Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-10-23
NEWS in BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

oENHRAL FoRxIoN NOTES.
| SIMULTANEOUSLY with the presentation Of
his credentiala, the Ottoman ambassador to
Vienna was ordered to declare to Count
Andrassy that the porte would be compelled
to oppose, by arms, the advance of Austrian
troops upon Novi Bsxar.
! A PANIC prevails in the iron trade in
Great Britain ewing to the repeated heavy
failures.
A LONDON dispatch OF the 14th says: :
Heugh, Balfour & Co.'S. liabilities are now
estimated at over $10,0OO,OOo. Six of the
largest firms of Blackburn are creditors and
lose from $25, 900 to 500, 600 each
An understanding has been reached re-
garding the reduction of the Austrian army
of occupation in Bosnia. Eighty thousand
troops will be Withdrawn from Bosnia. The
remsinfng divisions will be reduced to q
peace footing.
| the Russians have recommended marching
! on Adrianople presumably from the north.
Gen. Todleben forced the Turks to evacu.
ate Baboeski. Guns have been mounted on
| the Constantinople line by the Turks.
U.S MINISTER MOVES, at Paris, up to the
18th had received 5000 francs for the bent.
fit of the fever stricken districts of America.
THE United States consul at st. Thomas
telegraphs concerning the insurrection at
Santa Cruz: "The rioters are apparently
controlled. About 25C are killed. Planters
are searching the country for the rioters.
Four.6fths of the mills, dwellings, cane,
| rum and sugar on the plantations is destoy.
ed; also the business houses in Frederik.
stadt. Many families are destitute and all
business is temporarily suspended"
A PANIC, occasioned by a fight and
scutfling under the gallery of the coliseum
theatre at Liverpool on the 11th inst. In
the stampede that followed IS men and lads
and two ladies were suffocated. Many oth.
ers were injured.
RUSSIA claims the treaty of Berlin did not
fix the duration of Russian occupation of
places outside of eastern Roumelia, and
therefore the occupation of such places is
regulated by the treaty of San Stefano.
THK porte's circular, recently delivered to
the powers, reserves the Sultan's sovereign
rights over Bosnia and Herzegovina, and
concludes with solemn warning against
the occupation of Novi-Bazar as certain to
cause terrible disasters.
ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says twenty
three storehouses, thlrty-one wooden houses,
and seventy warehouses, valued at over two
million roubles, were burned in Blazan,
near Moscow.
A DESPATCH from Constautinople says:
SIN both Turkish and Greek circles the
idea is gaining ground that war is inevita.
BILE. An influential party in Turkish coun-
Gil, headed by Osman Pasha, even holds
that purely defensive policy is impossible
for purely military reasons. The central
news agency has a report that Russian vi
dettes are within Is miles of Constantinople.
The British government is anxious and re-
solved to Immediately demand an explana-
ton. Vienna dispatch says Russia is still
urging Roumania to conclude convention
granting the right of passage for Russian
troops through her territory for the mini.
mum period of two years. Count Andrassy
has so far induced Roumela to withhold
her consent. The Russian army in Roumelia
still amounts, contrary to the treaty, to
l53, 600 men.
FIVE Wesleyan missionaries were mur.
dered and eaten by bush natives, near the
Malicola coast, New Zealand. Eighty of the
tribe were killed by traders and coast ma
tives in retaliation.
A CORREs PONDENT OF Peru telegraphs
that the Afghan envoy has not urged the
sultan to conclude an alliance with Russia,
but that Russian officers from Central Asia
declare that an understanding exists be.
tween the ameer of Afghanistan and Russia
and an Anglo-Russian war is certain.
WASHINGTON.
THE October returns to the department
of agriculture indicates the average of the
cotton crop, the same as September. Com.
pared with October, 1877, the growing crop
shows an improvement of II per cent. The
October condition equals that of the sp!en.
did crop of 1870 and exceeds any interven.
ing year. Insect injuries ale uuimportant.
With the increased acreage planted the
crop now premises to produce more than
five million bales.
1T ia now officially known that awards to
American exhibitors at the French exposi.
ton number $50, namely; Ten grand
prizes, 80 diplomas of honor, lS4 gold
medals, 200 silver medals, 22O bronze
medals, and l56 honorable mentions. The
aggregate is larger than the whole number
of American exhibitors at the Paris exposi-
ton in 1867, or at the Vienna exposition of
1873, and is q larger proportion of awards to
exhibitors than to any other nation repre-
sented at this exhibition.
TIE Supreme Court Of the United STAGES
met ct Washington on the 14th inst, and in
accordance with usage adjourned to pay
respects TO the president, the latter received
the judges in the blue room, where they
pleasantly spent a short time in general
conversation. Before adjournment for the
day Fred B. Mason, of Chicago and II. 8.
Chauford, Of Cincinnati, we're admitted to
practice.
THE New York bank statement for the
week ending October 18th, was the mostun-
favorable one issued for some time past, the
surplus reserve being reduced from 81 1885,.
050 the week previous to 1881 900. A
heavy decrease in specie is owing to absorb
ton of gold by the treasury for customs and
settlements by the syndicate, and legal
tender decrease is due to a continued out.
Aow to assist in moving the crops.
| OK the 11th instant, the cabinet discussed
the illicit distillery troubles in Arkansas.
Concerning the request for troops from that
state, the attorney general has decided that
the civil authorities must exhaust all means
to enforce the laws before the military can
be called upon. Should it be shown that
the civil authorities are powerless to exc
cutethe laws, the President will then issue
his proclamation commanding the offenders
to cease their violations of law, and If not
obsyed the military will be employed to
break up such Illicit stills.
/ TIE request Of the commissioners of in.
tsrnal revenue TO Little Rock, for troops to
aid him in destroying illicit distilleries, will
be considered by the cabinet. The war de-
paxtment officials express the opinion that It
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