New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-05-07
LATEST NEWS.


LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
THE international pedestrian match
In london, Eng, terminated ct $50, on
the might Of the 26th. At the finish the
score stood: Brown, $40; Corkey, 400; Ha-
xasl, 478; Weston, $50. Brown beat the fast
est previous record (that Of O'Leary) by u
miles. Over 1900 persons witnessed the
finish.
The British squadron in the Pacific
has been ordered to cruise OF the Peruvian
coast.
ENGLAND and France have addressed
identical notes to the Khedive Of Egypt de-
manding the appointment Of English and
French Ministers, and that they shall not be
removed except with the consent Of England
and France.
A LATE letter from Mocadoz, in Mo-
rocco, published on the 9th, states that more
than Il, QUO persons had died there from hum
ger. =..., 2,
The Public Prosecutor at Warsaw
has been arrested upon the charge Of being q
NihNist.. ~.
A ROME dispatch of the 9th says
the Pope had asked foreign Governments
whether he could rely upon their protection
in the event of an attack upon the Vatican by
the Republicans.
The editor of a Zurich (Switzerland)
newspaper, the Neue 0ese1lschat #, has been ar
rested upon the charge of plotting to assas-
sinate the Queen Of England aud the King
and Queen Of Italy. His friends state that
he is incapable Of entering into such . con-
spiracy.
A LONDON telegram Of the 28th says
the Emperor Of Germany had sent autograph
letters to the reigning sovereigns in Europe,
proposing an international holy alliance Of
rulers against the Socialists.
In the British House of Commons, on
the night Of the 18th, q resolution censuring
the Government for increasing the National
expenditure was rejected by . vote Of 2S0 to
800.
KILOGRAMS from india, received on
the 2Sth, speak of the complete breakdown
Of the Quartermaster aud Commissary De-
partments Of the troops operating in Afghan
istan.
THE European Powers interested
have unanimously agreed upon joint media
ton between Turkey and Greece.
The St. Petersburg Gclos of the 29th
ult. says 12,0OO prisoners, with their families,
would be sent from Novgorod to Siberia dur
Ing the summer.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Battenburg,
was, on the 10th ult., unanimously elected to
the throne OF Bulgaria, by the Bulgarian As
sembly Of Notables, with the title of Alex
ander I.
IT is stated that the Danubian for
tresses will all be demolished by the 81 of
August next.
The German agriculturists have Pc
titioned their Government to prohibit the i'm
portation Of American cattle.
The earthquake which occurred at
Meareh, Persia, on the ED of March, totally
destroyed twenty-one villages, and killed 922
persons, 1850 sheep, 1,125 oxen, 124 horses
and IS camels.
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
3Oth ult. announces the destruction, by fire,
on the 2Sth and Goth ult., of the greater part
OF the City OF Orenburg, on the Ural River.
The fire was Of incendiary origin, and is az
cribed to the Nihilists. The loss was enor-
nous, and more than one-half of the inhabit-
ants OF the city are homeless. The Village of
Gratchenko has also been totally destroyed by
fire.
A SOUTH AFRICA dispatch, pub
lished on the 30th ult., says Henry NJ. Stan.
ley, the African explorer, was at Zanzibar
organizing mysterious expedition into tho
interior of Africa.
The publishers of the Paris Revols4-
ton Francaise have been condemned to in,-
prisonment and heavily fined, for publishing
letter justlfylng the Commune.
The wife of Prof. Botkin, the Cars
family physician, was imprisoned, on the LIST,
on the charge of Nihilism. The wife Of the
Chief Military Prosecutor was also similarly
accused.
The spring two-year-old stakes at
Newmarket, Eng. were won, on the LIST, by
the American horse Papoose.
GEN. GRANT reached Hong Kong,
China, on the 1st.
CAPE Town dispatches, received on
the %, say the indications were abundant that
IN early peace woul: he secured. It was
stated that Cetewayo himself had offered to
make his submission, provided he could be
assured that he would receive good terms.
SEVERAL foreigners have been ex-
PEELED from Switzerland for melting the
Italians to revolution.
A BERLIN dispatch of the I'd says
Solovleff, who attempted to assassinate the
Gar, had declared that, though he was COM
PEELED. under threat OF death, to fire at him,
he purposely missed him.
A MANDALAY dispatch, received on
the I'd, states that, despite the peaceful de.
= sires Of the King of Burnah, the mass of the
people desired war with Great Britain.
THE NEW WORLD.
L. D. RICHARDS, the man who &C.
knowledged to have killed from twelve to
fifteen persons, was hung at Minden, Kear-
ney County, Kansas, on the 26th.
JESSE PoMERoY, the Boston boy
murderer, made an unsuccessful attempt to
escape from the Massachusetts State Prison,
on the 18th, by saving through the bars Of
his cell.
A NEW ORLEANS dispatch Of the 26th
states that the Migration Relief Association
(colored) had formally organized, and was
prepared for correspondence with similar a..
sociations West, North and East The Rev.
G. H. Thompson 10 Chairman. A telegram
from Vidalia, Concordia Parish, reported that
5000 negroes were there on the river bank,
awaiting transportation Kansasward. A Man
haitian (Kan.) dispatch Of the same date says
the arrival there Of 200 colored refugees had
the effect Of setting the people to work pro-
viding for them. They were well sheltered
and cared for, and arrangements were being
made IN nrocnre <hom vorlr ~, <orrn. .,,a &,