New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-07-09
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

A PARIS telegram of The 28th ult.
says the Government had determined to re-
qulre all Generals to take an oath of ale
glance to the Republic.
TEKKE TURCOMANs have lately made
an incursion into Per sian territory, destroyed
two forts and taken many prisoners.
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
Goth uIt. says the Minister of the Interior
had ordered the local authorities to take
measures against the agitators who were in
citing the peasants to disturbance by spread
> ing false reports of the impending redistri-
button OF lands.
A PARIS editor has been sentenced to
six months imprisonment and to pay fine
OF 5000 francs, for caricaturing President
Grevy.
DURING heavy thunderstorm in
Paris on the night of the Goth ult., several
persons were killed by lightning.
A CoNsrANr1NoPLE dispatch of the
Goth ult. says England and France had mott
fed tho Porte that they would not consent to
the abrogatiun of the trade of 1861, authoriz-
ing the Khedivc to maintain an army and
conclude treaties with foreign powers.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 3Oth ult.
announces the resignation of DR.. Falk, Min.
lister Of Instruction and Worship; Herr Flo.
brecht, Minister of Finance, and DR.. Friedcn.
thai, Minister Of Agriculture. Their resigna-
ton had been accepted, and Count Stalberg
appointed Minister of Agriculture, and Baron
Seldertz, Minister of Finance. The successor
to DR.. Fa'k had not been announced. These
ministerial changes caused great excitement
throughout the German Empire.
SIR WILLIAM FoTHERG1LL Cooke,
the constructor of the first telegraph line in
Great Britain, died on the 3Oth ult.
A PLACARD was placed on church
door in Hocken, Belgium, Oh the LIST, threat
ening the life of the King.
The Paris Steele of the I'd says that
numerous groups OF Bonapartists had an
nounccd their intention OF bringing forward
Jerome Bonaparte Patterson, OF Baltim ore,
Nd, as pretender to the Napciconic success
sion.
The Industrial Exhibition announced
to be held in Moscow this year has been post
poned until 1881. in consequence of the trade
depression in Russia.
A LONDON telegram of the Sd says
Rev. John Cummings, the Millennium writer,
had been ordered by his physician to re-
nounce all mental work. He would retire
from the ministry.
AN explosion occurred in the High
Blantyre coal-pit, near Glasgow, Scotland,
on the 81. There were thirty one persons in
the mine at the time. Up to the evening of
that day twenty-one corpses had been re-
covered. 49,
A NEW Egyptian Ministry was con-
stitutcd and proclaimed ON the 3d. =.
A CALCUTTA telegram of the Sd says
the butcheries in Burmah had been revived.
The British Government had telegraphed the
Viceroy to interpose between King Thecbaw
and other probable victims.
PRINCE BISMARCK gave a dinner in
honor of DIR. White, the American Minister,
OH the night Of the I'd.
The news received from Cape Town
on the Sd was to the effect that peace negotia-
tions were pending with Cetewayo, with the
prospect that they would soon be brought to
successful issue. --..
The British troop-ship Orontes ar
rived at Madeira on the Sd, with the remains
OF the Prince Imperial on board.
The Fourth of July was celebrated
In London by banquet at the Palace Hotel
A large number OF Americans participated:
A NUMBER of placards threatening
the lives of the Sultan and his Ministers were
seized at Constantinoplc on the 4th.
- A NAPLES (Italy) dispatch of the
4th reports the arrest of the cx-Khcdive of
Egypt. Cause, not stated.