Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — CENTRAL ASIA. [ARTICLE]

CENTRAL ASIA.

Russia’s Warlike Preparations. A dispatch from Teheran states that one thousand persons are at work constructing the Transcaspian Railway. Warlike preparations are still being continued by Russia. Rumors are in circulation in the bazaars of Teheran that war will probably occur after the Transcaspian Railway is completed to Merv, in Turcomania. The Russians are bridging the River Murghab, on the confines of Afghanistan. Eight hundred Russian soldiers are at Old Sarakhs. The Persians are fortifying Persian Sarakhs and building barracks there for troops. A foundry has been started at Herat for the casting of heavy