The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-09-15
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The situation IL the Caucasus could
hardly be. worse. The principal night
ing is at Balakhan, where hundreds
have been shot by the infantry and
artillery and where 1000 were killed
or wounded during desperate attack
bn the military camp and provision
depots. The troops sustained few cas-.
ualties. A large number of workmen
barricaded themselves in the Balakhan
hospital. The soldiers began the at
tack with rifle fire and then stormed
the hospital and completed their work
with the bayonet. The entire oil and
commercial quarters of Shabonshani,
Nolani and Balakhan have been wiped
out by fire and the inhabitants remain.
ing behind were massacred and thrown
into the flames. Bibitenta continues
to burn and Is threatened with the
same fate as Balakhan.
The latest estimate Of loss Of life
from the earthquake shocks In the
province of Calabria, Italy, is 400.
Hundreds of persons were injured.
The towns of Martirano, Pizzo and
Monteleone di Calabria were almost
entirely ruined and eighteen villages
are said to have been entirely de-
stroyed. The greatest damage 'ap.
pears to have been done at Stefaconi,
where the dead are said to number
close to 100. Almost every house in
the town was wrecked, burying the
people in the ruins.
A dispatch to the French foreign
Office from NJ. Ste. Rem Taliender,
minister to Morocco, announces that
the Moroccan government has yielded
to the French demands and given
complete satisfaction. The foreign
office says the PREPARATION is complete
on all points and that the incident is
closed, thus terminating, the anticf-
pated resort to coercion through the
military and naval branches of the
service.
The Armenian bishop of Shusha,
Caucasia, has sent a message to the
authorities at Tiflis saying that the
devastation and the resultant misery
at Shusha is appalling. The fighting
between the Tartars and Armenians
continued uninterruptedly for five days
and hundreds of killed and wounded
are lying in the streets.
The conference of the delegates of
Norway and Sweden, appointed to dis
cuss the dissolution of the union of
Norway and Sweden, has adjourned
for week to enable the delegates to
return to their respective capitals and
confer with their governments. The
result of their deliberations is very
uncertain.
The tone of the Norwegian news
papers indicates that the negotiations
between the commissioners of Norway
and Sweden regarding the dissolution
Of the union have reached an impasse.
Norway being unable to accept the
conditions laid down by Sweden.
In consequence Of the execution on
Friday of Ivan Kaspshak, q socialist
leader who was condemned by a court
martial for melting political murders,
all the factories in Warsaw struck
Monday. Cossacks and infantry are
patrolling the Streets
An official bulletin says that 16 chol-
era cases and deaths were reported
In Germany from noon Sept. 9 to noon
Sept. 10 and Is cases and deaths
from noon Sept. 10 to noon Sept. IL,
making the totals $50 cases and IS
deaths.
Russian customs officials have dis
covered ego carbfnes of Swedish man.
ufacture with bayonets and 100000
cartridges on a barren island in the
Gulf of Bothnfa, near Kerni, Finland.
The Norwegian steamer Venezia
has been wrecked near Skallingen, on
the southwest coast Of Jutland. The
captain and his wife and ten men Of
the crew were drowned.
Jewish shops were sacked and many
Of their inmates killed or wounded in
recent rioting at Kishineff. More than
q score of soldiers lost their lives dur
ing the disturbances.
The property loss in the Baku dis
trict of the Caucasus as result of
the recent rioting and incendiarism Is
estimated at from $50,000.O00 to $751;
100000.
Timely rains in the Dajputana and
other drought stricken districts of In
dia are relieving to some extent the
fears of an acute famine.
The Castro government has issued
. decree expelling M. Brun, manager
of the French Cable company. from
Venezuela.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
DR.. David B. Salmon, chief of the
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