Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-19
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE SERVIANS DEFEATED Three Thousand Lost On
 The Field. A BURMESE CITADEL TAKEN. SIoss0n Takes A Game From
 SChaefer. THE AUTOPSY ON MCCULLOUGH. An Experts Opinion Of
 RiePs Sanity.
HE AUTOPSY ON MCCULLOUGH.
FOR THE BULGARIANs.

1 The Servfan Positions About Slivnitza
 Carried After Desperate Fighting
 Alexander Leads the Advance in
 Person-Three Thousand of NIIian's
 Men Killed and Wounded.
 LONDON, Nov. 18.-The Bulgarians, after
 desperate fighting. have carried every one o1
 the Servian pSsitiohs which were menacine
 Slivnitza Prince Alexander led the Bulga
 rian columns in person.
 1 BELGRADE, Nov. 1S.-An official report 1 from the front states that the Servians enter. ed Bresnik yesterday. The town had been
 abandoned by the Bulgarians, who, in theil
 haste to get away, left eight gum behind I them. The capture of Bresnik leaves that
 route open to Sofia. The Bulgarian army of | pletely destroyed and dispersed. :. The Servi-
 ans carried eighteen lines of intrenehments and captured 161 prisoners with number of rifles. The Bulgarian commander at Bres- nix, General Philipoff, fled, leaving his mill | tary papers behind him. The Bulgarian
 volunteers. with their leader; also fled. 1 An official despatch relative to the engage l ments between the Servians and Bulgarians near Slivnitza says that after heavy fighting
 
 1 fore the Servian advance positions and retire I to Slivnitna. Both sides lost heavily. Sharp | Sighting hes occurred on the left of the Ser vian advance line, where both forces hold I their positions.
 The Servian troops will not advance be- yond Sofia if left alone. Turkey, Servia and Bulgaria will soon settle their own business in confederation with Greece, but Russian intervention is hourly expected. LONDON, Nov. 1S.-The fact that to-day's news of Servian defeat hear shvnitza comes from Bulgarian sources casts sotne doubt upon it's correctness. The Serv1ans have hitherto been uniformly successful, ment has been received from Bel grade as welli ses from Sofia it will be advisable to suspend judgment Russia has announced, as has before been tacitly understood, that Servia will be checked af- ter her occupation of Sofia, which is now re- garded as a foregone conclusion. Bulgaria has far from strengthened her cause among the powers by blockading the Danube below Widdin. Such course is so gross viola tion of inter national law, and of the Berlin treaty especially, that it seems impossible that the Blockade ean have beep sanctioned by Prince Alexander.
 VIENNA, Nov. 19-From information re- 
 gathered that force 6e the Bulgarian mili- tia has penetrated the Servian territory and captured 150 prisoners. It is also stated that the Servians are driven from several of their advanced positions in Bulgaria. The Bulga1ians are said to have successfully re- sisted several Servian attacks 1n the vicinity of Dragoman Pass. f.<ss=fse.~. ststs-- is almost certain that Greece will be com pellei to engage in war to preserve her rights. A Greek naval 6aptaiu is now on his way to London to purchase war vessels for his gov ernment.
 The Daily News correspondent at Sofia c6hfirfas the Bulgatian victory at S1lvnliza: He telesraphs that the Sefflans lHst ten can nons thi1 1ty-fiye horses and an estimated number of three thousand men killed and wounded.
 CoNsTAN 11NoPLE, Nov. 1S.-The Porte has formally protested to the powers against the invasion of Bulgaria by Servia and declaiing that Turkey reserves her military rights in Bulgarien territory.
 A Burzraese City TakeH by the Esritssh.
 RAsGooN, Nov. 1S.-The British forces have carried the forts in the vicinity of Minh- la and captured the city after three hours firing from the floating batteries, the al ned launches and the heavy guns on board the steamers. The British lost four men killed and twenty seven wounded. Minh1a was the most strongly fortified position on the river and by it's capture tho way Is cleared for the British advance to Msndalay, as the forts at Ava, twelve miles from the Burmese capital, are only slight stl uctures in compel son with those at Minhla.
 LONDON, Nov. 1e.z=The capture of the Minhla forts was effected s:Ger three hours fighting in which the Burmese acquitted themselves much more creditably than had been anticipated. Their antiuuatsd weap- ons, however, wefe wholly inadequate to sist the twenty pounders of the Bl.tish han dled with the precision and coolness born of experience The hardest fighting the English will have to do will probably be on the way to Mandalay, whtther they ere now march ing. The fanaticism of the Burmese may be relied upon to defend the capital to the ut termost, but the result is not doubtful
 Bob Cooks AssaIIant Held For Trial. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 1s.-Stephen Me Pherson, the colored janitor of the Press, who on October s struck R. J. Cook, the busi- ness manager of that paper, with hatchet, was given hearing this morning on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. MT. Cook was present and detailed the facts which led to the assault. He testified the negro had for some time prior to the trouble been insubordinate and insolent and that many pieces of wearing apparel had dis appeared from the office while the ianitor was engaged in cleaning up. On this partic- ular morning Mir. Cook found that his orders in relation to some office details had been disobeyed by the janitor and the latter was ordered to leave the building. McPherson was slow in doing this and very impudent whereupon MT. Cook struck him. The jani- tor then gathered together his clothes and at the same time secreted about his person hatchet. He then started for the front door and Mr. Cook followed him, demanding the keys of the building. The negro turned and in reply dealt Mir. Cook heavy blow on the head with the weapon. This testimony was co1 roborated by several other witnesses and the prisoner admitting striking his employer McPherson was held in $1 200 bail to answer at court
 An Experts Opinion of RIeJ.
 TORONTO, Nov. 1S.-Dr. Clark, medical superintendent of the Toronto insane asylum and considered the best insanity expert in Caneda, examined Riel at the time of his trial. He stated to-day that Riel was a full maniac and had been legally committed to an insane asylum in Washington territory His visions, dreams and prophecies cover the re- suit of a diseased mind. He was not & crank like Guiteau, but was intermittently insane from boyhood. He should have been confined for life.
 AN OIL TANK ExPLODES