The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-08-30
General News Summary.


FREDERICK CAyILLswam across the En-.
glish Channel, startir e from Cape Griznez at
$40 p. m. on the Goth and reaching Dover
at S:45 a. m. on the 2lst.
LONDON kilograms of the 22d say that
Great Britain was arranging for the interven-
tion Of the Great Powers in the interests Of
peace.
ACCORDING to advices from Russian
headquarters, on the sd, the battle Of
Schipka was still progressing. Ten deter
mined attacks upon the fortifcations at the
Pass had been successfully repulsed, as also,
an attack upon the Russian position at Tir-
nova The Turks had also made offensive
demonstrations at Selvi and elsewhere along
the Russian lire.
CONsTANTINOpLE telegrxms Of the 23d
say the Russians had been defeated, with
great loss, in an engagement at Eski-DjumA
An insurrection has broken out in
Crete. Two battles have been fought, In
which seventeen Christians and thirty-six
Turks have beer killed.
TIE French man of war Correxe passed
Alden, ON the Esd, with cholera on board.
Fifty of her crew were dead, and 100 were
sick.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch of the
oath, Greece was rapidly armi"g, in order to
take advantage of Turkish reyerscs and en-
deavor 70 bring about the rccapture of the
Provinces of Thessaly and Epirus.
TIE plague having broken out in Rus
sian Poland, the German frontier has been
closed by strong military guard.
THE Russian authorities at Warsaw
have forbidden the sale Of arms to the Poles
THE Town Council of Glasgow, Scot
land, has unanimously resolved to present
the freedom of that city to Ger. Grant, on
hiS approaching visit. He returned to Lon
don on the oath, his visit to Paris having
been postponed to avoid the possibility of
attentions rejecting indirectly on President
Mac Mshon.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE telegram of the 26th
says sulciman Pasha had finally succeeded
III crowdi & the Russians out, and that he
was pushing on toward Gabrova.
ACCORDING to an Erzeroum telegram Of
the 25th, the Turks had captured the Heights
of Kiziltepe, and repulsed three Russian at
tempts TO retake them. The Russian losses
were 1900. Gen. Tchoutchowassoff was
killed. The Turkish loss was 1900. Rus
sian dispatches Of the same affair claim that
the advantage was with them.
ACCORDING to London dispatches of the |
9th, the Russians, since crossing the Dam
nbe, had lost, from sickness and the casual |
ties of war, the enormous aggregate of LOCO |
men.
The famine in India has already cost |
the Indian Government 9s,OOO,OOO, and is
now involving a monthly expenditure Of |
ESQ 1000
AN extraordinary session Of the Servian
Skuptchina has been convoked, to decide
defintively between war and continuance Of
neutrality.
A LONDON telegram of the 9th says
Gladstone had written letters to a Greek
merchant in Constantnople, urging the
Greeks to unite with the Sclays in an attack
on Turkey. There was great excitement
throughout Great Britain in consequences.
A PARIS dispatch of the 9th says the
French Ministry had resolved to prosecute
Dcrurc the trlDuuaI LINE, Ior
insulting President MacMahon and his Cab
iuet lneTc was Srcat excitemeut through
out France, and it was feared that revolution
would be precipitatcd.
RUSSIAN dispatches of the 27th state that
the Russian troops still retained possession
of Schpka Pass, aud had notyielded an inch
of their original position. The hills about
the Pass were covered with Turkish dead,
and 1t was believed the Turkish losses dur
Ing the eight days fighting had exceeded the
Russian losses at Plevna.