Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-02
The Warm Europe.
OSATAN'S TROUBLES.

great battle of July 81, the fight before
| the Grivitza, redoubt on Septem ben II,
and several other minor engagements.
The discoveries made by the Russians
since occupying the Notifications of
Pleyna, information gained from Turk
ish officers, and above all the absence
of Russian prisoners, although
several hundred had been cap
tured during all the engagements,
leavs no reasonable doubt that the
Turks under Osn1an nPasha have been
guilty ofdeeds which, will render his
! now illustrious name forever Infamous.
1t will be remembered that in August,
1865, special military commission sat
in Washington to try, WiM, charged
with destroying the lives Of soldiers
confined in the Andersonville military
prison The crimes of which Wirz was
convicted, and for which he was after
ward hanged were less offensive to the
1code of modern warfare than those Inn
puted to- Osman Pasha. Every day
brings to light some new horror at
Plevna..Ga} 5a@H"1'0a g'ff"" a"i 10 f'a
Ilujsn ~ ENGLAND ANDjRUssIA.aad hos
"A Vienna dispatch dated December
T2Sth says it is stated from several sides
that England, although declining to
mediate, has confidentially sounded
Russia as to y the terms on which sire
would be inclined to make peace and
that the Russian cabinet has been far
less reserved, than might have been an
ticipated .,, ,,,.,,,,,..,. .,o~4,e. ,.
GUNS ORDERED.
4 Russia has ordered twelve hundred
Krupp field guns 3n0 zf1s% tHtJ "a
72"t1 THE CARNAGE OF PLEvNA. ggu,
o. Mr. Macgahan, the correspondent of
I the London Daily Ne,cs at Plevna, sends
under date of December Goth, a terrible
story of the state of. things prevailing
in and around the captured town. Be
fore the recent great storm Plevna was
simply charnal house. Modern war
fare has no parallel for it, and its .hor-
rors can only be compared to those
which followed in the wake Of Ghenghis
| Khan or Timour, as their savage Tartar
hordes swept over and desolated Asia
| The famished dogs, of which there are
always large numbers in every Turkish
town, were lc. ..rcI 81 ,st .at .es
| d. FEEDING ON THE CORPSES OF THE DEAD
and the bodies of the still living wound
ed. The savage howls of the greedy
brutes as they tore the putrid flesh of
the dead and crunched the
bones between their teeth, cries
and groanse of the wounded as they
vainly struggled with the dogs, might
| be heard for miles around, and made
the soul sick. Birds, were picking at
4 the skulls, hopping from body to body,
with beaks and aplumage besmeared
with human blood, and screaming with
! fiendish delight. Dogs fought, among
themselves, and bird, struggled with
bird for the possession of morsel<of
human flesh, and the most indescriba-
bic horror prevailed. In one house
alone thirty-seven dead and fifty-three
the wounded Turks were found, some of
latter In a half decomposed and putrid
state, and the wounded in condition
that can be more easily imagined than
described. Some of ...,. .......,.
THE WOUNDED, WERE ABLE TO CRAWL
ABOUT AND cIUTcHED AT ODD MoRsELs
/ & OF FOOD r-...,.5.-ss.. = .....l s.rss.. ~
that were found in the hands of the
dead deyouring it with feverish avidity
| but thousands Of them were utterly
| helpless, and awaited death or succor
with listless fatalism. One thousand
prisoners were huddled together on the
bank Of the Vid, and the horrors of
their position equaled those Of the
great plague which rayaged Europe in
| the fourteenth century. Living and
dead were piled together promiscuously
in heaps like wood, and carried away
There were only three carts available
for the work, and the confusion was in
describable. Osmans bravery is stained
and blackened by his treatment of the
Russian wounded that fell into his
| hands.
| FULL OF FIGHT E.t
A correspondent atAthens telegraphs
under date ofDec.J Goth the statement
| that demonstration in favor of war
| took place on Monday among soldiers
and civilians at Lamea, on the frontier.
A battery of Krupp guns has started for
| Challos. War becomes more probable
every day. It is commonly believed
that the cabinet hesitates to adopt any
decided policy. before the meeting Of
the British parliam ent. ah....
IHOGANf IASS. t".-.-.f-
| A correspondent at Bucharest tele-
graphs under date of Dec Goth: that
General Skobeloff, with a division of
infantry, two regiments of cavalry, and
half a brigade of artillery, has occupied
Trojan, near Trojan Pass. a,II~E II B {.
4-,,. : ERZEROUM. h r.,a...4..-5. +. .
A telegram from Erzeroum states that
the Russian lines have been pushed
forward and Erzeroum is almost invest
ed Russian infantry is massed in the
northern part of the plain. The bomb
ardment of the town and the conse-
quent interruption of Geographic ser
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