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Show Foreign Notes of Interest. j Astrakan leads the list with 206 new cases and 162 deaths. Seven people were killed and forty houses destroyed by a cyclone yesterday in Fole-sella, Fole-sella, Italy. Six hundred and forty-eight new cases of cholera and 389 deaths are reDorted from the infected districts. The Russian minister of the interior has prohibited the sale of the St. Petersburg Gazette because it publishes true accounts of the cholera epidemic. A lady of Baku writes: Asiatic cholera is raging here, 300 persons are dying daily. Naptha is being liberally sprinkled about the streets as a disinfectant. Stores and shops sre closed for the month. AH who are able to do so are leaving town. - The province of Ravi go, in the northern part of Italy, was swept by a cyclone yesterday. yester-day. An enormous amount of property was destroyed and many lives lost. The village of Polesella containing nearly 4000 inhabitants, inhabit-ants, was almost completely destroyed. Many of the villagers were buried in the ruins of their homes. Troops were sent to recover the living and dead. a-. |