The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1878-02-15

An asylnm for women and children has been
burned ~ TienrTrln, China, Ny which 2.oo0 u
thc inmates lost their lives.
Ten persons we're tramrIed 10 death and
many injured during panic in circus. caused
by falsc alarm of 6rc a Calai4. France.
Nine millions of people are reported ~ d~stl.
tute In Northern China.
Tho office ~ Grand eigier In tho Turkish
Government has becn abolished. and 4 nav
Ministry hcen formed III accordance with med.
crn European forms aud designation, headed
by Ahmed vchk Rnendi ~ President " the
Council u Ministers aud Minister u tla lii.
terror.
A correspondent NJ AdrlAnopie relates IN
interview with Heryer paslia, who declared that
Turkey had bcen mirled and encouraged IL
hight on NY tile promise u E0Eii1l, support.
iic particularly accused Lord l,escon.aeid atd
LAyArd of encouraging this belief. and said ho
had documents which hs would puLlisli. H.
declared that he had nov become partisan III
isusslsn policy and alliance. server I'ashA's
colleagues NJ AdriAnopio confirmed his state.
menta.
After life II nearly NJ years, aud Iontlf4
cate of thirty-twn years, fppo i'iua lay down
10 eternal rest on Thursday, tho 7th II feau-
Ary. Plus IN. MA bort. May II. i7pl, and wAs
therefore nearly NJ years old. iil1 bspiixnaI
nAme WAS Giovanni Maria MAstai.Ferrelli. III
received tho rrient'r orders In 1872 WAS made
domestic prolAte 10 Pope Leo Kill In is2t. Was
nominated Archbishop In 1877 was created
Cardinal In 1910, and hye YEARS later. In June,
istg. MAS elected ~ the si,ecsssor of POPE
ursgory XVI. rinA ix. held the papAl chair
longer than any trelate. the alleged i,ontlfl-
cato u ~. Peter beng thu nest In duraiioi.-a
little over twenty-five years. lie thu. proved
the fAllary of tl,e superstition which beloved
that no Pope would taiHn longer than the
Apostolic founder of The Hely kcc.
Tho british tieet hAs ieen ordered to Con.
ssantinople, met ~ departure from neutral
w. 70 usc Tho language n Mr. stafford Norti,-
coie. "bns ~ . protection III lifu ai,d prop.
Crty..
Tho aiiIcial declaration 81 The physielsls Who
attended he rope during lila lat ilInesa i.
published. II state. that ilo immediate cause
~ death was paralysis of tho lungs.
II Il again reported tina. tho i.u.rlAns are
about 10 court-mArlial and shoot OWnan I'aal,a,
FOR alleged bsfb.fpnr treatment ~ prisoners.
Tho popc'a last act MAS 10 provide for the
continuance VI his servants salaries, aud The
pci,sions of their widows.
A VI. Petersburg dispatch asserts that ~
offensive aud defensive alliance bctweau Illus.
ala AMI Turkey In 10 be included In The treaty
II peace.
A London Dispatch ~ thr nth state. that
iluu.isu reply 10 Austria. proposal 10 hold The
conference In visnnA had been received. and
tina. not only dId Il reject thu Au~tfi.n capital
A. The place ~ meeting, but declared ihst or.
tain points Ia the peace prelimlnaries could moi
be referred 10 The conference ri all.
Tho Austrian Government has given orders
" prepare thu bert iioncladr for -. Three
men-of-var have tcen ordered 10 Consssnll.
nople.
Thu Agsnn Rus~ says that knaland'a Ac.
tlon In sending her heet IL onMAi,linopIe NJ.
stores " lIusslA ler liberty u action. aud that
ilussia will now regulate her attitude by that
" England.
The ilu1sisns captured 10000 men. inciu,i-
Inv twenty rAshas. and I.0o0 cannon during
the war.
Tho Turkish forces have evacuated Widin.
isussehuh, Hiii.tfta. lislsrAsilschlk And Esxe.
ro,n,. And have Withdrawn from tl,e Ilnjuk.
Chekn,ejeh lines 10 llns from kajuk. Chick.
msjeh 10 Akleunar The neutral xone i.
twelve miles bread