New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-03-19
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AYIENNA telegram Of the 9Th says
the Russian Government had discovered 8
conspiracy for forcibly liberating the Nihilist
prisoners. Tho Czarowitch had also been
charged with subversive political tendencieA
and had been forbidden to leave his palace.
AD1sPArca from Tashkend, received
In st. Petersburg on the 9th, states that after
the death Of shere Ali ! bloody conflict broke
out among the followers OF the various pre-.
tenders to the Afghan throne, and that the
partisana Of Yakoob Khan were victorious.
CoUNT BIsMARcK's bill for discip1in.
ing members Of the German Parliament was
rejected, on the 7th. Only the extreme and
some Of the moderate Conservatives voted for
It. It was an acknowledged ignominious de-
feat for the Government
HENRI LAcAY, banker, and Presi-
dent Of the Chamber Of Commerce, at Tarbes,
France, has. absconded with large amount
Of funds.
TIE French Committee Of Inquiry
has voted to imreach the Ministers of the
18th of May (the DeBroglie- Fourtou Cabinet.)
A MOTION in the British House Of
Commons, on the 7th, favoring woman sut-
frage, was rejected by vote OF 103 TO 217.
PAssAMENTE, the would-be assassin
Of the King Of Italy, has been found guilty
and sentenced to death.
A CAPE Town (South Africa) dis
patch, published on the 9th, states that the
Zulus had been defeated, with heavy loss, at
Ekowe. by Col. Pearson. All fears OF sue
cessful invasion OF Natal had vanished.
A DISPATCH from Tashkend, pub.
lished on the 9th, states that official intelli-
gence had been received there that tranquil.
lily had been restored at Cabul, and that va
koob Khan bad been proclaimed Ameer Of
Afghanistan.
By the collision Of cages in the Vic
toria Coal-Pit, in England, on the 9Th. one
person was precipitated to the bottom Of the
shaft and eight others were killed.
A T1RNovA dispatch of the 9th says
the population of Djuma was cmigrating
IN masse before the advance of Turkish troops.
A PEsrH Hungary dispatch Of the
morning Of the 18th reports an extraordinary
rise in the water of the River Thesis above
the City Of Szegedin. Two of the three dams
protecting the city had burst, and the last
threatened momentarily to give way, 10
which event the entire city would be swept
away, and 10000 people rendered homeless.
A LONDON telegram of the 10th says
the Government was on the eve of negotia-
tions with Yakoob Khan, the new Alneer Of
Afghanistan.
On the 18th, the Pail Mall Gazette
published a letter from high official in
India, in which 1t was stated that the people
Of Cashmere were dying like flies of famine,
and that, at the present rate of mortality, the
Province would be nearly depopulated by the
end Of the year.
In the British House of Commons,
on the 18th, motion for the adoption Of a
resolution favoring local option In respect Ia
the license question was defeated by vote
OF 1874 ayes to 252 noes.
Two FATAL cases of Siberian plague
are reported at St. Petersburg.
SULINA, ut one of the mouths Of tho
Danube, has been gazctted free port.
The catastrophe anticipated for some
days at the City Of SIZE 5edin, in Hungary, oc.
CURED on the morning OF tho 18th. The
Thiess broke its banks and swept in lroad
volume through the center of the city. Tho
devastation, terror, suffering and death
which followed is said to be almost irie.
scribable. TIE lsrlest buildings were under.
mined and the inmates borne away on the
tide TO destruction. Over $1,000 PEOPLE are
reported TO be homeless and Thousands Of
Ives have been lost. Up to midnight Of the
18th, two-thirds Of the city was under water,
and 100 square miles in the Immediate neigh
hood were also flooded.