The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-17
CONDENSED TELEeRAPnlc NEWS,

A Berlin special of the LIST says that
Russia, at the instance of Austria, had promised
to respect the neutrality of Servia.
On the afternoon of the LIST, a section OF
the roof on the northeast corner of the New York
Postoffice building fell in, while workmen were
removing the supports which had been placed
under it during some repairs. OF the ten per-
sons employed two were killed and one fatally,
and Others slightly, injured.
The public debt statement published on
the LIST shows: Total debt g, ga, 65s, sos; cash
in Treasury, s154, 299, S06; debt, less cash in
Treasury, 5000, 1853 GIT; decrease during April,
S4,3l5,5l0.
A dispatch from Russian sources, on
the I'd, announces that the Turkish garrison
numbering LOO, had abandoned Bayazid and
withdrawn to Atladay Heights, leaving a large
quantity of ammunition, which fell into the
hands of the Russians. The Russian forces
from Alexandropol had occupied Ziama and
Eatkeva. The Turkish posts on the Asiatic
frontier had mostly surrendered without blow.
The Turkish Commander on the Dan.
ube had been empowered by the Porte to close
the river to all navigation. adopt any measure
rendered necessary by military exigencies. The
Turks were burning the villages opposite Galatz
and persecuting the Christians, on the I'd.
In his testimony before an investigating
committee at Albany, N. Y, few days ago,
State Senator Woodin most emphatically denied
the charges relative to himself made in the al
legged confession of Vim. NJ. Tweed. He asserts
that in no possible shape had ANYTHING of any
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oeived BY him. in consideration of any vote or
act done b, him in the Legislature or out of it
for the benefit of william NJ. Tweed or anybody
aAsociated with him; he never received any
money from Tweed, Winslows or Hastings.
John r. Phair has been reprieved by
the Governor Of Vermont until April, 1879.
A Constsntinople dispatch of the Sd
says the Turks had burned and abandoned Tult-
schS. The evacuation of the DObrutlscha had
been resolved upon, and the Turkish Army was
slowly falling back upon the second line of de-
Tense. The Turkish feet had captured several
Russian merchantmen.
The Roumanians have taken military
possession of Kalafat. The occupying force num-
ben 1900 men, with twenty-four Krupp guns,
and it is proposed to hold the post against any
attempt at its capture by the Turks. The latter
have bombarded lbrail, and this the Roumanisn
Chambers declare is casus beli.
London dispatches of the 4th say tho
British Army and Navy were being placed on q
war footing with NEW to possible eventualities
in the East.
The Porte has notified the representa-.
tives of the Powers that it declares blockade of
the whole of the Russian coast of the Black
Sea.
Official information was received at
Washington, ON the 4th, from our Minister to
Mexico, of the release of the American Consul At
Acapulco, and Secretary Evsrts has instructed
the Minister 10 enter q formal prutest, and de-
mand from the Mexican Government IN apology
and full reparation for the outrage.
The Daily Bullesin, Of New York,
stated, on the 18th, apparently by authority. that
the Attorneys General had come to the conclusion
that the public interest would be bert served BY
Tweed's release, and this would occur, without
doubt, in a short time.