The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-24
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

THE OLD WORLD.
INTELLIGENCE was received in Lon.
don, on the Sth, Of another disaster to the
British forces in South Africa. 1t seems that
Col Pearson. who was beleaguercd 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 sth, report that 1000 Zulus
had attacked and annihilated q company of
the Eightieth Regiment, which was escorting
wason-train to the front for the relief of
Col. Pearson. Only five out of 1O4 men es-
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 colleries.
THE Russian Revolutionary Commit
tee has sent letters to all the Imperial digni-
taries at St. Petersburg, saying that, though
they do not intend to attack the Gar
they will kill his attendants, especially the
heads of the Police Department, so long as
the treatment of political prisoners is un-
ameliorated.
The Patrie of Paris, on the 9th, an
nounced the approaching marriage of King
Alfonso, OF Spain, to Archduchess Maria, of
Austria.
1T was reported in London, on the
10th, that England and France had decided to
demand of the Sultan of Turkey the deposi
tion of the Khedve 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 LON, on the outskirts of Novi
Bazaar, commanding all the practicable cross
ing places.
A BERLIN telegram of the 10th says
1,O4O Nihilists had been arrested in Charkoff
\ letter had been received at Charkoff police
headquarters announcing the arrival of Gen.
krapotkin's murderer in New York.
KARL BECK, the German poet, is
dead.
AN attempt was made Oh the 18th
to assassnate the Governor of Kietf.
The corpse of a student was found
recently near Kasan Cathedral, labeled, "Sen-
fenced as a traitor by the Socialist Revolu-
tionary Committee"
NINE persons were killed and twen-
ty-iive injured, on the 18th, by an accident to
the Moscow mail train.
IT was stated, on the 18th, that the
loss OF life through the late inundation at
Szegedin had not exceeded seventy-seven, in
stead of 1000. as before reported.
A PARIS dispatch of the 18th an
nounces the death of J. d. Cartier de villeme
SAINT, long director Of the Paris Figaro.
The Metacony affair is in process of
settlement, France having withdrawn from
the island the occupying force.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
10Th gives an account of the recent slaughter
OF student prisoners at Kieff. 1t saws they
had arranged to gain their liberty BY burrow-
ing under the walls of the prison. A con-
federate betrayed the design to the authori-
ties, and the prisoners were allowed to enter
the tunnel, where they were all shot.
A CAIRO Egypt dispatch of the
18th announces the departure of a specia,
envoy to the Sultan from the Khediye bear.
Ing large sum of money to be given to the
former. 1t was stated that the Sultan had de.
manded that the English and French Minis
tiers be restored under penalty Of deposition of
the Khedive's dynasty.
A SHELL exploded near Prince Milan
while he was walking at Nisch, few davs 400.
assassin
ate the Prince.
lRMocENr, the Metropolitan Bishop
OF Moscow, and formerly Missionary Bishop
at Alaska, died, on the 18th.
AN attempt was made to assassinate
the Car of Russia on the 18th. While he was
taking his mornings walk near the palace in
81. Petersburg, four shots we're fired at him.
but he was not hurt. The would-be assassin
was arrested by crowd which assembled on
hearing the firing. The city was immediately
decorated in thankfulness for the Cars es-
cape
ADvIcEs received from Cairo, Egypt.
on the l4th, were to the effect that the Khe-
dives party was stronger than that of his
opponents, and that any attempt on the part
OF the Sultan to coerce him would be resisted
at all hazards.
A VASTLY productive petroleum
spring has been discovered near Pechelbroun
in Alsace.
1T is announced that Russia will be-
gin the evacuation of Bulgaria and Roumelia
on the LIST Of May.
Gen. GAR1BALDI has written a letter
in which he advoc ates universal suffrapc