The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28
FOREIGN.

ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. Is. - News has
reached Lamar that a hundred mounted
Tekke Turcomans attacked on the 18th of
September part of the Russian expedition
which is surveying the Amir Dalya, but were
repulsed. The expedition was very heartily
received on arriving on Afghan territory.
The entire course of the Amir Darya and its
afliuents has been examined and pronounced
navigable.
CARLO Oct. 18.-Intelligence is received
that the mission of Gordon Pasha to the King
of Abysinnia was successful. The King re-
nounces all claim to AIasowah but is allowed
to choose more southerly point of commln-
ication with the sea.
SlAIIA, Oct. 1S.-Ameer Yakoob Khan has
announced determination to abdicate, and
states that he intended to abdicate earlier but
was dissuaded. General Roberts has advised
the Ameer to reconsider the matter, but the
Ameer firmly adheres to his resolution.
TORONTO, Oct. 2O.-Ross, of Baltimore,
defeated Daley, the IRISH champion, in a
wrestling match, different styles; best of five
falls.
LONDON, Oct. 2O.-The Anglo-American
Cable Company will lay the new cable in
| 1880.
! CITY OF MEXICo, Oct. 21.-Gov. Charles,
Of Coahuila, anticipating the passage of
law extending the Federal jurisdiction over
the district of Sierra Majoda, telegraphed on
the 18th saving that chihuahua and Durango
are not opposing the jurisdiction of Coahuila !;
also that several mining companies, hearing
of the action of the Federal Government, had
| dissolved
! Richer mines are said to have been dscov-
cred near Majoda and ovel $1,000 persons
! have gone there.
LONDON, Oct. 21.-A number Of engineers
from Bradford left England to-day for Penn
sylNania, and another party will proceed next
week for the same destination.
BERLIN, Oct. 2l.--Herr Kurd Won Schloser
present Minister of Germany at Washington,
will probably succeed the late Herr Won
Bulow as Secretary of State Foreign Affairs.
SIA1LA, Oct. 21.-Latest news from Ali
Kheyl represents that the frontier tribes
since learning of the fall of Cabul, are dis
persing.
VIENNA, Oct. 2l.-Osman Pasha, who re-
tains portfolio of Minister of War in the
present Turkish Cabinet, is as much philo
Russian as Mahmoud Nedim Pasha, the new
Minister of the Interior, and is cooperating
with him. Osman Pasha must henceforth be
classed among those unprincipled intriguers
who so materially contributed to ruin the
country. The Journal de st. Petersburg
contradicts the statement that England has
informed Russia that British influence mus
dominate in foreign relations on Afghanistan
1t is officially announced that the report, re
ceived through the Governor of Jellalabad, O
the occupation of Nero by the Russians, il
known TO be untrue.
MADRID, Oct. 21.-The Commissioner O.
Reforms in Cuba has agreed to recommend
that the slaves shall be entirely emancipatet
in seven years from the date of passage of al
emancipation bill.
'The question of having some of our man.
female citizens on the Board of Schoo
Trustees seems to merit more serious atten
tion than reference of it to interested
parties, the present trustees, and their pigeon
holding it with subcommittee. There
enough of apparent abstract justice IN havin
the mothers of the children and our wome
taxpayers represented on the Board to max
it al least interesting to find out how the pla
has worked in the various places where it ha
, been tried" Thus wisely speaks the Herald
l of Washington. Twenty wears hence th
Y presence of women on school boards will b
: an old story, and that they could ever hay
been excluded will seem an absurdity.