Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST. [ARTICLE]

FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.

A Turkish Fr ga'e Founders off JapanOsman Pasha Among the Drowned. Advices from Hiogo state that the Turkish man-of-war Ertzogroul has foundered at sea, and tftat flye hundred of her crew were drowned. The Erztogroul whs a Wooden,frigate built cruiser of 2.344 tons displacement. She mounted- forty-one guns of small calibre, and was built in 1863. Osman Pasha and Ali Pasha, en voys of the Sultan to the Emperor of Japan,were passengers, and weredrowned. Osman Pasha, whose victcry ove.' the Russians at Plevna gave him a high rank as a fighting general, had been on an official visit to Japan, having beon entrusted with a special mission from the Sultan to the Mikado. „ •„ - - ur. The late strikers on the New York Con* tral.are making a scramble to get thjir places back, the strike having been declared off. Only’ a small .portion -oftheir number are succeeding in ge .ting their -dd positions.