The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-28
Ole Nenosha Telegraph
KENOSHA, WIS, AUGUST %, 1879
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
The Sultan of Turkey has yielded to
the demands of Great Britain for reforms in
the administration of Asia Minor.
Hon. John Welsh, United States Min
lister to England, sailed from London for home
on the 10Th of August s
The rapid decline Of Bonapartism in
the French provinces is shown by the fact that
three Imperialist newspapers have stopped for
want of friends. .al
The foundation stone Of the new
Ed1ystone lighthouse, off Plymouth, England,
was laid, Aug. 10, by the British Princes, Wales
and Edinburgh
De Lesseps has sent to Central Amer
lea several expert engineers to examine the
plans of the Panama canal and to ascertain the
probable expense of building it De Lesseps
is making preparations for his visit to this
country ~ .- 49,
An address to Lieut.. Carey, of the
expedition in which the Prince Imperial lost his
life, declaring that he has been unwarrantably
eensured, is being signed by thousands of peo-
pie in England. i5 ~. A. o-st s-s- y
England and Wales have again been
visited by destructive rain storms, overiowing.
rivers and playing havoc with the crops.
An Odessa (Russia) dispatch says the
judgments of the military tribunal against a
number CT the Nihilists have been published
Five men are sentenced to be hanged, one
woman goes to Siberia, and TWENTY-FIVE others
are sentenced to ten years penal servitude.
The Edison telephone is to be intro
duced in Paris.
It looks as if war was inevitable be-
tween Russia and China
Deaths from yellow fever in Havana
during July, 475. One death from cholera.
The Commissioners of England and
Russia, appointed to ascertain and fix definite
sly the new boundary line between Russia and
Turkey in Asia, have failed to agree Serious
consequences may grow out of this controversy,
sooner or later.
Batoum, in Asiatic Turkey, has been
devastated by fire. Bordeaux, in France, has
also been visited by destructive confa-
grafton. r.,-g- s-~> %
The grand cross of the order of the
Bath has been conferred upon Lord Chelms-
ford. t.f.
Edward Strathearn, Lord Gordon,
one of the English Judges of Appeal, died at
Brussels, aged 66. -
A Vienna dispatch says the disturb
ances in Bulgaria are increasing. The militia
operating against the insurgents are unable to
repress the disorders
Three of the five male Nihilists sem
fenced by the military tribunal at Odessa to be
hanged were executed Aug. 90. A woman
sentenced to exile in Siberia is only Is years
of age
For some reason the British Minis
tiers seem to be dissatisfied with Lord Lytton's
administration of the Government of India
Rumors of his recall have been frequent, and
now it is reported positively that Lord Dufferin
will Immediately succeed him.
The harvest in Italy has been dis
astrously affected by the drought.
China is preparing to resist the
threatened Russian invasion.
The Asiatic cholera is making it's
way into Western Europe
Much suffering is said to be in store
for the working people in the English manu-
featuring districts this winter
Russia has over 1,32OOOO,OOOs rubles
in paper money in circulation.
Jaffa (the ancient Joppa), in Jerusa-
lem, is to be converted into great commercial
port. ~ @..#ps .1u
Turkeys army is to be reduced to
100000 men -.#.
Four additional Cardinals are to be
appointed at the coming consistory.
The big statue of Liberty, for which
funds were raised by lottery, and which is
ultimately to be set up at some point on New
York harbor, is approaching completion in
Paris. r.
Far-off India is suffering from a
series of distressing Affections. Fevers are
raging among the British troops in Hindoostan,
cholera is increasing at Cabul, an ugly insur-
rection is threatened in Bengal, and starvation
and misery prevail in Cashmere
The Russian expedition in Central
Asia has suffered frightfully from disease.
The mortality in one section of Lazareff's army
equaled 25 per cent. of the entire force.
The City Council of Ostend, France,
has decided to institute proceedings against the
Paris Figaro for falsely announcing that chol-
era existed at Ostend and Bruges
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