The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-06-21
news OF THE WORLD.
Important Events of,thA sSel
in Condensed FoI1m.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Emperor Nicholas affixed his sigma
ture Sunday morning to an imperial
ukase abolishing the present Russian
duma and ordering that the election
of members to it's successor, which
is to meet Nov. IA, be held under a
new election law that provides against
the "subnlergence of the educated
classes by the uneducated masses"
This act constitutes a virtual coup
d'etat and overrides the specific pro-
visions of the fundamental laws of the
realm, solemnly proclaimed by mis-
majesty on the eve of the co%nvocation
Of the first duma, which declare that
the electoral law could never be
changed without the consent of par.
lament itself. This breach of the
constitution is justified by the great
law Of necessity, the advisers Of the
emperor holding it impossible, under
present conditions, to secure a parlia-
ment capable Of cooperating harmoni-
ously with the crown to rescue Russia
from anarchy and revolution.
At a meeting of the Irish parlta-
mentary party in the house of COM
mons it was decided to fight the gov
eminent both in the house and in the
constituencies in order to punish the
Liberals for failing to give Ireland a
broader measure of home rule than
was contained in the rejected Irish
council bill.
Private dispatches from Odessa re-
port that the case of the local Jews
Is as desperate as 1t was before the
latest massacre. The Black Hundred
are assailing the Jews in the streets
hourly. Many are wounded and the
hospitals are crowded,
What is practically an actual dec
laration of wal between Nicaragua
and Salvador vas contained in the
reply of President Zelaya to an inquiry
from Washington as to his connection
with the recent attack and capture Of
Acajutla.
Twenty-eight passengers, including
twelve women and children, were
drowned by the sinking of the French
schooner La Jalouz, from Cayenne for
st. Lucias, Off Barbados. Her captain
and twenty-one men have reached Bar
bados.
An explosion of dynamite at Cow
hilo, PORTUGAL, a manufacturing town,
killed thirty persons. It is believed
that the explosion was caused by dis
missed workmen who sought ven
gaance.
Troops are being removed from the
island of Leyte as rapidly as possible.
General Mills announces that there Is
no necessity for further field work, as
he regards the disturbances at an end.
Hostilities have again broken out in
Central America. A force Of Nicarag-
uans, assisted by Salvadorean revolu-
tionists, captured the port of Acajutla.
Salvador, Tuesday.
The Hochi of Toxic says that Wis
count AoSi, Japanese ambassador to
America, will probably be recalled and
that he will likely be succeeded by
Baron Kaneko.
A severe earthquake was expert
enced at Valdivia, Chile. Several
buildings and the railroad bridges
there were deSLrOyeu anu i've persons
were killed.
Colonel Kotlaroff, deputy comman-
der of the port Of st. Petersburg, was
murdered by a workman in the ad-
miralty section of that city.
Bartolomeo Maso, who was presi-
dent of the Cuban republic during the
Ten years war, is dead in Havana.
A dispatch from lula again reports
Count Tolstoi as being seriously i'll.