The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-08

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REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA.
LATEST NEWS.
~.s~.z~THE OLD WORLD.
CAPs Town dispatches, received II
London and published on the 29d, announc,
that Lord Chelmsford had, on the 4th, sue
ceeded in reinforcing Col Pearson, at Ekowe
after desperate engagement in which ove
loo Zulus were killed. On the 2Sth and 29tl
of March, COL Woods column fought tw,
battles, In the first of which he suffered de
feat, but In the second he recovered his los
ground aud routed the Zulua The British
losses in these engagements aggregated 81
men, including several officers. The Zulu
lost 500 men.
A PRIZE fight for the championship
OF the world and &l0o, which took place in
London on the 2ad, between Tom Allen of St
Louis, U. g., and Jack Stewart Of Scotland
proved to be . complete fasco. Twenty foul
rounds were fought, and the men scarcely
touched each other. The referee declared the
light draw.
ABELGRADE dispatch of the 22d re-
ports continued fighting between the Alba
mans and Serviaps, the efforts of the latter to
dislodge the former from the heights Of
Samakof having up to that time proved un-
successful The Servians had lost 100 men.
A LATE census of Spain and adjacent
island shows a population OF 1861. $50. an
increase Of 925,34 since 1858.
AT Epson, Eng, on the Esd, Parole,
the American horse, won the Metropolitan
stakes. His owner realized 500, 600 BY this
race. This IL the third stake won by Parole
within . week.
THE Shakespeare Memorial Theater,
at Stratford-on-Avon, was formally opened
on the 23d. the three hundred and fifteenth
anniversary Of the great poets birth, with the
performance Of "kuch Ado About Nothing"
A brilliant audience was present.
AN Athens (Greece) telegram of the
sd says that Crete was again in the throes of
revolution.
A HIGH COURT of criminal justice
under the Presidency of the Grand Duke
Constantine, brother of the Car, has been
organized to try Solovief, the would-be assas-
sin Of the Car.
The German newspapers of the 23d
published report that the Tartars of Orsk,
fearing compulsory baptism, had burned the
town and murdered the officials.
OVER 1900 persons have been ar
al ~ Dat eh,,pv tho
ceding the 23i. for alleged political offenees.
TURGUEN1EFF, the well-known Rus
sian novelist, has been expatriated.
The number of persons killed by the
fire damp explosion in the Agrappo CoalPit,
near Mons, Belgium, on the 18th, has been as
certained to be III. Only forty-seven corpses
have 50 far been recovered.
A S1MLA telegram of the Esd says
Persian troops from Meshed were marching
toward the Afghan frontier.
A LONDON dispatch of the oath an
nounces the appointment of Rev. DR.. Patton,
OF Chicago, to the Chair of Apologetical The
Ology in the Presbyterian College Of London.
A RECENT inundation at Moscow and
vicinity has destroyed thirty-four railroad
bridges.
AN International Congress, under the
Presidency of NJ. de Lesseps, will meet in
Paris ON the 18th Of May, to discuss the vari-
Gus schemes for building a ship canal across
the Isthmus of Darien.
THE Porte estimates that 100000
men will be required for the occupation of
Roumelia.
SEVERAL of the heavy iron works in
England were compelled to close, on the 25th.
because Of inability to obtain fuel-one re-
suit of the Durham strike.
The widow of Walter Savage Landor,
the poet, died recently at Florence, Italy.
The Turkish regular troops have
surrounded the Albanian raiders into Servia,
and deprived them of their plumber, which
will be returned to the Servian owners.
SIXTEEN Professors in the Russian
Universities have resigned in consequence of
the spread of Nihilism among their students.
The Russian Ambassador at Con-
stantinople has asked permission to open all
letters leaving for Russia.
The International pedestrian match
the night of the 26th. At the finish the
score stood: Brown, $40; Corkey, 49a; Ha-
zael, 473; Weston, 400. Brown beat the fast
est previous>record chat of O'Leary) by q
miles. Over 1900 persons witnessed the
finish.
THE British squadron in the Pacific
has been ordered to cruise of the Peruvian
coast.
ENGLAND and France have addressed
identical notes to the Khedive of Egypt de-
handing the appointment of English and
French Ministers, and that they shall not be
removed except with the consent of England
and France.
A LATE letter from Mocadoz, in Mo-
rocco, published on the 9th, states that more
than IL 600 persons had died there from hun
ger.
The Public Prosecutor at Warsaw
has been arrested upon the charge of being
Nihi1ist.
A BONE dispatch of the 9th says
the Pope had asked foreign Governments
whether he could rely upon their protection
in the event of an attack upon the Vatican by
the Republicans.
THE editor of q Zurich CSwitzerland)
newspaper, the Neue Gesellscha #, has been ar
rested upon the charge of plotting to assas-
s:nate the Queen of England and the King
and Queen of Italy. His friends state that
he is incapable of entering into such q con-
spiracy.
A LONDON telegram of the 28th says
the Emperor of Germany had sent autograph
letters to the reigning Sovereigns in Europe,
proposing an international holy alliance of
rulers against the Socialists.
In the British House of Commons, ON
the night of the 2Sth, . resolution censuring
the Government for increasing the National
expenditure was rejected by . vote of 230 to
003.
KILOGRAMS from India, received on
the 18th, speak Of the complete breakdown