The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-12-24
The Foreign Budget.

The sale Of American o~leomargarinc as
butter and cotton seed oil as lard has been
prohibited i'll Venezuela.
United States Consul Barre has arrived at
Valparaiso, and was we'll received b. the
Cllillians.
William Potter, the newly appointed
United States minister to Italy, has arrived
in Rome.
The British government has practically
decided to adopt penny postage throughout
the empire.
On November Z a portion Of limestone
mine in Nagayamura, Japan, collapsed,
killing thiry-six miners.
A. r. Clark & Co., wholesale grocers at
Cincinnati, have failed. Assets and liabil-
tiles, $500, 600 each.
In the French chamber of deputies the
cabinet is sustained by u very close vote in
its position regarding the Investigation of
the Panama. scandal.
Alfred Baecker, of Remscheid, in Rhen-
ish, Prussia, an imperial bank director, has
been sentenced to three years hard labor for
forgery and ernbeZzlement
Lady Abby. vile OF Sir William Neville
Abby, recently petitioned the British di,
vorce court to grant a separation from hez
husband. Evidence was given proviBg be-
You'd a doubt that Lady Abby was mentally
irresponsible. The judge dismissed the pc
tition.
The Mexican government will present q
petition to the United States government,
asking that the Apache Indians, whichnow
occupy a reservation i'll Arizona, near the
Mexican border, be removed a greater dis
lance from the international border.
August Simon Luce, the historian and
French scholar, died at Paris recently. He
was born at Bretteville- sur-Ay, in the de-
partment of Manchc, Dec. %. 1893. He
was the euthor of a number of well-known
works.
The pope will shortly send to the Italian
bishops and the Italian people q circular
letter d%enouncing Free Masonry. His
holiness vii! declare that the Free Masons
are pur: uing the satanic aim of replacing
Christianity by naturalism.
King Charles of Roumania is to abdicate.
The Duke of Verasuay, who has the
blood of Christopher Columbus in his
veins. has been appointed president Of the
committee On Spanish exhibit at the Chica-
go worlds fair.
The organization known as Sons of N
da have met 1T Toronto and passed resolu-
lions %denouncing annexation to the United
States, and indorsing Sir Oliver Mowat in
Diminishing County Attorney Myers for pro-
pogating annexation movements.
A correspondent on the Uruguay-Brazil
frontier telcGraphs that large numbers of
Federals are encamped along the frontier,
awaiting orders to attack the Republ cans.
They wear badges bearing the inscription:
ALI for Liberty" A general battle cannot
much longer be delayed.
A severe cyclone passed over the town of
Orel, Russia. Not much damage was done
in the town proper, but several of the
suburbs were devastated, houses being
blown down and trees u%prooted. The
damage was severe at Tanner, where many
persons were caught under the falling
buildings and killed.
A dispatch to the London Chronicle
from Vienna says that the scandalous de-
velopements regarding the Panama canal.
enterprise will lead to a reapproachment
between Russia and Germany, owing to
tile fact that the fall of NJ. Bouvier, the
French minister Of finance, will prevent the
Russian ovclnlnent from obtaining loans
in France.