The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-29

--LATEST NEWS,
THE OLD WORLD.
AN Athens (Greece) telegram of the
18th says the relations of that country will
Turkey were again becoming unpleasant
There was great irritation in Epirus, and the
Greek Government was making military prep
arations on large scale.
HOPKINS, GILKEs & Co., of Middles.
boro, Eng, with capital of $2,50O, 900, and
Lloyd Il Co., Of tho same place, both in the
iron trade, suspended on the 18th.
The recent communal elections
throughout Spain have largely favored the
Government.
PROF. GREIsBACB, the distinguished
German botanist died on the 18th.
GEN. GRANT and party left Hong
Kong, China, for Japan, on the 18th.
NEWS was received on the 18th Of
the burning of the Town of Uralsk, on the
Ural River, In Russia, BY Nihil!st incendia
rics.
A PARIS telegram of the 14th says
France had reremptorily declined to join
England in efforts to secure loan for Turkey.
A CONFERENCE was held at Barnsby.
Eng. on the 14th, at which $4,000 GOLFERS
were represented. It was decided to demand
1O-per-ccnt. increase Of pay, and, II refused,
to stop work throughout the country.
THERE is dangerous agitation in
Albania, and everything, 1t is said, forebodes
revolution.
The cattle plague has made its ap-
pearancc in Bohemia.
The Town of Halas, in Hungary, has
have been destroyed.
On the night of the 18th, Pc onah,
eighty miles south of Bombay, in India, was
nearly DESTROYED by fire.
The African Trading Company of
Rotterdam, having agencies in London and
other points In Europe, failed, on the 18th.
Liabilities very heavy.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 18th denies,
on the authority of the United states Govern
ment, the statement made by Socialist men,
Der of the Reichstag, that the United States
authorities had complained that letters from
the United States to Germany had been broken
open or tempered with.
The International Congress to dis
cuss the various projects for ship canal
across the Isthmus OF Darien met in Paris,
on the 18th. N. dc Lesseps was chosen Pres
fdent. and Rear-Admirsl Daniel Ammen, of
the United States Navy, one Of the Vice-Pres-
idcnts.
THE cattle plague has made its ap-
pearance In the vicinity of st. Petersburg.
AUKAsE has been issued forbidding
Roumanian Jews to enter Russia.
SEVENTY arrests have been made at
Orenburg on charges OF incendiarism.
THE Duke of Medina-Celli, of
Spain, was killed, on the 14th, while shooting
on his estate, by the accidental discharge of
bis gun.
JACOB STAEMPFLI, ex-President of
the Swiss Confederation, died at Berne, on
the 18th.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
10th announces the destruction by fire of the
greater part OF Lubln, city of 10000 inhab-
A LETTER has been received from
Prof. Nordenskjold, of the Polar expedition.
from Eastern Siberia, dated Sept. ., 1873,
announcing that all connected with the expe-
ditfon we're well and confident of accomplish
ing Its object.
A ROME Qtaly) dispatch of the 10th
says Garibaldi had decided to reside perma-
nently in Rome.
THE Austrian Reichsrath was pro-
rogued by the Emperor in person, on the 18th.
A CoNsrANrrNoPLE telegram of the
18th says the Porte had abandoned all nego.
tiations for loan. and intended to refund and
unity its public debt under the auspices of
French sy Indicate.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
18th says there were 10000 prisoners waiting
at Novgprod, to be sent to Siberia, as soon as
the Volga becomes navigable.
THERE was another conflagration at
Orcnburg, on the 10th and 18th, which de-
stroyed considerable portion of the town
spared by the previous fire.
A CONsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the
18th says the Sultan had issued an trade sane
tioning the Eastern Rumelian Constitution.
A FlRMAN of the Porte has been
lately read iu Pristina and Novi-B Bazaar, threat
ening death to any persons who attack the
Austrian troops.
GARCIA, the famous gambler, who so
often broke the banks at Homburg and Ba-
den, has just died at Paris.
AT meeting of the GOLFERS repre-
stnting forty colieries, at Consett, England,
ON the 18th. 1t was resolved to resume work.
A CALCUTTA dispatch of the 10Th
says latest advices from Mandalay were to
the effect that the King of Burmah had sum.
moned fresh levies and that all foreigners
had been forbidden to enter. the palace.
A SIMLA dispatch of the 10Th saws
the Vice-Roysl Council had been summoned
to consider the draft of the Afghan Treaty.
The cholera has appeared in most
of the cities OF the Puniaub.
A BOMBAY telegram of the 10th SAYS
armed bands of robbers were t-aversiug the
Poonah District an indulging in murder. ra-
pine and incendiarism. In manifesto issued
by their leader, price is set upon the Cover
nor's head and repetition of the horrors Of
the Indian Mutiny thre atened.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
18th says the Tekke-T urcomans had utterly
defeated the Russian army at Merv and com.
pellet their retreat They secured an immense
quantity of booty.
COMPLETE returns of the popular
vote in Switzerland give 1871, 1877 votes In favor
OF and lii. 1853 against the re-establishment
OF capital punishment.
THE NEW WORLD.
THE House of Representatives, ON
the 18th, took q vote on the proposition to
pass the Military Interference bill over the