The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-09-29
NEWS OF WORLD
Important Events Of the Week
10 Condensed Form.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Laurier government and reel
procity have suffered an overwhelm.
ing defeat in the Canadian elections.
BY a veritable political landslide the
Liberal majority OF forty-three was
swept away. and the Conservative
party was accorded a majority upward
of forty. Seven cabinet ministers who
had served with Premier Laurier we're
among the defeated candidates. The
Liberals lost ground practically in
every province of the Dominion.
Where they Vol their majorities were
small. Where the Conservatives won
their maiorities were tremendous. On
tario. the leading province of Canada.
declared almost unanimously against
the administration and reciprocity.
I. Between $50 and 400 officers and
men were killed and the French bat
tleship Liberte was totally destroyed
when the magazines Of the vessel *
ploded in the harbor at Toulon. The
battleship %Republique was damaged
badly and the battleships Democratic
and Verite also suffered severely from
the masses of twisted iron and armor
plate hurled upon their decks. The
explosion was preceded by and was
the result of an outbreak of fire. The
flames reached the magazines before
there was time to flood them.
The Italian government is moving
rapidly anG with determination in the
matter of the Italian pr%otectorate over
Tripoli. It's plans are no longer con.
cealed and its attitude is favored by
all classes except the advanced sec:
ton of the Socialists, who threaten to
call a general strike in the event OF
hostilities. According to the informa-
tion in official circles the government
still hopes to affect an amicable ar.
rangemenf with Turkey whereby Italy
will procure a lease of Tripoli, under
the sovereignty of Turkey.
The White Star liner Olympic. the
largest passenger carrying vessel in
service, was in collision with the Brit.
ish protected cruiser Hawke lei Os.
borne bay, on the north side Of the
Isle of Wight, and was SC badly dam
aged that her captain at first thought
it would be necessary to beach her
and made for the bank in the Cowes
roadstead The closing OF the collision
doors stopped the thrush of water and
the vessel returned to Southampton.
Sir Robert Hart. director general Of
customs in China from 1901 to 1908
and inspector general since 1863. is
dead at London. Sir Robert had been
living In England since his retirement
from the Chinese service because Of
i'll health. Sir Robert Hart, who was
an Irishman by birth, had been in the
Chinese maritime customs service
since 1853.
Inhabitants of the. %neighboring Por-
tugese towns of Media and Vale quar-
relied during a religious festival at
Lisbon and shot and killed one anoth.
er until the. arrival Of troops, who
stopped the battle. Five were killed
and fifteen seriously wounded.
Masked men held up a car on the
Iditarod Flat tramway one and q half
miles from Flat City, Alaska, and stole
a strong box containing $35, 900 in
gold dust. the property of Friend,
Lawson & James. Friend was in
charge.
Ensign IIaller Belt, commanding the
little gnnboat Tantanga, was killed by
hostile natives at the Yacans islands,
part of the Philippine archipelago. Sew.
eral sailors of Ensign Belts party
were severely wounded. i.
The strike Of the Irish railways is
spreading and the supply of food in
most Of the cities Is running short.
A settlement seems impossible, be-
cause the railways refuse to make
any concessions.
The porte has addressed q circular
to the Turkish representatives abroad
=%instructing them to invoke the good
offices Of the powers with q view of
restraining Ital, from hostile action
in Tripoli.
A terrific storm swept the Vesuvian
district, causing loss of life and great
damage to property. Twenty persons
are known to have been killed. while
the fate Of whole families is in doubt.
The men employed in the building
trades of Madrid obeyed the strike
order and quit work, Thirty thousand
lei are involved. The military holds
the capital in q close grip.
General Antenor Firmin, who de.
serted his post as Haitian minister at,
London to help overthrow President
Simon of Haiti. is dead at st. Thomas.
d.. w. l..
Dmitry Bogroff. the assassin Of Pre-
mier Stolypin. has been tried by court
martial and sentenced to death by
hanging.
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