The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-06-03
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Russia will send three additional war
ships to New York, being determined to
surpass England.
Herr Frentz of Mannheim, q socialist
editor, has been arrested for having writ.
ten a leader disrespectful to the emperor.
Advices from japan say that the vol
can Bandaisan has become active and
that widespread disaster has beer caused
by its eruption.
A new blue book issued by the Can
adam government tells why the confer
ence, in Washington, on the matter of
reciprocity with the United States came
to naught.
The Russian imperial council has under
consideration a proposal by Count Voront-
zod Dashkof to make the Russian peas
antry direct owners of the land which
they now till for the commune.
The newspaper Fanfulla announces
that Italy and the United States have
agreed that the American legation in
ington> shall be raised to the rank of en-
bassies.
The reports regarding the crop of win
ter wheat in European Russia show that
in 124 districts it is excellent, in BOB dis
tricts good, and in ten districts bad. Sum-
mer wheat in the Southern provinces is
generally promising.
The epidemic of smallpox is increasing
at Gothenburg. Twenty-four persons
have already died from the disease, and
the schools and the college are closed for
fear Of infection.
NJ. Basly and NJ. Lamaudin, French
delegates to the miners international
conference, have been expelled from
Belgium on the ground that they had
taken a leading part in expelling Belgian
miners from Northern France in 1892.
A dispatch from Porto Novo says that
King Behanzin has placed himself at the
head of the remains of his army and
threatens to take the offensive. Conse.
quently Col. Lambinet will start out in
September with a small expedition to
crush him.
At the Seine assize at Paris NJ. Arton,
the Panama lobbyist, was sentenced to
twenty years penal servitude for frauds
in connection with the dynamite society
and to FIVE years. civil degradation and
the payment of 10000 francs fine for his
unlawful and dishonest practices in his
relations to the Panama Canal company.
A wine merchant named Coupe, living
in the Rue de Ia Glaciere, Paris, became
6, suddenly inslne and shot his
wife, son and eldest daughter dead and
seriously wounded his youngest daughter.
He then attempted suicide. Jealousy of
his wife was the cause of his insanity.
Ell Porvenir in Cartagena says that the
Italians and other foreign laborers i'm
ported to do railway work have quit
their employers, and are drinking and
stealing in the city. They have become
such a to the safety of life and
property that the police have been ordered
to get them out of the country.
The German government has denied the
truth of.the statement that Emperor Will
IAN in his capacity as supreme com
mander of the imperial armies would is
sue a manifesto concerning the army bill.
To the denial is added the explanation
that the emperor is supreme commander
only in war. In peace the federated
princes command their respective armies.
The Honved monument was unveiled
Mt Buda-Pesth in the presence of an
enorm crowd. The people were en-
thusiastic, but perfectly orderly. The
emperor was received with cheers when
ever he appeared. After the ceremony
closed with cheers for him several stu
dents sang Kossuth's hymn and were
applauded until they sang it again. Many
wreaths were placed on the monument.