The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-05-25
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A LONDON dispatch of the morning of the
18th says intelligence had just reached there
of the breaking out of new instruction
against Turkish rule in Bulgaria. The in.
surgents were in possession of BelloA and the
Roumeilian Railway, adjacent thereto.
AN extensive corn and provision firm, with
large United States connections-Turner
Mott & Strong, of Bristol, England-failed on
the 10th, with between 100000 and $500, 900
liabilities.
THE European Powers interested have ae.
manded of Turkey the execution of the muir.
derers of the French and German Consuls at
Salonica, a solemn salute to the French and
German flags and guaranty against similar
massacres.
The London Daily Telegraph of the 18th
says the e. glish Ambassador at CONSTANT
nople had informed the Government that the
situation in Turkey was extremely critical
Aviolent outbreak, of which Christians would
become victims, was likely to occur at any
moment.
The Prince of Wales reached England, on
the 18th, and was welcomed with great en-
thusasm.
BAGDAD dispatches state that from the 10th
to the I'D of April there were 1886 deaths from
the plague in that city. At Hillah, during
the same period, there were 159 deaths.
A GENERAL panic prevailed at CONSTANT.
nople on the 18th. The Mohammedans were
insulting and threatening all Greeks and
Americans, bidding them prepare for imme-
date death. Travellers were leaving, and
European residents were sending away their
families. A Salonica telegram of the same
date says the bodies of the murdered Consuls
were still unburied, the excitement of the
Mohammedan population being SO great that
it would be dangerous to attempt funeral
until the arrival of troops and additional
men of-war.
The French Minister of the Interior, NJ.
Ricard, died at Paris on the 18th, of heart
disease.
The application for the release of Wins
low, the Boston forger. was renewed at Lon
don on the 18th, and was again opposed by
the Government, and he was recommitted for
ten days longer, the Attorney. General stating
that, if Secretary Fish's answer to Lord Der
by's note was not received by that time, no
further objection to Winslow's release would
be raised by the Government.
NEWS was received at Ragusa on the 18th
that battle was fought near Bosses the day
before, in which 700 Turks and 100 insurgents
were killed. The Turks at Scutari had a GEL
ebration over the murder of the German and
French Consuls at Salonica
THE British fleet in the Mediterranean has
been ordered to rendezvous Immediately at
Smyrna, in view of the possible Oriental diff
culties. Two more italian iron clads have
gone to Salonica.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the death of
Col. Thompson, Mayor Of Liverpool, England.
THE firms of r. E. Davidson & Co., and
Alexander Grove & Co., of London, who
were in the Eastern trade, have failed with
liabilities of about e7O,O each.
THE French squadron ordered to Salonica
numbers 81 guns and !, 27O men; the German
squadron 90 guns and 5000 men.
An Athens (Greece) dispatch of the 18th
says the Turks and Greeks were each con-
centrating an army of observation on the
frontier. Great agitation prevailed in Crete.
A LONDON telegram of the 18th says the
British Government had decided to entertain
favorably the request for an amnesty to the
Irish political prisoners.