The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-21
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
A LONDON dispatch of the 9Th an
nounces the recent loss Of the steamer Louis
David, from Antwerp for Naples, during . fog,
off Ushant, France. Twenty-seven persons
were drowned.
In Stafordshire, Eng, ON the 9Th,
3,4C0 GOLFERS struck against q reduction Of
wages.
THE Infanta Marie del Pinar, second
sister of the King of Spain, died on the 5th.
WATER burst into the Luding
Glueck mine at the Zabrize colleries, in
Prussia, on the 9th. Thirteen peasants were
in the pit, and all are supposed to have
persisted.
THE funeral of the Socialist Deputy
Geib, at Hamburg ON the 9Th, was attended
By $1,000 persons.
ChATENoIs, near Strasburg, was
burned on the 9th. Over 2,OOO persone were
HIS HOLINESS, the Pope, has be-
slowed his pontifical blessing upon the Pana-
ma Canal project.
The King of Menelk, ruler of the
southern portion Of Abyssinia, has abolished
the slave trade.
ADv1cEs received from Cape Town,
on the 9TH were TO the effect that Cetewayo
had only 1000 men with him; that General
Wolseley would occupy Ulundi until peace
was restored; that King Cetewayo had sent in
messengers asking for new terms Of surren.
der; ETC., etc.
The boiler of the German corvette
Freya burst the other day as the vessel was
leaving Batavia. Four men were killed and
several wound d.
ACCORDING to q Copenhagen tele-
gram of the eth, the announcement that the
Nordenskjold Arctic expedition had escaped
from the ice in Behring Straits was prema-
ture.
An Alexandria egypt telegram Of
the 9TH says the treaty of peace between the
khedlve of Egypt and King John, of Atys-
sinia, had never been signed BY the latter,
and he had ordered his troops to take pos
session of the districts surrendered to the
khedlve under the provisions of the treaty.
REV. NEWMAN HALL, the great En-
glish Congreg ational preacher, has obtained
a divorce from his wife.
The trade for the investiture Of
Tewiik Pasha as khedive of Egypt left Con-
stantinople on the Sth.
SERvIA has presented to the Porte
claim for 100000 francs damages for the
destruction of property by Aloanians in
their raids across the Servian frontier.
RUSSIA has informed the powers
that she will bridge the Danube at Silestria.
SoMEoFF. the Nihilist confined in
prison at Odessa, recently committed suicide
by burning himself to death with his kero-
sene lamp.
A DISPATCH from Serajevo, pub
lished in London on the 10th. says the fire
which broke out two days before destroy ed
2SS houses, 35S shops and forty-ei. hit ware.
houses, involving money loss of 100, OOO, 600
forms. Several persons persisted in the
flames. The fire was started BY an explosion
which occurred while excise officers we're seal
in casks in a sririt warehouse.
The British Government has posi-
lively forbidden the return Of the ex-Khedive
to Egypt.
A CALCUTTA telegram of the 10th re-
ports the cholera as still raging among the
troops and natives in Candahar, and spread
ing toward Herat. The Rumpa disaffection
was also spreading.
Ii was reported from Cairo on the
9tt that the administration Of the new Khe-
dive was proving Unsatisfactory, and a fresh
crisis in Egypt impended.
The new treaty with Afghanistan
provides for a telegraph line to Cabul, and
also stipulates that the Ameer's foreign rela-
tions shall be entirely under British control,
the latter on its part STIMULATING that it would
protect the Ameer against foreign aggression.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
1lth says the Government was contemplating
q scheme for the secularization and confisca-
ton of large number of converts and mon,
astrries belonging to the Greek Church.
In consequence of the increasing
GOODNESS between Germany and Russia, the
latter Government has ordered the construc-
ton of four first-class fortresses on the
frontier.
Much damage to crops has been
caused in Lancashire and Cheshire, England,
by the overflow of the River Mersey. Several
lives were lost.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Belfast,
Ireland, on the night of the 18th, brought
about by Catholic procession. A great many
persons were injured.
ONE Miriam, a broker and q natu-
rallied American living At Alexandria, Egypt,
recently shot dead Dahan Pasha, a confiden-
tial agent CT the ex-Khedive. Miriam sur
rel dered himself and was locked up to await
the return of the United States Consul-Gen-
eral, who has been ordered by the Washing
ton authorities to try him for murder.
THE NEW WORLD.
In Chicago on the afternoon of the
5th, a foundryman named Sem, in moment