Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-08-01
War News (!
Special Correspondence from TIE
Seat Of Var.
MIR. CLIPPERS, Correspondent.

Is MIR. CLIPPERS, Correspondent.
ne London, July ga Russian
n official dispatch from Tirnova con
err tanning the defeat at Plewna give
the Russian loss at two colonel
10 and fourteen inferior officers killed
4 one general and thirty-six inferior
s. officers wounded and 1878 mer
e placed hors du combat. Gen
10 Schneider has retired to the Biels
q road.
Bucharest, July 25-Grand Duke
g Nicholas has issued a report deny
r ing that Russian soldiers committed
r any cruelties, and says foreign
$ correspondents and attaches can
{ bear witness to the same. He adj
mits the possibility of isolated and
unpreventable acts of vengeance
by Bulgarians. He charged the
Turks with great barbarities, and
particularly mentions a heap of
Russians heads found in Shipki
Pass after the Turks evacuated it.
Constantinople, July ga tele-
gram from Schumla says the Rus
SLAMS were defeated in an assault
on Silistria, Monday.
The Governor of Van, Asia
Minor, says the Russians have
completely evacuated the district
of Bayazid.
Portsmouth, July 26.-The troop
ship Euphrates sailed to-day with
1,521 officers and men for Malta.
Vienna July 26.-Dispatches
from Russian headquarters are
dated from Biela. This means
they have been forced back.
Vienna, July 26.-Ninety thou
sand men are on the way to rein
force the Russian Caucasian army.
three brigades of foot artillery with
as guns each, and ten batteries of
Cossack artillery, with go guns,
have already arrived at Tihis.
The Russian artillery there will
shortly be reinforced by 2O4 guns, !
and only then will fresh ad- !
vance be attempted into Armenia, o
in order to gain some fortified l."
places before winter sets in. n
The eldest son of Schamly, who O
was in the Russian army, has joined
he Alcebasian insurgents. d,
London, July 26.-Turkish tele- az az
grams claim that the Russians have
'een repulsed in the neighborhood
If Rachstrag.
London, July 26.-An official err
dispatch from Biela announces that an an
he Russian steamer Nicholas and
wo sloops have arrived with
onnon and mitrailleuses. They
ngaged Turkish monitor near
ilistria. She was set on fire and
onsiderably damaged, and several
her crew killed and wounded.
he Russian vessels sustained
significant damage and no loss.
i've Turkish steamers and two -
'onitors going from Rustchnk to
Ultra on the 23d were attacked
the Slobosia battery. Three of j
lie steamers were burned and one
ink.
London, July pa special from
erlin says the Russian Govern
ent has called out the reserve of -
Q landwehr.
A Pesth dispatch says Prince
'rtschakoff has notified the
wers that Russia will not treat y.
rectly with the Porte. The III
estion to be solved will be sub
tied to the great powers. The ~
ris Figaro has the same state
mt.
Burlin, July 27.-An Austrian RI
respondent, inspired by the
strian foreign Office, announces
It Aarif Pasha, on assuming
ce authorized England to occupy
llipoli and construct fortifica-
MS. "A
Adrianople, July 27.-Twelve
usand Russians are at Osman-
TAR. The Russians also occupy =
san, at the foot of the northern
pc of the Balkan Mountains. u
hting has been going on since
1rsday between the Russians
forces of Raouf Pasha, near -
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