The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-09-20


IIIuIIuIIIEllluuzzu
which Will enable us TO lombard the enc
my,s Posiuon anu the town OF rievha
itseii; Our cavsiry on the soma ROAD ue-
Ieated detacnment OF Circassians rom
fievns, our losses 70 tho present TINS
are insignincant
At the captllre OF L0vatz we took two
Turkish standardsi and Quantity Of
Turkish dad. Large NUN BEN, ven
,Sobred by our cavalry dur1n6the puronoR
|0nlo loss was 1000.
~ The British ship Avainhohe. Can't. VIII
liams. nom I611don. 6&otember A. Tor
New Zealand. came III collision with The
British ship Foro1f, Capt 1ockhart, iyom
london for New York. on Portland. ana
both vessels numbered. Upwards OF 100
persons were drowned. - r.
Ar -, . 81 ) .,,.
nonsdad PIavrs From dsvhrealx vester
dsxr tiiI three <,ciccL an ti,r nfYernoovs.
wTor an asssu,t ,vss =, ada Nv our troons'
Nv EVENING ~ rec Turlish redoubts he'd.
h;san t.L a., Nv Gen. Sxobeloff while. Gem
Rodienoff had carried the Grivica re-
douht' Six Russian battalions took part
in the assault on the Grivica redoubt.
We osptured two standards and five
guns Ous AVSvoT lAW ouuuou oiOuo OK
ceed 200 men. The number killed has
not been ascertained. ~.
The Times account of the Russian sue
cesses before Pleyna is as follows: At
ten minutes before one In the Afternoon
one brigade of Gen. Zoloff's corps. sun
ported by another. attacked the center
redoubt on the south side. one and n half
miles from Radizayo. The attack was
repuIsed bv a rifle fire after LASTING ninety
minutes. itwas renewed again at four
q. m. NTweive battalions of Russians adj
yanced with the most splendid and de-
voted bravery right nm to the ditch. car
irving scaling ladders. Thew Surrounded
the redoubt on three sides and hung on
to it magnifcently. At 4:45 O'clock thew
were actually in the redoubt. but nothing
mortal could face the Are from the repeat,
! dreds at a few PAGES. At 5:45 the sur
yivors fell slowly back. The Roumau-
isns. at the same time, under the person.
| al observation of the Emperor. three
times assaulted the most salient central
| redoubt lower down than, Gravitza, but
were always driven back. The scaling
ladder parties were killed on the counter
scarp of the ditch to the last officer and
man; AZ nve ?. an. IN. .he ass M' mao Deen
| ~ .sso-..ns Is .mo h, OH" worry
~ t~sv0t ,vos io'"ou ~" ""u
/ news was brought at daybreak on
| Mednesday mat at seven O'Clock on
TUESDAY evening Two iresh hussian brig
aces mao carried the reuoupt wnere the
houmanlans had been repulsed In the
aiternoon, ana ater sustaining 2 counter
attsck irom tne TURKS Iouoweo tnem up
| ana took the next reuoupt also: Inc nrst
redoupt wmcnI was captured Paruaiiy
| commands the rest, ana can, win little
sPade-work, % convertea into means
OF approaching all the rest IN turn. A
great failure was therefore, remedied at
the eleventh hour. Inc Arcnangei regi-
ment acnieved me greatest leaf: Col
Scmetler, an aide-de.camp OF the Emper-
or, was shot dead as ne planted the coiors
t;mstsd the sSrces ennsv U 81 about 81 eo
| ON the Russo Roumanian side. AGAINST
from 70 nm In 70 OOO Turks THE vaIor
| of the Rnssian troons is the onlv thing to
| be nraised. as the attack was unskillfsIliv
| directed and the waste of life unneces-
sary.
T,,o r,,r,,s ,oro ,,or,, sLu,c,,,, ha
Lad Thav noust hous ,ost sn,,, a a~ -,
two saIlies i'm the openfieid otherwise
| they were Completely covered. and Law
.FN 1872. T..
a Kussian ofnciai pulietln, dated Pore
DIN, the 18Th, says: Yesterday, Wednes-
day, we made no further attacks, but
bombarded the Turkish Notifications and
town OF Plevna at snort range. Toward
p. m. the town began to burn and two
explosions were observed within the
fortincations. Inc Turks made little re-
ply 10 our nre ana directed All their ef-
forts against our LETT wing, which threat
ened their rear. AT this point Gen Sko-
belof repuised hve FURIOUS attacks, but
was compelled In the evening after the
slxtn attack 10 evacuate the iortincations
which ne captured on tuesday. During
WEDNESDAY nignt ourtroops entrencned
themselves In their positions. From the
Deg neg Oh sne Da..ie . up up 10 one O'clock
peen prousnntto Ing ieiu hospi'a'
An official telegram from Suieiman
Pasha saws: We opened violent can
nonade upon the Russian posftionss In
Shipka Pass on Thursday, which dis
mantled several Of their guns and killed
great number OF their .arttllerymen,
principally by exploding their ammuni-
ton wagons. In the afternoon their ar
tiHery was silenced. sk,fs
from bucharest on Friday: az left the
battlefield before Pievna at noon vester-
day. The two redoubts taken by Gen.
Skobelof on Tuesday evening were held
mdo o" as ottacls smd fimy,,v sn ahor ts sss
=, TIC, s1e,,;rr- drove him ont NTs Inst
thraS ~ cs,,,sn., syhicS Sa had ,,iscad i, the
rnd",,St "Ha ssLad sor a,ns"roa , an sro
soverai times Int Gan' vits,,v ras,,sad
sheu th;nE;yg int G.r SEol,anfy had
enough men to hold the redoubt. The
loss OF these redoubts is dlsastrous for the
Russian attack, as Il seems That tile Rus
slams in possession of these two redoubts
and the Grivica redoubt had counted
upon recommending the offensive i'm.