The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-01-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

A CORRESPONDENT at Athens is assured
that many Cretan chiefs, dissatisfied with
the policy of Greece, have adopted as pro-
gramme, freedom under protection of Eng
land. Atheniad clubs propose to make
threatening demonstrations in favor of war,
which the authorities intend to suppress.
THE tone of the English press still shows
grave fears of war, and even the Times,
hitherto peaceably inclined, seems ready to
join the war party.
A PARIS dispatch of the goth says son
of M. Provost Paradol, aged II years, shot
himself the cause of the act is unknown
1t will be remembered that NJ. Provost Para
dol, the father, committed suicide when
minister of France to the United States.
THE gable of the Mines hotel, Edinburg,
Scotland, which was weakened by fire, fell
on the Goth, burying several persons in the
ruins.
THE Pail Mall Gazette says the summon
ing of parliament probably means no more
than warning to other powers that England
does not propose to allow the eastern ques-
ton to be settled by the three emperors,
and that she must have some voice in the
disposal of her own future 1t is said that
the queen will open parliament in person.
JAMES BALLANTINE, the well-known au-
thor, diea at Edinburg, on the 18th inst
GEN. GRANT reached Naples on the 18th
inst. and is now visiting Mount Vesuvius
ADyICES from San Domingo to November
30, report a distressing condition of affairs.
Revolution has now spread all over the
Car1oc Poa Of
dent, and governor of the province of Aria,
was killed by insurgents in his own house.
San Domingo city prisons are crowded.
Many prisoners have been executed in the
interior, among them Gen. Meionciano.
The greatest excitement prevails. Baez'
fall seems inevitable.
The Republiqae Francois, Gambetta' s
organ, considers that President MacMahon' s
message is frankly republican in tone, and
consonant with the true doctrine of national
sovereignty. The same journal highly eulo-
gizes Gen. Borel, the new minister of war.
WAR NOTES.
THE Russian concentration for an attack
on Erzeroum on the north has failed, and an
attack is now improbable. The Russians
are suffering for provisions and forage.
The Russians under Gen. Komarof cap
tured Ardanutch by assault on the 18th
inst. The Russian losses were insignificant.
CORRESPONDENT reports Suleiman
Pasha with 10000 men arrived at CONSTANT
nople from Varna. He goes to Adrianople
to take command of the army of Roumelia.
THE Turks are bending all their energies
on the defence of Roumela
IT is reported that 5000 Turks from Pod
govitza compelled Montenegrin corps to
retreat into their own territory, and are now
marching to succor Scutari and Antivari.
THE st. Petersburg Gazette announces that
Gen. Todleben has been appointed CON-
mander of the army of Rustchuk, with
Prince Imeribinsky as his chief of staff.
IT is generally believed here that the
porte's appeal for the mediation of the
powers will have no result. Layard, British
ambassador, has informed the Turkish gov
eminent that England will continue to OBJ
serve neutrality.
A RUSSIAN force appeared at Tashessen,
between Kamarie and Sofia, but was driven
back.
THE Turks burned and evacuated Elena
on the 14th inst, and the Russians will
occupy it.
OsMAN PAsHA has sent a short telegram
to the porte, stating that he had not receiv-
ed reinforcements or provisions, but never
theless resisted as long as possible. Finally,
he made an attempt to form a passage
through the Russian lines of investment, in
which the Turkish troops, despite their
valor, were unsuccessful, and he himself
was taken prisoner.