The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

| MEMBERS of the English Government
maintained the strictest silence on the go
in regard to the negotiations which wer,
| still actively progressing between England
and Russia. The Gear had twenty men O
war in commission to protect his capita
and the Baltic ports.
THE rebd leader at Panama, Aizpurn
has eight hundred men. He issued pro.
nunciamento on the 23d against Americans
and fired upon their pickets. The Govern.
ment troops were embarking at Buenaven.
tura to suppress the revolt.
| GLADSTONE answered an inquiry by La.
bouchere on the 9th by saying that the
| Government had decided to make no fur.
| ther declarations to Russia through Par.
Lament. 1t was announced that large
| forces Of Russian troops were advancing
toward the Afghan frontier.
| ABOVE Victoria bridge at Montreal the
movement of ice on the oath submerged a
large island at the foot of Lachine Rapids,
| tore up the Grand Trunk track and inun-
dated Point st. Charles.
| The right column of General Middleton's
command engaged the rebels near Botoche
on the oath, the battle lasting all day, the
| Canadians losing half dozen killed, and
a large number wounded. The loss of the
rebels, who fought Indian fashion, partial
ly concealed in ravine, was not known.
GENERAL MIDDLEToN's position in the
Northwest Territory was ON the 25th re-
garded as most critical He was afraid to
proceed without reinforcements, and the
only available forces could not reach him
before ten days. The river was said to be
so low that neither supplies nor troops
could be furnished by water. His loss in
the recent battle was seven killed and
thirty three wounded.
THE gravest fears were expressed on the
25th by Count Kalnoky, the Austro- Hun
garian Minister of Foreign Affairs, that
war would be the issue of the strained re-
lations existing between Great Britain
and Russia.
AT Montreal food had on the Goth in
undated the manufacturing section of the
city to the depth of five or ten feet,
and people living in the upper stories of
houses were being supplied with provis-
ions by the authorities.
THE American marines on duty at PAN
anna were withdrawn on the evening of
the 25th, apparently owing to an agree
ment by General AiZpurn to protect prop
erty and lives. He was unable or unwiH-
ing to carry out his promises, and the
town on the Goth was reported in the hands
of the rebels. Barricades were again
erected in the streets and sharp fighting
was anticipated.
ADvICEs of the 9th from Soudan state
that preparations for war between England
and Russia continued with undated vigor.
War seemed to be confidently expected in
Russia. A dispatch from St. Petersburg
says: "War between Russia and England
is now regarded as inevitable. The Gear
leaves to-day for Moscow"
AT Montreal the flood had reached a
depth of ten feet in several streets on the
9th, many buildings were inundated, and
the loss was placed at $1,000,000. Two
hundred families at Point ST. Charles were
homeless and destitute, and there was
much suffering among the poor in the SUBJ
merged district.
INFORMATION was received at the Marine
Hospital Bureau at Washington on the
9th that cholera was prevailing in CAL
cutta, India, to an alarming extent.
ST. PETERSBURG advices of the 9th say
that the Afghans and Russians had
another engagement on the frontier, near.
ly 1,70O Russians being killed.