New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-06-04

Wednesday, June 4th, 1879.
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
On the oath, President Grevy, Of
France, pardoned 400 Communists. !.
TIE British Government has ordered
the prosecution Of the Directors Of the West
of-England and South Wales Bank, on the
charge of Misrepresentation in their annual
reports.
A DISPATCH from the Hague, Of the
25th, says there had been severe fighting in
Acheen, again, and that the Dutch had been
successful.
AN Athens dispatch of the 25th says
the agitation in Crete was increasing, and that
rising was feared.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made in the
British House OF Commons, on the 26th, Of
the appointment of Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley
to the command OF the forces operating In
South Africa.
On the Goth, Katherine Churchell
was executed in the Jail at Taunton, Eng, for
the murder of her husband at Chard.
The British steamship Ava was re-
Gently sunk In q collision off the Indian
Coast, and sixty-six of the crew and four pas
sengc:s were drowned.
NOTICE was given in the British
House OF Commons, on the 26th, that the
Ameer of Afghanistan and the British repre-
sentative had both signed treaty Of peace.
1t was stated that every political and CONNER.
cial advantage that the British hoped for had
been gained.
A TELEGRAM was received from
Siberia, on the 26th, announcing the arrival
Of the Vega with Prof. Nordensjold, the swcd-
tsh arctic explorer on board, at Behring's
Straits.
In q village in the Russian District of Ufa
have recently been destroyed by fire.
The arbitrator, to whom was re-
rred the question of the reduction Of the
>,>:es of the South Yorkshire (Eng.) coal
miners, decided, on the 9th, against any re.
duction whatever.
A NAPLES Qtaly) dispatch of the
9th announces violent eruption from Mount
Etna.
INDIA, according to a Simla tele-
gram Of the 9th, had agreed to pay Yakoob
Khan subsidy of six laos Of rupees yearly.
DEL1eEoRG1s, the Greek Minister of
Finance, died on the 9th.
A PH1L1PPoPoL1s dispatch of the 28th
says Aleko Pasha, the newly-appointed Gov
ernor Of Eastern Roumelia, had that day
entered upon his duties in that city. The
Sultan had directed that he should wear the
red fez on all occasions of official ceremony,
and he wore it on this occasion. greatly to the
disgust of the Panslavist inhabitants Of the
city.
Two EXTENSIVE CONGREGATIONS have
recently occurred in Moscow. presumably the
work of the Nihilists.
THE winner of the Derby race in En-
gland, on the 2sth, was Sir Bevys, horse
owned by Lord Norrey. Lorillard's Uncas,
the American horse, was withdrawn before
the race.
M. ROCHE MoNARr, the French Min
lister to Hayti, died. recently, Of yellow fever,
after an illness Of only two hours. His pri-
vate secretary and the First Secretary Of Le-
cation are also dead, and on the 10Th news
was received in Paris that the Second Secre-
tary of Legation was down with the disease.
On the goth, the Ship Canal Con-
gress, at Paris, adopted, by vote Of 9S to 8,
the Panama and Lemon Bay Route across the
lsthmus of Darien. The Congress then dis.
solvca
A MEss1NA- Qtaly) telegram Of the
10Th says the eruption from Mount Etna vas
increasing in volume, and . huge stream OF
lava was pouring down the western slope Of
the mountain. Several villages were threat
ened with destruction, and there was great
alarm among the inhabitants. The City OF
Nessina had suffered from showers of cinders.
THE British troops in Afghanistan
have been ordered back to the newly-estab
lished frontier lines.
LoR1LARD's Parole scored another
Victory in England, on the S0th ult., winning
the gold cup at EPSON.
A TELEGRAM from Cape Town, re-
ceived in London, on the 30th ult. says that a
large :orce of dissafected Zulus, leaving Zulu.
land to surrender to the British, had been inter-
cepted by the natives loyal to Cetawayo. A
pitched battle followed, in which, after great
slaughter, the forces preparing to leave were
entirely routed and overwhelmed.
THE train on the Saragossa & Mad
rid Railway, in Spain, was stopped by brig
ands near Calataynd, on the 3Oth ult., and
robbed Of $1,000.
LACOsTE, Frenchman naturalized
In the United States some years ago. has been
expelled from France for .renouncing his no
tionality without performing his military
duty.
A ROME Qtaly) dispatch of the 3Oth
ult. says the Pope had prepared an ercyclica!
protesting against the bill passed by the Ital
Ian Parliament requiring the civil marriage to
precede the religious ceremony.
THE NEW WORLD.
The Warner Silver bill passed tho
National House of Representatives, on the
24th, after acontinuous session of twenty.onc
hours, by . vote Of ia yeas to 81 nays.
The workingmen of San Francisco
celebrated the adoption of the new Constitu-
ton, by getting up an immense torchlight
procession on the evening of the Oath. The
procession was pronounced success, over
10000 persons being in line.
In the Town Of Kewaskum, Wis, on
the 23d, q man named Nicholas Altenhofer
beat out the brains of his six-weeks-0ld child
by knocking its head against the wall. He
then carried the dead infant two miles to y
priest and acknowledged the crime.
j. P. KR1EGER, JR., the Cashier of
the lately.suspended Broadway Savings Bank,
OF st. Louis has BEEN arrested upon the
charge Of embezzlement and malfeasance
Suits have also been begun against the Di,
rectOrs Of the bank.