The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-06-28
General News summary


ACCORDING to . Cettinje dispatch ct III
10th, the Montenegrins had, ON that day. d.
feated the Turks, after sanguinary engage
ment near Spaz.
LONDON kilograms of the Goth repor,
that the Russians had been guilty Of terrible
outrages upon the Circassian population o1
Armenia. They had burned the ,militarv
hospital in Arabian, and 500 inmates had
persisted In the flames. { &
ALEX. BARCLAY q 20, of Gottenburg,
Sweden, failed, on the 10th, for 81 $4,000.
CoNsTANTINorLE dispatches of the 21st
announce the defeat of Russian Army near
Bayazid, and the investment of that city BY
the Turks. 1t was reported that Layard, the
British Ambassador, had counseled The Sui
tan to make peace Immediately. All the
Ministers favored peace except Redif Pasha,
Minister of War.
AccoRDING to Vienna kilograms Of the
2lst, Russia had invited Austria to unite
with her to prevent the Montenegrins from
being utterly crushed.
THE Russian Army effected the passage
of the Danube at iGa1ats, on the 2n. by
means of pontoon bridges located beyond
the reach Of tn, kish batteries. Thar also
secured and fortified tets de pont ON the
Turkish shore There was no fighting.
ACCORDING to London telegram Of the
22d, an arrangement had been effected by
which England, with the consent Of the Sui
tan OF Turkey and the Khedive, would oc-
cupy Egypt-England to determine when
the occupation should begin and end.
DISPATCHES to the London papers, pub
lished on the 22d, say the Turks had secured
all the strategic points in Montenegro, and
that the trouble between the two countries
was substantially at an end.
THE French Senate voted, on the 22d--
$50 to 13O-to sanction the Government prop
osition for the dissolution Of the Assembly.
THE insurance on the property destroyed
in the st. John IN. B fire is said to be in the
neighborhood of $4,000, 0OO-less than one
third of the total loss.
ACCORDING to London kilograms of the
sd and oath, the crossing Of the Danube
was intended merely as a diversion, the pes
tlential climate and the overlooked condi-
ton of the Dobrudscha forbidding any ex-
tended operations in that direction, The
Turkish post Of Matchin had been occupied
by Russian troops. TWAS believed that the
main crossing of the Danube would not be
effected for some days. The total number Of |
Russian troops in Roumania was stated to be |
47U00.
AUSTRIA has formally refused to inter-
fere in behalf of Montenegro, unless the
latter acknowledge that she is hopelessly
and applies directly for assistance.
CoNsTANTINoPLE kilograms of the oath
Jay the Montenegrins had been forced to
vacuate Cettinje. The Turkish Chamber
If Deputies had voted in secret session to
continue the war to the death, even if all Eu-
ope combines against Turkey.
An Athens dispatch of the 24th saws the
Of the Danube had greatly strength
ned the war party in Greece, and that
everal regiments had left for the frontier.
\ Greek conspiracy had been discovered in
aloDica.
IT was reported from London, on the
9Th, that the English Cabinet had, after
ue deliberation, disapproved of Gortscha-
offs declaration as to Russia's policy in the
EASTERN war, and the English Government
ad resolved not to allow even the Tempo
arg occupation Of Cnnstantinn,.le hy the
russians.
An attempt was made, on the Oath, tn
ross the Danube at Rutschuk, which proved :
and was followed by severe
attic, in which the Turkish gunboats took /
art. The Town of Giurgevo, opposite, was
ct on fire by Turkish shells. /,