The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-11-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FOREIGN NEWS.

nicipal reformers, who, in some of the
boroughs, absolutely wiped out the
.progressives. The victors were for
Nerly known as moderates and repre-
tent the Unionist party and the pro-
ressives include esLiberal and La
Dor parties.
The new French cabinet has de.
eided to include in its parliamentary
programme the purchase Of the West
ern railroad and a bill providing for
the abolition Of the death penalty. The
project for the revision of the mining
law contemplates the taking over by
the state of all mines and the partici-
patton of the miners In the profits.
In his plea for a divorce for Count
ess de Castellane formerly Miss Anna
Gould) Maitre Cruppi, her attorney,
painted Count Boni in the blacklist of
colors, declaring him to be r%apacious,
brutal and li%centious, while the count
ess was held up as the long suffering
and innocent victim.
The Universities of St. Petersburg
and kazan, two OF the most important
in Russia, have been closed on ac-
count of the violation by students OF
the stipulation that open political
meetings should not be held within
the college precincts.
M. Krustaleff, who was president of
the executive committee of the Rus
sian workmen's council, and fourteen
leaders of the council who have been
on trial for a month past have been
sentenced to exile in Siberia and the
loss of all civil rights.
George Herring, the noted English
ph~ilanthropist, who in the course of
his life contributed large sums Of
money to hospitals and charitable en-
terprises. is dead in London after an
operation for appendicitis.
News has be%enIreceived at Zunguru,
Nigeria, that a French patrol consist
ing of one officer and sixty men was
surprised. and annihilated by a Sc
noussi force 200 miles northeast Of
Lake Chad.
The Archduke Otto, second son OF
the emperor of Austria's eldest
brother. Karl Ludwig, is dead, aged
forty years. He had been ill for the
past few months.
The German steamer Hermann.
from Antwerp for the Mediterranean,
was sunk Oct. 90 as the result. of a
collision. Twenty-three of her crew
were drowned.
Missionaries report a most sever
famine in the northern part of Kiang-
su province. Central China. 1t is esti-
mated that 10, 100000 people face star
walton.
Claiborne Gathorne-Hardy first earl
of Cranbrook, who was twice British
secretary for war and lord president
of the council, is dead. He was born
in 1914.
The loss to the Ontario bank of
Toronto through the populations of
Charles McGill. the former manager,
is of,cially. stated as being .$1,5oo,000.
The absence of disorder in Russia
and the favorable conditions abroad
are causing a steady advance in the
price! of government securities.
A violent storm has done much dam
age in the south of France.
NEWS, i, FROM wAs4lNeToN.
The president is preparing to re-
deem his. promise made to the Philip
pine people through Secretary Taft
that they shall have parliament Of
their own, conditioned upon their good
behavior, for a term Of two years, and
lit Is understood that Secretary Taft
himself will proceed to the Philippines
next spri6g to witness the installation
Of the new form of representative
government.
The interior department has re-
ceived dispatches from agents in Ne
vada indicating that when all the facts
are known concerning the opening of
the Walker Lake Indian reservation
Secretary Hitchcock may be COM
PEELED to recommend that the opening
be declared invalid.
The governments bill in equity at
] lacking the Standard Oil company is
nearly completed and probably is
ready for the inspection of President
Roosevelt. 1t will be filed in ;the
Eighth circuit in which the important
antitrust cases have been begun.
! tuberculosis has made alarming In
roads upon the personnel Of the navy
! and marine corps in spite Of the meas
ures taken by medical officers to check
the disease, according to the annual
report Of Surgeon General Rixey.
Acting Secretary Of the Treasury
Keep states that a shortage Of $6l, 500
has been found in. the st. Louis sub
1 treasury, but when the. shortage oc-
CURED o. who Is responsible for 1t he
declined to state. #
5 EVENTS IN cusA.
The disastrous effect of the Cuban
4 ravolntionl on the Importation Of sugar