The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-09-06
OF THE WORLD.
important Events Of The. Week
in Condensed Form.
FOREIGN NEWS.

the sensational trial OF the New YORK
and Bermudez company for completely
in the Matos revolution judgment has
been rendered against the defendant
company at Caracas, Venezuela. it be-
ing condemned not only to pay $3,000,-
900 damages, the calculated cost to
the government of subduing the rev.
o%lution, but to pay other sums to be
fixed by a commission Of experts and
which may very likely amount to $780,
5000 more. The present judgment
is appealable to the supreme court
and from there to the court of cessa-
ton.
For the second . time since "Red
Sunday" (Jan. 20, 1900 Emperor Mich
olas Sunday entered St. Petersburg to
attend the conservation of q church to
the memory Of his grandfather, Alex
ander H., who was assassinated in
March, 1881, on the spot where the
edifice was raised. The visit was a
complete success and no untoward in
cfdent occurred.
"A dispatch to the Paris Matin from
Tangier says the situation in Morocco
Is growing more alarming. The for
eign legations have made IN announce
ment of places Of refuge for Euro
peans in case Of danger. Numbers OF
cutthroats are appearing in and around
Tangier.
In announcing the French govern
ment's attitude on the Moroccan ques-
ton Premier Clemenceau declared
that General Drude, the French COM
mander, would be given all the troops
he needed to carry out the mission
with which he was charged.
Mira Ali Asgbar Khan, Persian
premier and minister of the interior,
was shot and instantly killed as he
was leaving the national council at
Teheran. Two soldiers were. killed
at the same time and an assembly
man was shot in the leg.
The courtmartial which has been
trying the eighteen persons accused
Of plotting against Emperor Nicholas
and the government last May has
foHd three of them guilty of organic
ing a plot and sentenced them to
denth by hanging.
Advices received from the American
consul at Hakodate, Japan, place the
loss caused by the conflagration there
at SIS, 000, 900. About $4,000 houses
varying in value were burned and co.
600 people rendered homeless.
The epidemic of cholera among the
Chinese in the lower Yangtse ports is
spreading. About 200 persons die daily
in the streets of WI HUI, in the prov
ince Of Nganhwei, and Kiukiang, prov
ince of Kiangsi.
The British parliament has been
prorogued, thus ending one of the
longest and most arduous sessions,
during which the royal assent was
given to over sixty bills which the two
houses passed.
A platform erected by a newspaper
at Oporto, Portugal, on the occasion
of a lottery drawing collapsed, hurting
to the ground about 500 persons, of
whom ten were killed and eighty in
jured.
Thousands Of peasants are starving
In consequence of the floods that have
visited Central Japan. The price of
rice is higher than yer before and
the rice famine is widespread.
Marriage with a deceased wife's SIS
ter has finally become legalized in,
Great Britain, the house of lords hav-
ing by SO to 81 votes passed the bill
sanctioning such unions.
The Anglo-Russian convention has
been signed. It regulates the respec-
tive interests Of the two powers in
Thibet, A%fghanistan and Persia.
The Irish evicted tenants bill finally
passed both houses of parliament in
what Chief Secretary for Ireland Bir-
rell called an emasculated form.
The French schooner Violette has
gone down in the English channel and
eighteen men on board of her were
own NJ'