The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-15

LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
The St. Petersburg Golos of the 2etl
ult says Il, 600 prisoners, with their families
would be sent from Novgorod to Siberia dur
ing the summer.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, Of Battenburg,
was, on the e9ta ult.. unanimously elected t.
the throne of Bulgaria, BY the Bulgarian As
sembly of Notables, with the title of Alex
ander l.
IT is stated that the Danubian for.
trcsses will all be demolished by the 81 Of
August next
THE German agricultnrists have pc.
titioned their Government to prohibit the i'm.
portation Of American cattle.
THE earthquake which occurred ri
Mcareh, Peria, on the I'D of March, totally
destroyed twenty-onc villages, and killed 92S
persons 1890 sheep, 1,l25 oxen, 124 horses
and IS camels.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
SOth ult announces the destruction, by fire,
on the 18th and Goth ult, of the greater part
Of the City OF Orenburg, on the Ural River.
The fire was Of Sincendiary origin, and Is A.
cribed to the Nihilists. The loss was enor-
nous, and more than one-half of the inhabit-
ants OF the city are homeless The Village Of
Gratchenko has also been totally destroyed by
lire.
A SOUTH AFRICA dispatch, pub
lished on the 3Oth ult., says Henry M. STAN
Icy, the African explorer, was at Zanzibar
organizing mysterious expedition into the
interior Of Africa.
THE publishers of the Paris Rerola-
ton Francdise have been condemned to i'm
prisonment and heavily fined, for publishing
letter justifying the Commune.
THE wife of Prof. Botkin, the Cars
family physician, was imprisoned, on the 1st
on the charge of Nihilism. The wife of the
Chief Military Prosecutor was also similarly
accused.
THE spring two-year-old stakes at
Newmarket, Eng, were won, on the LIST, by
the American horse PapOose.
GEN. GRANT reached Hong Kong,
China, on the LIST.
CAPE Town dispatches, received on
the %, say the Indications were abundant that
an early peace woul! be secured. 1t was
stated that Cetewayo himself had offered to
make his submission, provided he could be
assured that he would receive good terms.
SEVERAL foreigners have been ex-
PEELED from Switzerland for melting the
Italians to revolution.
A BERLIN dispatch of the I'd says
Solovief, who attempted to assassinate the
Gar, had declared that, though he was COM
PEELED, under threat Of death, to fire at him,
he purposely missed him.
A MANDALAY dispatch, received on
the I'd, states that, despite the peaceful de.
sires of the King Of Burmah, the mass Of the
people desired war with Great Britain.
The London and Westminster Bank
has taken, in all, s35, 600, 600 of the late 4
per cent. issues of the United States.
LIEUT.. DUBROv1NA, arrested at Nov
gorod, Russia, on suspicion Of being . men,
Der Of the Revolutionary Nihilist Committee,
was hanged on the Sd.
A CALCUTTA Qndia) telegram OF
the 4th announces the appearance of the
cholera at Delhi, Rawulpendee, Wrumitzar,
and elsewhere.
A S1MLA dispatch received in Lon
don, on the 4th, says the Afghan troops in
Badakshan had been expelled and an indie
pendent ruler firmly established.
THE Radical Republicans of Bor-
deaux, France, have returned Louis Blanqui,
at present prisoner at New Caledonia, az
their Deputy in the French Chamber.
HANLAN, the Canadian oarsman,
beat Hawdon, the Englishman, in the race for
the championship, which took place near
Newcastle-ou-Tyne, on the 5th.
DIR. ISAAC Butt, the well-known
Home-Ruler, and Member of Parliament from
the City of Limerick, died in Dublin, Ireland,
on the 5th.
SToUR & Sons cotton mills, near
Paisley, Scotland, one of the largest establish,
ments in Great Britain, were burned, on the
5th. Loss, &3OO,
IT is stated that France is about to
resume diplomatic relations with Mexico.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
5th says Russia had agreed to surrender
Kuldja to China, in return for revision of
the treaties relative to the frontier and other
concessions.