Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1876 — FOREIGN INTELLIGENCK. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCK.
According to a Cettinge dispatch of the 9th a Turkish column was recently repulsed by the Montenegrins. The Turks had 800 men killed, and upward of 1,000 were driven over a huge precipice and drowned in the river flowing at.its base. The news of the capture in Bpain of Wm. M. Tweed and his Secretary was confirmed by Vigo (Spain) dispatches of tee 10th. He had been removed to Corunna, and would be sent to Havana on the 21st The Spanish Government had consented as a matter of international comity to surrender him to the United States.
ACoinurrnonj telegram of the 9th says the Porte had refused to suspend hosflities save on its own conditions, which innde the dismantling of two fortresses, the limitation of the Servian army to 90,000, and the re-investiture of Prince SUUn u g liuhâ– hvassaL Lars advices from Peru report a destructive fire at Curacos, causing the destruction of property valued at 900,000 soles. Dis-
turbauoes existed In the United States of Colombia, and the entire country had been declared In n state of siege. The disruption of the country was feared. Aooordino to official dispatches received in Belgrade on the 12te< there bad been severe fighting during the major pert of tbe preceding two deys, brought on by a Turkish attempt to throw a bridge across Abe Morava. The attempt had so far proved unsuccessful. A London telegram of the same date says Russis had refused to allow Servia to accept the terms of peace recently offered by the Porto. It was said that there were 3,000 Russians of ail grades in the Servian army, and enlistments were openly made all over the Empire. A Belgrade telegram of the 18th says the Servian bulletin announced that the fighting nt Alexlnatz and Dellgrad the day before had terminated in favor of the Servians. There were serious disturbances at Amsterdam on the nights of the Uth and 12th, in consequence of the suppression of s fair by the Government. Troops had been called out and the mob attacked, resulting in one killed and fourteen wounded. There was a severe earthquake shock at Messina, Italy, on the 13th. The telegram does not state ths damage.
