New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-09-03
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

The Sultan of Turkey issued an trade
on the 23d reducing the Turkish army to 100,-
600. The reason given was that he had not
the means to pay them. III.
The plague has appeared at Herman
shah on the Turco- Persian frontier.
The Rome correspondent of the
London Standard says the Gar has written
to the Pope declaring his readiness to make
peace with the Catholic Churches Of Poland.
AV1ENNA dispatch Of the 25th says
the diplomatic relations between Austria and
Russia were less cordial than between any
two European powers.
The cholera is increasing in Cabul.
The number of deaths in the British regi-
have been 365.
The American sailors at the port of
Liverpool have petttioned Consul General
Packard to appoint an American shipping
master at that port. They say they are
swindled right and left, and subjected to ex-
orbitant charges. g.
MIR. SCOTT, well-known British az
ricultural authority, estimates that the de-
ficiency in the British wheat crop this year
will reach &25, 00O, 900, that Of potatoes e15,-
600. 900, and that Of beans, pease and rye,
5,O0O, 900. Almost famine prevails among
the tenant-farmers In the west of Ireland.
The statement was made from Con-
stantinople on the 25th that there were evi-
dences of q revolt in Armenia. The Governor
of Erzeroum had been removed at the request
of the British Minister.
LORD CHELMSFORD, late Commander
Of the British forces In South Africa, reached
Plymouth. England, on the 26th. He was re-
ceived with something like an ovation.
The workingmsn of Sheffield, En-
gland, met on the night of the 18th, and
adopted resolutions favoring wholesale emf
grafton to the United States.
THOMAS TANDY, q large landed
proprietor Of Athboy, County Meath, Ire
land, was assassinated at his own door on
the 26th.
A BERLIN telegram of the 9th says
Germany and Japan which guarantees to the
former power the free exercise of religious
0bservances and the right of free access to
the interior of Japan.
SIR ROWLAND HILL, the inventor of
the British Penny-P Postage system, died at his
residence near London, Eng, on the 2Sth.
He was eighty-four years old.
ACCORDING to a Rome dispatch of
the 9th when the last encyclical was pub
lished, giving t. the Jesuits the alternative of
revolt or submission, the Jesuit chief sent to
the Pope memorial in which he announced
the willingness Of the order to submit entirely
to His Holiness.
LATE arrivals from Yokohama re-
port the cholera Is particularly virulent in
Japan. Up to the time the steamer sailed
there had been Al, 900 cases and q, 600 deaths.
Ex.President Grant would sail for home on
the next mail steamer.
SIXTY Yorkshire (England) farmers
sailed from Liverpool for New York on the
18th.
THE Porte announced on the 28th
that it accepted the line of dcmarcation be.
tween Greece and Turkey indicated by the
protocols of the Berlin Congress.
Two HUNDRED AND FORTY Roume-
liam Turks have been taken prisoners in
the Rhodope Mountains, charged with form
ing conspiracy to attack Philippopolis.
w. s. & s. GAME, Liverpool iron
merchants, failed on the Goth ult., the eonse.
quences OF losses in the American trade.
Liabilities $750, 200. 49,
The official report of the recent
lrkutsk fire shows that twelve hundred houses
were burned and sixty lives lost.
A LErrHR from Tangier, Morocco.
published on the Oath ult., announces the
death, by poison, Of the brother OF the EN-,
peror.
The Portuguese Consul ut Pernam.
bucO has been assassinated.
THE Berlin Government has offered
&75,O00,O 00 for the franchises of the different
German railways.