The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-03
LATEST NEWS,
THE OLD WORLD.

A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch Of the
18th says that Russia had notified Turkey thai
she should leave troops south of the Balkans
as guaranty for the payment Of the war in.
demnity.
THE Belgian explorer, Wauthier, has
died in Central Africa, from dysentery.
A VIENNA telegram of the 10th says
many avalanches had recently occurred in the
Austrian Tyrol. At Bleiberg. ten houses
were crushed, forty persons killed. eighteen
seriously injured and fifteen missing.
A LONDON dispatch of the goth says
Schmidt the Financial Director Of Eastern
Roumelia, while on a recent tour of inspec-
tion through his bailiwick, was mobbed by the
Roumelians, and was forced to call upon the
Russian troops for protection.
THE Wigan Rolling Mills, one of the
largest manufacturing concerns in Lancashire,
has failed.
The Spanish Government has de-
clarcd state of siege in the Basque Provinces
during the elections.
PINTO, the Portuguese explorer, who
has just crossed Africa, telegraphs that he
saved all his papers, charts and notes, and .
diary of his explorations of the Upper Fam
best, with its seventy-two cataracts.
The appearance of pleuro- pneumo-
MIA in a herd of cattle brought from Chicago
is denied in London dispatch Of the 2lst.
THE German Reichstag adopted, on
the 2lst, without debate, motion requesting
a suspension, during the session of Parlia-
ment, of the proceedings instituted in the
Berlin Criminal Court against Deputy
Fritzsche, the Socialist member.
The French floating battery AFRO
gante foundered of Hyeres on the 10Th. Out
of the 122 persons on board, forty-seven were
drowned.
QUEsNEL Bros, of Havre, failed on
the 2lst. Liabilities 100000 francs.
A PARIS dispatch of the 22d says the
expenses of the International Exposition
were 100000 francs, and its receipts 3d.
100000 francs.
ACAPE Town (South Africa) dis.
patch, received on the 22d, says the Chief of
Moirosa was in open rebellion.
A LATE arrival from Yokohama
brings news Of the continued decline of the
paper currency of the empire. Japan was
threatening to make the Loo Choo Islands q
dependency of the Empire.
A MADRID dispatch of the 23d says
Senior CASTELAR, and 103 former Deputies of the
Cortes had issued q manifesto to the Demo-
cratic party in Spain, announcing as their
programme q sincere return to the Constitu-
ton of 1869; universal suffrage; the inviola-
bility of Spanish territory; the payment Of in
terest on the public debt; religious and edu-
cationai liberty; the freedom Of the press,
etc, etc.
A CALCUTTA dispatch of the Esd
says complete anarchy prevailed in Mandalay.
The Viceroy of India telegraphed,
on the oath, that late intelligence represented
Yakoob Khan, the new Ameer of Afghanistan,
as preparing to make the most desperate re-
sistance to the British advance upon Cabul,
and much severe fighting was expected.
A BERLIN dispatch of the oath says
Russia was strenuously endeavoring to secure
a modification of the Berlin Treaty in respect
TO Eastern Roumela. She had proposed its
occupation by a mixed contingent, but to this
the Powers were not inclined to agree.
A LONDON dispatch of the oath re-
ports severe earthquakeshocks in Persia.
Several villages were destroyed, and over 1000
people persisted.