The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-20
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCR.

The steamer Lieutenant General Kroesen
was recently lost in the Straits of Sunda,
and 23O persons were drowned.
RAGUsA dispatches of the 9Th say the
Mussulmans in Herzegovina had become
panic stricken at the approach of the Monte
negrin army, and had taken refuge in the
fortresses and abandoned the country. A
correspondent of the London Times tele-
graphed on the 9Th that Turkish reports of
victories over the Servians were entirely
false. On the 5th the Servians had sur
rounded and almost cut to pieces body of
400 Turkish regulars, few only escaping
by night. He adds that all attempts of
the Turkish army to cross the from
tier had been VIGOROUSLY repulsed.
A Vienna telegram of the same date
says the Catholics in Herzegovina had
quilted the ipsurgent camp, and several had
joined the Turks against Servia. Trouble
was reported in Athens, Greece, and state
of siege had been proclaimed there.
GEN. SANTA ANNA, ex-Presidento of Mexico,
died at his residence in the City of Mexico,
on the 10th ult., aged eighty-four years.
A VIENNA dispatch to the London Times
of the 7th announces the capture of the
Turkish town of Ampalanka by the Servians
The latter were marching on Sophia with a
view of cutting the railroad leading from
that point to Constantinople. The Turks
were concentrating large force there to re-
pei the anticipated attack. The dispatch
adds that in the recent engagement at Sail
schar the Turks captured only the outlying
earthworks, leaving the main fort with a
garrison or 5000 men still in the hands of
the Servians. These were being closely be-
sieged. The instruction in Bulgaria was
reported to have become general.
In Switzerland, on the 7th, two passenger
railway trains collided between Berne and
Lausanne. Both engines and number of
coaches were demolished, and ten persons
were killed.
DISPATCHES received in New York on the
9Th say it was reported by the United States
Consul at San Domingo that an insult was
recently offered the United States flag at
that port, by troops of the Haytien Govern
ment, who forcibly took passenger, under
the protection of such flag, from the steamer
Tybee.
A DISPATCH from Semlin "a frontier town
of Aus rial on the 9th announces the defeat
of the Servians under Gen. Olimpics. A
Vienna dispatch of the same date stat es that
the Servians had been defeated in every en-
gagement SO far. At Bjilena several thou
sand servians are reported to have been
wounded. The servian Minister of War
had aiken personal command of the army
in the field. A Belgrade dispatch to the Lon
don Ne,ns of the 9th says the servians had
fought ten engagements during the preced-
ing eight days, and had lost 5000 men.
FIFTY-Two houses in the village of Elgg,
Switzerland, were burned on the 9th. Sew
eral persons are reported to have persisted
in the flames.
A GERMAN squadron left Salonica on the
10th with sealed orders to be opened at sea.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 10th re-
ports that great battle had been fought at
Prot on that day. The Turkish army had
been withdrawn from Sailschar, having
failed to force the position and their TANKS
being thSeatened.s e y.