The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
Foreign Intelligence.

points on the Lower Mis- sissipp!. There hat
not been the slightest indication of any form
of yellow fever in that city.
Foreign Intelligence.
ON the night of tho Goth the Irish
Compensation bill passed the British House
OF Commons by ayes SO3; noes $50.
IT is reported that Colonel johnson,
. native of the United States, in the Cuban
insurgent army, was recently killed in q
skirmish with Spanish troops.
The return of ex-Empress Eugene
from her South African trip is announced.
A LONDON dispatch of the Goth says
the Queen of England had sent an autograph
letter to the Sultan begging him in the inter-
est Of Turkey to give heed to the wishes of
the European Powers.
On the morning of the 26th the dory
Little Western, from Gloucester, Mass,
passed the Scilly Islands.
ACCORDING to Bucharest dispatch
| Of the 26th negotiations had been begun for
the union OF Roumania, Bulgaria and Ru-
melia.
1T is stated that the Roumanian Gov
eminent has declined to extradite several
notable Nihilists, who sc repatriation Russia
demanded. for the rea son th.t such extradi.
ton would contravene the laws of the land.
DURING a squall on Lake Brienze,
in Switzerland, on the Goth, an excursion
steamer capsized and sixteen persons were
drowned.
DURING the week ending July oath
sixty-one deaths from yellow fever were re-
ported at Havana, Cuba.
An American citizen, named Joseph
Pedrahita, has filed claim for 5000, 900 dam
ages against the Spanish Government for false
imprisonment in Cuba.
ACCORDING to late Peruvian advices
women and children were being removed
from Lima preparatory to the threatened
bombardment The authorities had an
nounced that all male citizens between the
ages Of sixteen and sixty would be compelled
to bear arms, and that a desperate resistance
would be made. The Chilians had notified
the Peruvians that the city would be given
up to pillage If captured.
The Swiss Canton Schweis, making
the fourth, has restored the death penalty for
murder.
GENERAL TREv1No was given
hearty welcome at Piedras Negras, Mexico,
on his arrival there with his American wife.
DIR. SCANDELLA, the Vicar Apostolic
of Gibraltar, died on the 9th
IT has been officially declared that the
report that General Skobeletf had been be-
headed by Turcomans is untrue.
A CABUL dispatch of the 28th says
General Burrows, commanding a brigade of
British and Indian troops in Afghanistan, had
been defeated by the natives under Ayoob
Kahn, the pretender to the Ameership. Bur-
rows force numbered 5000 men and the ma
tive force 1900. The extent of the disaster
was not fully known, but it was reported that
the British had been badly beaten and COM
PEELED to retire from Candahar.
The astronomer Flammarien left
Paris on the 2Sth for long aerial trip, &C.
companied BY his wife and four servants.
The balloon started towards Germany.
ACCORDING to Constantinople tele-
gram of the 2Sth the famine in Armenia was
spreading rapidly and had assumed large pro-
por ions.
1T is stated that the French Govern
ment has decided to withdraw her iron clads
from Turkish waters should the expected
naval demonstration develop into a fight
The Harbor Commissioners of the
City of Montreal have decided to use the
electric light on the wharves of that city.
AN earthquake shock occurred at
Smyrna on the 29th. Some damage was
done to buildings, but no lives were lost.
GENERAL WALES and his forces in
Mexico had two encounters with the Apaches
under Chief Victoria up to the Goth. The In
dams appeared to have had the worst of it,
having lost several warriors, but the Next
cans lost nine men, and many more were
wounded. General Wales was still in pursuit
of the Indians, and expected to drive them
across the line into New Mexico, where
Colonel Grierson, with eight companies of
United States cavalry, was waiting to receive
than