Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
FOREIGN.

ham, England, Tuesday night, destroy
ed 5000, ,0G0 worth Of property.
THE leading journals of Paris to-day
are lauding Gladstone for having avert
cd the threatened war with Russia.
A MOTION Of censu'e of the Glad
stone ministry was re jected by the Brit
| ish hsuse of commons Tuesday night,
by 30 majority.
THE Australian Colonial Government
inteads giving medals to their troops
now serving at Suakim to memorize the
services of the Australian contingent
in the Soudan campaigns.
| THE British house of commons, by a
vote of 331 to 3S, granted an annuity of
So 600 to Prir c4ss Beatrice, who is soon
to be married.
TIE military patrols in Lin erick, hav-
ing been subjected to frequent assaults,
were armed with rifles. The hostility
of the ps sople has thus been infiamed,
and the mayor will petition the govern
mont to rescind the order.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, ex.United
States NJ mister to the Porte, has official
ly rendered his farewell to the Sultan,
| and will leave Constantinople next Fri
day. The American residents in the
Turkish capital have presented General
Wallace with an eulogistic address.
THE bill to provide el1,000,000 $3.50,
000, O0O) for the expenses of war prep
arations in the Soudan, and other war
expenses, recently incurred, paased tho
British house of commons. The sum
of Gl,000, 600 (S5, coo, ,000) will be used to
aid iii the construction of railroad liHes
i'll India to Quetta, on the Afgi anistan
border
In an interview regarding the pas
sage IF the DArdanellts 10y Eng lush war
vessels, NJ. Nelidotf, the Russian Am
b !ssa lor, said that he considered such
action by England quite possible, and
he proposed the sending of identical
notes by Turkey tn the great powers to
prevent it,
The Official Messenger Tuesday pub
fishes a lengthy dispatch fIom General
komarotf, IN which he explains more
fully his actions aud gives more details
of the incidents which led up to tie
battle between the Russians and AZ
ghans on the kushk river on March 80.
In this dispatch, General K9marufr
reterates everything he said in his for
mcr dispatches regarding the unexpect-
ed progressive movements of the At
ghaus, and claiming that the latter were
the aggreSsOrs.
THE Imperial Council of W.r have
ordered the transfer of the military and
medical stores from Kransnov0d to
Askabad, and have instructed the COM
missionary department to get ready to
equip POE, 900 reserves. Article; for the
! formation Of steamboat company for
op ration on the river Oxus have been
submitted for app oval of tho council
of the empire. General Annekotf has
started to push the work GA the Trans
Caspian railway.
Mr.. GLADSTONE stated that the
agreement which had been reached by
Lord Granville, The Earl of Kimberly,
Baron de Staal and NJ. Lessar respect
ing the Afghan boundary had been for
waried by Baron de S aal 10 ST. Peters
burg for approval. Baron de Staal and
| NJ. lessar had not, Mr.. Gladstone said,
acted as Russian plenipotentiaries in
| the c3rf,rence which resulted in this
| agreement, and Barren de Staal dtserv.
ed to have 1t stated that l. )rd Gran
vile, the Earl of Kimberly, NJ. L"ssar
and himself had agreed t. draft an
| agreement, and the Baron de Staal had
| forward ed it to Russia, giving it his
| support.
| GENERAL KoMARoFF'S latest dispatch
| es between the Russians and Afghans
near Penjdeh, reiGerate with fuller de-
tails his ear lier accounts of the affair.
| He says the AfghanS sent taunting
message TO the Russians. declaring that
they would trash the Russians as they
had trashed The English" The Afghans,
| General komsrof again insists, fired
! the fist shot, and SO were responsible
for hringlng en- the engagement Gem
eral Komaratf says he learned from
! prisoners who were captured ia the bat.
tie that the Afghan leaders had ordered
the Sariks to furnish n contingent of
| 1000 men to the Afghan army. The
time which had been allow ed the Sariks
to determine whether they would COM
ply with the order expired on the very
| day the battle occurred, and an answer
from them was expected by the Afehans
on that day. The effect produced by
the Russians success On the minds of the
neighboring people was so g,est that
directly after the battle the Ssrik and
| Crsarik Turcomans offered their ale
giancs to Russia. A few days after the
battle, namely, on the 18th # April,
General komsrcff says he wrote tc
Tais Salar, the Afghan Commander al
Penjdeh, that he had no further ami.
mssity against the Afghans.