The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-14
Events OF THE DAY
ro;tome of the Geographic
News OF the World.
rrRSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
,,.orasting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres PRESENTED
in a Condensed Form.

An Iniei07
tna Two Hemispheres Presented
in a Condensed Form.
= Summers. a millionaire banker
..Kaoknk Ia, was killed by train
" the nDion depot at Burlington.
Tho six-story building of the Junior
o-lar Of United American Mechanics,
IN philadelphia, was entirely destroyed
bv fire. Loss, about $4,000.
Columbia university will send a
hand Of naturalists to explore the Puget
sopnd region. The expedition will
so+ on+ from New York June 10.
The Paris newspapers confirm the
rnnor that NJ. Hebete, French ambas-
sodor To Germany, will at once return
70 Berlin. to present his letters of re.
call
MARY, wife of William Shore, leaped
from a bridge into Elkhorn river, near
washington, ". Va, fifty feet, to es-
cane q passing engine. She was res
cued but will die.
Rain fell for "a hours in Ocon-
n Wis, and all the lowlands are
flooded. gThe city is nearly inundated
and the river reached the highest mark
that it has for years.
Warren Fisher, who came into
nrominence in 1875 through his con-
nection with the investigation of
charges directed against James g.
Blaine, died at his home in Roxbury,
Ny.
Princess Beatrice, the youngest
daughter Of Queen Victoria, and widow
of Prince Henry of Battenburg, has
been appointed governor of the Isle Of
Wight. the office previously held by
her husband.
Word has been received in Washing
ton by telegraph that the Canadian
government has adopted an order in
council exemptlng American vessels
from entry and clearance charges at
Canadian ports.
A dispatch from Madrid says The
Spanish government has declined the
pope's mediation in Cuban affairs, on
the ground that acceptance would be
tantamOunt to recognizing America s
right to interfere.
The black plague is still prevalent
at Hong Kong and Canton. Two Eu-
rOpean children have been attacked by
the disease. Japan is taking elaborate
precautions to prevent the introduce
ton of the plague.
An attempt was made to burn An
derSon, Cal, By saturating a number
Of buildings with coal oil. The plot
was frustrated by the discovery of the
fire five minutes after it was started,
when it was soon extinguished.
An explosion, by which 100 persons
are believed to have persisted, has &C.
cured at Micklefeld. Yorkshire, Eng
land. The explosion took place in a
coIllery, and twenty injured persons
have been rescued from the shaft.
An tx" ray will kill the bacteria of
dlphtheria The electrical department
OF the university of Missouri, at Co.
lumbIa, announces that, after extern
slve experiments, diphtheria germs had
been killed by the Roentgen light.
Seven hundred men were thrown out
OF work by d strike of the employees in
Sherman & Company's iron mines in
Fort Henry, n. Y, whose demand for
an increase of forty cents day was re-
fused. The mines were shut down.
In Woodland, Cal two armed men
stood up Jailer Labrie in the jailyard
ana relieved him of $187 in cash and a
watch chain. The official had occasion
10 go into the jailyard for moment,
anu lett his pistol and hat in the Office.
NJ Coubertin, president of the inter.
national committee of the Olympic
games writes to the London Times
rnat the games in 1900 will be held in
Fafls' and for 1904 the committee will
Cnoose between New York, Berlin and
Stockholm.
Inc little 2-year-old son of Mr.. Ford,
Talnman on the Sumpter Valley
.Sliload, Baker City, Or, walked or
Tue track as the engine and two cars
O"lne along He was unobserved and
Tue train passed over him. His skull
Was BADLY fr9cture6 opd fbo child will
die. ''N'A 'o --N " 49,
William A. Holcomb, one of the best
AH0"h business men of the Pacific
TO"St' president of the San Francisco
!iouuee and Merchants Exchange
rIeu at his residence in Oakland. Mr.
l0i0omo had been i'll for some 81,
-AonIhs with an affection of the kid
neys.
James Beals, stove dealer, of Iron
~ ~ w., shot and fatally wounded hi
VIC; NC The couple had been out walk
- tns, and Immediately upon their return
a IOnie ne drew revolver and fred fou
o otso's at his wife, three of them taking
ouect' The deed was actuated by jeal
Vusy' Beals escaped.
inFee hundred structural ironwork
vs., ployed on the various elevate,
C T.iloads IN course of construction il
un'cago struck for an increase O
Ct Ss0S' The structural ironworkers il
i lsago are completely tied up and i
h.;1 cared that general strike of tn
0liuihg trades will follow.
NJ - T. Heine, a Russian 80 years old
tb "uV one of the most perilous trip
garo naS been accomplished on the Mis-
to a,0 river In his canoes shaped boat
Mill! ieeV IN length, he sailed from tn
COZ ng district through the hydrauli
va VII; out into the rapids and over t
thu nin 500 feet of Goat island, an
VIII WIZ returned without any misha
sued public debt statement just il
les. oa SHOWS that on April 80, the deb