The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE WAR IN THE EAST

ter. and the Turks are again hoping for armed
Intervention in their behalf.
Vienna dispatches report that the Russians
were repulsed at the storming of Kars ON the
7th and 9Th of May. It is stated that two
fruitIess efforts were made to carry the citadel
by assault The Russians, it was thought,
would invest the place and proceed with the
bulk of their forces toward Erzeroum.
The cable announces battle in Asiatic Iur-
KEY. between Kars and Erzerounl, i'll which
$4,000 prisoners were captured by the Russians,
the remainder of the Turkish army retreating
toward Erzeroum.
The Grand Duke Nicholas telegraphs from
Kischeneff to st. Petersburg as follows: CAL
is well. The movement of the troops proceeds
undisturbed Turks entirely passive. Health
of the troops excellent
A prolonged artillery duel is reported be-
tween the Turkish batteries at Widdin and the
Roumanian batteries at Kalafat. The barracks
and Custom House at Kalafat were destroyed,
and Widdin was set on fire.
A Russian commissary, detected in adulterat-
ing flour intended for the use of the troops has
been summarily shot.
A cable dispatch announces that the Sultan
has finally determined to unfurl the flag of the
Prophet, and invoke all the "faithful" to a
holy war against infdel Russia.
The Turkish army is sorely afflicted with
typhus fever, scuryy and other diseases.
A Galatz dispatch says a detachment OF
Cossacks crossed the Danube at that point, and
had sharp encounter with body of Bashi-
Bazouks
The Russian Government has declared the
three provinces of the Caucasus in a state of
seige in consequence of Mussulman uprising.
A Bucharest dispatch says the Turkish fire
killed three and wounded eight inhabitants of
Oltenitza, and number of the inhabitants OF
Ibrail were wounded At Oltenitza two Turk
ish gunboats were destroyed by the Roumanlan
fire.
The Polish agitators are agitating, and Rus
STA is threatened with q serious fire in the rear.
Through Turkish sources we have report OF
Russian attempt to cross the Danube at REM.
They threw bridge over the river but were
met by Turkish infantry and artillery, assisted
by three gunboats. The bridge was broken,
and large number of Russians killed and cap
tured.
The Sultan is much pleased with Earl Derby's
reply to Prince Gortschakoff's circular, and has
ordered the Porte to thank the English Govern
ment.
in a fight between the Russian shore bat
teries and the Turkish iron-clads in the Dan
ube at Ibrail one of the largest of the monitors,
with a crew of 800 on board, and bearing also
the Turkish Commander Hassan Bey was
struck by she'll and instantly sunk.
A dispatch from Bucharest remarks that q
heavy movement of Russian troops to the west
ward of Ibrail indicates purpose of occupying
great part or the whole of the Roumaniar
bank of the Danube. This will prove perplex
ing to the Turks, as they cannot opposekalr
equal force at all points, and they must leave
some places vulnerable to a sudden concentra
ton of Russians for the passage of the river.
1t is intended to organize rifle companies il
every Russian town, so that every man capable
of bearing arms may be drilled.
A Constantinople dispatch says the Porte is
very uneasy about supplies of arms and ammu
milton still to come from New York, and is very
angry with America for allowing the Russian
squadron to remain in American waters.
1t is officially confirmed that the Russians
sunk q large Turkish monitor in the Danube
near Ibrail. The she'll penetrated the boiler o.
the monitor, resulting in an explosion which
fred the magazine. The monitor sunk, and tht
entire crew and 200 soldiers persisted.
An official dispatch, forwarded from Constan
tinorle, reports that strong Russian force at
tackled the Turkish positions at Batoum, ant
were repulsed after an obstinate fight lasting
eight hours and a half.
All the Sultan's tributaries appear to be {
little short just now. The Bey of Tunis, Like
the Khediye of Egypt, pleads impecuniosity az
a reason for not sending his contingent to the
Turkish army.
A battle is reported to have been fought il
front of the fortified town Of Batoum, on the
southeastern coast of the Black sea, in which
the Russians lost 1000 in killed and wounded
and considerable artillery. The Russians, ao
cording to the meager accounts at hand, at
tempted to storm the Place but we're met by
well-drected fire from the Turkish troops that
moved them down in swaths, and compelled
them to withdraw The Turkish loss is repre-
sented as insignificant.
A cable dispatch of the 18th says: Three
columns OF Russian soldiers are marching
toward Giurgevo, Sinnitza and Mogurelli, with
the probable design of crossing the Danube al
those points One object of the Russians is tc
break the Turkish lines and separate the corps
at Widin from themain army. It is clear the
Russians are either preparing to cross the
Danube simultaneously at several points, O
they wish to make the Turks believe such il
the plan. The Turks are thus compelled tC
distribute their forces over, d large area. HI
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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
The English war office has dispatched British
officers to select, at the entrance of the Suez
canal a site for an intrenched camp England