Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-08-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
ozHzRAL roRH1on NOTES.

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oENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.
THE porte has ratified the treaty of Kef
lin and sent an ambassador to Bosnia. viii
orders to remove the Turkish regular.
IT IL thought impossible that the Bosnian.
can prolong their resistance to Austrian oc.
cupaticn with view to tranquilize them.
The porte has appointed Mehemet All
Pasha ~ its commissioner in Bosnia.
A RUSSIAN torpedo best exploded in the
harbor of Nicolaief on the 18th inst, kill.
ing thirty.four persons.
| ADvICRs from Bosnia represent that the
men Of the Albanian contingent Of the
Turkish army, are joining The insurgents.
A decisive conAiet- will probably take place
q Ssrsjsvo, whore the Austrians hope 10
enter on the 18th instant.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Batoum says
the population are armed and preparing to
resist occupation by Russians. Local chiefs
held . council and decided to fght, Dis.
affected mountaineers on the Choruk from.
tier are said to number twenty thousand.
The excitement IL intense. The Turkish
regular army remains neutral. X
THE Austrians meet with ,co2tinued re-
sistance in occupying Boe6fx. On the 9th
inst after sanguinary fgkt - nine hours,
in which the. Austrians displayed great
valor, they occupied the fortified town of
Jaicze. ~
LETT1 from ON board Her Britannia
MaiegeI Steamship Swiftsure, in the gulf of
Glare the Russians are still busily
fdfnfying the coast, and do not expect the
peace TO be lasting.
The AustriaDs continue to meet with as.
sistance in the Turkish provinces. At
Shepischeche an engagement occurred in
which two flags and quantity of munitions
were captured by the Austrians. Many
insurgents were killed and wounded, and
twenty were driven into the river and
drowned. Twenty-Five Austrian hussars
we're missing after the skirmish.
THE report of the appointment of Cardi.
nal Nina, as pontiical secretary of state is
confirmed.
BY an explosion of Russian powder
magazine at Frateoti, Servia, on the 7th
inst, 55 persons were killed and 81 injured.
THREE thousand Montenegrins have
joined the insurgents in Herzegovina.
There are indications Of an intention to
proclaim holy war in Bosnia.
A PERu dispatch say two delegates from
the Rhodope insurgents have sent memo.
rial to Min Layard, signed by the chiefs
of 200 villages, declaring they will resist to
the last man the enforcement of the deci.
sion Of the Berlin congress.
THE EAST.
MRS. PRENTICE, wife OF the Rev. DIR.
Prentice, and author OF "Stepping Heaven
ward" died at Manchester, VT, on the 18th
inst.
THE family of President Raymond, of
vassar college, has been summoned to his
bedside, as his death is expected soon.
WORK on the East River bridge, New
York, has been suspended in consequence
Of insuficiency of appropriations.
THE strike in the Shamokin, Pa, mining
district is ended, the miners having accept.
ed an allowance.
THE Columbia College crew, winners of
the visitors cap at the Henley regatta in
England, were enthusiastically received on
their arrival at New York on the 10th inst.
THE women suffragists of New England
have won their first substantial victory.
On the 9th inst. the bill allowing women to
vote in school meetings passed the New
Hampshire house of representatives. The
bill had previously passed the senate by
vote of nine to three.
KRoUs & IvEs, dry goods dealers, Hart
ford, Conn.,, have failed; liabilities, 500, ono.
II. B. Claffiin & Co., of New York, have
claims against the firm for $4,000.
A GENERAL strike in the Pennsylvania
coal regions will be instituted about the
18th inst, commencing it is thought, in the
Lehigh region.
The officers and directors of the Bank of
New York have taken initiatory steps to
reduce the capital from So, ,000, ,000to $2,0O0,.
600.
WAEHIsTow beat Cyrille Dion in match
game of fifteen ball pool, for $3.50 side, at
New York, on the 7th instant.
THE WEST.
A VIOLENT hail storm passed over Chey-
enne on the 18th inst, destroying nearly all
the glass on the south side of the several
streets. Hail stones were of tremendous
size.
The Chinese companies of San Francisco
profess to have no intimation that any of
their countrymen are wanted in Chicago to
take the place of striking shoemakers.
A. WILLIAMS, a Chicago builder, fled q
petition in bankruptcy on the 18th inst.
Secured debts $4,000; unsecured $500;
assets $500.
ABOUT 100000 bushels of wheat were re-
ceived at Toledo, O., for the "a hours end
ing at noon ON the 18th inst.-the largest
amount ever received at that point in the