese have apparently come to
the conclusion that it is no longer safe
to bring coolies into San Francisco, and
the merchants are now coming by
wav of MnyicO