The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS

The young Queen of Spain, Mercedes,
dead. She was greatly beloved, and will be
deeply mourned.
Earthworks are being constructed at
the northern outlets of the Carpathian passes,
and the mountain roads are being made practl-
cable for artillery on both sides of the frontier
A Berlin dispatch says the English
man, Bishop, charged with bribing officials to
obtain the plans of the Notifications in Ger
many, has been convicted and sentenced to two
years and half imprisonment.
The Sultan has summoned l5,UOU
fresh troops to Constantinople on account OF
the agitation and excitement caused by the
movement in favor of Murad.
The European congress has settled
affairs in Eastern Europe SO far as Bulgaria is
concerned, and. has erected that long suffering
Christian province into an autonomous prin-
cipality. with the Danube and the Balkans
as it's northern and southern limits The
claims of Servia and Montenegro are also in
the way OF settlement. The only state that re-
mains IN doubt is Greece, and she is clamoring
to have reorganization of Thessaly and Epi-
rus, and an extension of her frontier.
A recent letter from Havana says the
campaign of the Spaniards against the Cubans,
without any battles, cost the latter 80,0 900 men,
and the island is a vast cemetery. Five steam
ers are reported on the way from Spain to
carry home troops. Martinez Campos has be-
gun the reduction of Government expenses on
the island by giving up one-half of his own
salary as Captain. General.
The gold medal of the French Geo
graphical Society was presented to Henry M
Stanley. the explorer, in Paris, the other day,
in the presence of brilliant assemblage.
A splendidly contested match took
place in London, on June %, between Capt.
Bogardus the famous American pigeon-shot,
man. 1t resulted in a victory for Bogardus,
who killed seventy birds out of 100 Pennel
killing sixty-eight.
A Paris dispatch of the LIST inst. says;
"The national festival in honor of the Exhi
bition yesterday was a great success. Hun
dreds of thousands of people poured into tie
city, and, when the unwilling of the statue OF
the Republic began, the mass of spectators
was immense. Demarcere, Minister of the In
terror, unveiled the statue and delivered an
eloquent speech. He declared that the Repub-
hcan party had now become the nation, and re-
generated France was determined to enjoy the
benefits of her dearly-bought institutions ir
peace"
Austria will send civil officers with
the army which is to occupy Bosnis
and Herzegovina, and proceed immediately
with the reorganization of the government Of
the provinces. "H8
The congress has decided to cede tc
Russia that portion of Bessarabia which she
lost in 1856, extending from the Pruth to the
Kilia valley. The congress has also decided
to transfer the Dobrudscha to Roumania.
A petition from the British Anti.
Slavery Society asks the Berlin Conference tc
declare the slave trade piracy, and refuse tc
recognize slavery as a legal Institution in any
state represented in the congress. The
memorialists assert that the slave trade fol
the supply of Cuba and Mohammedan coun
tries consumes half million negroes from At
RIGA annually. ,ltiI 8.f >gH .HJ