The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-09

trian occupation of Bosnia and Herzego-
vina is increasing and may yet cause mis-
chief.
GRANT WITH THE DANES.
COPENHAGEN, July 9.-Gen. Grant arrived
here to-day.
CARTRIDGE ORDER coUNTERMAEDED.
Orders have been issued countermaiiui;",ss
the orders recently given to Woolwich Ar
senal for forty million cartridges.
RAILROAD DISASTER.
A railroad accident is reported at Chester,
in which several were killed and forty in
jured.
ELECTIONS IN FRANCE.
PARIS, July 9-Twenty-two elections Of
Deputies were held in France Sunday re-
sulting in the election of seventeen Repub-
licans and three Conservatives For the
other two it will be necessary to have second
ballots.
SUICIDE IN THE SEINE.
Robert Carter, an American merchant in
the Rue Auber, committed suicide by jump
ing into the Seine.
CHINA AND JAPAN.
SAN Francisco, July 9-The steamer City
of Peking arrived yesterday, four days over
due from Hong Kong, and brings dispatches
as follows:
The Chinese authorities are making re-
newed efforts toward the conquest of South
ern Formosa. A fortified city is laid out on
the site of the encampment established by
the japanese expedition in 1874.
Tawanfu, capital of Chinese Formosa,
was devastated by a tornado the end of May.
There was great destruction OF property.
Several lives were lost.
hos i,,ct haay, r1oada tb II
Bishop Rouvells and other French mission
aries are held confined in the capital of
Corea and i'll danger OF death. A call is
made for their rescue.
Rain has at last fallen in the northern
provinces, and faint hopes are entertained
that The prolonged drouth with its miseries
may end, but up to this time there is no
abatement of distress.
YOKOHAMA, June 19.-All three of the
iron-clads built in England for Japan, are
now arrived and ready for service,
/ japanese press laws are about to be modi-
fed, all imprisonments of journalists abol-
ished and fines substituted. The regula-
tions are very moderate as whole, though
one or two arbitrary features remain.
Serious affrays have occurred in 1Okoha-
ma between the sailors of Russian and Brit
ish ships-of-war Blood is frequently shed.
"A new nllllaly COlltSe was opeHed d'
Toxic, June 10th, on plan similar 10 that
of West Point.
sAssULITCH PROCEEDS.
GENEVA, July 9.-As intimated in these
dispatches, the authorities of Geneva have
compelled Vera Sassulitch to leave Switzer
land. She was escorted to the frontier, and
as she elected to go to Paris she was permit
ted to depart in that direction.
sANTO DOMINGO
New YoRK, July 9.-Letters have been
received by a merchant of this city from,
Santo Domingo stating that elections have
been held, and Gen. Ignacio Maria Gonzales
was elected President for the term of two
years. Gonzales at the time was in the in
terror, and Commission was Sent to escor
him to the Capital.
Meanwhile fresh troubles broke out, whicl
threatened new revolution. Gonzalo!
was accused of having ceded to Hayti par
of the northern territory of San Domingo
without the consent of Congress, and entire
ly upon his own responsibility. This accu
sation had caused great excitement in the
Capital.
The action of Gonzales was declared to bt
unconstitutional and it was said threats
were made of shooting Gonzales if he should
enter the capital A telegram received by
A. Nomes says General Luperon is Presi
dent, and it is supposed revolution has al
ready broken out,