Daily globe., 1878-09-02
THE OLD WORLD.
The Struggle in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Continued From Floods-Mis-
celIaneOuS.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

Fatal. RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
LONDON. Sept. Ian excursion train on thu
London, Chatham & Dover railroad from Rams
gate broad stairs and Margate. crowded will
passengers yesterday, near Sitting Bourn.
junction, came in collision with som,
| freight while the latter were switching off th'
main line. The train running at an express
speed was completely wrecked and eight per
SONS killed and thirty severely injured.
HOLDING THE FORT.
| BELGRADE Sept. 1.-According to insurgen
advices. Gen. Zepary maintains the defensive
at Dojab Austrian reinforcements are con
stantly arriving. There is strong insurgent
| force in his rear near the river Save. Raguss
| insurgents and Turkish regulars are fighting al
| Gribenji where the regulars hold the citade
and the insurgents demand it.
NEWS AS Is NEWS.
| CoBuRa, Sept. 1.-The Duchess of Derbure
has been delivered of a daughter.
BOAT RACES.
LONDON Sept. 1.-The Thomas international
| regatta began yesterday. In the first heat o1
the race for the champion sculls, Higgins beat
Boyd. The latter claimed foul but it was moi
allowed. In the second heat Elliott beat Black
burn 100 yards In the champion pair race
from Cheswick church to Putney the Northern.
ers, Lumsden and Boyd, beat Higgins and
Thomas by Six lengths.
DESTRUCTIVE RAIN FALL.
VIENNA, Sept. 1.-The town of Luickalez
capital If Circle of Barood, Hungary, has been
almost entirely laid waste by storm. One
thousand houses were destroyed by the rain
fall and fifteen persons killed. Population es
timated at 100000
LAzIs' INsURREcrIoN.
TR1B1soNDA Sept. Turkish war material
from Batoum is arriving. 1t is believed large
portion of the Mussuluan population of Bel
grade will emigrate. Six thousand Lazistan
insurgents are advancing along the valley of
the river Arda, burning and pillaging. Isezet
Pasha has been commissioned to eldeavor to
quiet the Lazisans.
FLOOD DISASTERS.
VIENNA, Sept. Later accounts from Luck
alez, Hungary state that over 400 corpses
have already been recovered and 200 persons
are still missing. At Erlau. about sixty-fiye
miles from Pesth, the river Eyer broke through
the walls of he town and whole rows of houses
were demolished and many persons drowned.
SPANISH POLITICS.
MADRID, Sept. Marshall Serrano Senor
Ragarta and other Constitutlonalstists' leaders,
have had several conferences on the expediency
OF ahstention or participation in the approach
ing elections. The latter course is advocated
by Costelar, Moderate Republican and other
Observation-Disclosures. The Eberia and other Con-
stitntionailstist organs urge an attempt to be
made to acquire power by extra legal means.
CoNsTANTINoPLE.
CoNsTANT1NoPLE, Sept. I.--Mukhtar Pasha
has started for Crete with two batallions. The
Porte has refused Gen. Tp1leben's request to
send regular troops to the Rhodope district. The
Russian army of occupation had 20,450 sick
the 9th nltimo.
LONDON NOTES.
LONDON, Sept. lit is said large majority
Of the Indian council oppose annexation, which
is zealously advocated by Sir Henry Rawlinson.
Thomas Maitland, eleventh earl of Londer-
dale, is dead.
Zimmerman & Hoyt. merchants Of Birming-
ham. have failed. Liabilities, f81, 1000.