The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1877-09-28
: ara broke out IN Lsvlor, ChkssaK county.
lows which Destroyer twbi SIX business
houses and five grain wareb es:: Loss, fifty
thousand dollars; sinsurand hknown.
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the, weeks operation, about evna, did not re-
| suit as favorablyfo the Rus2 Romanian army
as was reported -inview Of ports from Rus
sianE SOURCES. The Turkish ulletia al.
fairs at Plevna reads: SEQ the 18th, the
Russians have made cont3 pus,. assaults, but
have been repulsed. W1have recaptured
1.-Two redoubts onsthe Loy4 road which re-
Gently fell into the enepY hands. This CO.
incidesl with detailed mn lives received and
With later Russian bulbts. Tho friends sof
Russia have reason to lei, therefore, that the
captureiof the Grevica kdohbt is OF much
less Significance than w(at first represented.
f,so, Osman Pasha mafwait 4hisi reinforce
ments without fear Of t3her immediate mo-
|lestation. These rei1 ements are, accord
ingg. e, Vienna dispf4 already on the way
from Sofia.
The London DahlNews, strong pro-
Russian, thus sums uIahe situation: Look
ing impartially at the tets presented, we arc
unable to form Any)otSr conclusion! than that
the attack on Pleyna IS not only failed, but
50 failed that it 'cannd be renewed under con-
sditions in which the hssian commander finds
himself placed He Is attempted what the
great German coming ders attempted in their
French campaign, all has uied up his slight
superiority Of men With extra ordinary rapid
ity.t Hef Is liable ttbe attacked at ,any, given
part Of his front by ! force larger than any
which he can assemble there. In word, he is
beaten. The battleFeported at Dubruk, in
which the Russians we're said to have been
defeated, must have zen, if a. oil, at q village
five miles northwest Vratza on the Rahova
road Reports say ,(sman Fasla has fortified
q position almost Hpregnsble naturally at
vratza, upon which i will rttire ifdrivean from
RleEna. Il r. 5ftsssi2 tfygff s,at II Iias1Ej !,
A Pera dispatch says news has been
received! at the Englth embassy that sulie-
man Pasha edlthe lemaining & Russian
positions in schipky Pass on the morning OF
the 18th, inaicting, enormous loss. The de-
file is now entirely ii possession Of the Turks.
A late official dispatch published at Constan-
tinople denies the correctness of the rumor
that the Russians had completely evacuated
Schipka pass, tPtates, that on the, contrary,
two Turkish brighdes which captured Fort
st. Nicholas, retired to their former positions
for strategicalr after having occupied
tbs p es fort for six hqlrs. ali ~ :
It is stated ~, well informed cir les
that the Porte Viii hpt accept mediation
while. az Russian soldier remains ION Turkish
soil, nor will it consent to an armistice Jun.
less the basis Of subsequent peace proposals
are at the same time defined. Cheykel Pasha
commanding the relieving force at Orchanie
has Il, communicated with losmang Pasha. Tie
reyictualizing of Pkvna is therefore expected
yer shortly. 80 " .sA % =
tits reported at Constantinople that a
great battlewas fought Sept, s1st, at Biela
lasting from ninesin the morning tilt the
evening, aud that the Russians were com.
pletelY defeated. a dispatch from shumla as
serts that the Russians ldst 900 killed and
5000 wounded in the battle. : 4. ~ ', -