Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-07-03
Foreign News.

DEATH OF THE QUEEN VI 0rAiN.
o,,aen Mercedes of Spain died at
Madrid on June Is. M a.sy
Con Grant will return to the United
states next spring by way OF India. Nsio'
4 TO MALTA. .iil {llpo
Three Indian troop ships have been
ordered to Malta and are reported to
tate back the Indian contingent. Earth
~orks are being constructed at the
northern outlets.
The Carpathian passes and mountain
loads are being made practicable for
artillery on both sides of the frontier.
THE EMPEROR.
Cableprams from old world Of 18th
INST announce that the emperor OF
Germany was not so well as reported.
Ne Is expected to abdicate next month
in favor Of the crown prince.
SENTENCED. " '-
The Englishman, Bishop, charged
with bribmg officials to obtain plans Of
the fortresses in Germany, has been
convicted and sentenced to two years
and half imprisonment.
THE GRAIN TRADE.
The Mark Lane Express Of June 25th
saws: despite the somewhat conflicting
nature of agricultural advices the PIE
ent situation of cereal crops is highly
critical. Nothing but continuance Of
normal weather can prevent another adj
dition to the succession Of unproduc.
tive unremunerative seasons. With the
exception of France, where the wheat
has suffered almost as much as in this
country. Continental advices promises
fair average yield; but in eastern
Russia, hundreds of acres of grain have
been cut to pieces by succession of
unusually heavy hail storms. The de-
liyeries Of English wheat at the princi-
nal provincial markets have shown
decided falling of. The offerings
at Mark Lane are also light,
which tend to prove the depletion
of the stocks in farmers hands.
Depressed by heavy present and
prospective supplies, and flooded with
continued offers from America and
Russia the foreign wheat trade has
been reduced almost to stagnation
Prices receded fully shilling on the
week with only the most limited con-
sumptive demand at that. The CONT
mental demand for cargoes of wheat off
the coast has been the most noteworthy
feature Of the weeks trade. Maize
steady" .r.. nr 14
THE CONGRESS.
A London dispatch Of the Goth
SAYS that the Russians have 52,426
sick in the Balkan peninsula and
Of recruits raised in 1877 for the Arme-
MAN campaign, Is per cent. are dead.
BEACONsFIELD WONT YIELD.
The London Times Berlin correspon-
dent reports that Lord Beaconsfield in
conversation with Prince Bismarck, who
urgedhim to make concessions, said:
|diM not come here to yield"
THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. rrg
A Madrid dispatch of the 25th
inst, says that the condition of
the queen is still serious.b but she passed
aquiet night. No fresh hemorrage has
occurred, and the physicians have not
lost hope.
London advices of the 25th of June,
say the new Autonomous province
south of the Balkans is to be named
Eastern Roumelia. All the Berlin cor
respondents agree in declaring that the
settlement of the Bulgarian question
is entirely due to the firmness of the
British representatives in the congress.
The Russian concessions on this head
again are said to be entirely dependent
on the conditions for organization and
administration of Roumelia. One con-
dltion is that the Russian troops
when they evacuate Roumelia, are to
be replaced by native militia, compos-
ed of Christians and Mussulmans, &C
cording to the prevailing religion of the
district. The French Representatives in
the congress support Lord Beacons-
held's demands on the Bulgarian ques-
ton.
The Times says it considers the alleged
settlement as nothing less than the
abandonment by Russia of the policy
which has guided her relations with
Turkey during the last hundred years.
Inc process of piece-meal nibbling at
turkeys outlying provinces, and the
periodical reopening Of the eastern
question whenever circumstances
seemed to favor it, would have been
by the extension of Bulgaria
south of the Balkans under Russian in
fuence.
The Post says Russia is now authori-
tanvely told that she is as far from Con-
stantlnople, if not indeed further, as
she she was when the war began. Herein
hes the bitterness of modification to
which she must now submit. In Mon