The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-05
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

TELEGRAMs to the Paris papers assert
that the Russian losses in crossing the
Danube were enormous.
TELEGRAMs from various points along the
Danube give the particulars of frightful
bombardments along that river.
ABOUT twenty American sharp-shooters
are in the Cars army on the Danube. They
were former members of Berdan's New York
company. iai t.I'g. ,Tr'+.f .-
FIFTEEN hundred Russian cavalry, who
endeavored to relieve Bayazid, have been
beaten by the Turks with loss of sixty
killed and two hundred wounded.
ADMIRAL ,HUssEIN PAsHA is reported
cruising in the MORGAN and Ionian waters
with four ironclads, watching for chance
of attacking two Russian frigates.
AT Nicopolis, Wednesday, June 81, the
losses on both sides were appalling Sixteen
thousand rifles and. 2,5OO,OOO cartridges are
expected at Constantinople from Egypt
PRIVATE dispatches announce that the
Russian headquarters have been transferred
to Simnitza. Flags are flying all over st.
IGtSIsuuTg, sOltUlH StTNlCe Ol GHdnkS-
giving has been celebrated in the Cathedral.
IT is reported from Constantinople that
since the Russians crossed the Danube, the
Sultan's intimate advisers have more than
ever urged him to enter into negotiations
with the Gar as soon as the Turks have
suffered a serious defeat. 'h.- i.7.
THE Russians crossed the Danube at
Petrocenion the 9th June, upon RATS, the
son Of. the Grand Duke Nicholas going over
on the first one. The Grand Duke Nicholas
crossed at three o'clock in the morning at
Petroceni, and it is officially stated that
there were $4,000 Russians on the southern
side of the Danube on the 2Sth, opposite
the Simnitza and Petroceniline
gDWAR has been formally declared by the
German Government upon the Colorado
potato bug, and hostilities have begun with
vigor that shows that both sides mean
business. The bug was surrounded, at
latest accounts, near Cologne, and was
suffering from a heavy bombardment of
tanbark and kerosene. " ...-
/, SEVERAL days ago an Austrian Lloyd
steamer loaded at Corfu, for the Turkish
Government, one hundred and ninety three
cases of arms, which it intended to reship
for Prevesa, in Albania, but the Russian
Consul protested to the Greek Government
against the use of neutral territory as a
depot for the arms of belligerents. The
government thereupon ordered the deten-
tion of the arms at Corfu. rf
THE Grand Duke Nicholas telegraphs as
follows: The difficultand complicated task
of crossing the Danube is achieved. Sistoya
and the surrounding heights are in our
hands. General Dragomiroff's division, with
mountain artillery, was the first to cross.
There are now (the evening of 27th) on the
other side the eighth army corps and the
fourth rifle brigade. The thirty-ffth divis-
ion is now crossing. 90
A SPECIAL cable dispatch of June % states
that bloody fighting was then going on at
Pyrgos, on the Danube. The Russian troops
gaging the Turks, who made a desperate re-
sistance. The slaughter on both sides was
terrible. The Turkish gunboats were also
engaged in battle. Late advices from Turk.
ish sources state that the Turkish forces
claim a victory in the battle near Guevin,
on the 26th of June and that the Russians
lost three thousand men.
| AT Rustchuk the German Consulate was
destroyed by twenty-four shells, the French
by three, and the Austrian Consulate was
riddled. The military hospital in the Jews
quarter received seventy-two shells. They
fell everywhere, and no shot was considered
safe. Up to Wednesday, June 81, the Turks
had thrown two or three thousand shells into
Giurgevo. However, though the streets here
and there are plowed up, and houses bored
| through, not more than one house in twenty
Or thirty is seriously injured. ..f.
| RUSSIAN officials are as surprised as the
| general public at the ease with which the
crossing of the Danube was affected, and al
the slightness of the resistance. The Turk.
seemingly made up their minds that the
passage would be attempted at Turnr
Maguerili. The tremendous bombardment
of Nikopolis also served to divert their at
tention and, confirm them in this opinion
The greater portion of the troops at Turnr
Maguerili received orders to march upoI
Simnitza and cross there. News from Sis
tova is that the Turks have completely
wasted the country around that place.
THE engagements which have taken place
at and about Zewin, the headquarters Of thu
Turkish center in Asia Minor, since tht
Goth ult., are evidently of great importanc,
far greater than those at Delibaba ant
Zeldiran, fought by the Turkish right. TIL,
Turkish position there is one of great nat
ural strength; it is situated on plateau
west of Zewin, and about two thousand fee
above the Chansu, from which the grount
rises gradually for about mile, after whicl
the ascent is more difficult, and in man!
parts almost scarped. The plateau extends
about two miles, with knoll some on,
hundred and fifty feet high in the center
The plateau is at the junction of three
roads from Kars, and is about equi-distan
from Delibaba on the right Turkish line o
defense, and Olti, on the left line. Th'
entire Turkish force under Mukhtar Pash;
consists, according to the last accounts, o
seventy-nine battalions, five thousand
cavalry, sixty field and forty-two mountain
guns.
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