The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-08-23
Genefal News Summary.
ruiaEIGN.

General News Summary.
ron EIGN.
RECENT reports of the famine in India
represent that the stricken area contain
lsOO0OOO sufferers dependent for food upon
, the activity and exertions o. those who trans.
port grain to the country; that the Madral
Presidency was powerless to satisfy their
wants, and that all aid that could be secured
was necessary to the salvation Of life. Over
$4,000 people had perished, and more had
been found dead one single morning than
died during tho whole Bengal famine. Pas
senger trains had been partially discontin.
ed on The roads to enable relief trains to get
through, and frantic appeal for assistance
has been sent to the principal cities OF En-
gland, Scotland, Ireland and India.
THE Queen prorogued the British Par
lament, on the 18th, until Oct so.
The German Government has addressed
remonstrances to the Porte against the atroci-
ties committed in Bulgaria, and minated
the absolute necessity Of better discipline.
CoNsrANTINoPLE kilograms of the 4th
say that every Russian had been driven from
that portion of Turkey south of the Balkans.
INTELLIGENCE was received in London,
on the 14th, Of a conspiracy against the
Amcer Of Cabool. Four officials had already
been executed.
ACCORDING to st. Petersburg dispatches
of the 18th, Russia had declared that she
would not be bound by the pledges made
when war was first declared, Int would die
tate peace on her own terms when the Turks
have been finally subjugatcd.
THE Russians have completed second
bridge across the Danube at Pyrgos, and
large numbers Of troops have already passed
over.
The death of VIM. Longman, the well.
known English publisher, is announced.
THE British Privy Council has forbid
den the landing of leaves or stalks of pota-
toes grown in the United States, Canada, or
Germany.
A REPUBLICAN conspiracy has been
discovered and frustrated at Madrid. Nu-
merous arrests were made there and through
out the Provinces.
ACCORDING to London dispatches of the
10Th, the Russians had virtually raised the
siege of Rustcnuk. They had offici lily ac-
knowledged the loss. of 14,459 men, killed
and wounded, up to Aug. 9. Priuce Nikita
had also raised the siege of the Citadel of
Nicsics, because Of the entry Of Turkish
force into Montenegro. The whole of Bull
garia, south Of Tirnova, had been substan-
TALLY abandoned by the Russians.
THE Sultan has issued an Imperial de-
cree calling to arms all hitherto exempted.
DESPITE the energetic attempts of the
Government to stamp 1t out, the Colorado
beetle has spread over q field of twenty-five
acres at Langenreichenbach, in Germany.
ACCORDING to Bucharest kilograms of
the 18th, the fever epidemic in the Russian
Army was rapidly increasing. The troops
were also suffering for the want of suitable
food.
THE Servian Cabinet has resigned on
account of differences in respect of the
foreign policy Of the Government
THE Russians occupied the Turkish City
of Kutendji on the 10Th. The line from
Tirnova to the Schipka Pass of the Balkans
was occupied in force, and the announce
ment was made that the Russians would, in
no event, abandon the pass.
N nsnaa,.. nS, ~ az noo 49, ,as.,.-r 60. 80;
.'ants ' - oaro1rv end In a,ns attacled tbe
Tnrn;sh toroo. com1osnded hr MnLbtor
paah. Tha ha,tIs Lasted al, dav and the
Russians were compelled to withdraw with
loss of 1900. The Turkish loss was stated
at 165.
Tup rersone ;mnl;cotad in the murder
:. ~. ra.,,, Cans,,, a. s.,o,ico .o,no
months aao hove heen released from i'm.
instance of Germany. have nrotested to the
Porte concerning the impolicy of the act.
~, .ho oo.h n. p.r;s corserva,;ve
..as. 80 a' =, aa,a,,no,,r ,ha. thero was
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and revolution. and that a Republican vic
torv in the coming election would not be
submitted to. 1t was believed that France
was on the verge of a perilous crisis.
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=, n.:a nsn .eo,,., .Sannsrated the a;sostsrN
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uistrict rom olympus 20 Tue terminus Oh
the Adrianopie kai'road mas peen declared
IN state Oh siege Nv inc lorte'
The London Horticultural Gazette of the
10th, in its review of the crop prospects of
Great Bri ain, predicts general failure OF
all crops. Inc potato crop, which, until
tneu' hAu p'om'seu " oo p'ouucuvc' was
very seheiaiiy tnrea'eneu Will oisease'
DOMESTIC.
Two CHILDREN OF r. NJ. Lavalley, OF
Flushing, N. Y, were burned to death, on
the 14th, by the explosion Of a can of kero-
sene oil.
TBE new Central Coal Company. of Cum
berlaud. Nd. one of the heaviest shippers.
resumed work on the 18th. nj fifty-five cents.
the rates demanded bv the strikers. Another
company would soon do likewise at The same
,o,a w;,,-.sha-~,.fp,1 ( .roo;a, ~ tho ,s,h