Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-02-17
CABLE FLASHES.
ENGLAND'S SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.
English Labor Troubles - The Asiatic
Plagus-Germany and the Pope
German Politics-General
Foreign Notes.
Ensliah Labor Troubles.

agreed to arbitration, providing the men
resume at the proposed reduction. The
matter now awaits the decision OF the
strikers. II is thought they must yield,
The South African War.
| Madrid, February l5.-1he steamer
Dunrobin Castle, which brought news al
| the disaster 10 the British troops in
South Africa TO Vincent, called herr
this morning on her way 10 Plymouth,
Ii is ascertained from her officers that
later advices received ut Cape Town re.
ported that subsequently 10 the disaster
to Colonel Glyn's camp the force under
Dartncll and lonsdale had a victorious
engagement with the enemy at Ronke's s
Drift. Colonel Pearson's column is
safely established at Ekaye. There were
no hostile Zulus in Natal.
LONDON, February l5.-The Fifty
seventh Regiment at Ceylon Is ordered
to the Cape OF Good Hope as soon ~
transportation can bc obtained. IL is
to be hoped that the regiment will
reach the Cape within fortnight.
LONDON, February IA dispatch
dated Maritzburg, January 18th, says oi
the Zulu war: "Shortly after the conf
mcnccmcnt OF hostilities. Lord Chelms-
ford and Colonel Pearson successfully
engaged the enemy near the place where
Lord Chelmsford had been fighting. He
left six companies of the Twenty-fourth
regiment under Pullcin, whom Durnfor,l
was to join with the natives. Fifteen
thousand Zulus attacked the united
forces on the 22d. The fire from the British
caused immense havoc among them, hrt
they rushed forward with indomital
pluck, and when they had come TO clo' .
quarters the great numerical superior
ity of the Xulus secured them com
plete victory. Six companies of the
Twcnty-iourth were totally destroyed,
and Durnford's natives utterly routed.
The victorious Xulus attacked small
force in the vicinity OF l,ourke's Drift
the same day, but were repealed. In
this attack hundred men succeeded
in Keeping off over four thousand Iulus.
They fought from five in the evening
until daylight, when the main column
arrived. The British lost thirteen men.
five of whom were massacred in the
hospital"
The Asistio Plague.
MADRID, February 1.-Two British
ships for Barcelona, from the Fast, are
Quarantined at Port Mahon.
WASHINGTON, February l5.-Minister
Kasson, writing from Vienna, says the
Russian plague excitcs great alarm In
Germany, Austria and Hungary, that
nearly all the patients have died, and
that six army surgeons and nearly all
who came in contact with the dead had
died, although disinfcctants were freely
used. The mortality among the sick IN
some places was equal Ia 100 per cent.
TRIESTE, February H.. The maritime
authorities, in an order abolishing quar-
antine against Turkish ports, urge
special attention regarding the spotted
typhus, which * spreading in Salonicp
BERLIN. February lj.-Thc Chief oi
Police has ordered Il spcciaI inspection
Of lodging houses on account al the
prevalence of spotted typhus.
German Politics.
BERLIN, February lj.-ln the Lower
House of the diet Yesterday, the Min
istcr OF Finance made declaration on
the authority OI the Ming, of the same
tenor a. that made by him nj the sitting
oi the Prussisn Budget Committee on
the 2lst ult., namely; That until new
source uf revenue from indirect taxation
was created IN GERMANY, and until IL
was ascertaincd what portion al the sur.
plus could br transferred to individual
States, il would hc useless to discuss th"
question Oi income anil class taxes, ~
any reform ui tho present system oi
taxation would bc impossible. &r. The
proposals oi the budget Committee re-.
iative 10 the assessment of taxes were
then adopted hy large majority.
The National I,irng and other Liberal
journals are shocked at ihs manner In
which the speech from the throne at
the opening oi the keichstag declares
Prince Bsnarcks protcctiOnist
~hencs. They believe IL isan electoral
manifesto, and the iureTunner of the
speedy dissolution ol the Rsichstag
4 free trade coalition j. being formed
in the IicichstAg, under the leadership
of -. 4. J.. Bruck, former Minister to
Constrntinople.
oVh'i" Va'bh "cf'Ss
The Brunswick Diet has alsptol The
Regency bill unanimously.
A portion NJ the British force at Can.
dahar has been ordered to retire to Pis-
hcen.
ParOcchi, Instranycnt Bishop of 10
lngnc, is transferred to Ancona in place
ni Antonscci.
six hundred and nincty-siI agrisiil.
tural labnrcr- yesterday left Plymouth,
England, for New Irsland.
4 severe storm vi-itesl the r0ast ol
Gallicia on sunday. Two vessels went
ashore and t~enty-right I-rsons were
drowned.
Rowell, the CanbriIge athlete. .ailei
in the steamship PArthia from London
yesterday fer NrR York, for the purJo-e
oi c,ntestIng the pedestrian champion.
ship With Oleary.
4 dispatch from Rome says: Cordial
letter., have l-een exchanged between
the Pore AMI the German Emperor.
Concessions are made On both side-.
The Cardinal. oIJD-c the Popes accept-
snoe ~ the civil lit. His Holiness de-
cidcs, nevertheless, that eccIesiSties
must obey the law"
IlsIOn stuart, Russian Representative
At Bucharest, has bcen appointed Chief
III tie Archives II the Foreign Minis
Try. Va sus~r-sDr 81 Buehsrrst will BE-
appointed i,r tl,e present. This action
l. r,-.srls-l - cvblcnoe 0i kTssia's dis
pleasure si Kogmsnia.
The Ens.ian press consider sriou,
consequences J-Ds-Ible from ROunsnizn
quarantine regulations and the seirnrs,
4 Arab TsLia, by Ehirh the rsturn oi
Russian tr'"Ps from Turkey 10 OBJ
s'ructCsl.
Tie French Government viii pSot~-
his snnul, a. shra r,SNs. the Municipal
Council vote II 10000 francs 90 Viz
iOt IIugo's committees 'or the relief al
tie COmmuHi-t
Germany and t,s Pops.
LosDoS, February IA dispatch
from Rome szys cordial letters hare
been exchanged betueen the Pope and
the German Emperor. Conceassas
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