Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1885 — From Chicago to the Soudan. [ARTICLE]

From Chicago to the Soudan.

A correspondent writes from Cairo as follows: The Egyptian Government is informed that an “American Irishman,”name not known, started from. Chicago in January last to assist the Soudanese in their warfare against the British troops. He sailed from New York in January, and went from France to Ceylon, where he remained same time, and had several long interviews with Arabi Pasha, the exiled leader of the Egyptian uprising of 1882. He obtained credentials from Arabi Pasha commending him to the El Mahdi and his followers, and has now made his way to the camp of Osman Digna near Sualiim.