Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-26
Another Holocaust Of Chinese
Famine Refugees.
Terrible Tidinss fro. The Stricken
p.rlon Of The Celestial Empire.
Tho Terms Of Peace Between Turkey
-" and Russia Not Yet Signed.
eoqaos st'' Preparing 'oF v'ar M sou"a"'a
PROTESTING Against Russia's Treatment
FOREIGN.
, PENALTY or DEATH.

PENALTY OF DEATH
London. Feb. GA dispatch from Pera
sovs. The Russian officers and soldiers are
,orbiddeu, under penalty of death, to enter
constsp,inople without special permission
from the Russian headquarters.
RUSSIAN SICK.
The barracks just outside Of CONSTANT.
nople arc being prepared for the Russian
s,ck who can tiud no olLcs cover.
aoops TRAFFIC SUSPENDED.
bucharest, Feb. 26.-Thc railway admin
,.,rs,ion Of Jsssy has been ordered to sus'
mend the goods traffic, so that the passage
nr the Russian troops shall not be i'm
peded.
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
San Francisco. Feb. 25-At Ticntsis,
China, refuge house in which the famine
stricken refugees from the northern prov
inces had assembled, took fire, and OF near
" three thousand people in the building,
only about one hundred escaped.
FROZEN TO DEATH
The extremely cold weather that has pre-
vailed has had fatal effect on the refugees,
m.uy of whom have been frozen TO death,
while thousands are suffering from INSULT.
cicnt accommodations and lack Of food
which can not be supplied in quantities. TO
meet their demand.
CHILDREN SOLD FOR FOOD.
Cbas. Budd, Of the China Inland mission.
at Wscbung. who has recently visited the
famine stricken provinces Of Shensi. writes
heartrendinR account Of the suffering he
has witnessed The governments effort TO
supply food aud assistance, 10 q great ex-
tent, is nullificd by the dishonesty Of the
officials. Children are sold BY hundreds by
starving parents.
In the large cities Of Hancheng and Pu-
ching, risings have occurred among the peo'
pie, rendered desperate by seeing their wives
and children starving before their faces, and
many other outbreaks are reported. In
Puching, the people beheaded the manda-
rim for speculating on their necessi,ies.
COLD WEATHER.
Cold has been unusually severe through
out the country for several weeks. The
money market is very light lately, but ar,
rivals from England and San Francisco are
expected to ease it soon.
EXPLOSION
The boiler Of the coasting steamer iesso
exploded recently, killing about 80 natives
The engineer was imprisoned for man.
slaughter.
DUTY ON PETROLEUM.
Pesth, Feb 26-Ths Hungsrian die.
have adopted. ty large majority, the gov
ernments bill imposing eight tlorins on
petroleum.
THE PEACE NOT YET SIGNED
The terms Of peace are not yet signed.
Gen. Gourko, with $4,000 men, is march
Ing on 70 San ST .fano Eight additions
ont'eries Of s,tillery have arrived there.
GETTING READY FOR WAR.
Ia the house Of com mons this afternoon
Hardy. secret,ry Of state for the war. sale
that the transport carriages, ambalanccs aut
ammunition trains, for the first army corp
have been completed. and that for the sec
ond corps. ell are In fair way Of get,inI
ready.
Malta, Feb. 26.-An order has been i.
sued, requiring extra vigilance in prevent
ing the admission Of strangers TO the fort
hcations without passes, because spy, unde
pay ofsoms foreign power, Is known to b
at Malta, endeavorinE TO make the plans
the forts.
ROUMANIA.
Bucharest, Feb. 2G.--Iu the senate yss,c,
day Ssourdxa denounced Russia's trsatmct
OF RoumsaiA, and introduced motion d,
mandins the government, to ask the gnara'
see'ns Of the pover-, to recognize the ind
Pendsacs Of Roumania; solicit the admi
sion Of koumanian representative ., II
conferssce; refass to negotiate With Raasi
tor ." sx.hanss Of Territory; rcjec, all ali
n'atioas b ,ves.tRsssia aud Turkey. cooel'
'.'' sishoas RaumAaia'. participation. -
'ae recall o. ths RouaAsian s,my from Il
night hAat Of ths Ihnuts.
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