New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-08-04
FOREIGN Intelligence.


On the night of the Goth the Irish
Compensation bill passed the British House
Of Commons by ayes 3O3; noes e37.
IT is reported that Colonel Johnson,
native of the United States, in the Cuban
insurgent army, was recently killed in a
skirmish with Spanish troops.
The return of ex-Emprcss 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 a Bucharest dispatch
of the 26th negotiations had been begun for
the union of Roumania, Bulgaria and Ru-
melia.
IT is stated that the Roumanian Gov
eminent has declined to extradite several
notable Nihilists who Sc repatriation Russia
demanded, for the rea son that such cxtradi-
ton would contravene the laws of the land.
DURING squat on Lake Bricnze,
In Switzerland, on the Goth, an excursion
steamer capsizcd and sixteen persons were
drowned.
DURING the week ending July Oath
sixty-onc deaths from yellow fever were re-
ported at Havana, Cuba.
AN American citizen, named Joseph
Pcdrahita, has filed claim for S2Oo,000 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 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 TREvINo was given
hearty welcome at Piedras Negras, Mexico,
on his arrival there with his American wife.
DR. SCANDELLA, the Vicar Apostolic
of Gibraltar, died on the 9th.
IT has been officially declared that the,
report that General skobcletf had been be-
headed by Turcomans is untrue.
A CABUL dispatch of the 2Sth says
General Burrows, commanding 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 IL, 000' The extent of the disaster
was not fully known, but twas reported that
the British had been badly beaten and COM
PEELED to retire from Candahar.
TIE astronomer Flammarien left
Paris on the 2Sth for a long aerial trip, ac-
companied by his wife and four servants.
The balloon started towards Germany.
ACCORDING to a Constantinople tele-
spreading rapidly and had assumed large pro-
portions.
IT is stated that the French Govern
ment has decided to withdraw her iron-clads
from Turkish waters should the expected
naval demonstration develop into 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 Mexi-
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
them.