Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-06-05
NEWS in BRIEF.
aHNERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

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GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.
EARL RUSSELL died on the night Of thu
tn.
A BELGRADE dispatch says: 1t is an
nouncea that Col. Markovitz, o Greek
priest, and six others, were publicly shot al
Anjelovatz, on the Goth. There was horri
hle scene, some of the prisoners desperately
resisting the executioners.
THERE was very exciting scene in the
Spanish Cortes during debate on the trouble
in Barcelona. Owing to disorder in the
chamber the president was compelled ia
summarily terminate the sitting before the
speakers of the opposition could be heard
at which they are indignant.
VIRuLENr cholera appeared at Morar
India. OF forty Europeans attacked thirty
died. One hundred cases among the naive.
are reported.
ZEE Spanish government has decided TO
authorize the return of Capt. Gen. Jovellar
from Cuba, leaving Martinez Campos in su.
preme military and civil command, with
power to execute promised reforms.
SEvENrEEN hundred colliers struck at
Chadderton, in Lancashire, against the pro.
posed reduction Off per cent. in the wages.
No importance is attributed to the FEEDER
alist outbreak in Catalonia, Spain. The
number of insurgents is insignificant. They
nave been driven to the mountains, pursued
by troops.
A FIRE at Constantinople on the night of
the 23d destroyed the greater portion of the
government buildings, including those of
the ministries Of justice and council of
state. The ministry of foreign affairs, grand
vizerate and the archives were saved. The
origin of the fire is unknown, but it is be.
lieved to have been accidental.
A SPECIAL from Rio Grande City, Mexico,
says-the town of Reynosa was captured on
the 22d by the Lerao revolutionists, and a
prestime of 5000 levied. The party has
since moved southwark.
NEWS frem Australia Cricket, the
champion scullor, lost two of the fingers of
his left hand in Sydney, stopping his row.
ing. Heavy earthquakes at Lama, New He.
brides, are reported. The land rose twenty
feet, seriously impsiring the harbor. The
Victorian government has reappointed three
county court judges, three crown prosecu.
tors, and eleven stipendiary magistrates,
and other departments will be rehabilitated
This is the end OF the parliamentary dead.
lock. Typhus fever is raging in New South
Wales. Parliamentary motion for the re.
lease OF lunatic in Paramata jail, supposed
to be Arthur Orton. has been made.
WAR NOTES.
A TELEGRAM from Constantinople says
the Russians hive fallen back on several
other points besides the neighborhood of
Pergos. The Turks have withdrawn their
outposts to this side of Belgrade forest.
INVITATIONS to congress, issued by Ger.
many, state. in effect, that the congress will
meet in Berlin to discuss the treaty of San
Stefano. Correspondents at Paris and
Vienna say the good Offices of Prince Bis.
marck have been largely instrumental in
bringing about this result without humilia.
ton to Russia or risk to England.
THE London Post, in its leading editorial,
says that distinct understanding is being
brought about with Russia. Lord Salisbury
will doubtless be the English, and Count
Schouvalof probably the Russian plenipo-
Tertiary in the congress. The Telegraph an.
nounces that the understandings arrived at
with Count Schouvaloff concern matters in.
teresting to Russia and England exclusive
ly. The other questions, such as the Bessa.
rabian and the indemnity, remain for settle.
ment.
THE official Vienna .abeMdpost confirms
the announcement that Russia has consent
ed to lay the treaty of San Stefano before
the congress; that all the powers have
agreed to the proposal, and that invitations
have been extended to them to attend the
congress, which will meet in Berlin, on the
nth of June.
A VIENNA correspondent says the diff
Guilty about placing the whole treaty before
the congress seems surmounted by wording
the invitations to contain guarantee for a
free discussion of the whole treaty. Ger.
many will issue the invitation, and thus give
guarantee instead of Russia. Pourparlers
have begun about the date of the meeting,
and June 11th is proposed. Austria and
France have already adhered to this scheme.
On the 25th inst. the Turks evacuated,
and the Austrians occupied, the island of
Ada Kaleh, in the Danube.
THE fire among the buildings of the Sub.
lime porte at Constantinople proved to have
been the work of an incendiary. One and
half million of dollars deposited there
was lost.
A SPECIAL from Rome says Austria, fear.
ing, in the event of a war, a possible attempt
on the part of Italy to seize Trent and the
surrounding territory, has doubled her gar
risons and quartered $1,000 troops in the
Austrian Tyrol.
augur well for the assembling of the con.
gress.
IT is authoritatively stated that Count
Schouvaloff brings from the car counter
proposals couched in conciliatory terms,
proposing that all questions pertaining to
European Turkey be submitted and treated
by the proposed European congress, and
that all questions relating to Turkey-in.Asia
be made the subject of a separate conven.
ton between England and Russia.
A DISPATCH from Trebizond states that
the Russians at Erxeroum have received re.
inforcements of ten thousand men. Putrid
fever is ravsging the garrison at that place.
The insurpection in Laziston against the
Russians is spreading. 1t is estimated that
between 10000 and $1,000 Lazis are under
arms. These are prosecuting guerills
warfare against the Russians about Artvln
and Batoum.
A SPECIAL from Constantinople report,
that the Russians have defeated the insur
gents near the sources of the river Arda
Many of the latter were killed and captured
RUSSIAN troops continued the forward
movement toward Belgrade forest on the
22d. Gen. Skobclon, reinforced with artil
lery, has stationed his troops close to thu
6weetwaters. Osnaan, Baker, Mouktar and
Fuad Pashss inspected the Turkish linei
and ordered dctachments in the front not Il
retire. A Russo Turkish comp.ission viii
fix the exact line of demarcatiol,.
WASHINGTON.
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