CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXVII, Issue 3882, 1 April 1884, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

BY ELECTRIC TELEGEA.PII —COPYUI GUT. THE LATEST. GORDON PASHA'S FIGHT WITH THE ENEMY. COWAEDIOE OF THE EGYPTIAN TROOPS. . TWO HUNDRED KILLED. TERRIBLE RIOT AT CINCINNATTI. A PRISON ATTACKED. FIGHT WITH THE TROOPS. ONE HUND~rId PERSONS KILLED. THREE HUNDRSy SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. (Per Ileuter's Agency.) (Received April 1, 3 a.m.) CAIRO, March 30. Telegrams from the Soudan state that Gordon Pasha made a sortie from Khartoum on the 16th inst, at the head of a strong force of Egyptian troops. The latter proved perfectly untrustworthy, and fled at the first charge of the Arab cavalry, two hundred being killed. NEW YORK, March 30. A serious riot has occurred at Cincinnatti. An immense mob, indignant at the leniency of a verdict returned against a prisoner who had been tried on a charge of murder, attacked and burned the prison in which the convict was placed. The United States troops were called out to protect the prison, and a serious conflict .ensued between the military and rioters, who exhibited desperate courage, and refused to yield until a number had been shot down. Fully one hundred persons were killed, and three hundred are suffering from wounds of a serious nature. The encounter caused much excitement and alarm throughout the City^ and in the neighborhood. MELBOURNE,'" '* March 81. Arrived this afternoon—P. and' 0. steamship Valetta, with the Brindisi mails, dated London, February 22. Preparations are being made for according a welcome, on Wednesday next, to the Rev Dr Barry before his departure for Sydney. In the " Gazette," issued this evening, Sunday next, the 6th inst., is proclaimed a day of general mourning throughout the Colony for the death of Prince Leopold. The proposed banquet to his Excellency has now been abandoned.