Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-07

city of Orenburg, on the Ural river,
Monday and Tuesday last. destroying
the principal part of the city. Loss
enormous. More than halfof the popula-
ton are destitute of food and shelter.
A number of persons were injured.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of April
3Oth announces that q circular has
been sent to all governors of provinces,
directing them to Immediately ex-
ecute the commands of the newly ap-
pointed governor general. This order
virtually extends military rule to the
whole Of the empire. The Golos reports
it is intended to send $4,000 prisoners
with their families from Novgorod to
Siberia during the summer. t5u.r
A PEsrH dispatch of the I'd says
a violent hurricane at Szegeden
Yesterday destroyed the works pre-
pared for restoring the railroad
and filing the breaches in the
dam. Barges filled with building ma
| terial and earth were mostly sunk. The
storm caused extensive fresh breaches
in the railroad embankment and
labOrers are In great danger.
Relief has been sent them. .......
KILOGRAMS from India under date of
April 28th speak Of the complete
breakdown of the quarter masters and
commissary's departments of the khy-
Der column at Jellallabad and Grand
Amak, owing to a lack of transporta-
ton the column is sa id to be incapaci-
tated for offensive operations. The
garrison Of Candahar is in very SINH
lar position in consequence of these
failures. r... s .,...
AN Orenburg dispatch of the 1st'says
at the great fire nine hundred and forty
dwellings were burned, together with
one mosque, 292 shops, several tar,
coal and fire wood stores, timber yard,
meat market, fruit market, the woman's
gymnasium, clubhouse, workhouse,
police station and the Justices court,
besides the buildings named yesterday.
The Gar has contributed ten thousand
roubles for the relief of the sufferers.
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch of the LIST
inst. states that feeling of gloom pre-
walls. Rigorous police regulations re-
speeding the watching Of houses, and
visits and searching by night are to be
made still more stringent. After
o'clock In the evening, nobody will be
at liberty to show himself in the street
without certificate, upon which must
be written and aitested the place from
which the bearer comes and to which
he is going. Gen. Gourke, govern
ment general, planned this ordinance.
A VIENNA special of the Goth inst.
says one difficulty between England
and Russia has been smoothed away.
Russia consents that the Governor of
Eastern Roumelia may call for the as
sistance Of the Ottoman troops if he
has the sanction of bare majority of
the International Commission. Russia,
however, persists that the delineation
of the frontier boundary the Commits
sion must be unanim Jus on all ques-
tons of principle. ....
A ROME dispatch Of the 20th says
Garibaldi has started for Albano. He
published manifesto to the Italian
people enthusiastically congratulatlng
them on the formation of democratic
league for the promotion of universal
suffrage. The manifesto concludes as
follows: "The league had decided to
work by pacific means, and whoever
governs Italy must take note if, by I'M
peding work Of the league, he compels
it to resort to other means, he will he
held accountable by history and the
nation.
A BERLIN dispatch OF April 2Sth says
the trial of the three medical students,
convicted and sentenced to imprison-
ment for disturbing the public order
ard maintaining secret connections,
took place in Berlin. not st. Petersberg
Their names are Greevitz, Arbonez
and Liebermann, the last-named under
the alias Of Arthur Freeman, connected
with the leading socialists in Europe
and America, and was on his way to
Switzerland from Vienna. from whence
he had been expelled, after a
months imprisonment, when he was
seized and taken to Berlin on account
of his communication with Greevetz
and Arohnson. His letters showed the
plan for establishing in Berlin section
of Nihilists to act as a sort of way sta
ton for communications between Lon
don and St. Petersburg.
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