The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-28
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

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THE OLD WORLD.
A VIENNA telegram of the 18th an
nounces the retirement of Count Andrassy
from the Premiership of the Austrian Cabinet.
The Dresden police made descent
on the houses of leading Socialists ON the
18th. and captured . large quantity Of con-
traband literature. a.
SEVERAL cases Of Asiatic cholera
have been reported at Constantinople, and a
military Gordon has been established about
the hospitals.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 18th says
that at Wieltczka, in the center Of the salt
mine region, . few days before, . row Of
houses had been split from top to bottom In
consequence of q violent underground COM
motion, and that the Inhabitants, fearing an
earthquake, had fed in panic.
Two FATAL cases of cholera occurred
in London few days ago.
THE American FLY Saratoga won
the Runneymede plate at the race near Lon
don on the 18th.
THE steamer Corsica, from New
York, and the teamer Semiramide, from
Boston, recently B. led in mid-ocean. The
latter sunk, but ND ton saved.
A RECENT storm fns Denmark de-
stroyed over hundred farm houses, killed
fifty people and did incalculable damage to
the crops.
RUSSIA has formed an offensive and
defensive alliance with Persia.
TWENTY soldiers of the garrison per-
ished in the Serajevo fire.
A Mr.. GRISSELL was on the 18th
committed to Newgate Prison for evading the
warrant for his arrest issued by the Speaker
of the British House Of Commons. Mr..
Grissell had offered for money considera-
ton to influence the decision Of Parliamen-
tary committee, and fed to France when the
warrant for his arrest was issued. He re-
turned ON the 18th, and was imprisoned as
stated.
A NEW Austrian Ministry has been
formed under the Presidency of Count Taase.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, tie African ex-
plorer, reached Sierra Leone on the oath of
July, and started at once for the River Congo.
THERE was serious rioting at Lurgan,
Ireland, on the 18th, during the progress of a
Home Rule procession. The mob hurled
stones at the police, and the latter fired, kill
ing several and seriously wounding others.
The mob subsequently wrecked Lord Lurgan's
A BosroN physician named Moseley
was recently killed while descending the Mat
terhorn, in Switzerland.
MEssRs. PELL AND READ, two dis
tinguished British agriculturists, have been
appointed q committee to visit the United
States to collect evidence for the Royal Com
mission on Agricultural Distress in Great
Britain.
The British Parliament was pro-
rogued on the 18th by speech from the
throne, read by Lord Beaconsfeld.
RIoTING between the Catholics and
Protestants was resumed at Lurgan, ireland,
on the 10th and 18th, and twenty policemen
were more or less injured in the attempt to
stop it. There were serious riots also at
Clifford.
ALEKo PASTA has been dismissed as
Governor-General of Rumelia.
THE Kaiser Wilhelm has pardoned
Admiral Balch, who commanded the flag
ship Koenig Wilhelm when she ran down the
Grosser Kurfuerst. VI.
The Ameer of Afghanistan, in re-
plying to a recent communication of General
Kaufman, the Russian General, informed
him that all future correspondence must be
conducted through the Indian Government.
SEVERAL persons were killed and
many buildings destroyed by recent water
spout at Pays de Gex, in Switzerland.
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the
10th says the Nihilists had blown up the Gov
eminent Interchangeable near that city.
Several soldiers doing guard duty and several
workmen in the vicinity were killed.
A LONDON telegram of the 18th says
there was no truth in the announcement that
Nellie Grant Sartoris was dead. The mistake
arose from the death of Mrs. F. w. Sartoris,
formerly Adelaide Kemble.
FIFTEEN persons were killed and
thirty six wounded in . recent collision on the
Argenten Il Greenville Railroad in France.
The Egyptian Ministry formed by
Cheriff Pasha on the accession of the new
khedive has resigned
1T is reported that Ismail Pasha, the
ex-khedive Of Egypt, has fixed upon Genoa
as his permanent place of residence.