New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-08
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

A CONsTANTINOPLE telegram of the
18th says that an understanding between
Greece and Turkey had become impossible,
and that both Powers were making rapid
warlike preparations
The British Privy Council, in conse-
quencc of the foot and mouth disease in
cargo of American sheep recently landed at
Liverpool, has issued an order placing sheep
from the United States in the same category
with American cattle.
On the 28th notices of a ten per cent.
reduction in wages were posted in the earth
enware and china manufactures in Stafford
shire. This proposed reduction will affect
$4,000 wOrkmen, and it is said they will resist
it to the extent of striking.
The Russian account of the late bat
tie with the Tekke-Turcomans was received
on the Goth ult. According to that, instead of
Russian defeat, as reported from Simla, it
was Russian victory. The Russians lost
seven officers and us soldiers killed, and six
teen officers and 234 soldiers wounded, but
they captured the Turcoman intrcnchments
and inflicted loss of several thousand men
upon the enemy. The dispatch says the ex-
petition had not fallen back, as reported.
SICILY and Southern Italy were visit
ed by great storm on the 2Sth ult. which
carried away a railroad bridge between Giro
and Crucoli, and hurled an entire train into
the torrent below. The engineer was killed
and every passenger more or less injured
EASTERN SIBERIA is menaced with
famine. Grain is dearer than ever before,
and the poor are greatly suffering
A LIGHTER laden with gunpowder
blew up at Marburg, on the River Elbe, on
the Both ult. The crew were all killed and
the craft demolished
The suspension of the Hamburg
house of Wedstein is announced
A VIENNA dispatch of the 3Oth ult.
says the health of the Car had become very
precarious. He was suffering greatly from
mental fatigue and was daily becoming worse.
A ROME dispatch of the 3Oth nit.
says the Belgian bishops had rescinded their
late order with respect to communal and nor
NAL schools, and that the Pope approved the
action.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 1st says
the recent elections in Germany had resulted
in the success of the Liberal party.
FIVE of the City of Glasgow Bank
Directors were released from imprisonment
on the LIST, their terms having expired They
were received with hootings and jeers by the
assembled multitude as they emerged from
the prison gates.
In an agrarian fight near Castlebar,
Ireland, on the LIST, two persons were killed.
The cavalry brigade of General
Roberts advance guard reached Zabid Abad
on the I'd. 1t was reported on that day that
the attack on Cabul would be made on the
5th.
A VIENNA dispatch of the I'd says the
disturbances in Eastern Roumelia had de-
generated in guerrilla warfare.
By order of the Governor of Kars all
Armenian parish schools existing under the
authority of the Turkish Government have
been closed.
The Health Commission of Lisbon
has officially declared the Atlantic ports
of the United States free from yellow fever,
and removed all quarantine restrictions.
LONDON dispatches of the third say
the tenant-rights and law-reform meetings
in Ireland were receiving the serious atten-
of the Government. The authorities had re-
ceived information that the "Pecp o. Day
Boys" contemplated rising throughout the
country. These reports, while considered to
large extent sensational and suggested by
the fears of those making them, had yet led
to the multiplication of palice precautions,
and preparations for any possible emergency.
IT is expected that the new Eddystone
lighthouse will be completed in about
four years, and will cost something
short of 100000. The height of the
tower will be 1872 feet, and the light
will rise 100 feet above the highest
spring tide.
INFORMATION was received at Simla
on the Sd that communication with British
troops had been cut off on both sides O:
Shutargardan Pass by the Afghan hostiles.