Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-10
FOREIGN NEWS.
The War in South Ameriea-A Chilean
Disaster r The Recent Naval Engage


The War in South Ameriea-A Chilean
Disaster The Recent Naval Engage
ment.
PANAMA, March 31st.-The Star and Her
all says the Chileans are reported to have
met with disaster near Moquequa. The
Minister of War, wishing to surprise the Pc
ruvians, marched under cover of night to at
tack them. He fell into an ambush, and of
one regiment of 200 men only 67 escaped.
1t is reported that the Chilean loss is l, 800
killed, besides the wounded and prisoners.
The Huascar and Maga.lanes in an attack
on africa, lost "A men killed and wounded.
Among the former is Commander Thompson,
o. the Huascar, and two other officers. The
Nance Copac, carrying American guns,
struck the Huascar ten times, carrying away
her mizzen-mast and seriously damaging the
hull, while the Nance Copac and the shore
batteries were uninjured. Many houses in
the town were knocked down and several
women and children killed. The Chileans
had not given notice of their intention to
shell the town.
Two Chilean war vessels visited the Lobos
guano islands and stopped the loading of
about twenty vessels.
The United States steamer Kearsarge is
making surveys at Bocos del Toro. She has
six boats at work
Affairs IN Russia.
ST. PETERsBrRG, April 9th.-A printing
Office Smolensk has been closed by the po-
lice and of the proprietors arrested.
Papers compromising the establishment were
discovered when the last secret press was
seized In st. Petersburg.
The GotoS states that Special Council is
sitting to define the rights of Governors
General in relation to the Supreme Commits
sion, the object being to restrict independent
action of permanent and temporary Gov
ernors General, and bring them more under
the control Of General Melikof and the
Miaister of the Interior.
But for the release of many prisoners and
the examination of others with view to an
early trial, the outlook is generally gloomy.
A Central American kearney.
NEW YORK, April 9th.-The Panama Star
of March 31st says: In Antioquia a second
Kearney has issued his manifesto to "Sons
of the West In which he INDUCES in char
acteristic bosh. He speaks of himself as
their leader for the last three years, strug-
Cling toplant in this soil sound ideas of lib
eralism, contending with the common enemy,
with false liberals, and against the element Of
concentrated wealth, which opposes itself
systematically to all popular aspirations"
The opinion that the last revolution in Anti
oquia was the work of these Sons of the
West and had Its origin IN the secret and
deadly operations of the Commune, and was
not essentially political, it would seem has
some foundation.
A Terrible Famine.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, April 9th.-A terrible
fau.ine prevails at Mosue, Turkish Kurdis-
tan Four hundred inhabitants have fed to
Bagdad, and hundreds are on the road
An American Citizen Tried for Murder
at ConstantinopIe.
CoSsTANTINoPLE, April 9th-An Ameri-
can citizen, accused of the murder of Turk,
was recently tried before the Consul General
of the United States, found guilty of man
slaughter and sentenced to two months i'm
prisonment. Sawas Pasha, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, has protested against the
right of the American Consul to try the case,
aud demands the surrender of the prisoner
to the Ottoman authorities. The Consul de-
ciines to surrender him.
The Permanent Army in Cuba-The
Cuban Floating Debt.
MADRID, April 9rh.-Congress has ap-
proved .he decree fixing the strength of the
permanent army in Cuba at 40, 600 men.