New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-30

Wednesday, April Both, 1879.
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
APAR1s telegram of the goth says the
epidemic Of CHAMBERS prevailed to an alarming
extent In the cavalry stables in Lyons. It
was estimated that the value of the horses
attacked by the malady, which had been
slaughtered, was not less than 400.000 francs.
The Sultan has ratified the Now.
Bazaar Convention with Austria.
A BOMBAY dispatch, received on the
20th, says, according to Intelligence just re-
ceived from Mandalav, the King had declared
to bis councillors that henceforth he would
neither listen to nor speak Of proposals for
an accommodation with England.
ST.. PETERSBURG dispatches Of the
10th say . riot recently occurred at Rostav,
on the DON, which was only suppressed when
the military were called out. The fighting was
continued during one night, and the resi-.
dcnces Of the Chief of Police and Town Over.
seer and the police station and police records
were destroyed. Several policemen wero
killed. =
The publisher of Paris newspaper
has been fined 5000 francs and sentenced to
eight months imprisonment for printing o
scurrilous attack on Catholicism.
A BELGRADE dispatch of the 10Th
says an Albanian force had taken possession
OF Kurshumlie and massacred all the Chris
tian Inhabitants.
~ A CAIRO (EgypD dispatch of the
2lst says the Khedive had effected loan Of
S1,750, 900, giving as his security his wheat
crop.
THE Durham (Eng.) miners have
resolved, by vote of 22,633 to "a, to
continue the strike. About $500 GOLFERS In
Belgium have also struck.
The Japanese Government has off,
cially notified the United States Charge
d'Afaires of its desire that ex-President Grant,
when he visits Japan, shall be the guest Of the
Nation. A palace was being fitted up for the
reception of the distinguished American.
SERv1A has requested the Porte to
send troops to the frontier to prevent any
further incursions Of Albanians.
HEAVY snow-storms in Afghanistan
have impeded hostile operations.
CAPE Town dispatches, received in
London and published on the ED, announce
that Lord Chelmsford had, on the 4th, sue.
ceeded In reinforcing Col. Pearson, at Ekowe,
after desperate engagement, In which over
1900 Zulus were killed. On the 2Sth and 10th
of March, Col. Woods column fought two
battles, in the first of which he suffered de-
feat, but In the second he recovered his lost
ground and routed the Zulus The Brittsh
losses In these engagements aggregated 220
men, including several officers. The Zulus
lost 500 men.
A PRIZE fight for the championship
OF the world and el0O, which took place in
London on the 22d, between Tom Allen Of st.
Louis, U. s., and Jack Stewart of Scotland,
proved to be complete fiasco. Twenty-four
rounds were fought, and the men scarcely
touched each other. The referee declared the
light draw.
A BELGRADE dispatch of the 22d re.
ports continued fighting between the Alba
mans and Servians, the efforts of the latter to
dislodge the former from the heights Of
6amakoff having up to that time proved un-
successful. The Servians had lost 700 men.
A LATE census of Spain and adjacent
island shows population OF 16625, $50, On
increase of OPS, 3A since 1865.
Ar Epson, Eng, on the Esd, Parole,
the American horse, won the Metropolitan
stakes. His owner realized e100, 600 by this
race. This is the third stake won by Parole
within . week.
The Shakespeare Memorial Theater,
ct stratford-on-Avon, was formally opened
on the 29d. the three hundred and fifteenth
anniversary Of The great poets birth, with the
performance Of "kuch Ado About Nothing"
A brilliant audience was present.
An Athens (Greece) telegram of the
2Sd says that Crete was again in the throes Of
revolution.
A HIGH COURT of criminal Justice
under the Presidency Of the Grand Duke
Constantine, brother of the Car, has been
organized to try Solovieff, the would-be assas
sin Of the Car.
The German newspapers of the 2Sd
published report that the Tartars Of Orsk,
fearing compulsory baptism, had burned The
town and murdered the officials.
OVER 1000 persons have been ar
rested al st. Petersburg, during the week pre-
ceding the 23d, for alleged political otfenses
TURGUEN1EFF, the well-known Rus
sian novelist, has been expatrjated.
The number of persons killed by thu
fre-damp explosion in the Aerappo Coal-Pit
near Mons, Belgium, on the 18th, has been as
certaiued to be III. Only forty-seven corpseI
have so far been recovered.
A S1MLA telegram of the Esd say
Persian troops from Meshed were marchins
toward the Afghan frontier.
A LONDON dispatch of the oath an
nounces the appointment of Rev. DR.. Patton
of Chicago, to the Chair of Apologetical The
ology In the Presbyterian College Of London
A RECENT inundation at Moscow ant
vicinity has destroyed thirty-four railroad
bridges. ~
An International Congress, under tn,
Presidency of NJ. de Lesseps, will meet /,
Paris on the 18th of May, to discuss the vari
Gus schemes for building ship canal acros
the lsthmus of Darien.
The Porte estimates that 20O,OO(
men will be required for the occupation o
Roumelia
SEVERAL of the heavy iron works IL
England were compelled to close, on the 25th
because Of inability to obtain fuel-one re-
suit of the Durham strike.
The widow of Walter Savage Landor
the poet, died recently at Florence, Italy.
The Turkish regular troops hav,
surrounded the Albanian raiders into Seryia
and deprived them of their plumber. whicl
will be returned to the servian owners.
SIXTEEN Professors in the Russian
Universities have resigned in consequence 0