Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1877 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

On tSdHth, a Rbssian battery, masked by» vineyard, opened Are on the Turkish monitor* at I brail. An hour after the action commenced, a shell struck a large three'

masted Ironclad and sunk her, with her crew of *X) teen. Hanau Bey, her commander, also perished. On the forenoon of the 11th, the inner wall of the Court-House in the process of construction at Rockford, 111., fell and burled several workmen In the ruins. Ten or twelve men were killed and several others were injured, some of them fatally. The names of the killed, so far as known up to midnight of the 11th, were: Fred Haugh, A. Haugh, J. tope. A H. Hollenbeck, J. Warren, Goo. Glom, Tim Flannagan, L. J. Lawson and J. Peck. C. Harris was fatally wounded. An official telegram, received in Bt. Petersburg, on the IS th, reports that the fight on the 11th at Kliatxubanl was a Russian victory instead of a defeat, as was at first reported. A Constantinople telegram of the 13th says the Porte was very uneasy about the supplies of arms and ammunition .till to come from New York, and was very angry with the United States for allowing the Russian squadron to remain in American waters. Mingal’s ship-yard, on the Clyde, was burned on the 18th, involving a loss of $400,000. An official Constantinople dispatch of the 12th reports an attack by the Russians upon the Turkish forces at Batoum, in which the tormer were defeated with a loss of 4,000 men.

A Are, which destroyed property valued at 1400,000, occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 13th. A London telegram of the 14th says the Russian troops passing through Roumania had exchanged their ordinary colors for flags bearing the double Greek Cross, carried only when the war is a religious one. In the British House of Commons, on the 14th, after a spirited debate, a vote was taken ou the resolutions offered by Mr. Gladstone condemnatory of the course of the Government In respect to the management of the Eastern question, resulting in their rejection by 354 tp 228. The President and a portion of his Cabinet visited New York City on the Uth, and in the evening attended the annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce. In response to a toast, he said: “We are at peace with all the Nations of the world. With an honest purpose on the part of our people and Government to strive for the restoration of ancient concord within our own limits, I believe that we may confidently look for early, decided and encouraging evidences of reviving business prosperity throughout our country.” The papers in the suit of Cornelius J. w. Wm. H. Vanderbilt were served on the 14th. The plaintiff asserts that defendant had promised to pay him $1,000,000 if he and hie sisters would withdraw their objections to the-probate of their father’s will, and that he had since refused to make such payment. Similar causes of action were filed in two other cases.

The defeat of the Russians at Sukum Keleh is announced in a Constantinople telegram of the 15th. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 15th, sixteen Bulgarian villages had been recently pillaged and burned. As the French squadron at Ville France was weighing anchor, on the 15th, one of the frigate La Ravanche’s boilers burst, killing two men and wounding sixty, twenty mortally. A fire occurred in St. Stephens, N. 8., on the Uth, which destroyed property valued at from $500,000 to $1,000,000. One hundred tenements, eleven wharves and two schooners were burnedThe arming and drilling of the Mormons continues in Utah, according to a New York Herald dispatch of the • 15th, and the Gentiles in the northern and southern icttlementa were greatly alarmed at the paucity of United States troops. Gov. Ewing bad asked, of the Secretary of War, for additional troops. The New York World's Washington special of the same says the War Department had received no advices of a contemplated uprising. * r A Jackson (Miss.) telegram of the 15th says Miss Chisolm, who was wounded while defending her father in the Kemper County affair, had died that day.

A special London telegram of the 16th says that extraordinary preparations in the armament of the land and naval forces were reported in all parts of the Kingdom, and England’s participation in the Russo-Turkey war was considered, in diplomatic circles, a foregone conclusion. It was believed that England’s Interests and the first Russian success of any magnitude would be made the pretext and period for British intervention In consequence of a difference with President MacMahon, Jules Simon, President of the French Cabinet and Minister of the Interior, has tendered his resignation. On the 16th, the proclamation of Roumanian independence was definitely fixed for May 22. The Chamber of Deputies voted a credit of $2,000,000 for the maintenance of the army. On the 16th, forest fires were reported to be making terrible havoc in New Hamp shire, Vermont, Northern New York and portions of Canada, destroying villages, bridges, etc. In many portions of Clinton County, N. Y., the people were fleeing for their lives, hundreds being rendered homeless. At Center Valley, twenty-seven dwellings, six sawmills, two stores and one church were destroyed. At Clinton Mills, property valued at $750,000 was burned. Nearly the whole side of the White Mountains, in New Hampshire, from Lancaster to the Crawford and Fabyan Houses, was ou fire.