The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-07-02
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE WAR ON THE. DANUBE
FrlghtfuI BOmbardment at Rust
Chuk and 0Itenitza.
The Turks Victorious at Batoum.
Terrible Outrages by the Turks.
Erzeroum Resking with Violence
and Disorder.
Three Hundred Thousand Russi-
ans Across the Danube.
Turks Driven to their Second Line
Of Defense.
ON THE DANUBE.
FrightlnI RombartImenfs

1
LONDON, June 3O.-Telegrams from
various points along the Danube give thl
particulars Of trightful bombardment
along that river.
AT Rustchuk the German Conaulat,
was destroyed by twenty.four shells, thu
French by three, and the Austrian Con
sulate was riddled. The military hospi
tai in the Jews quarter received seventy
two shells. They fall everywhere, and nj
spot can be considered safe. Up L
Wednesday the Turks had thrown two Oh
three thousand shells into Giurgevo
However, though the streets here anc
there are plowed up, and houses boreG
through, not more than one house il
twenty or thirty is seriously injured.
AT 0ltenitza, General Ehrenwortl,
Eleventh Infantry Division, was sho
through the shoulder by q Turkish sharp
shooter, from the other side Of the Dan
ube. ua
ABATTLg BELOW sIsrovA.
A dispatch from Vienna, dated last
night, says it 10 persistenly announced
here that a battle has been raging to-day
below Sistova.
sERvIA ARNING.
ServiR has, ordered at Paris accoutre
ments for $4,000 men, to be delivered il
three weeks. @
An Oltenitza dispatch, dated Wednes
day, says: "This mornings operations
have been successful. An attempt wa
made to unmask the Turkish batteries bJ
launching fleet Of eight boats loaded
with dummy soldiers. When the flee
reached the middle Of the stream it drew
the FIRE from a thousand rifles and man,
cannon upon itself and the Russian earth
works."
RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS.
BUCHAREST, June 30-The Gar ha!
taken up his headquarters at farm
house called the Dracia, near Turnr
Magurell. The headquarters of The
Grand Duke Nicholas have been trans.
ierred to Sistova.
OVER THE DANUBE IN GREAT FORCE.
LONDON, July 1.-The long expected
crisis which Europe has been awaiting
has virtually passed without struggle
The Russian left, in force near Herzovia,
and all their troops between Toalarass
and Ismail, some 100000, have now pass.
ed from the northern to the southern
bank OF the Danube and driven the Turk,
to what they call their second line Of de
tense, at Tanshendeji and the Roman
walls. These present no obstaclt
worth speaking Of. It is otherwise
with Tanshendeje itself. Here there have
been some heavy guns mounted, but al
told there are not more than 10, 900 troop
there, including the posts and force
driven in from the banks OF the Danube
The Russian centre crossed the Danube
easily and with small loss.
Later dispatches, although not reliable,
that give a narrative OF the events since
Thursday, have come through the Russian
lines.
General Monlatine, the Russian Minis
ter.of-War, sends a message, dated June
80, about the operations in Asia Minor
but vouchsafes no word concerning the
Russian progress at the point which il
now the focus Of the worlds gaze. This
would lead to the belief that the Russians
are encountering some obstacles, ant
their success in establishing themselves
south Of the Danube is not us complete Al
first stated. It is not well, however, tc
draw such a conclusion too hastily, fol
the Russians have heretofore had sue,
cess in silencing the correspondent
when important movements were in pro
gress and only reported when completed
To-day will bring us news Of their exac
position, or news Of great battle. Theil
movements may be as successful as tha
on the left wing, and they may be crossing
at other points. This will force the Turk
to wheel around and face them. Shuml,
forms their centro, whilst the left rests or
0smann Bazart and the right on Bagard
joke. The advance OF the Russo .Rou.
mania right wing will paralize them, and
thus leave the centre OF Bulgaria denud
ed Of troops in the face ofanother SO,O0C
to 100000, which the Russians can pou
across at Turnu Magusela.