The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-07
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
A LONDON telegram of the 22d say
Russia was on the eve of great operations In
Central Asia, to neutralize British prestige In
Afghanistan.
PRICE, BoUsrEAD & Co.. army
agents and merchants Of London, failed on
the I'D for $4,000. 900.
RUSSIAN cattle and sheep are for.
hidden transit through Germany because Of
the appearance Of the rinderpest.
The districts of Bulgaria near the
Danube have been placed in . state of siege
in consequence of apprehended disturbances.
NEWS received from Cape Town on
the sd was to the effect that Lord Chelms.
ford had succeeded in repulsing the Zulus, BY
whom he was surrounded, INJECTING immense
loss. The British lost tel killed and fifty.
three wounded. The Zulu loss was $40. Ulun.
di, the Kings capital, and large number oil
military kraals were burned. General WOlse.
ley sent q telegram, which was received on
the 2Sd, in which he stated that he had halted
all achievements, as he believed the war was
substantially ended.
IT is stated that the International
Company for an above-ground railway across
the British Channel, organized in 1870, will
soon commence operations
THE Albert shooting prize at VIM
bledon, Eng land, was won by Milton Farrow,
an American.
WAR between Turkey and Greece is
said to be imminent.
VERY serious rioting occurred at
Wimbledon on the afternoon of the Gath. A
larSe mob endeavored to force an entrance
to the volunteers camp, and to effect the ir
purpose smeared the fence with petroleum
and Sc: it on fire. The police charged the
mob and finally succeeded in driving them
back. but not before many policemen and riot
ers were badly injured.
SEVERAL English cotton-spinners
failed on the Gath.
A MEETING of Louisiana bond-holders
was held in London on the a5th, and after a
long discussion, the Chairman was instructed
to send cable dispatch to the President of
the Louisiana Constitutional Convention
pointing out the danger which would follow
to the credit Of Louisiana by the reputation
which the measures before the Convention
proposed.
EX-EMPREss EUGENE hes written to
Queen Victoria begging that no penalty be in
tiicted on Lieutenant Carey, who was in
charge of the escort when the Prince Imperial
was killed.
THE International Bank of Hamburg
has gone into liquidation.
RUSSIA has given an assurance that
the last Russian soldier will have quilted
Turkish territory by the 18th of August.
DISASTROUS floods are reported
throughout Belgium, and great loss Of prop
erty in the Rhine valley.
RUSSIA proposes to establish and for
tify maritime station on the Siberian coast.
A CONsrANTINoPLE telegram of the
27th says the financial condition of Turkey
had become desperate. The paper money
issued by the Government had deprecated to
that extent that it would not pass at any rate
of discount, and even copper money had lost
sixty per cent. of its nominal value.
A CALCUTTA dispatch of the 9th
says rebellion had broken out in Rumpa, in
India.
THREE HUNDRED engineers on a
strike at Bradford, Eng, are about to emil
crate to the United States in body.
The London Daily NeUs of the morn
ing of the 9th announces that, in conse-
auence of domestic bereavements, Mr.. Welsh,
United States Minister to the Court of ST.
James, had resigned his Office, and would sail
for home on the 10th of August.
AGRARIAN disturbances have broken
out in various districts OF Poland.
PETRo-P auloosk and Tralsk, in
West Siberia, have been burned by revolu-
tionists.
A LARGE spinning company in the
Canton of Zurich, Switzel land, has suspended
payments, the Manager having absconded
and one of the Directors having committed
suicide.
A LONDON telegram of the 2Sth says
the Colorado beetle had made its appearance
near Cork, in Ireland.
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the
2Sth reports the attempted destruction of
the Kremlin Palace in Moscow BY the Nihil-
lists. The great staircase was saturated with
petroleum and fred. The damage was con-
siderable.
The Siberian cattle plague has made
its appearance among the animals in the dis
trict of Nova Ladoga, in Russia.
The Turkish Grand Vizier has re-
signed. The Sultan in accepting the resig-
nation issued an trade suppressing the Grand
Vizierate and appointing Aarif Pasha, Pre-
micr, and Safvet Pasha, Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
A TRIESTE dispatch of the 28th says
violent hurricane visitel the Adriatic on the
preceding day, which caused the loss of twenty
lives and great damage to the shipping.
BARON Won COLT, formerly Prussian
Minister to the United States, died at Bonn
on the 18th.
A LONDON dispatch of the 28th says
Lord Chelmsford had rendered his resigna-
ton.
THE NEW WORLD.
A PREMATURE explosion of q sand
blast near Huntingdon, Pa, on the afternoon
OF the ed, resulted in the instant death of
three persons making the blast.
A FORT KEoGH (Montana) dispatch
of the ed announces the arrival of courier
from General Miles command, bringing in
telligence of a fight near the mouth OF
Beaver Creek, with 800 hcstiles. The Federal
loss was four killed and two wounded. The
whole force of Sitting Bull was in that re-
gion.
CONSIDERABLE excitement and in
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