The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-08-19
NEWS OF WORLD.
important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Tue Wull0 Slly VI Luo NOl1u ioAA'
as the Belgians called their 1910 ex-
position, is a mass of flames n
s%mouldering ruins. A spark falling
into inlammable material in the tele-
graph building burst into flames, which,
driven by u high wind, swept rapidly
in all directions. Soon the Belgian,
English and French sections were de-
stroyed and other sections damaged.
One hundred thousand people were
on the grounds at the time and in the
panic following the breaking out of
the fire two persons were killed and
many injured. The loss is estimated
at 500, 900, 900.
Florence Nightingale, the famous
nurse of the Crimean war and the
only woma who ever received the
home. Although she had been an in
valid for a long time, rarely leaving
her room, where she passed the time
in a half recumbent position and was
under the constant care Of a physi-
clan, her death was somewhat unex-
pected. An attack of heart failure
brought the end. She was ninety
years of age.
Hubert Latham, in his Antoinette
%monoplane, flew from Chalons-sur'
Marine to Issy, a Paris suburb, $50
miles as he made the trip, in three
hours. He passed i've Paris at a
height that varied from 800 to 1000
feet. He circled the Eiffel tower and
passed up the leading .~boulevards, de-
%scending so low at times as almost to
scrape the tops of houses and build
ings.
Foods in Japan have caused a loss
of 5000 lives and millions are home
less and starving in the procedures
adjacent to Toxic and Yokohama. The
question of feeding the stricken peo-
pie is causing apprehension. The veg-
etable and fish supplies are failing
and the stock of biscuits already is
nearly exhausted. Rain continues to
fall in torrents.
Portugal, like Spain, is almost on
the verge of an open rupture with the
Vatican, due, among other causes, to
friction over the governmental Gen.
sure of the Roman Catholic archbishop
of Braga for %suppressing a Portuguese
Franciscan newspaper without sub
hitting the order to the Portuguese
government for approval.
The shipbuilding industry of Ger
many came to a practical .standstill
with the addition of thousands of
workers to the strike that was started
recently in Hamburg. The yards at
Stettin, Lubbock, Fensburg, Rostock,
Bremen, Kiel and Bremerhaven are
tied up. There. are approximately 49,
900 men IN strike.
A new aeroplane record for flying
owe the sea was established by Rob-
ert Lorraine, M of the best known
English actors, who flew from Black
pool, Eng, to a point near Llandudo,
Wales. Practically the whole of the
flight was over the Irish sea, the dis
lance being between fifty and sixty
miles. q
Augustus Arthur Perceval, eighth
earl of EgmoGt, is dead in London.
He was born in 1856. Before succeed
ing to the title of the Earl of Egmont
he was in such financial straits that
for several years he earned his living
as a member of a London fire brigade.
The Austrian and German health ad.
m~inistrations are pursuing common
measures against an invasion of Rus
sian cholera. Medical agents from
both the Austrian and German gov
ernments stationed in Russia report
the scarcity of physicians.
Advices from Costa RIGA say there
was a severe hurricane there on the
Atlantic coast, destroying 100000 ba-
mans trees, worth than $1,O0O,-
600, belonging principally to the Unit
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