New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-29
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THE OLD WORLD.

A DISPATCH received from Simla
on the morning Of the 10th says the citadel q
Cabul had been blown up the day before.
Thirty British soldiers and large number Of
Afghans were killed, and 80, COO shot and shell
Ameer had announced his intention to abdi-
cate. The natives we're especially trouble:
some In the neighborhood of Shutargardan
and had destroyed about ten miles of tele-
graph, stopping communication with General
Roberts The British Deputy Commissioner
In the Maya country had been murdered.
A MADRID dispatch of the 10Th says
the floods in Murcia continued. Up to that
time five hundred and seventy corpses had
been recovered. -Four villages were in ruins,
and thousands Of peasants rendered wholly
destitute.
GORDON PAsHA's mission to the King
Of Abyssinia has had successful issue The
King renounces his claims to Massowah, but
he is permitted by the Egyptian Government
to choose more southerly point of communi-
cation with the sea.
ACCORDING to a Berlin dispatch of
the 10Th the Austro- German treaty Of de-
fensive alliance had been signed by the En-
perors Of Austria and Germany.
PROFESSOR FORESTER announces
from Berlin that, on the 18th of October,
Palisa discovered new planet OF the twelfth
magnitude, In two hours fifty-two minutes
right ascension and fourteen degrees thirteen
minutes north declension, with daily motion
of five minutes south.
The British Government has decided
10 Immediately construct a railway to Canda.
har, and is already purchasing material.
The Russian expedition surveying
the course of the ANU Daria in Central Asia
reports that the river is navigable.
LONDON kilograms Of the goth say
that it was expected that Yakoob Khan's son,
who is five years old, would be recognized as
the successor to the throne.
STANLEY, the African explorer,
reached the rapids Of the Congo on the 10th
of September.
KING ALFoNso's marriage to the Aus
TRAN Archduchess has been definitely fixed
for November u.
IT is stated that the ex-Empress
Eugene will embark in February for Zulu
land, to pray on the spot where her son was
killed.
The recent floods in Spain destroyed
property estimated to be worth 900, 600
francs. One hundred and twenty mills and
$780, houses were swept away.
Won BULow, the German Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, died on the 2 tn.
s. IT was officially announced on the
a1st that report of the capture Of Merv by
esthe kktans was untrue.
,22d Major Greig, the Head
liverpool, England, issued q
atng Mormon emigrants, re-
|smtndine seirat by the American law
polygan Inhibited, and those who prac-
I tice 1t are liable to heavy fines and long
terms of imprisonment.
A CONsTANT1NOPLE telegram of the
ed says the Porte had received intelligence
that the Herzegovinians had revolted against
the Austrians. It was reported that 400 Of
the latter had been killed.
AN offensive and defensive alliance
has been formed between Servia and Bulgaria.
HERR KURD Won SCHLOZER, the
present Minister of Germany at Washington,
will succeed the late Herr Won Bulow as Sec
| rotary of State for Foreign Affairs.
IHE st. petersburg G0l0S OF the list
says: IF the reported Austro-G German
alliance proves to be reality, Russia must
| secure to herself allies to act in the rear Of
the enemy in case of an emergency. Lord
salsbury's speech not only opens Russia't
| eyes, but gives her freedom of action ~
A LAND LEAGUE for Ireland has
teen formed at Dublin, and Mr.. Parnell, ito
President, is instructed to'invoke the aid Of
Irishmen in the United States.
A DECREE has been issued for tho
immediate and permanent reduction Of the
Russian army to peace footing.
A SOFIA dispatch of the Oath says the
late election for members of the Bulgarian
| Chambers had resulted in a decided majority
| for the Government.
AN Ali Kheyl (Afghanistan) dispatch,
received on the oath, says that two Afghans
and Sepoy of one Of the Herat regiments
had been hanged, for completely in the massa-
ere of the British Embassy.
SlGNoR FoPoL1, Trieste banker,
committed suicide on the oath, because he
could not fulfill some large corn contracts.