Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-24
european Gable News.
kSQre War Munitions,

LONDON, March 23.-The govern.
ment has purchased from Sir Will
liam Armstrong four one-hundred
ton guns at a cost Of eighty thous-
and dollars each, and is negotiating
for number of smaller weapons,
identical with those already in SER
vice, while Worth Il Co. have ac-
cepted a large contract for iron
gun carriages to be completed at an
early date. Woolwich arsenal is
rapidly preparing wagons for trans
port service and several other con-
tracts for army stores are in course
of completion, notably one for a
large number of pack saddles. De-
fries & Co. are executing large or
ders for hospital equipments.
LONDON, March 2Sd.-The land
ing of force OH the Asiatic side of
the Sea of Marmora has unques-
tionably been considered by the
government. Railway material,
to be laid on parallel line with
the Bosphorus, has been purchased.
The mortality am long the Russians
in Bulgaria is very great principally
from fever. In Constantinople ty-.
phus Is increasing. .-.--e~-,, ..-,-,
Preparations for War.
LONDON, March 23d.-Orders for
new torpedo vessels for the navy
have been distributed among vari.
Gus ship. builders, principally on the
Thames. Two firms have under.
taken to contract for eight thou
sand torpedo sinkers, average
weight eleven hundred pounds.
They are being slowed away in va
rious parts of the royal arsenal,
where they Will be convenient for
shipment to stations at home and
abroad. The Russians are having
one hundred torpedo boats built on
the model of one purchased in
England, but no part Of the order
has come to this country, as inter-
national complications might hin
der its fulfillment. ~.,.-..
International walking Contest
Ended -.O'Aea~y psoiaxsa Ntne
Winner.
LONDON, March -23I. 0 O'CLOCK
The International pedestrian con.
test has come to q rather sudden
close. At seven the score showed
O'Leary to have 5l6 miles,
Vaughan 497 and Brown 472.
OLeary still had one good leg.
Vaughan completed five hundred
miles at 1888 and gave up the strug-
gIe. O'Leary walked until $40,
when he had made $40 miles apd
two laps, 440 yardsturther than the
best performance on record. Brown
walked till $3.50, scoring ATT miles
and two laps. Ide also walked till
$3.50, scoring AIS miles and foul
laps. O'Leary was then declared
the winner amid the playing Of ma
tional airs and boundless excite
ment and enthusiasm.
A New stale ia she B,lkHns.
LONDON, March 23d. The Times
in an editorial, says the treaty pro-
poses q new State in the Balkans
peninsula, which would dwarf all
others and which, supported by
external influence, would inevita-
bly, strangle all other interests
New Bulgaria would extend con-
siderably beyond the limits within
which the Sclav population is pre-
ponderant. Wherever the presumed
limits Of such preponderance were
not ooincident with good geo.
graphical boundary, the boundary
line has been pushed forward to the
injury of other populations and
States. The general result Is that
the new principality would occupy
German Affairs.
BERLIN, March 23d.-Herr Hoff-
man has declined the Ministry of
Finance. 1t is said that Herr Hof-
recht, Chief Burgomaster of Berlin,
has accepted.
The lower house to-day. began
debateupo the supplementary esr
Inmates required for the organic
changes in the ministry. Bismarck
vigorously supported the measure,
and declared that ,unless a-differ-
ent administration of the railways