Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-05-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.
ALL the conditions imposed on Mica
ragua by the German feet have been scru.
pulously fulfilled, and the indignities offer
ed Consul Eisenstuck have been atoned.
The salute was fred, $50, 900 were paid, ex-
Alcaldi Balladares was fined $500 and de-
prived of political rights for five years, and
the sergeant in charge Of the armed police
who made the assault on Consul Eisenstuck
dismissed in disgrace. In consequence of
the payment of the $50, 900 the employees Of
the government are on half-pay, and the
public schools are closed for six months for
want of supplies.
THE French military paper, the Arenir
Miliydire, calls upon the government, in The
interest of the French cavalry, to put stop
to British purchases of horses in Normandy.
THE brig Patoma, from Tahita reports that
on February hurricane ragged in which
about 12O people were killed and much prop
erty destroyed.
A TERRIBLE gale prevailed along the
Spanish coast on the 2lst, and a number of
fishing vessels were lost with all hands. 1t
is estimated that about l50 fishermen per
ished.
A BANQUET was given to Gen. Grant at
Florence Italy, on the night of the 10th, by
the widow of J. L. Graham, late United
States consul at that point.
RELIABLE information from the interior
of the Mexican border states that an insur-
rection against the Diaz government is
steadily and surely ripening. 1t is under.
stood that Lcrdo's party are arming the
Mexican Indians to renew raiding, in order
to bring matters on the Rio Grande to their
former unstable state rs regards the Emitted
States.
THE royal yacht Osborne has been or.
dered to the Mediterranean to bring home
the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
THE American residents of Florence gave
banquet to Gen. Grant on the 18th.
THE pope will not personally take pos
session of the church of st. John Laterau,
but has commissioned Cardinal Chigi to Off
ciate.
WAR NOTES.
A VIENNA correspondent hears that Rus
sia, fearing the Turks will permit the Eng
lish to occupy the forts on the Bosphorus
in the event OF war, has asked Germany to
guarantee the line of demarkation during
negotiations. Prince Bismarck is consider
ing the request.
A LETTER from Bucharest reports that the
Russians have unsuccessfully attempted to
destroy powder factory at Bucharest.
Twelve persons were killed.
The Cronstadt Messenger announces that
the equipment of the Russian Baltic feet is
proceeding with all haste. 1t will go to sea
as soon as the ice breaks up, and consists of
seven vessels, including the Peter the Great,
one of the two most powerful vessels Of the
Russian iron-clad navy. The Peter the
Great is mastless, double-turret ship of
9510 tons burden. She carries four 35-ton
guns. Her srmor thickness at the water
line is IA inches; she was launched in 1874,
and resembles in design and construction,
the great mastless turret ships of the British
navy, more especially the Dreadnaught,
though of larger size.
RUSSIA begins to show dissatisfaction with
the situation, and is likely to send an ulti-
mstum TO Turkey relative to the evacuation
of Batoum and Varna. Should Turkey re-
fuse to give up these ports Immediately, it
is probable that she will have Engand's sup
port in her refusal but there could be no
further hope of peace, since Russia would
at once move upon the Bosphorus at KAYAK
and Buyukdere, and possibly upon Constaa
tinople.
THE United Srrice Gazette says that it has
good reason for stating that there will be
strong combined channel and Baltic force
Termed during the next two months.
AN English surgeon who has just returned
from Erzeroum, says that l3,00O sick and
wounded Turkish soldiers have died since
the evacuation Of that city, and the Rus
SLAMS have lost 81 900 men by sickness since
they entered the plain of Erzeroum.
A BUCHAREST dispatch says that the Rus
sian officials at Bucharest are preparing l6,.
600 transport carts to provide against the
Black Sea line of communication being
closed by the British fleet.
THE London Echo of the 18th says: /" We
are able to state on authority that invita-
tions to the congress will be issued tonight.
The treaties of 1856 and 1871 will be laid
upon the table and compared with the treaty
of San Stefano.
A CHARTERED steamer left Plymouth on
18th, with 1,500 tons of ammunition and
stores, and twenty-one steam launches and
torpedo boats for the Mediterranean fleet.
BOTH from Vienna and st. Petersburg
comes reports of great uneasiness and dis
satisfaction about Russia's position. The
Roumanians, alarmed about the occupation
Of their country and the possibility of an
attempt to disarm them, have withdrawn
their army to Little Wailachia, where they
boast that they will make another Plevna il
the Russians attack them.
THE EAST.
GEO. 7. HATHAWAY, of Fall River, Mass,
treasurer of the Sycamore and Borden City
mills, is a defaulter to the extent of about
100000. He was prominent citizen, and
HE detection created as much excitement
as did the Chace disclosure, made recently.
JOHN S. NORTON, formerly well-known
actor, died of appoplexy at New York on
the 22d. A year ago he attempted suicide
at Chicago.
THE Rev. P. I. Lyndon, vicar general Of
the archdiocese OF Boston, died on the
night of the 10th, after brief illness.
THE tariff demonstration at Chester, Pa,
on the Goth, was an imposing affair. Fully
four thousand men were in procession, and
after the parade an assemblage of about
10000 listened to the speakers.
FIVE hundred miners and laborers met
near Pottsville, Pa, on the 10th, for the pur-
pose of consulting and making plans to ask
the authorities Of the state to legislate in
their behalf for immediate aid, and to en-
able them to provide for themselves and
suffering families. The meeting was or
DERBY. Petitions were signed asking the