Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-10-02
FOREIGN NEWS.
. .oruER GREAT WAR THREATENED.

me British mission was refused passage,
. .lio commandment of Alimusjid told
I Major Cavagnari that, but for personal
:M.cpdship, he would shoot him on the
i,,on War is believed to be inevitable.
mSFnCalcutta correspondent adds: lift be
me that the commandant of Alimusjid
u the presence of one of the Ameer's
,nost trusted servants, threatened to
Moot Major Cavagnari, there can be
i;ttle doubt that the threat was in &C.
nordance with direct instructions from
the Ameer. :.
This latest news leaves little doubt We
INST expect war. Operations, in fact,
i,, been commenced already. The
lmeer doubtless intended to make the
hreach with England irreparable. Such
will be tie effect of his conduct. We
ongbt to be we'll able to succeed
in occupying two or three
important points III Afghanistan
before winter, which will 60 long way
towards finishing the war. We can
continue it in the spring if the Ameer
!. still obdurate. The blow, when given.
must be efectual. Even the Daily
Nsms favors prompt and vigorous
action. A dispatch from SimJa,
in Hindostan, says Gholam Hussein
khan. who went to Cabul with the
viceroy's letter, has been recalled. A
force under General Roberts has been
dispatched to KORAN valley. A
column numbering 5000 men has been
ordered at Mooltan and 1000 go to
Quota. Active military preparations
are making at Rawul Pindee.
VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.
Ad>ices from Ecuador dated Sept.
18th state that the volcano Colopaxi Is
in violent state of eruption.
A Naples dispatch of the 25th inst,
saws that the volcanic activ-
itv of Vesuvius continues to increase.
The crest of the cone has given way,
and new cone is forming.
HUNGARY PROTESTS.
A Vienna cablegram under date of
the 10Th says that the Hungarian radi-
Gals hold mass meeting at Pesth Sun
day next, to protest against the occupa-
ton of Bosnia. Deputies Helfy and
Simonyi lead the movement. Resolu-
tons are to be submitted declaring that
the occupation of Bosnia will be fatal
to the Hungarian nation; protesting
against the sacrifice of Hungarians
blood and money against their wishes;
demanding the withdrawal of troops
from Bosnia, and declaring the inten-
ton to organize movement to petit
ton the Hungarian diet for the i'm
parchment of the Tiszia cabinet.
THE PEACE THAT A CONGRESS MAKES.
The difficulties in Turkey do not ap-
pear to grow any less complicated.
From the dispatches of the Oath the fol-
lowing items are eluded to show the
unsettled condition of that peace which
a congress was supposed to effect. The
Servlan government, at the request of
the Mohammedan chief, will receive
women and children fleeing from the
besieged towns in the northeast of Bos-
MA. Many hundred Mohammedan
families have already arrived in Servia.
The Porte, to-day, received telegram
from the Prince Of Montenegro, insist
ing upon a prompt surrender of the
territory coded to that country by the
treaty of Berlin.
1t sreported that bands are organized
IN Dobrudscha to resist the Roumanlan
occupation, and that they have plenty
oil arms and ammunition.
ANOTHER COMPLICATION FOR THE ENGLISH.
A Calcutta cablegram of the 22nd
says; An officer of the Ameer of
Alghanistan at Alimusjid has refused to
allow the British mission to Cabul to go
through the khyber Pass, and crowned
me heights which commanded the pass
with his followers. After three
hours interview with the officer, in
which he warned him that his act
would be regarded as the act of the
Ameer himself, Maj. Cavagnari, COM
handing the advance escort of the
mission, returned to Jamrood, and the
mission has withdrawn to Peshawaun.
IMPORTANCE OF THE ABOVE.
a special from Calcutta says the
main body of the mission to Cabul had
proceeded as far as Jamrood. Its re-
urn thence was geographically ordered
ny 'ne Vlceroy. The mission will now
u. Ie Withdrawn. 1t is fully recognized that
Hle Ameer of Afghanistan is merely
uv puppet of Russia. The question
wa consequently cease to be treated
noll an Indian standpoint, and become
very serious problem of English for
ign politics. The immediate object of
s rie lceroy Is to make it clearly under
I ,s that he has no quarrel with the
.Ahisnanlstan people, and to win over all
r nie border tribes. Maj. Cavagnari re-
pea'edly warned the Afghanistan Off.
Vel mat the Amer would be held
rcsponslole. The officer, in the
resehce of two Indian Princes
',,ac to the mission, expressed his