The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-18
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

AN uaknOwn man forced himself into
An apartment occupied by a medical board
IN SonstantfnOplc on the ID, and made an
mdiscriminate attack upon the member
with revolver. Before he could be seized
four of the council were wounded.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
I'd gives the details of the late attempt to
assassinate the Car. It seems that the con-
spirators had dug q tunnel $50 feet long
which extended from An 0nuccupied house
to the middle of the railroad bed, and in this
had placed wires connected with a battery
at one end and large quantity of powder
at the other. The train bearing the
Gar was following one containing
MS baggage, but before reaching Mos
COW the position of the trains were
reversed, and the explosion occurred Just as
the baggage train was over the plant The
train was almost entirely destroyed and sew
erai persons on board badly injured. So great
was the force of the explosion that hole was
created in the road bed five feet deep, sixteen
long and eighteen broad. There was great
excitement throughout Russia, and the Car
was constantly receiving telegraphic congrat-
ulatory messages.
1T was announced on the I'd that the
Car had decided to form Council, to be
made up of mobiles appointed by the Emperor
and members of the middle and peasant
classes chosen by ballot. The body thus con-
stituted will have advisory powers only.
The British Government has removed
the restriction on the importation of Amer
lean sheep.
NEWS has been received that war
had broken out in Western Africa between
rival chiefs, in which two hundred persons
had already been killed, and that all the
prisoners on both sides were cooked and
eaten.
The principal Irish landlords are said
to be actively engaged in relieving the dis
tress in Ireland.
By a vote of 243 to 1O7 the French
Chamber of Deputies, on the 4th, voted that
the Cabinet had its confidence, and that of
the country.
IT is stated that the famine in Upper
Silesia has become so serious that i'm many
villages over one-third of the population are
starving.
HE London Times of q recent date
says United States Government bonds were
hardly to be procured there, and their prices
were mere reflex of those of New York.
The Governor of Senegal, Western AZ
RIGA, has been instructed by the French Govern
ment to send an expedition to explore the re-
gion lying between the upper Senegal and Nj
ger Rivers and report on the feasibility of the
construction of railway between the two
rivers.
ACCOUNTS from Egypt, received on
the 9Th, state that the Government was
actively preparing for war with .Abyssinia.
SEVERAL of the Afghans who had
been appointed by the British authorities to
rule over the districts in Afghanistan have
lately been murdered.
A DISPATCH of the 9th says the Mon
tenegrins at Velika had that day been at.
tackled by several thousand Albanians. After
desperate fight, resulting in heavy losses on
both sides, the Albanians were driven off.
In consequence of the sudden rise
OF the koros River, in Hungary, the city of
CrosswaUiein has been inundated and almost
depopulated.
The news from St. Petersburg re-
ports the Gar as being extremely depressed.
His hts of melancholy have returned, and al
most overpower him at times.
DURING arecent cyclone in the Bay
OF Bengal a storm wave swept over Monkish-
kal Island, drowning several hundred persons.
THOMAS BRENNAN, the person lately
arrested for seditious language in Ireland,
was examined on the Sth at Castlebar and
held to bail for trial in the sum of $1,000
A PARIS dispatch of the 9Th saws a
new line OF steamers had been arranged for,
10 ply between Havre and New Orleans,
touching at Baltimore.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has dissolved the
Bulgarian Assembly.
The cattle plague has broken out in
the island of Cyprus.