The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-31
News OF the WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Prosecutions have been commenced
by the French Government against number
of persons who attempted to hold a Socialistic
congress They are, charged with having CORE
spondence with foreign Communists.
The British have postponed their in
vasion of Afghanistan until spring.
Count Schouvaloff is to succeed
Gortschakoff as Prime Minister to Russia.
About 100 negroes have been put to
death in Santa Cruz, but the rebellious spirit
remains, and the island is practically ruined.
The damage to property from the deviltry of
the blacks is estimated at $3,OOO,OOO.
A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt.
says @the inundation from the Damietta branch
of the Nile is advancing. 1t now covers l2o
square miles. Twenty villages have been sub
merged, and from 600 to 900 lives lost. Is
The cable announces the death of
Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin. He
had been suffering from delicate health ever
since his return from Rome, where he attended
the conclave last February. Heart disease was
the immediate cause of his death. &
A cable dispatch states that "affairs
near Constantinople are more and more assuming
the same semi-hostile phase as before the meet
ing of the Berlin congress. Turkish troops
have been moved into positions vacated by the
Russians, and the earthworks are being repaired
and armed before Constantinople and Gallipois
The Turks are arranging to increase their
forces, and are srlmmoning half-pay officers to
active duty. A special committee for the de-
Tense of the capital has been formed at the
Seraskierate."
The persons on trial in Paris for con-
nection with the Socialist Congress have been
condemned to various penalties of fine and i'm
prisonment for six months or more, except two
women, who were acquitted .., U.s..
Alfonso, the young Spanish mon
arch, while driving through the streets of
Madrid, few days ago, was fired upon by
Socialist assassin named Juan Moncasi. The
aim of the assassin was bad, however, and
the King escaped without injury Moncasi
was promptly arrested. f., ..,s 'U1LJs.f Il
Bulgaria is threatened with serious
religious war. 81 -n.. -,rrr.r rrna. .f..,'.
The Clyde (Scotland) iron-workers
are on strike against the ~ per cent. reduc-
ton of their wages. The iron-work6rs number
10000.
1t is believed the call for $4,000 per
share will exhaust the means of the smaller
shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank, and
throw the burden of the assessment upon the
few wealthy.
Baker Pasha has undertaken to COM
plete the Notifications Of Constantinople within
two months. The Sultan has ordered Osman
Pasha and the Minister of War to give him the
most ample assistance.
Juan Moncasi, who attempted to shoot
King Alfonso, when arraigned in Madrid was
asked, "What was your object in leaving your
home on the Mediterranean and coming to the
sapital?" to which he replied, deiantly, Il came
here to kill the King!"
The Bulgarian instruction is continu-
ally increasing in proportions, and Turkey
charges Russia with secretly fomenting these
Hprisings ia."-
Several places recently evacuated by
the Russians in Roumeia have been re-occupied
in force, and fresh Russian levies are constantly
arriving at AdrianOnIe