The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-21

On the evening of the 9Th of October,
. very severe earthquake occurred in San
Salvador. The Towns Of Jucuapa, Nueva,
Guadalupe, Santiago do Maria and China
mecca were utterly destroyed, and many per-
sons lost their lives.
It was announced In London, on the
9th. that Russian pirates were operating in
the vicinity Of Nova-Zembla.
A Berlin telegram of the 9Th says
Russia had repeated conndentially her pre-
vious assurance that she was resolved to faith
fully carry out the provisions Of the Berlin
Treaty.
A tremendous snow-storm recently
occurred in Austria. In Vienna the trees were
broken down BY the weight Of snow, and tele-
graph lines within radius of 100 miles were
prostrated. On the 9Th, the snow was several
feet deep in that city.
A Paris dispatch Of the 9TH says that
negotiations were pending for . conference of
the Powers to revise the Treaty Of Berlin.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 9TH
says the Bulgarian insurgents had burned
fourteen Villages in the District of Demotica.
An attempt was made, on the 9TH, to
assassinate Gen. Breque, formerly spanish
Minister Of War. The Madrid authorities ar
rested the would-be assassin, An ex-soldier.
Baron Piclet, the discoverer of lique-
faction Of oxygen, is hopelessly III in Geneva,
Switzerland.
Announcement was made in New
York City, on the 7th, that the body OF the
late A. T. Stewart had been, the night before,
stolen from the family vault in st. Marks
Churchyard. The casket was found broken
open and the body was missing. The police
were notified. It was thought the remains
had been stolen in the hope that reward
would be offered for their recovery.
A Constantinople telegram of the
sth says Russia was establishing second line
of defense at Adrianople.
A London telegram of the 9Th says
Schouvaloff, Russian Minister at the Court Of
St. James, had been recalled, and that it was
understood that he was to be Gortschakoff's
successor.
kilograms from Northern and East
ern Europe announce continuous and heavy
snow-storms on the 7th and Sth.
St. Petersburg dispatches Of the 9Th
cay the health of the Gear was such as to
justify the gravest apprehension.
The Greek Cabinet, lately formed,
has again rendered its resignation, because of
. vote of want of confidence by the Chambers.
On the Sth, new Cabinet was constructed.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
of the Sth publishes table of the next Ma
t.onal House Of Representatives, in which 1t
gives the Democratic IA Congressman, the
Republicans 1872, and Greenbackers ID, with
California vet to elect.
A Simla dispatch of the 10th says
hopes were entertained there that the diff
Guilty With Afghanistan would be peacefully
solved. It was reported and believed that
Russia was exercising pressure upon the
Ameer with this end in view. It was also pub
liely announced that the Ameer had with
drawn his troops from Candahar, and that
Russia would occupy that city and Herak.
The Russians have reoccupied the
district adjacent to the Gulf Of saros.
The Russian occupation of Roumania
ceased, on the 7th.
A special from Winnipeg to the St.
Paul Pioneer Pres of the 10th, says a war
had broken out between the Sioux and Black
feet and Assiniboine Indians. Several of the
latter had been killed, and serious trouble
was feared.
A Constantinople telegram of the
18th announced the appointment of Midhat
Pasha a Governor-General of Syria.
The Porte has granted autonomy to
Eastern Roumelia.
George Fessler, the defaulting Treas
urer Of Stark County, Ohio, who pleaded
guilty to charge of embezzlement, was, on
the 18th, sentenced to twelve years. imprison-
ment In the Penitentiary and fined $4,000.