The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ToREIQN NEWS.

The Sultan of Turkey has yielded to
the demands Of Great Britain for reforms in
tho administration of Asia Minor
Hon. John Welsh, United States Min
lister to England, sailed from London for home
on the 10Th of August
The rapid decline of Bonapartism in
the French provinces is shown by the fact that
three Imporialist newspapers have stopped for
want Of friends.
The foundation stone of the new
Ediystone lighthouse, off Plymouth, England,
was laid, Aug. 10, by the British Princes, Wales
and Edinburgh.
De Lesseps has sent to Central Amer
lea several expert engineers to examine the
plans of the Panama canal and to ascertain tho
probable expense of building it De Lesseps
is making preparations for his visit to this
country.
An address to Lieut.. Carey, of the
expedition in which the Prince Imperial lost his
life, declaring that he has been unwarrantably
censured, is being signed by thousands Of peo-
ple in England
England and Wales have again been
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rivers and playing havoc with the crops
An Odessa RUSSIA dispatch says the
judgments of the military tribunal against
number CT the Nihilists have been published.
Five men are sentenced to be hanged, one
woman goes to Siberia, and twenty two others
are sentenced to ten years penal servitude.
The Edison telephone is to be intro
duced in Paris.
It looks as if war was inevitable be-
tween Russia and China.
Deaths from yellow fever in Havana
during July, 475. One death from cholera.
The Commissioners of England and
Russia appointed to ascertain and fix definite
ly the new boundary line between Russia and
Turkey in Asia, have failed to agree Serious
consequences may grow out of this controversy,
sooner or later.
Batoum, in Asiatic Turkey, has been
also been visited by destructive confa-
grafton.
The grand cross of the order of the
Bath has been conferred upon Lord Chelms-
ford
Edward Strathearn, Lord Gordon,
one of the English Judges Of Appeal, died at
Brussels, aged GO.
A Vienna dispatch says the disturb
ances in Bulgaria are increasing. The militia
operating against the insurgents are unable to
repress the disorders.
Three of the five male Nihilists SEN
fenced by the military tribunal at Odessa to be
hanged were executed Aug. %. A woman
sentenced to exile in Siberia is only Is years
of age.
For some reason the British Minis
administration of the Government Of India.
Rumors Of his recall have been frequent, and
now il is reported positively that Lord Dufferin
will Immediately succeed him.
The harvest in Italy has been dis
astrously affected by the drought.
China is preparing to resist the
threatened Russian invasion.
The Asiatic cholera is making its
way into Western Europe.
Much suffering is said to be in store
for the working people in the English manu-
featuring districts this winter.
Russia has over 100000, rubles
in paper money in circulation
Jaffa (the ancient Joppa), in Jerusa-
lem, is to be converted into great commercial
port.
Turkeys army is to be reduced to
100, 600 men.
Four additional Cardinals are to be
appointed at the coming consistory.
The big statue of Liberty, for which
funds were raised by lottery, and which is
ultimately to be set up at some point on New
York harbor, is approaching completion in
Paris.
Far-off India is suffering from o
series of distressing Affections. Fevers are
raging among the British troops in Hindoostan,
cholera is Increasing at Cabul, an ugly insur-
rection is threatened in Bengal, and starvation
and misery prevail in Cashmere.
The Russian expedition in Central
Asia has suffered frightfully from disease.
The mortality in one section OF Lazareff's army
squaled % per cent of the entire force
The City Council of Ostend, France,
has decided to institute proceedings against the
Paris Figaro for falsely announcing that chol-
era existed at Ostend and Bruges