New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-05-21
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
ON the 18th, anonymous letters were
GENT to the heir apparent Of the Russian EN-
rire advising him to 90 abroad If he wished to
maintain position in the impending revolu-
ton.
A CoNsTANTlNoP1E dispatch of the
18th says the Sultan had promised to grant
autonomy to the Albaniana. It was also
stated that the M0hammedans In Adrianople
were suffering from the lack Of food and
were plunderiug the shops OF that city.
TIE French Minister of the Interior
has authorized the organization of lottery
to raise fund for the completion of the
statue of "Ltberty'' to be presented to the
United States.
A LONDON telegram of the 18th
says conference of the representatives of
the Great Powers had been called, to meet at
Paris, to consider the question Of the rectid-
cation of the frontier between Greece and
Turkey.
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the
AS1u 3nuONuCCo IuS OCStIu CGlOU tuo uAy UC-
fore, by fire, OF the Town of Erbit, at the con-
1ueDce Of the Erbit and Neiva Rivers.
The plague has made its appear
ance In the Caucasus.
AT Consistory held in Rome on
the 18th, the Pope appointed five Cardinals
and numerous Bishops. Among the former
was Rev. DR.. Newman, OF England.
An Athens (ireece) telegram of the
18th says the relations of that country with
Turkey were again becoming unpleasant.
There was great irritation in Epirus, and the
Greek Government was making military prep
arations on large scale.
HOPKINS, G1LKEs & Co., of Mindless
boro Eng, with capital of s2,500, 600, and
Lloyd & Co., OF the same place, both in the
iron trade, suspended on the 18th.
The recent communal elections
throughout Spain have largely favored the
Government.
PROF. GRE1sBAcH, the distinguished
German botanist, died on the 18th.
GEN. GRANT and party left Hong
Kong, China, for Japan. on the 18th.
News was received on the 18th of
the burning of the Town of Uralsk, on the
Ural River, III Russia, by Nihilist incendia-
ries.
A PARIS telegram of the 18th says
France had peremptorily declined to join
England in efforts to secures loan for Turkey.
A CONFERENCE was held at Barnsby,
Eng. on the 14th, At which 10000 GOLFERS
were represented. 1t was decided to demand
. 10.per-cent. increase of pay, and, if.refused,
to stop work throughout the country.
THERE is dangerous agitation in
Albania, and everything, it is said, forebodes
revolution.
The cattle plague has made its ap-
pearance in Bohemia.
THE Town of Halas, in Hungary, has
have been destroyed. -
ON the night of the 18th, Pc onah,
eighty miles south of Bombay, in India, was
nearly destroyed by fire.
The African Trading Company of
Rotterdam, having agencies In London and
other points in Europe, failed, on the 18th.
Liabilities very heavy.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 18th denies,
on the authority OF tho United States Govern
ment, the statement made by Socialist men,
Der of the Reichstag, that the United States
authorities had complained that letters from
the United States to Germany had been broken
opcn or tempered with.
The International Congress to dis
cuss the various projects for q ship canal
across the 1sthmus OF Darien met In Paris
on the 18th. NJ. de Lesseps was chosen Pres
ident and Rear-Admiral Daniel Rinmen, of
the United States Navy, one of the Vice-Pres-
idents.
The cattle plague has made it's ap-
pearance In the vicinity of st. Petersburg.
A UKAsE has been issued forbidding
Roumanian Jews to enter Russia.
SEVENTY arrests have been made at
Orenburg on charges OF incendlarism.
The Duke of Medina Cell, of
Spain, was killed, on the 18th, while shooting
Oh his estate, by the accidental discharge of
his gun.
JACOB STAEMPFLI, ex-President of
the Swiss Confederation, died at Berae, on
the 18th.
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
10th announces the destruction by fire of the
greater part Of Lnblin, city of 10000 inl,ab-
itants, in Russian Poland.
A LETTER has been received from
Prof. Nordenskjold, of the Polar expedition,
from Eastern Siberia, dated Sept. 25, 1878
announcing that all connected with the expe-
dttion were well and confident of accomplish
Ing Its object.
A ROME Italy) dispatch of the 10Th
says Garibaldi had decided to reside perma-
nently in Rome.
THE NEW WORLD.
A LARGE and brilliant meteor ex-
ploded near Washington, MIMI, on the after
noon of the 18th, with report equal to a
300 FOUNDER. The conclusion shook the