New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-16
NEW vIM, A6nT.

NEW vEa6, aHET.
Wednesday, April 18th, 1879.
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
The annual race between Cambridge
and Oxford Universities was rowed on the
Thames, London, on the 9Th, and resulted in
q victory Of the former crew. The distance
was four miles and two furlongs, and the
winning time twenty-one minutes and
eighteen seconds.
An Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch
says that on the day after the battle previous-
~ reported, 5000 deserters came into the
Egyptian camp. The latter followed the re-
ti1ng enemy and killed ten Chiefs and I, :
600 more men, and were still in pursuit at
last advices. The capture of all the slave de-.
yots was considered certain.
Work on the st. Gothard Tunnel
has been partially suspended, the contractor
complaining that he is receiving &6O, 600 lese
per month than his contract calls for.
The Pope has sent an autograph
:etter to Queen Victoria, welcoming her to
Italy.
The French Senate has adjourned
until the 9Th, and the Chamber Of Deputies
to the 18th, Of May.
A LONDON telegram of the 9th says
It was believed there that Catewayo's wish for
peace wasa mere pretense to gain time until
the harvest was gathered. Only unconditional
surrender would be accepted.
THEBulgarian Assembly has decided
that Sophia shall be the capital Of the Princi-
pality.
A CAPE Town (South Africa) tele-
gram, received on the 9Th, announces the
capture of Cham, King Cetewayo's brother,
with 800 warriors. An instruction had
broken out in the Trsnsvaal.
SEVERAL extensive cotton brokers, In
Liverpool, have recent y failed.
OVER $4,000 coal miners, in Durham,
Eng, struck, on the 5th.
TIE Roumanian Chambers have
passed, by large majorities, a resolution a.
nrming the necessity of revising the Consti-
tuition so az to remove the disabilities of the
Jews.
The Colonel of the Seventeen Aus
TRAN Regiment was recently murdered by
brigands, in Bosnia.
A LONDON telegram of the 9TH says
the Khedive Of Egypt had announced that he
had repudiated the FrancoEuglish financial
scheme, and would hereafter manage his
finances to suit himself. The English Minis
ter, Wilson, and the French Minister, De
Blegnieres, had been dismissed, and a new
Cabinet formed, under the Presidency of
Cherif Pasha, composed exclusively OF native
ministers.
EDWARD CLARK, the well-known
London civil engineer and contractor, failed,
on the 9TH, for t3,800,000.
The cattle plague has made its ap.
pearance among the animals connected with
ems seriously to embarrass the commissariat,
The Cardinal Vicar of Rome has
written letter complaining bitterly of the
establishment of foreign Protestant schools
almost under the shadow of the Vatican, and
asking Tor contributions for the increase and
improvement of Catholic schools.
INTELLIGENCE was received in Lon
don, on the 9Th, of another disaster to the
British forces in South Africa. It seems that
Col. Pearson, who was beleaguered at Ekowe,
and had to choose between death by starva.
ton and an attempt to cut his way through
the surrounding Zulus, adopted the latter al.
Tentative, and made sortie. The result was
that the party was repulsed and that nearly
all the British troops participating were
killed. The situation of Col Pearson was
critical, and it was thought that King Cete.
wayo would attack and destroy his command
and then attack and defeat the reinforcing
regiments in detail.
FURTHER advices from Cape Town.
received on the 9th, report that 1900 zulus
had attacked and annihilated company Of
the Eightieth Regiment, which was escorting
wagon-train to the front for the relief Ut
Col. Pearson. Only five out of 1O4 men ee
capped.
The steamer Surbiton, from New
York to Rotterdam, is believed to be lost. She
has not reached her destination, and nothing
has been heard of her since her departure.
ENGLAND and France have each sent
squadron into Egyptian waters.
A TERRIBLE sporadic fever is raging
at Casa Blanca, Morocco, among both natives
and Europeans.
A LONDON dispatch of the 9th says
several labor riots had occurred in Durham
Many of the iron-works had stopped, the
managers having left, fearing bodily harm.
An extra Constabulary force had been sent to
the different collieries.
K1EFF (Russia) reports of the 9th
say the political prisoners there were being
most cruelty treated, and many had been shot
while attempting to escape.
THE Russian Revolutionary Commit
tee has sent letters to all the Imperial dignh
taries at St. Petersburg, saying that, though
they do not intend to attack the Gear,
they will kill his attendants, especially the
heads of the Police Department, so long IS
the treatment Of political prisoners 10 un-
ameliorated.
The Patrte of Paris, on the 9th, an
nounced the approaching marriage Of King
Alfonso, OF Spain, to Archduchess Maria, Of
Austria.
IT was reported in London, on tho
AUtn, tnat England and France had decided to
demand of the Sultan of Turkey the deposi
ton Of the Khedive Of Egypt.
The German Government, on the
10th, authorized denial of the report that It
intended to increase the volume Of silver
coinage.
The disputed points between Austria
and Turkey have been settled by granting to
the former permission to occupy three points
on the River Lom, on the outskirts Of Noyi
Bazaar, commanding al the practicable cross
ing places.
A BERLIN telegram Of the 10th says
100 Nihilists had been arrested In Charkoh.
A letter had been received ct Charkof police
headquarters announcing the arrival Of Gen.
Krapotkin's murderer in New York.
A CoNsTANT1NopLE dispatch Of the
4 18th says the Sultan had offered to depoos the
Khedive Of Egypt and substitute Helm Pasha
in his stead. It was also reported from PERI