The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN INTHLLIgENCE.

A London dispatch says Harvest has be-
gun. The rains have destroyed the locusts,
and cereals have not promised such crops for
100 years past"
Advices from Cuba say the instruction is in
creasing.
The new Sultan OF Turkey has issued a
proclamation promising all sorts OF reforms.
The almost incredible statement is tele-
graphed from London that the treasury Of the
ex-Sultsn, seized by the revolutionary cabal
contained hundred million piasters. His re-
fusal to surrender any part Of this enormous
and useless hoard tor the defense of the ma
ton, provoked and justified the expulsion Of
this misery son of the prophet from his throne.
Germany, Austria and Russia are about to
hold another conference on the Turkish situ-
alton, rendered necessary by the recent change
of Turkish rulecs.
The cable brincs the intelligence that Abdul
Aziz Khan, the dethroned Sultan of Turkey
has ended his wretched life by his own hand.
It is officially announced. that the ex-Suftan
locked himself up in his private apartment
opened the veins of his arms with pair of
scissors, and peacefully and psinlessly bled to
death.
A special dispatch from London to the New
York Herald conveys news of decidedly sem
sational character 1t is to the effect that En-
gland has taken vigorous and decided measures
toward the exercise of controlling power in
the Eastern complication, having sent Admiral
Drummond with instructions to prevent the
forcing Of the Dardanelles, and that the unfin-
ished ironclads are being completed in hot
haste, and regiments are under orders TO be in
readiness to start at a moments notice.
The tank on top Of st. Georges hospital,
London, recently gave way without moments
warning, the water crushing down through the
wards underneath, carrying the patients in
their beds before it, tearing out walls and del
ugipg the entire building. Several patients
were Killed and many injured.
French journals are singularly unanimous in
disbelieving the report that the late Sultan of
Turkey committed suicide, ane point out many
alleged discrepancies in the official account.
Although an official telegram announced that
the late Sultan would have splendid funeral,
by night, and his death kept secret from the
public for fear of disorder.
Late advices from Mexico report a continu-
Gus series of disasters to the revolutionists
whose forces are rapidly dwindling away
Cortina, the cattle-thief, has broken his parole
and fed toward the Rio Grande, where he will
probably soon be heard OF at his old tricks
&gain.
A telegram from Constantinople reports tha
Turkish bonds to the amount of S,0o0,0 0(
Turkish pounds were found in the treasury Of
the late Sultan and handed to the Minister Of
Finance.
A quarrel is reported between the Sultan an(
the Khedive Of Egypt, and the latter has beer
ordered to Constantinople.
A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia, states
that all the Fenian prisoners confined in West
ern Australia have escaped in the American
whaleship Catalpa.
Dispatches from Vienna assert that 81,
weeks armistice has been agreed upon be
tween the Turks and the Herzegovinian in
surgents.