The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

KILOGRAMS to the Parls papers assert
that the Russian losses in crossing the
Danube were enormous.
TELHGRAMs from various points along the
Danube give the particulars of frightful
bombardments along that river.
ABOUT twenty American sharp-shooters
are in the Cars army on the Danube. They
were former members of Berdan's New York
company.
FIFTEEN hundred Russian cavalry, who
endeayored to relieve Bayazid, have been
beaten by the Turks with loss of sixty
killed and two hundred wounded.
! ADMIRAL HUssEIN PASHA is reported
cruising in the Morean and Ionian waters
with four ironclads, watching for chance
of attacking two Russian frigates.
! AT Nicopolis, Wednesday, June %, the
| losses on both sides were appalling. Sixteen
! thousand rifles and 100000 cartridges are
| expected at Constantinople from Egypt.
PRIVATE dispatches announce that the
Russian headquarters have been transferred
to Simnitza. Flags are flying all over St.
! Petersburg and solemn service of thanks
giving has been celebrated in the Cathedral.
1T is reported from Constantinople that
since the Russians crossed the Danube, the
Sultan's intimate advisers have more than
/ ever urged him to enter into negotiations
| with the Car soon as the Turks have
suffered a serious defeat
| THE Russians crossed the Danube at
Petroceni on the 9th June, upon RATS, the
son of the Grand Duke Nicholas going over
on the first one. The Grand Duke Nicholas
| OF in +ba =
Petroceni, and it is officially stated that
there were $4,000 Russians on the southern
side of the Danube on the 2Sth, opposite
the Simnitza and Petroceni line.
WAR has been formally declared by the
German Government upon the Colorado
potato bug, and hostilities have begun with
a vigor that shows that both sides mean
business. The bug was surrounded, al
latest accounts, near Cologne, and was
suffering from heavy bombardment OF
tanbark and kerosene.
SEVERAL days ago an Austrian Lloyd
steamer loaded at Corfu, for the Turkish
Government, one hundred and ninety three
cases of arms, which it intended to reshiI
for Prevesa, in Albania, but the Russian
Consul protested to the Greek Government
| dSalilcG lHC use VI tCiIItOiy uS
depot for the arms of belligerents. Tht
government thereupon ordered the deten
ton of the arms at Corfu.
THE Grand Duke Nicholas telegraphs a,
follows: The difficult and complicated tasl
of crossing the Danube is achieved. Sistovt
and the surrounding heights are in ou
hands. General Dragomiroff7s division, witt
mountain artillery, was the first to cross
There are now (the evening of 27th) on tn
other side the eighth army corps and tn
fourth rifle brigade. The thirty-ffth divis
ion is now crossing.
A SPECIAL cable dispatch of June 2S state
that bloody fighting was then going ON a
| Pyrgos, on the Danube. The Russian troop
were crossing the river en- masse and en
gaging the Turks, who made desperate re
sistance. The slaughter on both sides wa
terrible. The Turkish gunboats were ais
engaged in battle. Late advices from Turk
ish sources state that the Turkish force
claim victory in the battle near Guevir
on the Goth of June and that the Russian
lost three thousand men.
} AT Rustchuk the German Consulate wa
destroyed by twenty-four shells, the Frenc
: by three, and the Austrian Consulate wa
l riddled. The military hospital in the Jew
quarter received seventy-two shells. The
: fell everywhere, and no shot was considere
t safe. Up to Wednesday, June 81, the Turk
d had thrown two or three thousand shells int
Giurgevo. However, though the streets her
e and there are plowed up, and houses bore
e through, not more than one house in twent
: or thirty is seriously injured.
| a.
y general public at the ease with which tn
crossing of the Danube was affected, and
the slightness of the resistance The TURK
I seemingly made up their minds that tn
-. passage would be attempted at Turn
n | Maguerili. The tremendous bombardmeI
o of Nikopolis also served to divert their a
v tention and confirm them in this opinion
t The greater portion of the troops at Turn
q MagueriIi received orders to march upo
j. Simnitza and cross there. News from 81
e tova is that the Turks have completed
+ wasted the country around that place.
a THE engagements which have taken plat
e at and about Zewin, the headquarters of II
Turkish center in Asia Minor, since IL
s. Goth ult., are evidently of great importanc
e far greater than those at Delibaba an
~ Zeldiran, fought by the Turkish right. I'll
= Turkish position there is one of great na
= . ural strength; it is situated on a plates
y west of Zewin, and about two thousand fe
;. above the Chansu, from which the grour
rises gradually for about mile, after whiC
- the ascent is more difficult, and in mar
q parts almost scarped. The plateau exten'
n about two miles, with a knoll some OF
,s hundred and fifty feet high in the cente
"a The plateau is at the junction of thr
roads from Kars, and is about equi-dista
Ie from Delibaba on the right Turkish line
h defense, and Olti, on the left line. tt
v entire Turkish force under Mukhtar Pasl
E. consists, according to the last accounts,
m seventy-nine battalions, five thousaI
If cavalry, sixty field and forty-two mounta
At guns.