The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23
FOREIGN NEWS.

4 The Porte has definitely decided to
Asend neither troops nor Commissioners to
Egypt.
II Iroquois has won another race in
y England, the st. Leger stakes at the Doncas-
4 ter meeting.
] The King of Dahomey. in West AT
$Srica at the head of his army Of Amazons, raid,
4 led two villages, and carried off the inhabitants
q who are reserved for sacrifice
Il Three hundred Russian mobiles have
q organized themselves under the name of the
u g Sacred LEGION" and will establish q secret
4 service in opposition to Nihilism.
4 -Four hundred Jews are ON their way to
Ssthis country, as their new land Of promise.
u At Bristol, England, vessel from
sConstantinople discharged cargo of human
sbones for local fertilizer company. The re-
Amains among which are skulls with hair still
Aattached and limbs complete, are believed to be
Sthoso of the fallen defenders of Plevna.
\ Diphtheria is epidemic in Russia. In
Ssome parishes all the children under Is years
4have died of the dread disease. The contagion
3frst appeared in Bessarabia in 1872. Since
Athen it has spread over the south of Russia,
afrom whence it has spread towards the east
saand northwest. In the Province of Pultowa,
(which has less than 200, 900 people. there have
.Nbeen 45,543 persons stricken by the disease,
ssand of these I8,765 have died.
n The Methodist Ecumenical Conference
lat London recommended international arbitra-
;;shon as means of settling disputes between
sanations, and condemned any resort to war.
s;aThe question of the press in relation to the
sschurch was discussed Delegate Marshall, of
:SVlcksburg, Miss, recommended the establish
4ment of well-endowed Methodist paper which
4would do for the church what the great uni
sssversities had done. Bishop McTyere, of Ten
Sanessee said the religious papers were too mar
ssrow-minded. The majority, however, seemed
Ito favor religious newspapers.
j Gen. Ignatieff has been appointed
Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia.
q Another series of monster land meet
sssngs are being held in Ireland.
y The Methodist Ecumenical Council in
0AoOucoCu oAlO III btlS newspaper IOE
the Advancement of Christianity. Some ad
8 vocated the establishment of a well-endowed
q church paper. Others thought such Journals
Awere too narrow-minded.
D Wilkes theory of the existence of a
sJapanese current finds strong support from
ssthe finding of an iron buoy from the Amoor
ssriver off the coast of British Columbia.
3 There have been fresh explosions OF
ssssSocialists from Berlin, and all meetings in
(which they are likely to participate are prohib-
zited by the police.
q The Jews in Russia are about to hold
IA general meeting, to be attended by deputies
representing all the principal Jewish commu-
|snities, to consider their apparently hopeless
Sconditon.
q At the Methodist Ecumenical, in Lon
'sdon, resolution condemning the opium traffic,
with an addendum calling on the Government
ITO deliver the country from theguilt of support
Sing it, was passed Upon a suggestion for a
Amissionary conference to ohviate the rivalry and
&confusion between different Methodist bodies
Tin the work of conversion, Mr.. Reid, of Amer
Sca. said he had only been able to find one case
gof collision of this kind. and it should not 60
Aforth to the world that there were dissen-
Hslons