The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
rnpE1eN INTELLIGENCE.

rv..o, from Europe is that the war In
r..vio Is substantially over. The Turks have
taken Gurgusovatz, an important positlon on
+ba southeastern frontier of Servia, at the
;,,,ction of the road from Paratchin with that
from Nisch to Widdin. This opens up to them
the valley of the MoraVas and through that the
wsv is tolerably straight to Seme1dria and
RAIorade. Before the advance is made,
however. there will be junction of the two
Turkish forces which have peRsCrated SeryEa
from th south and west, and the combined
rnv W number, all the forces being estl-
mated. upward of 100000 men. The deter
mination expressed at C0nstantinople, when
war was declared, was to OTerrun SerV1S, anC
reduce it to province OF the empire Ihls
will be done unless Austria or Russia inter
feres. And after Servia, Montenegro VIII be
attended TO.
The early reports of the Bulgarian outrages
have been fully confirmed. Investigator
shows that at least 10000 of these unfortunate
Deople have been slaughtered in cold blood by
bsrbarous Turks.
A convention of representatives OF American
and European Cotton Exchanges was held IN
Liverpool, Wednesday, Aug. 9, and action was
taken looking to a uniformity of regulations
affecting the cotton trade.
The Servians decline all offers Of mediation,
and deslare that they will not treat for peace
until the Turks are under the walls of Bel
grade.
At Berne, Switzerland, recently, an attempt
was made by>a female assassin to take the lie
of M. Gortschakoff. the Russian Minister to
Switzerland. The would-be assassin is Rus
sian woman, and was promptly arrested. Po-
iticaI motives are supposed to be at the bottom
Of the affair.
The French Government has granted the
right for telegraph cable between Paris and
New York and subscriptions will soon be
opened.
In the British Parliament, the other day, g
dispatch from Lord Derby to the British Am
bassador at Oonstantinople was read in which
the latter is instructed to urge strongly on
the Porte that it is absolutely necessary that
its troops should be kept under control, that
the unarmed population be spared and that
repetition of the outrages in Bulgaria be avoid
ed. You will point out that renewal of such
OuLIdR0S oAAN
Porte than the loss of battle. The indigna-
ton of Europe would be uncomfortable, and
interference in a sense hostile to Turkey would
inevitably follow"
The rumors that Austria is ready to prevent
the Turks from entering Belgrade is probably
true. It is represented that the Powers are re-
solved not to consent to the deposition of
Prince Milan.
A Ragusa correspondent of the London
Times says the Porte has repealed pacifcatory
overtures, declaring it will risk everything.
The Porte also persists in employing Circas-
slams and Bashi-Bazouks.
DisraeIi has been elevated to the Peerage,
and will hereafter be known as the Earl of Bea
consfeld.
A Havana dispatch states that sixty Cuban
insurgents attacked Fort Jaques, in the juris-
dicton of Cienfuegos, and demanded it's sur
render. The men inside the fort, numbering
fourteen, refused the demand, and began fir
ing. when the insurgents set fire to the fort,
which was destroyed and besieged. All were
burned to death.
President MacMahon has liberated 161 per-
sons imprisoned for participation in the outrages
during the Commune troubles.
Richard Barres Oakley, manager and propri-
etor of the Cooperative Credit Bank, London,
q scheme started in 1874, which proved fail
ure, adiudicatcd bankrupt in January last,
and committed for trial on charge of fraud, was
found guilty and sentenced to five years penal
servitude.
The weather in Spain this summer is the hot
test that has been experienced for seventy-siz
years.
Lord Lytton, better known to the literary
world as 'Owen Meredith, has resigned, OF
is about to resign, the Office of Governor-Gen-
eral of India, considered the most '.crative
position in the gift of the English Government.
The cause is guessed at, but not positively
known.