Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-16
FOREIGN NEWS.
The GREAT WAR.
More Victories fer the Turks.
THE BATTLE OF KOL0FER.
Balkan Passes Reoccupied by
Turkish Troops.
RUSSIANS CROSSING THE DANUBE.
The Famine in Southern
India.
MISCELLANEOUS EUROPEAN NEWS
RUSSIANS CROSSING THE Danube.
MISCELLANEOUS EUROPEAN NEWS

ATHENS, Aug. IA.
Eight thousand troops OF reserves
have Joined the army; also, ZOO vol
unteers and many Greeks from abroad.
VIENNA, Aug. IA.
The passage of the Danube by the
body of the Roumanian army
has been postponed until the large
Russian reinforcements arrive.
BUCHAREST, Aug. IA.
General Krudener, who commanded
at Plevna, has been succeeded by Gen.
eral Lataff. Eight Turkish steamers,
including monitors, carrying troops
and baggage, appeared off some Rou-
manian villages near Oltenitza to-day.
After accommodating half an hour they
withdrew to Silistria.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Aug. Ia.
By the last military operations,
south of the Balkans, a loss of IL, 900
killed and wounded was inflicted on
the Russians. The enemy has been
driven from all the locations south of
the mountains, and law and order have
been restored.
Mukhtar Pasha telegraphs that sew
eral hundred Russians were killed in
an ambnscade near Koule. probably at
Kizilkule, south of Ami. The Russian
outposts near Ami have been defeated,
with a loss OF 100 killed. The Turks
withdrew on the approach Of the Rus
sian achievements.
LONDON, Aug. IA.
A Constantinople special says: An
alliance was reported between Rouma-
mia and Servia. 1t is ex pected that the
Russians and ROumanians will almost
Immediately enter Servia and be joined
by the Servians, who are constructing
strong works upon the Timok river
and at Alexinitza.
The German Government has seri-
ously demonstrated against Turkish
atrocities, and intimated to the Porte
the absolute necessity for stricter dis
cipline.
A telegram from Shumla says official
intelligence has been received of the
discovery of . Russian conspiracy
against the Ameer Of Cabool, in the
were executed by order of the Ameer,
for completely In the conspiracy.
NEW YORK, Aug. Is.
A London Herald correspondent at
Kesanlik, telegraphs under date OF
Yesterday as follows: Sunday night
Suleiman Pasha encamped, with q
force of infantry and cavalry, near the
pass of Haren Bogaz. with the inten-
lion of attacking the Russians the next
day. On the following morning one
brigade of infantry. WI squadrons of
cavalry, one battery of artillery and q
detachm composed of Bashi Ba.
zouks and Cancassians, advanced to
the village of Kolofer. The left of the
attacking force marched through KO-
Iowa; q brigade OF infantry moved In
three columns toward the Russian Do
sition, which was projected by earth
works. The Turks debauched upon
the front OF the village, the right ad.
vancing through Bojiek in the face of a
terrible artillery fire from the Russian
position. The Russian infantry being
well entrenched, the Turks took sd-
vantage Of every covered ground AZ
fOrded, and advanced in diminishing
order. They gained ground steadily,
the eft and center pushing forward
in the face of the Russian artillery
fire, and Suleiman himself operat.
ing on the extreme right, suddenly,
at a given signal, the Turks rushed i'm
to Kolofer, and after a desperate hand
to- hand fight, and a struggle with
bayonets, succeeded in driving out the
Russians, pushing them in the direc-
ton of Rosslia pass. There another
stand was made, but after a sharp
fight the Russians were driven through
the pass, which was immediately Oc.
cupied by Suleiman Pashs. Simulta-
neously with the capture of the pass OF
Rosalia by Suleiman, Haren Bogaz
pass was carried by Shaker Pasha.
During the retreat at Kolofer the heavy
fire of the Turks exploded a powder
magazine, killing many Russians.
The total Russian loss Is said to be SOC
killed aud 1000 wounded, a large mum.
Der being due to the explosion, which,