Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-18
FOREIGN.

A DISPATCH from Iquique, says that
port il blockaded by Il CHILEAN squad
! ron.
ITALY will not participate in the
mixed occupation OF Roumelia, says a
cablegram of April 18th.
THE German government expects to
derive revenue of 100,000,000 marks
(about S25 ,000,000) from the new pro-
tective tariff.
GEN. ToDLEBEN declared at II council
held April 10th that he believed war
was the only salution Of the Eastern
Roumelia difficulty.
IT is reported that King Alfonso, of
Spain, ID to marry the Arch Duchess
Maria, daughte- of Arcn Duke Charles
of Austria.
A DISPATCH from Bombay, April llth,
says it is rumored in Cabul that the ne
gotiations between Yakoob Khan and
the British had failed because the latter
insisted on the annexation of Cabul.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made
to assassinate the car while he was tax
ing his morning walk, near the palace,
April Nth. Four shots we're fired
without effect. The would.be assassin
was arrested,
A CABLEGRAM of April 18th says,
seventeen thousand persons in Szegedin
and the neighborhood Of that city are
still subssting on charity. 1t has been
raining for ten days. The supply of
bread is becoming exhausted.
The latest dispatch from Cape Town,
South Africa, gives the following infor-
nation concerning the great slaughter
Of English troops: A convoy ofsupplies
proceeding from Derby to Lu Wehurg,
escorted by 104 men of the 18th regi-
ment was attacked at day-break, March
18th, on the banks of intombe river,
by 1000 Zulus, under Umbelini. Owing
to previous alarm the British were I'M
der arms, but were overwhelmed by
the enormously superior force of the
enemy. Capt. Moriarity and forty
men killed, and twenty
missing. Fate OF wagon drivers un-
known Lieut.. HARDWOOD, with 40 men,
succeeding i'll reaching Luzeburg, $50
men Of the S0th regiment subsequently
proceeded to the scene of the lighting
and recovered n quantity of racks and
ammunition and buried the dead.
Twenty wagons, containing supplies,
were lost. A relief column for Ekowe
will start March Goth. A party of vol
unteers have visited the battle field OF
Isandula and found that the Iulus had
left 100 wagons there, but had removed
the guns and ammunition.
A KIETF correspondent ofthc 81 Peters,
burger Jour,mi under date of April 18th,
gives the following account OF the out
break among the political prisoners
last month: "Persons under arrest in
the Kieif prison resolved some time ago
to tunnel under the walls and escape.
The scheme was betrayed by one of the
conspirators The authorities allowed
the prisoners to continue the eXcava-
ton. When the tunnel was completed,
and the prisoners had entered it one
after the other, intending to come up
through the opening beyond the prs-
on precincts, the soldiers previously
posted ut the opening shot the escaping
prisoners rs they came up. When the
bulk of the prisoners, terrified by the
noise OF tho firing, stopped and re-
manned in the tunnel, soldiers were sont
in from behind, and the unfortunate
wretches, caught between two fires,
were all shot down. The proceeding
seemed to give the officials much
amusement, and the director of the
Kietf prison was praised and decorated
for having acted with such cleverness
and decision"