The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Albanians are marching to the
relief of the Bosnian insurgents.
The inhabitants of the Dobrudscha
are said to be organizing to resist the Roumanian
occupation of their territory.
There has been another revolution In
The Dominican Republic. The President,
Gonzales, surrendered, and has left the
country.
England is concentrating troops near
the Afghanistan frontier, in Northern India,
with view to early operations against the for
mer country.
A statue, in honor of the late Father
DeSmet, the world-renowned Jesuit missionary
to the Indians in North America, was recently
unveiled, in the presence of an immense audi
ence, at his native town in Belgium.
A dispatch from Ecuador, South
America says "the volcano of Cotopaxi is
again in state of eruption, throwing out I'M
mense clouds of smoke and ashes, which can
be seen from Guavaquil The eruption is the
most violent that has been known for some
years Vesuvius, a Naples dispatch announces,
is also in violent state of eruption, with lava
streaming down the sides of the mountain.
A Berlin dispatch reports that, after a
strict investigation into the Hoedel and Modelling
cases, no trace of conspiracy could be discov-
cred. s#
It is announced in dispatches from
Paris that an agreement has been entered into
by the French, English and American Govern
ments, by which all future trouble about the
Newfoundland fisheries will be avoided.
It looks as if war between England
and Afghanistan was among the probabilities,
if not an actual certainty. The cause of the
trouble seems to be about this: The Ameer of
Cabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, refused
permission to British commission to enter
Afghanistan from India, for purposes of OBJ
seryation and treaty England and Russia are
rivals for the future possession of that import
ant portion of Asiatic India and the Ameer ap-
pears to be favorable to Russia England is in
high dudgeon at the snubbing of the mighty
Ameer, and has about resolved upon sending a
force of red-coats for the invasion of Afghan
istan. ....t
Petermann, the famous German geog-
rapher, is dead
.9 It is said that Russia will permit her
merchants and manufacturers to sell arms and
ammunition to both the English and Afghans in
the impending war. HEF
A London dispatch says " the Rus
slams have selected Sofia as the capital of Bull
garia, instead of Tirnova, and are otherwise
seeking to contravene the treaty of Berlin and
thwart the International Commission in Eastern
Roumelia" ...
Sir Charles Wetham has been chosen
Lord Mayor of London.
The Russian troops are slowly falling
back from Constantinople.
The London money market has been
seriously affected by the Afghanistan disturb
ance.
It is officially denied at St. Peters
burg that Russia had anything to do with the
Ameer of Cabups rejection of the British COM
mission. *t.*
Gen. Sir Thomas Middleton Bid
dulph, Keeper of the Queens Privy Purse, is
dead He had been connected with Queen Vic
toria's household twenty seven years.
A correspondence at Calcutta telegraphs
that "unless Shere Ali gives us 1.-THE BRITISH sat
isfaction the present occasion will be seized to
secure for ourselves the passes piercing the
mountain ranges along the whole Afghanistan
frontier, from the Kuyber to the Bolan." }