The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

News comes from Sonth America of
another battle between the CHILEAN army and
she allied Peruvians and Bolivians, in which
the latter were defeated with a loss of 5000.
Nearly twenty miners were killed by
an explosion of blasting material in a mine in
Wurtemburg, Germany.
A serious famine is reported in Ar
menia.
Much distress exists among the poor
er classes in Italy
Intelligence from Afghanistan to
Dec. Is represents the military situation about
thus: Cabul was in the hands of the Afghans,
the British having been driven from the
citadel of Bala-Hissar to fortified camp
two miles north Of the city. Here were
assembled 5000 British troops, confronted and
almost surrounded by $4,000 determined At
CHAN soldiers, well armed and well differed.
Outside communication with the British had
been almost entirely cut off, but reinforce
rnents were going forward as rapidly as
possible.
The Gear is using extraordinary pre-
cautions against any further attempts upon his
ife
An official decree pardons $50 French
Communists.
The evicted tenant who assaulted
Lord Fermoy with bludgeon in Limerick, Ire
land, has been sentenced to five years penal
seryitude. The severity of the sentence causes
much excitement in Ireland, and will no doubt
embitter the feelings of the tenantry toward
the landlords.
The death-rate in London this season
is unprecedentedly heavy.
Details of the fighting at Cabul show
that the people of the city and villages We'd
with each other in numbering and mutilating
stragglers and wounded men of the British
army, some being actually murdered within 200
yards of the wall of Shirpur.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
the police cannot discover the Nihilists because
they exist where the authorities do not
venture to look. The real conspirators are
to be found in the drawing rooms of the rich
and noble
st. Petersburg advices indicate that
Russian diplomacy is again being directed to
the establishment of the arrangement be-
tween the three empires, which, if consumma-
ted, would render them arbiters of the affairs
of Europe.
Yakoob Khan's buried treasure, re.
Gently recovered at Cabul, was all in Russian
gold. Some of the Afghan regulars were
dressed in Russian uniforms
The Russian police have discovered
another secret printing establishment in ST.
Petersburg, from which seditious prints were
being circulated by the Nihiists.
a international exhibition is to be held
in the city of Rome in 1882
The British Government has granted
annual pensions of $2, 500 to the wife and $500
to the mother Of Cavagnari, who was murdered
in the revolt at Cabul few months ago.
A cable dispatch conveys the curl
GUS intelligence that the secret of making
diamonds artifcially has been discovered in
London.
The situation in Russia is not at all
hopeful Nihilist conspiracies are discovered,
revealing widespread ramifcations and involv-
ing parties who should be above suspicion
1t is rumored that several Of the most aristo-
cratic families in Russia are on the march to
Siberia. The condition of the Gear Is not i'm
proving mentally or physically. He is
constantly apprehensive of assassination.
and very suspicious. The servants of the pal
ace are changed daily and the police closely
watched
Lord Carnarvon and others have
been appointed a commission to Investigate the
defenses OF the British colonies.
The French Ministry has resigned,
and De Freycinet is to form q new one.