The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-05
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

AAAA2 OAD VvONADs
A LONDON special of the goth an
nounces the conclusion of peace with Afghan
istan.
The Macedonian insurgents have
refused the Turkish terms of peace, and have
sent a dc2utation to the Powers demanding
autonomy
w. PoLAK & Co., and Symons &
Co., both of Rotterdam, have failed In con-
sequence of the failures fthe African Trading
Company. The Meinigen Bank, the Darn
stadt Bank and the Bank of Rotterdam are
also said to be seriously embarrassed. Lely,
Roio x Co., q London house with Dutch
connections, were also forced to suspend on
the 10Th.
HERR SEYDENIrz, prominent Con-
servative, was, on the 2lst. elected President
OF the German Parliament in place of Forck-
cnbach, resigned.
The Home Rulers in the British
House of Commons have chosen William
Shaw, member for Cork County, Ireland, as
their leader, in place of Dr. Isaac Butt, de-
ceased.
The Rotterdam Trading Company
lost 100000 iorins by the failure of the
African Trading Company, and has been
compelled to ask the indulgence of their
creditors. Several of the Antwerp banks are
also greatly embarrassed BY the failure.
The committee formed at Phillip
popolis for the union of Bulgaria and Rou-
melia hiss been dissolved through the influ-
ence of the clergy.
AN Athens (Greece) dispatch of the
I'D announces a battle between Turkish
troops and Thessalian insurgents, at Perlasia,
In Thessaly, in which the former lost $50
killed and wounded, and the latter seventy.
PIERRE JULES meme, the distin-
guished French sculptor, died, at Paris, on
the I'D.
A LONDON dispatch of the 23d says
the Privy Council had ordered that all for.
eign cattle be henceforth slaughtered within
fourteen days of arrival. instead of ten DAYS,
as heretofore
A BERLIN dispatch of the 23d says
Germany and France were cooperating heart
lily on the Greek question and against British
interests.
SOPHIE Won HERsEFIELD and male
accomplish have been condemned to be shot
Mt kieff, for belonging to an illegal society,
forging passports and attempting to kill po-
licemen.
GREECE is said to be preparing to
mobolize $4,000 men and to have sent an Off
Ger to the United States to purchase two
iron-clads.
On the oath, President Grevy, of
France, pardoned 400 Communists.
The 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
Achaen, again, and that the Dutch had been
successful.
AN Athens dispatch of the 25th saws
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 26th, Katherine Churchell
was executed in the Jail at Taunton, Eng, for
the murder of her husband at Chard.
THE Subcommittee of the Darien-
Canal Congress, in session at Paris, decided,
on the Goth. to recommend the route proposed
by Lieut.. Wyse, and stated that the cost
would be ZAP 100000.
The British steamship Ava was re.
Gently sunk in collision off the Indian
Coast, and sixty.six of the crew and four pas
scngers were drowned.