The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-24
NEWS SUMlNA AIRY
TIE WAR IN THE EAST.

The Turks have bombarded the town OF
Cheodosia, southeast of the Crimea. They
@F turned ten houses. killed one person and
wounded twelve. They have ESQ bombarded
Anapa, on the Black sea, in Circassia, but did
little damage to the town. tOne person was
killed there. .xGl oeI zoo esa sHGl 4.ffs
A battle is reported between the Russians
t under Gourko and Radetsky and the Turks I'M
81 der Suleiman Pasha, at point stween Tatar-
.Gl.U8B azardiik and, Philippopolis The fighting
VISA lasted two days. Suleirnan Pasha after
Hu ward took up positions near Philippopols, and
s1l ordered the inhabitants to leave that town,
p which was subsequently ordered to be burned.
"a correspondent who left Erzeroum just be-
fore it's investment telegraphs that the town is
now little better than huge hospital. About
100 soldiers die daily, and two or three are
frozen to death every night. Typhus fever is
raging. As the corpses buried are barely COW
cred with earth, the consequences must be ter
rible when thaw commences. ss4sT {ssffg4.
e.r The official account Of the capture of Schipka
o. pass states that four Pashas $50 officers, u.s.
e. 600 prisoners, and eighty-one guns were cap
,5t tured. The Russian loss inkilled and wounded
rib qia was 6, 464 men. 7s Of .g).nrmtg09
3jja9g Two squadrons of Cossacks having arrived
ynJ at Tirnoya-Semenli to escort the Turkish
3'i peace delegates to Kezanlk, the Turkish COM
mandant at the former place believed an at
tack was intended, and blew up the railroad
bridge. ~
The London Times Pera correspondent says
9rf"Queen Victoria telegraphed the Sultan he
was already acquainted With the action of the
British Government, and that she had herself
a0-~ urged the Gear to make prompt and honor
able peace"u 1l!f u TAa134ttg.H3
Lar III A Russian official dispatch announces that
,, Gen. Skobeleff entered Phiippopolis, and ex-
tnguished the flames in the Bulgarian dwell
ings fred by retreating Turks. j ii
A Shumla dispatch says that the Turks have
Ta evacuated Kazan, south of Osman Bazaar. The
,ryv Russians thereby secure the head of another
~, Balkan pass. All the war material, ETC., has
been removed from Osman Bazaar to Esk
Djuma.
The Turkish delegates met the Grand Duke
2 w Nicholas at TMnova-Semenli, and preliminary
" notes were exchanged. The Grand Duke then
announced that he had decided to treat only
at Adrianope, which should be Immediately
evacuated. The delegates having assented
orders were telegraphed to Djemil Pasha to
evacuate Adrianople. Upon this decision be-
ing communicated to the foreign Consuls, they
telegraphed their Ambassadors for instruc-
tions, and were ordered to remain and protect
their countrymen 1'' tftDL
...H f The London Times Bucharest correspondent,
telegraphs from Giurgevo as follows "The
mortality among the Turkish prisoners at
Frateshti is fearful. The station of Frateshti
is becoming a terror to travellers between
Bucharest and the Danube. Even if there is
nothing worse than ordinary typhus the NOR
taGty evidenced by the numerous graves in
the plain surrounding the prisoners camp
justifes the apprehensions of travellers
saw Russian soldiers digging huge graves, and
near them fifty Turkish corpses lying in con-
fused heaps as they were emptied from dead
cars. Their ragged, half-starved forms, and
the frost-bites visible on their naked limbs,
gave evidence of the hardships they had suf-
fered on their dreadful march from Nikopolis.'
1t is reported from Constantinople that, in
consequence of decisions taken at the Great
Council Of the I7th, 1zzed Bey was sent to the
Russian headquarters with fresh instructions to
the Turkish Plenipotentares, giving them full
powers to sign, whereas they, at first, were in
structed to refer conditions to the Porte. It
is said that this resolve was taken in conse-
quence of the pacific tone Of England at the
opening of the British Parliament, and also be-
cause Russia has given notice that she will in
sst on the immediate acceptance or rejection
of the terms
Mukhtar Pasha, Notwithstanding the defeats
which he suffered in Armenia, has been ap-
pointed to the chief command of the Turkish
forces at Constantinople
1t is reported from Athens than an insur-
rection has broken out in Thessa1y. Five hun
dred insurgents are concentrated midway be-
tween the villages of Vizitza and Pnacotes,
near Volo. The Turks have taken refuge in
the fortress of Volo. Two hundred Christian
families have arrived at Athens. -
The Servian troops have captured Pristina,
also reoccupied Kershuml, after an engagement
in which the Turks lost 400 killed and wound
ed. Four hundred and fifty Turks were cap
tured.
1t is officially announced that the Servians,
" upon reoccupying Kershumli, found twenty
four Servian soldiers and officers impaled.
special from Shumla says the smallpox
has broken out there, and in surrounding
villages. A number Of refugees are arriving
there from Bebrova, and Osnlan Bajoar. Many
die on the road from cold and hunger.
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
4, Gen. Garibsldi has written to King Humbert