Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-29
OVER THE OCEAN.
PESTlLENCE AND FAMINE IN MO-
ROCCO.
Human Beings Eaten by Dogs-The Nj
hiIist Terror in Russia-Ihe AZ
CHAN War-Govemment
of Eastern Rou-
meIia.
The Afghan War.

LONDON, April 2S.-A telegram from
India speaks of complete breakdown
of the quartermaster and commissary
departments. The Khyber column,
now at Jelalabad, owing to the lack
Of transportation, is said to be
incapacitated for offensive operations.
The garrison of Candahar is in very
similar position. In consequence of
these failures the control of the trans
ports has been transferred from the COM
missariat to the commander of the col
umn, the chief of the commissary mere
ly advising and assisting. This effects
radical change in the Indian mill
tary system.
A Peshawaur dispatch says every
body, from the general down, is tired of
the war, which, brings endless discom-
forts and little or no glory.
Trial Of Socialists at Berlin.
LONDON, April 2S.-The trial of the
three medical students, who were con-
victed and sentenced TO Imprisonment
for disturbing the public order and
maintaining secret connections, took
place at Berlin, not St. Petersburg. Their
names are Gerewetz, Arohuson and Lie
herman. The last named, under the
alias of Arthur Freeman, was connected
with the leading Socialists of Europe
and America, and was on his
way to Switzerland, from Vienna,
whence he has been expelled, after
months of imprisonment, when he was
seized and taken to Berlin on account of
his communications with GerewetZ and
Arohuson. His letters showed the plan
for establishing in Berlin a section of
Nihilists to act as sort of way station
for communications between the Lon
don and st. Petersburg revOlutionists.
1t is said that the Gar not only no
longer goes out without military escort,
but many high dignitaries, who have
been threatened, also have escorts.
PARIS, April 2S.-A dispatch from st.
Petersburg reports that two regiments OF
foot guards and a brigade OF artillery
lost so many officers by arrest that they
have been obliged to draw officers from
other regiments. Four thousand and
seven hundred political prisoners were
removed from Fort Petropauloyski, in
one night, to Kazan Saratotf and other
eastern prisons.
Pestilence and Famine.
LONDON, April 2S.-A correspondent
writing from Mispah, Mocador, Mo-
rocco, states that more than $4,000 per-
sons perished in the town from hunger.
There were dead and dying lying in
every street, in and out OF town. The
dead were buried not more than one
span deep, and dogs soon uncovered
the earth and fed on the bodies. Small
pox, measles, cholera and typhoid fever
(the latter now raging, have succeeded
each other. In Mullohor, the Jewish
quarter, every house has been turned
into hospital. Starvation was not con-
fined to men. Cattle, camels, horses,
asses, sheep and poultry, have all or
nearly all perished; but dogs have sur
vived, and in their Unsuitable hunger,
finding no food in the towns and aband-
oned by their masters, who had either
died or left the city in search OF food,
fed on flesh. Roaming over the country
in bands of twenty, thirty and fifty,
they sometimes even attacked any hu-
man being they met and devoured him.
Some twenty men, women and children
were eaten up within one mile OF town.
Government of East Roumelia.
LONDON, April 2S.-The organic
statute for East ROumelia has been APP
proved by the Porte, but the manner OF
putting it in operation is question of
much difficulty. The Mussulmans,
afraid of being left alone with the Bull
garians, are emigratingin great numbers
from Roumelia; from 80, 900 to 10000 are
now at Adrianople. The Bulgarians,
afraid of the province being again occu-
pied by Turkish troops, are making
preparations for resistance. II is ru-
mored that they mean to oppose and
molest even the international delinea-
tiOn commission