Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-11-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

A Cairo (Egypt) telegram OF the JOtn uit'
announces that the Egyptian army had en-.
tered Abyssinia, and that the inhabitants
were retreating, Offering no resistance.
A London dispatch of the 3lst ult. says
the British expedition to punish piratical ma
tves on the Congo River had been heard
from. Many villages had been burned and a
large number OF natives killed.
The iron-cad Magenta, the flag ship of the
ice-Admiral commanding the French squad
ron OF Toulon, caught fire on the Both ult. and
ultimately exploded.
The London Times OF the morning Of the
LIST estimates that 200 seamen had been
drowned in the North Sea during the gales, Of
the preceding three weeks.
A Santander special Of the 3lst ult. an
nounces the capture Of Ordune by Gems.
Iona and Quesada.
A letter from Russia, received on the 1st,
states that the Government had been engaged
in vigorous crusade against Socialist agita-
tors Arrests had been made in Moscow,
Frela, Odessa, Blazau and st. Petersburg.
In one village near Moscow thirty working
men had been arrested, and one OF them, re-
sisting the police force, had been killed.
Lycurgus, the Archbishop OF Syria, Of the
Greek Church, died recently.
A Ragusa dispatch Of the lst says force
OF 500 Turks had been lately defeated while
attacking strong lnsurgent position near
Zub The Turks lost $50 killed and the in
surgents twenty killed and wounded.
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, the eminent
English archaologst, died on the I'd.
The ship Catherine Griffith was wrecked on
the Scilly Islands on the I'd. Eight of her
crew we're lost
scow capsizcd at st. Famiic, Canada, on
the Slst during severe snow-storm and sew
enteen persons were drowned.
A special telegram from Berln Of the Sd
says the Northern powers had requested Aus
tria to submit proposition to the Sublime
Porte, embodying the guarantees to be de-
manded and the control TO be exercised to in
sure the performance Of the Sutan's promise
OF reform to the insurgents In his vassal
States. 1t was believed in Berlin and Vienna
that Turkey would be unable to suppress the
rebellion. and that Austria would intervene
with an army In the spring.
A Berlin telegram published in London on
the morning Of the 4th announces the de.
struction Of the arsenal at Realsberg. Over
10000 rifles had been burned, which, with
other property destroyed, made a total loss
of about 100000.
j. j. Ronaldson 4 Sons, West India mer-
chants of London, failed on the Sd for $780,
600.
Minister Schenck has written letter to
the London Times exposing the systematic
sale OF fictitious American university de-
grees.
An official dispatch published in Madrid on
the Sd states that the last Of the Carlists in
Catalonia, numbering six commanders and
$50 men, had surrendered, and that the
province was entirely pacihcated.
The III Cronistd OF the Sd stated that Gen.
Saballs, having returned to Spain, had been
arrested by Don Carlos and would be court
martialed for not preventing the late disas-
tiers in Catalonia.
A Berlin special of the 4th says Prussia had
asked Austria to prevent Bishop Forester,
while residing in the Austrian portion OF his
diocese, from exercising any episcopal fuuc-
ton touching the Prussan portion.
The French Assembly met on the 4th.