The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-11
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

LORD CHELMSFORD, late Commander
OF the British forces in South Africa, reached
Plymouth. England, on the Goth. He was re-
ceivcd with something like an ovation.
The workingMen of Sheffield, En-
gland, met on the night of the 26th, and
adopted resolutions favoring wholesale emil
grafton to the United States.
THOMAS TANDY, a large landed
proprietor of Athboy, County Meath, Ire
land, was assassinated at his own door on
the Goth.
A BERLIN telegram of the 9th says
a new treaty had been negotiated between
Germany and Japan which guarantees to the
former power the free exercise of religious
obscrvances and the right Of free access to
the interior of Japan.
SIR ROWLAND HILL, the inventor of
the British Penny-Postage system, died at his
residence near London, Eng, on the 2Sth.
He was eighty.four years old.
ACCORDING to a Rome dispatch of
the eth when the last encyclical was pub
lished, giving to the Jesuits the alternative of
revolt or submission, the Jesuit chief sent to
the Pope a memorial in which he announced
the willingness of the order to submit entirely
to His Holiness.
LATE arrivals from Yokohama re-
port the cholera rs particularly virulent in
Japan. Up to the time the steamer sailed
there had been 5000 cases and %, COO deaths.
Ex.President Grant would sail for home on
the next mail steamer.
SIXTY Yorkshire (England) farmers
sailed from Liverpool for New York on the
2Sth.
1'nn Eorte announced on the 2Sth
that it accepted the line of demarcatioa be-
tween Greece and Turkey indicated by the
protocols of the Berlin Congress.
Two HUNDRED AND FORTY Roume-
liam Turks have been taken prisoners in
the Rhodope Mountains, charged with FORM
ing conspiracy to attack Philippopolis.
w. S. & S. GAME, Liverpool iron
merchants, failed on the Goth ult., the conse-
quences of losses in the American trade.
Liabilities $4,000.
The official report of the recent
1rkutsk fire shows that twelve hundred houses
were burned and sixty lives lost.
A LETTER from Tangier, Morocco.
published on the cath ult., announces the
death, by poison, of the brother of the En-
peror.
THE Berlin Government has offered
a1s5,OoO,OO0 for the franchises of the different
German railways.
ACCORDING to the London Standard
of the 3lst ult. the Vatican had been warned
that Prince Bismarck intended to concede
nothing to the Church, and that all attempts
to effect compromise would be fruitless.
THE Austrian Commission to arrange
for the occupation of Novi Bazaar crossed the
frontier on the 3Olh ult.
Two SOCIALISTS were hanged at
Nikolaieff, Russia, on the Both ult.
Mrs. WRIGHT, of New York, during
recent carriage ride from Martigny to Ca
mouniN in Switzerland, was overturned and
fell into deep gorge, where she miserably
persisted.
The foreign Ministers have made
collective representations to the Porte re-
robberes in Constantinople. aud declared
that the police system must be reformed.
THOMAS w. BooKE s. Co.'S sheet
iron and tin-plate works, near Cardiff, Wales,
in operation since 1910, were closed on the
1st by order of the Receiver of the East of
England ard South Wales District Bank,
and the 1900 workmen paid off and dis
charged
ACoNsrANT1NorLE dispatch of the LIST
says the inh; bitants of Novi Bazaar were in
tensely excited over the intended occupation
of that place by the Austrians, and threat
ened to resist the entry Of Austrian troops.
The marriage of King Alfonso, of
Spain, to the Austrian Archduchess Marie
Christine has been fixed for the 2Sth of No
vember.
THE American Consul at Alexandria
has officially notified the Egyptian Govern
ment that the United States demands to be
represented upon the Commission on the liqui-
dation of the Egyptian debt.