The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-20

REDWOOD FALLA MINNESOTA
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARA0RAR1a0.
The Turkish Parliament has been con.
vokcd for Nov. Is
Ex.Minister Washburne of France i
homeward bound.
Frank Leslie, q well-known publisher
in New York, has suspended.
Turkey has made . further issue of
100000 piastcrs Of paper money.
The Turkish deficit for the current year
is estimated at II 100000 Turkish pounds.
Dom Pedro and his wife, Emperor and
Empress Of Brazil, have sailed for Rio Janeiro.
The Pope 10 said to have dclnitively
decided to re-establish the Roman hierarchy
in Scotland.
The Sultan has granted to Layard, the
explorer, hrman authorising explorations
at Nincvch.
DR.. Strausbcrg, the Russian bankrupt
railway Spectator, has been released from
imprisonment
The Russians have constructed . fine
road up schipka Pass for the passage Of On
army into Houmelia.
The bulk Of the corn crop of Iowa and
Illinois is sid to be beyond the danger Of
serious harm from frost.
Anderson, of the Louisiana Returning
Board, has been appointed Deputy Collector
Of Customs at New Orleans.
DR.. Bliss expresses the opinion that
Senator Morton will be able to attend the
regular session of Congress.
President Hayes had a warm reception
at the reunion of Union and Confederate ex-
soldiers ut Marietta, Ohio, ON the It'll.
The Turkish forces on the frontier have
been ordered to enter eervia the moment
that the Principally takes part in the war.
The Town Councils of Dundee and Aber.
deem, Scotland, have voted to cx-President
Grant the freedom Of their respective cities.
Tho Emir of BOkhara, considering that
Russia, by attacking Turkey, threatens the
whole Mohammedan world, has placed his
army on war footing.
The Porte has protested against the
khcdive of Egypt giving to England the
right to search vessels engaged in the slave
trade in Ottoman waters.
A committee of the Hartford Conn.,
Common Council has discovered deficiency
Ut over $4,000 in the accounts Of John
Franey, late City and Town Collector.
The detectives have traced the 81, 900
check forgery on the Union Trust Company,
two clcrks-Onc In the Union Trust Com
rany, and one in the New York Life Insur-
ance Company.
Mrs. Irene House, who shot her hus.
band, the noted divorce lawyer, some years
ago, and was acquitted on the plea of insan.
ity, was released from the New Jersey Asy-
lum for the Insane, on the 4th, her mania
having disappeared.
The yellow fever mas made its appear.
ance at Fernandina, Fla. There were two
atal cases there, on the 10th. Quarantine
against the place has been established In the
principal Floridian towns, and large mum.
Der Of people are leaving the State.
According to the secret-service reports.
there were never SO many counterfeiters in
the country as at present There is at the
headquarters upward of bushel of captured
half dollars, any one of which would deceive
the average judge of coin. There had been
an average of sixty arrests . month during
the six months preceding the 1st.
- THE TURCO-RUSSlAN WAN.
A Russian official dispatch of the 4.h
announces the capture of the Turkish Town
and Fortress of Lovatx.
The Russians officially estimate their
losses at schipka at l,90O killed aud 5000
wounded.
The Russians have reoccupied Sukum.
kalch. The Abchasian coast is clear of
Turks, and the rebellion in the interior has
been suppressed.
COnstantinople dispatch of the 5th
says Ahmed Pashs had rcpulsed Russian
attack at KadikOi, near Rustchuk. The
Russians lost 1 ono men. The Russian OIL
cial account Of the same affair says it was q
Russian victory, and that their loss was
thirty killed and $50 wounded.
Redif Pasha, Abdul Kcrim and the cx.
Commandants of Scutari, sietova and schip.
ka have been banished until the termination
Of hOstilitics.
The Turkish Commander ut KechlOwa
telcgraphcd, on the 9Th, that he had defeated
the Russian Twelfth Army Corps near that
place, and driven them back over the Lom.
with a loss Of 5000 killed and wounded.
The Turkish loss was 800 killed and 7Oo
wounded.
A band Of 1900 Montenegrins recently
surrounded village near Pressika, intend
ing to get cattle and corn. During the night
fresh band arrived, which the first sup.
posed to be Turks. A fierce combat followed,
in which zoo were killed and q great number
wounded. The mistake was not discovered
until morning.
The hattie of Kiziltapc, which resulted
in the Russians being driven from their po-
sitions at Kedalar, cost the Turks 40 killed
400 wounded.
A Cattar0 special of the 9th reports
that Nicsics, with nineteen guns, had sur
rendered Internationally. The garrison was
allowed to withdraw TO Galtscho. The sur
render was precipitated by the Montcne-
grins having secured positions on the sur.
rounding heights which commanded the cit
adcl.
In view Of the conflicting accounts -
to the nationality Of Osman Pasha, the
Turkish legation at Washington has caused
announcement to be made that the dis
ti"guished General ives born in Asia Minor
Of Mussulman parents.