The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08
SUPERIOR. WISCONSIN.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.
SEVENTEEN hundred GOLFERS struck at
Chadderton, in Lancashire, against the pro-
posed reduction of II per cent. in the wages.
No Importance is attributed to the FEEDER
alist outbreak in CATALONIA, Spain. The
number of insurgents is insignificant. They
have been driven to the mountains, pursued
by troops.
A FIRE at Constantinople on the night of
the 23d destroyed the greater portion of the
government buildings, including those of
the ministries of justice and council of
state. The ministry of foreign affairs, grand
vizerate and the archives were saved. The
origin of the fire is unknown, but it is be-
ieved to have been accidental.
A SPECIAL from Rio Grande City, Mexico,
says the town of Reynosa was captured on
the 22d by the Lerdo revolutionists, and
prestime of S., 900 levied. The party has
since moved southwark.
NEWS from Australia: Cricket, the
champion scullor, lost two of the fingers of
his left hand in Sydney, stopping his row.
ing. Heavy earthquakes at Lama, New He
brides, are reported. The land rose twenty
feet, seriously impairing the harbor The
Victorian government has reappointed three
county court judges, three crown prosecu-
tors, and eleven stipendiary magistrates,
and other departments will be rehabilitated.
This is the end of the parliamentary dead
lock. Typhus fever is raging in New South
Wales. Parliamentary motion for the re-
lease of a lunatic in Paramata Jail, supposed
to be Arthur Orion, has been made.
The earthquake in Venezuela. mention of
which has been made before, occurred on
tht 14th The town of Qua, eight leagues
from Caracas, was entirely destroyed, as
were all the surrounding farms. The river
Tuy became heated to such degree that
fishes sought refuge outside of the water.
Shocks were felt in Caracas, and were the
heaviest since 1912. Property in Caracas
destroyed amounts to 100000.
THE upper house of the Hungarian diet
has passed the bill for credit of so, oOO, 900
forms.
DISPATCH from Calcutta dated the 18th
says: During the performance in theater
at Ahmedneugger, the building caught fire
and forty persons were burned to death.
ALREADY complaints are heard of the
intense hes' beneath the glass roof of the
Champs de Liars palace, Paris exposition.
WAR NOTES.
THE fire among the buildings of the Sub.
lime porte at Constantinople proved to have
been the work of an incendiary One and
half million of dollars deposited there
was lost.
SPECIAL from Rome says Austria, fear
ing, in the event of war, possible attempt
on the part of Italy to seize Trent and the
surrounding territory, has doubled her gar
risons and quartered $4,000 troops in the
Austrian Tyrol
THE Agence Russe says so far all seems to
augur well for the assembling of the con
greSs.
1T is authoritatively stated that Count
Schouvaloff brings from the car counte,
proposals couched in conciliatory terms
proposing that al! questions pertaining to
European Turkey be submitted and treated
by the proposed European congress, and
that all questions relating to Turkey-in- "A STA
be made the subject of separate conven.
ton between England and Russia.
A DISPATCH from Trebizond states that
the Russians at Erzeroum have received re.
Inducements of ten thousand men. Putrid
fever is ravaging the garrison at that place.
The instruction in Laziston against the
Russians is spreading. 1t is estimated that
between 10000 and $4,000 Lazis are under
arms. These are prosecuting a guerilla
warfare against the Russians about Artvln
and Batoum.
A SPECIAL from Constantinople reports
that the Russians have defeated the insur.
gents near the sources of the river Arda
Many of the latter were killed and captured
RUSSIAN troops continued the forward
movement toward Belgrade forest on the
22d. Gen. Skobelof, reinforced with artil
Iery, has stationed his troops close to the
Sweetwaters. Osman, Baker, Mouktar and
Fuad Pashis inspected the Turkish lines
and ordered attachments in the front not to
retire. A Russo-Turkish commission will
fix the exact line of demarcation.
THE London Standard announces that il
is now more than probable that the peace
congress will meet during the fore part Of
June; also that owing to the unsettled state
of public affairs in Constantinople, the
English feet will probably move to the
Princess island.
BUCHAREST advices state that the Rus
slams continue to move troops and guns
from the Danube into Bulgaria. None are
coming nOrthward. There are no Russians
at Pitisti.
HE Roumanian army, by order of Prince
Charles, has ordered forward march east
ward along the Carpathian mountains.
THE English government still continues
its war preparations with great activity.
Quantities of government stores are being
sent to Liverpool where they are held in
readiness to equip steamships belonging to
American lines which have been chartered
and will be used for offensive or defensive
measures.
The Russian headquarters are still at San
Stefano, but the entire army has moved
nortsward except few companies. Gen.
Todleben has explained that the summons
to the Turkish commander to surrender
Prindjlikoi was the result of misunder
standing.
WASHINGTON.
The adoption by the house of the resolu-
ton calling on the attorney general for a
list of pardons issued under the present
administration, and history of each case, is
likely to have the effect of causing the ad
ministration to discontinue the issue of
pardons. 1t appears that the number of
pardons already issued during the first year
and half of this administration exceeds
the number issued during the four years of
the presidents predecessors. AS many as
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