The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Having secured from Turkey guarantees that
every reasonable reform shall be promptly In
stituted in the rebellious provinces, Austria has
no disposition to encourage further persistence
in the instruction. The rebel leaders have
been officially notified that the terms they ask
cannot be conceded, and that if they continue
in revolt they will be left to their fate with the
frontier strictly guarded against their escape,
and that the feeding of the refugees will be
discontinued at the end of this month.
THE Republic has been proclaimed in Servia.
The inhabitants of the Westmanna Islands,
group lying to the south of Iceland, and be-
longing to Denmark, are reported to be IN a
starving condition. There are about 800 people
on the islands. They depend altogether on the
fisheries for food, and as the catch last year was
failure, they are reduced to state of starva-
tion.
The London papers are happy over the ap-
pointment of Richard 81. Dana, Jr., as Ameri-
can Minister to the court of st. James, espec-
tally on account of his literary reputation.
A short time ago an English merchant vessel
was captured by Spanish customs officers, but
the vessels crew recaptured her and she sailed
away. Now Spain demands satisfaction, and
protests against the contraband trade by Eng
ish vessels from Gibraltar.
Disastrous floods are reported in the river
Seine at Paris. Several persons were drowned
and much property destroyed.
The governor of Dalmatia has informed the
Austrian government that the refugees from
Herzegovina will yield neither to persuasions
or promises of money to return to their homes.
The insurgent chiefs say they are willing to
return with an Austrian escort, which is re-
fused.
War has broken out between Japan and
Corea.
A clerk in the national bank of Belgium has
stolen c, 100000 francs of the institutions
funds and fled the country.
Turkey is raising new loan at the enor-
mously high figure of eighteen per cent.
Ljubobratich, the leader of the insurgent
Herzegovinians, has been arrested by the Aus
trian authorities.
Bismarck has determined to exact the fullest
satisfaction from China for the plumber of the
schooner Anna at Foo-Chow, the Chinese
pirates, after numbering the captain and the
pilot, being protected by the legal authorities.
The Scraps, with the Prince of Wales and
his suit on board has sailed from Bombay for
England. After calling at Malta, where q Sc
ries of grand receptions are arranged, and also
at Lisbon, the Prince of Wales will proceed
direct for Portsmouth, reaching there about
the goth of April.
There is much dissatisfaction in France with
McMahon's choice of a new cabinet
A great battle has been fought in Abyssinia,
between the Egyptian and Abyssinian armies,
the Egyptians gaining the victory. The Abys-
sinians lost 5, GOO in killed, including the king,
his chief minister, and six other chief officers.
A cable dispatch records another high-life
scandal in England. Lord Aylesford's wife
has eloped with the Marquis of Blandford, the
eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough
Tarsus, Asia Minor, rendered famous as the
home of Paul the Apostle, was recently visited
by great confagration, caused by rats gnaw-
ing matches in closed store. The grand
bazaar and other property was destroyed, at a
loss of $75O,0O0. The town has population
of 5000 in summer and 80, 900 in winter.