Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — AFGHANS REVOLT. [ARTICLE]

AFGHANS REVOLT.

A Civil War a Pos ability— A New Ameer Proclaimed. A St. Petersburg telegram states that the Novae Vremya has a dispatch to the effect that .the Northern Afghans have revolted and proclaimed Isbak Khan’Ameer. A battle has taken place, the result of which is not known. The paper says it believes a civil war will coinpli«cate Abdurrahman Khan’s relations with his neighbors unless it be promptly suppressed, and dt doubts if this will be accomplished. The African lakes expedition, under rihe command of Capt. Lugard, had a fight with African slave dealers in the Nyasa (district about June 16. A European attached to the expedition and several black -sallies were killed. Capt. Lugard was wounded. The Arab losses are unknown, litis believed the Arabs retained their position.