The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-05-15
THE EASTERN WAR
Important Victory for the Rus
kisns.-1l.OOO Turks Captured.
The sultan to Call the Fai tn.
full 10 Il Holy War.


MANCHESTER, May7 The Guardians
Pera dispatch, dated Saturday, says
There is report current here of great
Russian victory near Kars Fifteen
thousand prisoners are said to have been
taken Kars is invested by $4,000 Rus
SLAMS, and the Second Russian Corps is in
full march upon Erzerum The Times
! Vienna dispatch of this morning also said
ruinors had come there from CONSTANT. :.
nople that Kars had fallen.
VIENNA, May ga special says that on
Friday Sheik III Islam will solemnly
bless the Satan as leader of the holy
war.
COLOGNE, May 9 The Gazette learns
that British officers have been sent to Sc
| lect an entrenched camp at the entrance
of the Suez Canal.
BUCHAREST, May 9-The artillery en-
gagement was renewed late yesterday
afternoon, between the Turkish batteries
at Widdin and the Roumanian batteries
at Kalafat, which only ceased at nightfall
The barracks and custom house at Kala-
| fat were destroyed and The church injur-
ed. . Widdin was set on fire.
EDINBURGH, May "a ;sndon cor.
respondent says that the srmy clothing
factory at Plmlico is worked without in.
tcrmission and numerous shifts are being
employed There is general conviction
in military and naval circles that we are
on the brink of a war. Arrangements
have been made for the embarka,ion of
some 25 ,0G0 men within six days, if ne
cessary, and %, 900 to q, 900 more within
a fortnight after. z...,s s.....s ...s ........
LONDON, May 8 "A Times special says
Gen Vakoyitch reports from Krustaz
that everything is in readiness for the
| Turkish attack, and that his forces are
suffi ;ient for defense Vakovitch holds
the approaches to this fortress as well as
I Nicisico. The Turkish troops in Alba
MIA are concentrating at Padgotza. The
Montenegrin artillery commands the city
! The Roumanian circular complains
that the proceedings of the Turks make
4 R1umania's abstention from hostilities
| almost impossible '.' -
! A serious artillery engagement is ex
! pected at Ibrail, as five Turkish monitors
are near by evidently bent on attack.
1 LONDON, May ga dispatch from Err
i zerouin, dated Tuesday evening. says ::
The Russians are surrounding Soghault
and concentrating for an attack on Mu.
khtar Pasia's' position at Budiz and
4 Yenikeri. The Russian force which oc
1 cupied Bayadiz is now advancing in the
direction Of Khamosei and Antob, leav
ing Karakiiisa on their right Bayadiz
has been placed under control Of the Rus
sian project Of police, a' .r1a ,
! .'''rs RUSSIAN VICTORY. 30. fa@'
The Globe publishes the following, da,
ted Pera, Tuesday evening: The Rus
SLAMS have gained an important victory
between Kars and Erzeroum. The Turks
retreated on Erzeroum. 1t is lumored
that $4,000 Turks we're captured Ru-
mors Of an armistice come from Bulga
ria 5H
d CoNsrANrlNoPLE, May 10.-The Rus
SLAMS attempted to cross the Danube al
Reni, but the Turkish artillery prevented
them. Defense works are to be con.
structed around Constantinople.
MANCHESTER, May 10-The Guardi
ans Berlin dispatch says: The Gar is
} said to be alarmed at the formation of q
Polishqegion at Constatenslse,, and has
/ ordered the Governor General at War.
saw to exercise the greatest vigilance tc
prevent Russian Poles from joining the
l legion. All the mitigations of the state
of siege in Poland, enforced since the in.
} surreclion of 1868, will be revoked. The
Berlin papers announce that the leading
! Polish politicians, at secret meeting al
: Lemberg, have resolved on the establish
; ment of recruiting bureaus all over Pc
: land, with the hope of raising an army
} of $4,000 men. Six thousand men have
, already left for Turkey. -.
@ Russians Defeated.
LONDON, May 1l.-Intelllgence has
been received from Suena that or
Wednesday the Russians attempted tc
cross the Danube at Reni. They threw
a bridge over the river, but were met by
the Turkish infantry and artillery, assist
ed by three gunboats. The bridge wa.
broken and large number of Russians
killed and captured. The Russians wer'
completely defeated.
VIENNA, May ia Bucharest cor
respondent reports that the Russian
commanders are evidently taking every
precaution to bring their armies to th'
Danube without fatiguing the men oI
animals, The condition of the troops
: show that their efforts are successful. A
majority of the cavalry passing through
Bucharest walk, leading their horses.
RusrCHUK, May 2l.-The Russian
battery hitherto masked at Vineyard
t opened fire to day on the Turkish moni
E tors near lbraila. An hour after the
commencement of the action, a shell
] struck q large three-masted iron clat
and sank her with a crew of three hun.