Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-22
The Peruvian War.

| steamer which left for Bristol. Tuesday
| morning is missing. Three vessels are on
| the sand.
The Peruvian War.
| 4 dispatch from Bucnos Ayres, January
| 20th saws the Chiians attacked and com
| pletev defeated the Peruvian army at Mar
| floors. Gen. pieroas, President of Peru, and
commander of the army. fled. The Chilians
occupied Lima without resistance the Eth
| inst
| Gen. Prirolas' brother and the Peruvian
| Minister of War were taken prisoners. The
| Peruvian loss in the battle at Charilas is
said to have been 1000 killed and 1000 pri-
soners Thirty five thousand prisoners were
engaged in the battle at Mirafiores.
The Hanian.LaycOck Race.
| There is no probability of the IIanlan-Lay-
| cock race Tomorrow.
FOrgers Arrested.
! ROVE. January u. Since the arrest of the
| American forgcrs at Florence, Turin and
| Milan. important papers were found sccreted
| in their luggage, showing that their opera
| tions extended throughout the United States
| Canada. England. France, Belgium and Italy,
revealing also the names of their confeder-
ates. soEIc of whom have been arrested in
different parts of Europe. Part of the pro-
/ ceeds of the Trenton bank robbery was found
| on them. Years ago in the board of educa-
| ton in New York. passing bogus checks in
| Cheyenne. salt Lake City, San Francisco and
| Sacramento. robberies on board iof Pacific
mail steamers. forgeries and swindling opera
tions in Cincinnati. Louisville, Richmond.
! New York and Boston, forged drafts on
| Alexander Brown < Son. Baltimore, Selig
man & Co., New York, the Planters Bank of
st. Louis, the Bank of California, and on
a., 4
Erie Central Pacific 4 Chicago and South
| Western bonds: sales in Europe of counter
felt iftv dollar bills on Broadway and trades
mems banks in New York and Montreal notes
counterfeit letters of credit on Brown Bros.
! & CO. of New York. thefts uf French and
| Russian bonds on the Calais and Dover
steamers, and forgerios of French , per cent:
and Italian j per cents.
The Trouble in South Africa.
| A dispatch from Durham says there are
hundreds of loyal Beers in Pretoria who can
muster 20o0 men there. Hundreds of Beers
may desert from the British rank when Sir
George =. Coilev approaches the Beers
frontier. The Beers enicavored to induce
the Sivazi King to join them, but he positive
| ly refused to desert the British and has pre-
pared to attack the Boers if thee enter his
country.
| DURHAM. January 2l President Brand Of
! Orange Trustate declined to be mediator be-
tween the Beers and English.
| Discovery of Nest of NihiIists in
Russia.
| KEIrF. Russia, January u. Two men and
two women have been arrested on suspicion
| of belonging to a secret BODY The police
discovered at their house n programme Of ex-
/ treme terrorism. a faction of Nihii.ts which
recommends murder and incendiarism. Re
volvers. daggers. etc. machinery for the
manufacture of forged passports. portion Of
secret printing press and large number of
revolutionary proclamations were also found
Copies of proclamation relating to the in
tended murder of military official in Kieff
were also found, but their crimes have been
prevented by the discovery of the facts above