The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-04
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

HON. JOHN WELSH, United states
Minister to the Court of St. James, left En-
gland for home on the 10th.
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the
10th announces that the Nihilists have changed
their headquarters from St. Petersburg to
kcif, the latter named place being better
adapted for concealment than the first.
A LONDON dispatch of the goth says
the Russian Minister of Marine had signed
contracts with American ship-bu,lding firms
for the construction of q number of ocean
corvette cruisers, to cost about Sl1 ,OOO, OOO.
The Turkish War Office in Constanti-
nope was closed on the Goth, the employees
refusing to work because their salaries were
in arrears.
THE United States has demanded of
the British Government the paymen. of its
claim for $1OS, 900 damages on account of the
illegal interference with American fishermen
in Fortune Bay. The demand is also made
for security against the recurrence of similar
offcnses.
In its leader on the morning of the
I'D the London Times announced that the
authorities had decided that the evidence be-
fore the court-martial in Africa did not
justify the conviction and dismissal of
Lieutenant Carey. The proceedings had
therefore been quashed and Carey restored
to his rank in the army.
AN article in La Liberte, of Paris.
says the Russians nave crossed tue Chinese
frontier, and that war between the two
noAers.s Uey't4asA u,aue cIalm for the
restitution of several localities coded to Ser
via through error.
THE sittings Of the English and Rus
sian Commissioners to define the Russo
Turkish frontier in Asia have been suspended,
in consequence of disagreements in regard to
maps.
The Pope has received an anony-
nous letter from Baltimore warning him
against attempts to poison him.
A LONDON telegram of the 22d an
nounces that, by order of the Queen, Lord
Chelmsford had been made Knight of the
Grand Cross Of the Order of the Bath.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made that Sir
Edward Bulwer Lylton (Owen Incredibly is
to be created an Earl, and that Lord Duff
feria will succeed him as Viceroy of India.
The loss of property in Russia by
fire ,iuiug July is stated to have been $685.
1856 roubles
THE latest intelligence from Pie
termaritz3urg, in South Africa, was to the
effect that the Beers would fight unless their
Independence We're acknowledged.
The Sultan of Turkey issued an trade
on the 23i reducing thu Turkish army to 1OO,-
the means to pay them.
THE plague has appeared at herman
shah on the Turco- Persian frontier.
THE Rome correspondent of the
London Standard says the Gar has written
to the Pope declaring his readiness to make
peace with the Catholic Churches of Poland.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 25th says
the diplomatic relations between Austria and
Russia were less cordial than between any
two European powers.
The cholera is increasing in Cabul.
The number of deaths In the British regi-
ments lately returned from Herat is stated to
have been S65.
The American sailors at the port of
Liverpool have petitioned Consul General
Packard to appoint an American shipping
master at that port. They say they are
swindled right and left, and subjected to ex-
orhitant charges.
MIR. SCOTT, a well-known British ag-
ricultural authority, estimates that the de-
tciency in the British whea. crop this year
will reach .e25, DOC, 900, that of potatoes el5,-
0J00oo, and that of beans, pease and rye,
:s5,0O0.000. Almost famine prevails among
the tenant-fa,mers in the west of ireland.
The statement was made from Con-
stantinople on the 25,h that there We're evil
dences of revolt in Armenia. The Governor
Of Erzeroum had been removed at the request
of the British Minister.