The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES

IelEGrdDLS CONCERNING Tue 1DSuEEectOn at
Santa Cruz; "The rioters are apparently
controlled. About 25G are killed. Planters
are searching the country for the rioters.
Four-ffths 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 al
business is temporarily suspended"
A PANIC, occasioned by a fight and
scuffling under the gallery of the coliseum
theatre at Liverpool on the 18th inst. In
the stampede that followed 80 men and lads
and two ladies were suffocated. MANY 9th.
ers were injured.
RUSSIA claims the treat 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
THE 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.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says twenty
three storehouses, thIrty-one wooden hon. es,
and seventy warehouses, valued at over two
million roubles, were burned in Blazan,
near Moscow.
DESPATCH from Constantinople says:
In both Turkish and Greek circles the
idea is gaining ground that war is inevita-
bic. An influential party in Turkish coun-
ell, headed by Osman Pasha, even holds
that purely defensive policy is impossible
for purely military reasons. The central
agency hos hot P1S-iop
dettes are within 10 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 Roumelia to withhold
her consent. The Russian army in Roumelia
still amounts, contrary to the treaty, to
$4,000 men.
FIVE Wesleyan missionaries were MUIR
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 CORRESPONDENT of Peru teIegraphs
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.
THERE is an impression in Hungary that
Austria is in danger of drifting into a war
with Turkey, hence the anxiety to prevent
operations against Now Bazaar.
CAPT. CHARLES H. JUNKINs, formerly
commodore of the Cunard fleet of steam.
ships, died at London, on the 9TH inst
THE instruction in Santa Cruz has been
quelled and the ring leaders arrested The
cause of the uprising was disagreement
between negroes and planters in regard to
wages.
GEORGE HAMMOND WHALLEY, member
of the English house of commons from
Peterboro is dead.
LORD CHELMSFORD, formerly lord chan
cellor of England, is dead.
The Prussian field marshall, Count Won
Meltke has rendered his resignation. The
matter will be decided when the emperor
resumes control of the government.
WASHINGTON.
On the 18th 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
cute the laws the President will then issue
his proclamation commanding the offenders
to cease their violations of law, and if not
obeyed the military will be employed to
break up such illicit stills.
THE request of the commissioners of in
ternaI revenue to Little Rock for troops to
aid him in destroying Illicit distilleries, will
be considered by the cabinet. The war de-
partment officials express the opinion that it
will be impossible to furnish the aid asked
for without violation of the posse comita-
tus clause in the recent army appropriation
bill.
A REMoNsTRANCE has been received by
Secretary Sherman from the New York
clearing house, against his recent order re-
questing senders of national bank currency
intended for redemption to pay the express
sage on it in advance. 1t is claimed that
the order bears unequally on the large as
compared with the small cities and towns,
inasmuch as the greater part of the cur
rency centers in the former and is sent
thence for redemption.
In reply to an inquiry whether under the
new postal regulations bank notes and
greenbacks can be mailed as third class mat
ter. the postoffice department rules that
'bank notes and greenbecks having written
signatures or signatures added by means OF
fac-simile stamp, or other mark or sign added
to the original print engraving, if sought TO
be sent in the mails, would be subject to let
ter rates of postage, under section 100 of
the postal laws.
MRS. GEN. SHERMAN returned to Wash
ington on the 9th, from Atlantic City, quite
recovered from her recent illness. She was
accompanied by her daughter.
THE EAST
A STRIKE OF winders and doublerS in the
Dale mill at Paterson, y. j., has thrown
many operatives out OF employment.
RIGHT REV. THOMAS GoLBERRY, Catho-
lie bishop of Hartford, Conn, died at New
York on the 18th inst.
On the 10th inst. large area of surface
over the Diamond mine, ot Scranton, Pa,
caved in, completely closing up many
chambers and passages and causing damages
which VIII require many months TO repair.
Between three hundred an four hundred