Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-07-10

GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.
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SLIGHT rio ting has been going on at Mar
Iabks France, mco nseq equenee of an attenp
sf Ultra; ;Montanes to get up political dem
bohstrtttol by deQoration of the statue o
their former bishop. The police have ar
rested 126 persons.
\ aaix fzsndrsd Mermoas, Including thre,
l1 1fAareds Acandinaviansi and one hundre,
tt lish sand Welsh, hound for Salt LAX
City, sailed from Liverpool on the 29th ult.
EfTwELvE hundred and sixtysnine Com
munists have been allowed remission o.
communication Of punishment in honor of thi
exposition fete. Nor were the poor of Pari
forgotten. They have had 1000 francs dis
4ibuted among them besides grants from
lpcal relief funds.
Ias A. PoATioN Of the tunnel near Schwelm
Germany, fell on the night of the 2sth ult.
burying twenty-seven persons. The bodies
u1tS AllHOceu recovered.
STRANGERS arriving in Berlin must here.
after be provided with passports.
THE Spanish war against Cuba without
any battles, costSpain eighty thousand men.
THE Duke of Cumberland. son of the late
King George, of Hanover, denies that he
has relinquished his rights to the throne by
arrangement with the Prussian government.
ABOUT twenty obscure persons have been
arrested suspected of completely in favor of
sultan Murad. The party opposed to the
ultan appears to gain strength.
GREECE has consiuced loan in Paris of
ten million dollars.
THE queen of Spain is dead. She passed
the later hours of her illness in a state Of
.unconsciousness. King Alfonso remained
At her bedside until the end.
GEN. GRANT will return to the United
States next spring by way of India.
..E WAR NOTES.
RQrMANIA asks for the harbor of Kavarna,
on the Black Sea, as an additional price for
acquiescence in the cession Of Bessarabia.
The congress probably will not object if
\ DISPATCHES from Constantinople speaks
OF the warlike movement appearing among
the Mussulman population, but certainly
not against Austria, dreaming only of re-
covering the provinces awarded by Russia.
A BERLIN correspondent says that con-
gress, in view of Turkeys absolute inability
to pay the indemnity, declined to take any
m of fha ttar for
ment between Turkey and Russia.
OWING to the alarming spread of brig
andage in Thessaly, Greece is reported to be
massing large forces on the frontier to pro-
tect her territory.
THE Russian members of the military
commission, which is now discussing the
boundaries of Servia, are in favor of making
them include Navi Bazar and Nisch. The
Turkish and some other plenipotentiaries
oppose this.
THE civil commission will accompany the
troops to Bosnia and Herzegovina for the
purpose of organizing the administration of
the country. Alarge train and seven am
bulance hospitals will follow.
The congress has agreed to grant the
Turks hating stations on the road to the
Balkans, but they will not be allowed to
be quartered ON the inhabitants.
THE journal de 81. Petersburg says: Now
that the Bulgarian questions are disposed
OF, the views of Europe, which have hither-
to regarded the integrity of Turkey in the
light OF dogma, have undergone total
change. Europe now recognizes the neces.
sity of the late war by sanctioning its re.
suits. This bears testimony to the. success,
ability and prudence of Russian diplomacy,
Which may be congratulated upon having
obtained the object for which it has striven.
A LARGE body Of Turkish troops are re.
ported to be marauding Thessaly. The
Greek ministry has made complaint to the
porte.
THE congress has decided to appoint
commission to examine into the question of
he aggsandisement of Servia and Nontene-
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The Bessarsbian question has been so ar.
ranged that Russia only claims territory as
lar Is the Kilia mouth of the Danube.
REPoRTs indicate that Austrian occu-
patton of Bosnia is imminent The Bosnians |
object, aud intimate that they would prefer
the occupation of their country by Servian
troops.
THE Turks threaten to leave the con.
yress if the cession of territory to Greece is
even discussed. They refuse to surrender
shumla unless the Russians withdraw to
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