New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-03-05
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THE OLD WORLD.

THE Old WORLD.
THOMAS SUTTON, large ship owner
and merchant, Of Shields and Newcastle,
Eng, failed, on the 20th. Liabilities over
$4,000.
THE Porte has appointed Commits
sioners to superintend the proposed reforms
In Asia Minor.
A CALCUTTA telegram Of the Goth
says It was reported from Mandalay that the
King Of Burmah had murdered all the Royal
Princes and their families, and replaced the
Ministers with those formerly In Office, thus
restoring despot'c Government.
A NUMBER of Swiss citizens have left
for the United States to establish colony in
Georgia.
SEVERAL British and Scottish mer-
chants failed, on the 2lst, with liabilities ag-
gregattng about 81, $50, 600.
News was received, on the 21st, to
the. effect that the Astrakhan plague had
abated.
The St. Petersburg Ruski Mir had
: been forced to suspend publication for COM
menting upon the deplorablc condition Of the
country and the despotic manner in which It
Il governed.
THE Greek Archbishop Of Adriano-
pie has been beaten to death by some Bulgs-
rians.
The Italian Government has prohib-
tied the importation of American swine, or
any preparation Of their flesh, 40 . precau.
ton against trichinOsis
PRINCE KRAPoTKINE, Governor Of
Charkoff, in Russia, while returning from Z
bal, on the evening Of the 22d, was fred 1t by
some Nihilist assassin, and MORALLY wounded.
In consequence of the representations
of the United States Consul at Constantinople,
the Porte has abandoned the proposition to
replace the Turkish Minister 1T Washington
by Charge d'Affaires.
The Bulgarian Assembly was for
mally opened by Prince Korsakof on the
22d.
A DISPATCH from Allahabad of the
23d announced the arrival of ex-Presiient
Grant. He was the guest of the Lieutenant
Governor and had been invited to visit Calcut-
ia as the guest of the Viceroy.
A NANTES France) telegram of the
Gath says the River Loire had overlooked its
banks, causing disastrous inundation Of the
surrounding country.
A WARSAW (Poland) dispatch of the
oath says dam had burst above the city and
caused great destruction Of property.
A DEFINITE peace has been arranged
between the Khedive Of Egypt and the King
of Abyssinia, by the terms of which the latter
is to receive pension in exchange for the
disputed territory.
The native forces in South Africa,
allies of the British, have been dlsbanded, In
obedience to orders from the Home Govern.
ment.
A CoNsTANT1NoPLE dispatch Of 1.-The
25th says proclamation was being circulated
in the territory lately occupied BY Russian
troops, announcing the re-cstabjiehment Of
Ottoman authority, and advising the Chris
tians not to leave their homes.
The North Staffordshire (Eng.) ('ol-
liery Company has suspended.
A PARIS dispatch of the 25th an
nounces that ex-President MacMahon was
seriously i'll of opthalmia, complicated with
serious general symptoms.
THE French Prince Imperial has gone
to South Africa as volunteer. The Govern.
ment has permitted him to join the staff OF
the Royal Artillery.
A LONDON telegram Of the Goth says
the cattle plague had appeared in two places
In England. Instant slaughter Of the in
fected animals aud all others adjacent fol.
lowed.
CHARLES PEACE, the notorious bur-
glar AMI murderer, recently convicted Of the
murder of Arthur Dyson, Civil Engineer. at
Bannercross, in 1875, was executed at Leeds,
Eng, on the 25th.
A HEAVY storm prevailed throughout
Italy, on the 26th. Venice was largely inunda-
ted, the water standing thirty inches deep in
St. Mark Place. The coast from Genoa to
Naples was .strewn with wrecks. The En-
glish steamer Silistria was wrecked at Salerno,
and eighteen persons were drowned.
THE NEW WORLD.