The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-09
LATEST NEWS,
THE OLD WORLD.


Charge the proposed Franco American treaty
Wood, of New York, at Paris on the evening
OF the 2Sd. Among others United States
Minister Noyes and Consul General Fairchild
participated.
A LONDON dispatch of the oath saws
the bicycle riders of England and France, in.
GLIDING the champions of those countries,
had decided to visit the United States
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
24th says four fires had recently occurred at
Astrakhan, presumably set by Nihilists. The
losses were heavy.
A LONDON dispatch of the 25th says
three hundred of Lord Normauby's tenants
in Ireland had refused to pay any more rents,
and had threatened the agent, who offered to
make reduction, with violence. The affair
had created great excitement in Tipperary.
A LONDON telegram of the 25th says
that Stanley, the African explorer, left
Sierra Leone on the Sd for the River Congo,
with the steamer Albion.
A CAIRO Egypt dispatch of the
25th says General Gordon had a parley with
the Commander-in-Ch Chief of the Abyssinian
of the Ahyssinian troops from the Egyptian
frontier.
\ BRUSSELS telegram of the 25th says
the Belgian Catholic Bishops had instructed
the clergy to refuse dissolution to parents
whose children frequented public schools,
and to teachers and pupils in normal schools.
A BERLIN telegram of the Doth an
nounces the appearance of the rinderpest at
koenigsberg. The disease was also extend
ing in Eastern Poland.
A BELGRADE dispatch of the Goth
says an atfray had occurred on the Danube,
near Tekia, in Servia, between Seryian Gus
toms Ulcers and Austrian smugglers, in
which ten of the latter were killed.
DURING August. according to late
official report, 1887 fires occurred in Russia,
involving a loss of 2O,0O00 900 roubles.
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the
Goth says the Russian expedition to Merv had
been abandoned. 1t was believed that the
troops comprising that expedition would
menace Herat.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE telegram of the
2Sth says that an understanding between
Greece and Turkey had become impossible,
and that both Powers were making rapid
warlike preparations.
THE British Privy Council, in conse-
Quence of the foot and mouth disease in a
carg of American sheep recently landed at
Liverpool, has issued an order placing sheep
from the United States in the same category
with American cattle.
On the 2Sth notices of ten per cent.
reduction in wages were posted in the earth
enware and china manufactures in Stafford
shire. This proposed reduction will affect
10000 workmen, and it is said they will resist
it to the extent of striking.
On the 2Sth dispatch was received
from the Niceroy of India announcing the
arrival of the Amer of Afghanistan at kushi,
with an imposing retinue. He reports that
the gates of Cabul were closed, and that con-
diton of anarchy prevailed. The British
forces were within forty-eight hours march OF
the Afghan canital
A SIMLA dispatch of the goth ult. says
General Roberts had received instructions to
issue a manifesto to the Afghans announcing
that the purport of the return of the British
my to Afghanistan is to avenge the murder
of the British Envoy and his suite; the peace
able inhabitants will not be molested but, if
opposition be offered, those persons with arms
in their hands will be treated as enemies
Non-combatants, women and children, are ad-
vised to remove to place of safety
THE Russian account of the late bat
tie with the T-kke-Turcomans was received
on the Goth ult. According to that, instead of
a Russian defeat, as reported from Simla, it
was Russian victory. The Russians lost
seven officers and lis soldiers killed, aud six
teen officers and 234 soldiers wounded, but
they captured the Turcoman intrenchments
and inflicted loss of several thousand men
upon e enemy. The dispatch says the ex-
petition had not fallen back, as reported.
SICILY and Southern Italy were visit
ell by great storm on the 18th ult. which
carried away railroad bridge between Giro
and Crucoli. and hurled an entire train into
the torrent below. The engineer was killed
and every passenger more or less injured.
EASTERN SIBERIA is menaced with
famine. Grain is dearer than ever before,
and the poor are greatly suffering.