The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-12-24
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In q Condensed Form.
M. PHILIPPE Eugene Cuissart. radical
deputy for the first division of Laen,
France. is dead.
A Rouen dispatch says the French
steamer Marie Fanny is total loss,
off the island of Alderney. The cap.
tain was saved. Fourteen members of
the crew were drowned.
Ernest Chase, of Detroit, Mich. cut
the throat of his wife, and with the
same weapon cut his own throat from
ear to ear and fell dead beside her.
The tragedy was the climax of life
of unhappiness.
Alexander Salvini, son of Tomaso
Salyini, the great Italian actor, died
in Florence, Italy. He died of intes-
final tuberculosis. The Italian news.
papers publish eulogistic obituaries of
the deceased actor.
G. s. jackson. of Pendleton, Or. has
started popular subscription to help
the Cubans. Mr.. jackson says he has
been asked by prominent citizens of
Oregon to head the movement. Lo-
cally, there has already been offered
hearty support.
The London News has a dispatch
from Berlin with reference to rumors
of reprisals against American pesro-
leum. 1t says that German consumers
are likely to suffer more by this move
than American exporters, Russia being
scarcely able to supply Germany.
Governor McGraw, of Washington,
has offered reward of $3.50 for the or.
rest and conviction of the person or
persons who placed dynamite or other
explosives under the building occupied
by L. A. Plant and brother, at Prairie,
in Skagit county. This is in addition
to the reward of $3.50 offered by the
commissioners of that county.
The samll fire loss on the Pacific
coast which has marked this year over
its immediate predecessors continued
last month to compensate for the fall
ing off in premiums. For the entire
coast the amount was only 1854, 068.
made up of Silt, 107 on bull lings and
$136,66 on their contents. The loss
for November in 1895 was 1895, 1874,
and in 1894 $535,125.
Representative Ellis. Of Oregon. has
introduced bill extending until Janu-
airy /, 1899, the time in which settlers
upon forfeited railroad lands can make
payments. The hard times have made
it difficult for settlers to make their
payments, and Mr.. Ellis has been
asked to secure an extension. There
ought to be no objection to the bill,
and it will no doubt pass, if time can
be obtained for its consideration.
Senator Squire, of Washington, has
prepared an amendment which he in
tends Offering to the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill, directing the secretary
of the interior to apply $25, 446 upon
the penitentiary at Walla Walla. This
is the amount that still remains unex-
pended of the appropriation of $50, 600
made by congress for the purpose OF
building penitentiary in Washington.
1t is the intention to have the balance
used to construct wing on the peni-
Tertiary.
Hon. A. g. Blair, Canadian minister
Of railways and canals, and Colonel
James Domville, member of parliament,
were in Seattle recently and while
there Mr.. Blair recited the results of
his investigations of Crows Nest Pass
railway in British Columbia. He says
the country is undoubtedly such that it
will demand better railway facilities.
Colonel Domville, one of the leading
liberalists in the Dominion, says gov
eminent aid should be extended to the
Crows Nest Pass railway. His idea
is to run it as public highway.
The net results of the experiments of
the board which is investigating the
battleship steel has resulted in the con-
domination of nearly the whole amount
now stacked up in the Newport News
Ship Building Company's yard. Six
out of twelve test pieces, which should
have been folded back on the vessels
without breaking, either broke short off
as readily as cast-iron, or tore apart
with less brittleness, but none the less
certainty of failing to meet contract re-
ouirements. These disclosures will
lead the board to extend their investi-
cations much further than anticipated.
The Medford. Or, distillery, which
has been in litigation for the past year,
has been sold at auction by the receiver,
for $4,000. The original cost of the
plant was $4,000.
The heavy rains of the past few days
have again caused Mill creek, in Salem,
to rise and overflow its banks, in coqe
sequence of which Church and Marion
streets and adjacent property are
flooded.
In Pierre, s. D., in the mandamus
case to compel the issuance of certifi-
Gates to Republican electors on a par
tial canvas, the court has held that the
board has right to adjourn and secure
complete returns. This gives the VIC
tory to the Bryan electors.
Ex-Treasurer g. w. Boggs. OF Ia
coma. is again in. Jail in that city, be
having surrendered himself to the sher-
i'll at Spokane. Bogg's attorneys are
preparing to petition the supreme court
for q rehearing of his case.
The Newaukum river, in Washing
ton, is booming since the recent rains,