The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
less the Turkish troops were.:removed and the

province surrendered. -.
On the night of the 26th, while
Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Ministcf, was en-
PERTAINING Count Andrassy. tho Austrian
Prime Minister, at his palace In Pesth, . bomb,
loaded with dynamite, was exploded in the
alley adjoining the banqueting chamber. No
lives were lost, but the structure was badly
damaged.
Prince Charles, of Roumania, has is
sued his proclamation formally annexing the
Dobrudscha, and proclaiming liberty and
equality for Mohammedans and Christians.
A st. Petersburg letter to the Vienna
Political Correspondence, published on the 2Sth,
says Russia had decided to actively support
the Ameer of Afghanistan, in the event that
England occupied any points in that country
from which the Russian dominion I'm Asia
could be effectually threatened.
Supervising Architect Hill and A. G.
Mills, contractor, we're arrested in Washing
ton, on the 9th, on an indictment found in
the United States District Court at Chicago,
charging them with conspiracy t. defraud
the Government. They gave bail of &5 ,OOO
each for their appearance to answer Dec. IL.
A Peshawur dispatch of the evening
Of the 29th ult. says Gen. Brownies communi-
cation in the rear of Fort Ali Musjid had been
cut. An attempt made on that day to force
the pass between that fort and Jumrood had
failed.
James Ramsay, a Dundee (Scotland)
merchant, failed, on the 29th ult. Liabilities,
100000.
William A. Potter, formerly Chief
Supervising Architect was arrested in Wash
ington, on the 9th ult., and held in 81, zoo
bail, on charge similar to that against
Messrs. Hill and Mills, arrested the day before.
The Joint Commission on the Transfer
Of the indian Bureau to the War Department,
held meeting in Washington, on the Goth
ult. No testimony was taken, but resolu-
ton was adopted inviting the Secretaries of
War and of the Interior aud Gems. Sherman
and Meigs and Commissioner Hayt to testify.
London dispatches of the LIST say
that information had been received that Gen.
Roberts column had been surrounded in the
Khyber Pass, aud was In imminent danger of
being destroyed. There had been heavy en-
gagements at various points, in which the ad-
vantage was with the Afghans. The crags of
Peiwar were swarming with skilled barbarian
artillerymen. The further advance of the
Quettah column would, it was believed, be de-
layed until spring.
Two mobs were fighting each other
in'the Town of Jackson, KY, during the week
ending on the Both ult. Up to that time
eleven persons had been killed, the County
Judge being one of them. The women, chill
dren and male non-combatants had fed for
safety.
Dispatches of the LIST report further
Indian raids on the Niobrara River, in Ne
braska. Several head of horses, ETC., were
run of.
A tremendous snow and sleet storm
prevailed along the line of the Missouri Pa
ci6c Railroad west of Otterville, and extend
ing into Kansas, on the night of the 3Oth ult.
A collision occurred between the
steamers Morgan and Cotton Valley, at
Bringier's Point, opposite Donaldsonville,
La, on the Mississippi River, on the morning
of the LIST. The latter boat was sunk, and
twenty lives were lost, four of them being
passengers, and the remainder roustat outs.
mostly colored.
A Geneva (Switzerland dispatch of
the I'd says the Swiss Government had notified
the Vatican that they would receive no more
Papal Nuncios.
A very severe easterly gale prevailed
over New England on the I'd. Three schoon-
ers were wrecked near Porthmouth, N. H.,
and large number Of fishermen were driven
ashore. Telegraphic communication was al
most entirely suspended