Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-05-29
NEWS In BRIEF.
a8NERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

| NEWS In BRIEF.
/ aBNERAL FOREIGN NOTES.
THE earthquake in Venezuela. mention OF
which has been made before, occurred on
tht l4th. The town of Cua, eight leagues
from Caracas, was entirely destroyed, as
we're all the surrounding FARMS The river
Iuy 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 60, 600 900
forms.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta dated the 10th
says; During the performance in theater
st Ahmedneugger, the building caught FIRE
and forty persons were burned to death.
ALREADY complaints are heard of the
intense. heat beneath the glass roof of the
Champs de Mars palace, Paris exposition.
| WH1TTAKER's mill and Grove Co.'s mill.
at Washington, Eng, have been burned by
the striking operators. The Warburton
mill was fred and badly damaged There
was no rioting at Washington, but the fires
were doubtless incendiary. All is quiet at
Burnley. The mob is very threa.e ming at
Blackburn. One thousand cotton opera.
/ tors at Greenhead, near Glasgow, have
struck against a reduction of ten per cent.
in their wages
BUSINESS in Guatemala is very depressed.
Several failures have occurred, one, that of
the sugar refining company, for $780, 200.
ADvIcEs from Japan say that minister
Okubo was murdered in the street by five
assassins, while on his way to cabinet
meeting. All of the assassins were arrested,
The sentence of Garcia, of Paris, the com.
munist, convicted of taking part IN the as.
sassination OF two generals, has been com.
muted to hard labor for life.
AN ammunition factory at Rue Berrepper.
Paris, was destroyed by An explosion on the
14th instant. Two bodies were exhumed
next day, and it was supposed that fifteen
more victims were buried in the debris.
THE race for the Chester trades cum at
Chester, Engy was won by Pagean on the
18th.
WAR NOTES.
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 fleet 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 Ptisti.
The Konmanian army, by order of Prince
Charles, has ordered a 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
Prind jlikci was the result of misunder. |
standing.
A TELEGRAM dated at Constantinople |
says that Il regiment of Cossacks advanced |
to the Turkish lines near Belgrade, on the |
18th inst, and summoned the Turks to with |
draw toward Buyukdere. The Turkish off. |
Ger replied that he must apply to the porte |
for instructions before doing so. The Porte |
has also received advices that the Russians
are advancing nearly to Gallipoli but the
Russians insist that these moves are made
for hygienic reasons.
ACCORDING to the Vienna Wiener 7as.
btatt, the passes reported taken by the in.
surgents are Derben, Balkans and Troian's
Gate. All attempts to dislodge them have
been unsuccessful. The Turkish commits.
sioners have thus far failed to accomplish
their mission.
The Russian preparations to attack British
commerce attract great attention. The Lon.
don Times says that 1.-The United States may
be depended IN to do all in its power to
observe the treaty of Washington, but even
ii the Russians succeed in equipplng their
little feet it will hardly do much mischief
and is much more likely to fall victims to
our cruisers than to inhict damage on our
merchant men. We might have some
trouble at first but a short time will suffice
to clear the sea and make the passage of
our vessels from one port to another as safe
as now"
THE Russian papers are full of news
about the volunteer feet; subscriptions for
r tinu mt in oil .%r nf
Russia.
RENEWED activity prevails in the Ser
vian arsenals. The order has been issued
in one factory to increase the production of
Peabody rtiniammunitio to the amount
of 10000 rounds per day.
WASHINGTON.
BREvEr MAJ. GEN. EDWARD HATCH,
VIM. stickney, of Washington, and N. C.
Mcfarland, OF Topeka, Kansas, have been
appointed commissioners to treat with the
Ute Indians. An effort will be made to con.
solidate the southern and northern Utes on
the reservation of the latter, on or near
White river.
The treasury department has had some
difficulty in the purchase of silver bullion
for coming. Parties owning bullion wanting
gold for it, as bullion contains on an average
of about sixty per cent. Of silver to forty
per cent. OF gold. The treasury would how
ever pay only in the standard silver dollar.
A BILL introduced in the house by Will
son, on the goth, provides for an election in
West Virginia in October, 1873, for repre-.
sentatives in the 46th congress.
ROBERT PETIT, pay director, U. s. N.
died ut Warrington on the 18th, after long
illness. He entered the navy in 1887.
THE receipts of the patent Office from
January to May l, 1873, were sos, $685.
The expenditures in the same period, ex-