The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-02-04
NEWS OF WORLD.
important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form

in Condensed Form
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Seine river at Paris is slowly
falling and the crisis Of the food sit.
uation there is believed to have been
passed. Nevertheless, there is still
danger ahead. In the meantime the
situation shows little improvement. In.
deed, the ravages Of the flood within
the city seems actually to increase
The water is higher in some of the
streets, while the situation at the in.
undated towns between Paris and St.
German is distinctly grave. Latest
reports estimate damage in Paris
!. proper already as $4,000 1000, through,
Aout France at more than 5000, 900, 900:
pestilence is feared, as waters recede
and leave streets filled with filth:
three hundred thousand people have
kbeen thrown out of work; more than
200 towns and villages have either
been obliterated or wrecked by the
flood; sixty miles of streets in Paris
are obstructed by high waters; n
hundred miles of streets are either
cracked or eaved in; one hundred
miles of sewers are damaged.
The general elections for members
of the new British parliament are at
an end. The ~tripartite coalition of
Liberals, Laborites and Irish Nation.
alists find themselves in the majority
with IN advantage of 1872 seats. The
position of the parties is: Liberals,
271: Unionists, 27O; Irish Nationalist,
80; Laborites, 40.
Advices from European seaports
show that fully 200 vessels, mostly
small fishing craft, were lost in the
recent storm and that there has been
loss of life in the sinking of at least
half of these boats. Italy, Spain, Ger.
many and the Scandinavian countries
report tremendous loss of life and
property.
The new Liberal parliament in Eng.
land is not expected to survive the
home rule fight. The Conservatives
bare solidly against the Measure and
many Liberals r i%rrevocably oppos.
ed. 1t is predicted that the split will
come by the middle of the summer,
kwhen a new election will be called.
The court at Mesaya, Nicaragua, &C.
quilted General Medina, Prosecuting
Attorney Solomon Selva and other
members of the courtmartial charged
with responsibility for the illegal con-
viction and execution Of the Ameri-
cans. Groce and Cannon.
The news that eight Japanese out
Of forty who survived the wreck of the
schooner Koseuku Maru were frozen
to death while eight others were left
to a like fate in the Kamchatka wilds
was brought to Victoria, B. c., by the
steamer Aymeric.
The elections to the Norwegian
storthing having been adverse to the
ministry Premier Knudson submitted
to the king the resignation of the cab
met. President Baetlie of the storth-
ing probably will be invited to form
anew cabinet.
The weather vas stormy throughout
Italy for several days, causing consid.
cradle damage. At Rome the Tiber
rose forty feet. flooding the country,
while many trees and walls were
blown down, a number of persons De-
ing injured.
The strongest business interests in
England are bringing pressure to bear
on Premier AsQuith to make him &C.
cept the premiership, regardless of the
size Of the Liberal-Laborite majority
over the Conservatives.
President Bowling of the Northern
Miners federation has been convicted
at Sydney, N. s. W., Of o%bstructing
work at the mines during the strike
and sentenced to one year in prison.
Eighty thousand Armenian Chris.
tians are facing starvation in CECILIA,
according to an appeal just issued by
Bishop David H. Green in behalf OF
the Armenian Relief association.
Germany has experienced the most
violent snow storm in years. Rail-
road and street traffic WIS greatly I'M
peded and telegraphic and telephone
communication interrupted.
Eight persons we're killed and about
thirty injured in . wreck onsthe Lon
don and Brighton railway near London.
LABOR NEWS.
The appeals of the officials Of the
American Federation Of Labor to the
supreme court of the United states,
growing out Of the suit Of the Buck
Stove and Range company against
them ii. the District Of Columbia, have
been ordered consolidated and were
set for hearing on the first Tuesday IN
the termMbeginning next October.