The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-20
THE EASTERN WAR.
CAPTURE OF KAxs CONFIRMED.
Ihe Place stormed and Captured by
$4,000 Desperate Fight.
lag ON Both Sides-The Turk.
Flee I'm the Direction Of
krIeroum. but Are
Made Prisoners.

LONDON, November IA special
iIspstcn dated Narsu hsieh. sunday
evening. says: The fortress and city ot
hsrs, with three hundred cannon, stores.
ammunition, Cssh. etc, hAye isllen into
the Russians hands. The Turks lost
i've thousand men killed sud wounded.
ten thousand prisoners and many hsgs
The RIssisn loss Is shout twou;v-Sayen
hundred The Russian soldiers mad, but
triAlns booty, snd spared the p,s,..ul
citizens and the women snd Ch lIr,n
General Louis Milikoh directed the Dat
tie. Duriug the day the Grand Duke
Michael wSs present The former
entered the city 81 l:l0 Sunday morn
ing.
CoNsTANTINorLE, November l9.-Tke
Turkish Governor OF Kasons cxhortcd
the Mussumsn 10 defend the provincr
against = possible Servian invasion
SARA, November l9.-The Turks vlo.
Ated the Austrian irontier, Saturday
They sacked several houses and stole cat,
lie.
BERLIN. November 10 The North
German Gazette, commenting on ~ ar,i-
Gle In the ~ Petersburg Gazette recon
meuding Russian snd French alliance.
SAYS such mn alliance would transfer tho
present friendship oi Prussia ~ Aus.
lria towards Russia into sheer hostility
LONDON, November IA Neran
haleh special say, Kars WAS capturct
by about $4,000 Russians, who climbed
the steep rocks, rsmpsrts and walls aud
,,ormci An equal number OF desperately
lighting Turk- ia hcadiong tight over
their di.chcs and parapets, compelling
hem 90 DIS or surrender The o,cSpade
ha been originally fixed Tor t1o lSgf,
Dut II was postpon,i uwlng 10 the bSu
weather. The principal attack WAS mrdc
~ the southern !nr,s. General DaGarch,
who commanded the right wing, consist
ug of the Fourtocth division, assaulted
H4hczi Pashas tort, crownlug -
,,ccp, rocky height General Count
Grabbe, with regiment ot tho
Moscow GrenSdlcrs, and n regiment
OF the Thirty ninth division, nt-
lacked Hate Pn-hA in the centre, the
Khsuli iahea, Sauvassi Tobti. thu threo
| ,1wcrs and the citadel The ArdahHn
brigade gnd another regiment oi Moscow
rcusdlcrs under Generals Roop and
komdron, forming the Jeff wing, ~
tU'trd Fort lnglcs on the north Tho
stack began IN the centre NJ $50 o'clock
saturday night, when CoInl Grabbo led
| MS brigade against the khRnil rrdOub,
and himself tell dead At the fret onset
sicrced by bullet. Captain Nuckl, oI
Tho Thirty ninth regiment, was the Drst
| .D cEtor tho redJubt, nj II o'clock NJ
night His sword WAS cut clean out Of
g,s hand AZ q his clothes pierced BY bul
| .cls The ruGogbt surrendered early m
| .ho morning, and the thrr" towers aim. /
simultaneously. Wi.h the csptu .
al the khsnii TAbea reGoubl
he .cItadel, Fort SSuvarri and Fort
HcfeZ Pasha were carried by assault.
By daylight Sunday, General HSz rchs
troops mad progres,cd 80 far n u capture
| Fort ksrEdagb Tho other lort', espo-
auy Arab TablA. on the cast, and
| rakman Isbia, on the wost, malntaIr"d
4 stubborn resistance until O'clock
when all tho garrbons which could c--
cape Ged toward ErzerouuI, but they
" re subsequently, ovcrtaken by the
IragoOu, and COssCks and brought btoA
| prI-0ners.
LoEDpS, November 2O-A CottInie
correspondent says: Unofficial report
state that the Montenogrins sormod The
Citadel OF Spitza. This gives :he Monlo-
uegrins possession OF the coast from the
! Australian frontier 20 the BOyAnA. The
| Turks still hold the Citadel OF AntAyArl.
A Vienna correspondent ssys that th"
Montenegrlns arc kept in check by two
| Turkish ships IN the rORdstesd.
A Belgrade correspOndeu, telegraph
! that although there are marked siRnl
| here Of desire 70 take the field. seyera
| risus.s OF the convention between RaSsIH
and ServIs are still unsettled. II u be-
ieyed that Russia Ia dlsIrcIhed 20 Acc@p.
all the conditions demanded by ServiA.
EDISBUR0H, November ia Lon
don correspondent says "l have reason
| % .clicye lha. Tue peace party IN the
| Cabinet has st"ly received n notable nc
reg ion and that i've Ministers are now
virtual y committed 70 the policy o. non
/ Intervention.