The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-15
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epltome OF the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in . Condensed Form.

in . CONDENSED Form.
Returns from the Florida election
give Bloxham, Democratic candidate
for governor, a plurality Of $4,000. A
constitutional amendment abolishing
October elections was ratified.
The tetlegraphers' strike on the Can,
adian Pacific has been declared of. A
settlement was arrived at through a
board of Cancellation. The company
agrees that all men will be taken back
except those guilty of destroying prop.
erty. 1t also agrees to recognize tha
Order of Railway Telegraphers and it,
members.
Seven men started in q skiff to eros,
the river from Canton, Mo. where they
had been attending a political meet
ing. About fifty feet from the Illinois
side the boat upset. John Reed, George
Withrow and John Simms were
drowned. All were in the government
river service.
In a fog at Argentine, Kan, FIVE
east-bound Santa Fe trains were mixed
up in a rear-end collision just outside
the railway yards, the trains following
each other closely. Several cars and
two of the engines were wrecked, but
miraculously enough no one was killed.
Four persons were slightly injured.
A dispatch from Lowell observatory,
Flagstaff, Ariz., announces that the
astronomers Of the observatory have
discovered that the planets Mercury
and Venus each turns once on its axis
during one revolution of the sun, max
ing the day just equal to the year on
these planets. They find further that
Venus is not cloud covered, as has been
reported, but has about it thick at
mosphere, while Mercury has none.
1t has been semi officially announced
in Constantinople that the Turkish gov
eminent, after weighing the matter
and consulting certain advisors, came
to a decision not to admit the United
States warship Bancroft through the
Dardanelles, and therefore she will not
be able to act as the guardship Of the
United States legation in these waters.
The porte, it is said, also decided not
to admit the guardships of Greece and
Holland.
The British ship Kilburn, which has
just arrived in San Francisco, reports
the loss of two of her crew on the voy-
age from Newcastle. She was only
nine days out when she ran into a
storm. The two men were sent aloft
to stow away the topsail, and while
they were 30 engaged violent lurch
caused John Anderson, Swede, to
loose his hold, and falling he struck
against John Harvey, an American,
knocking him off the yardarm and to-
gether they fell. Anderson was thrown
into the sea and drowned and Harvey
struck on the deck, but died in few
hours.
The killing of Frank Hepburn, son
of Congressman Hepburn, at Chester.
Ark, is now attributed to q political
conspiracy. The first report stated
that duel was fought.
Lee All Nee, q waiter, was shot and
instantly killed by unknown assassins
in San Francisco, as result OF high.
binder war. Another shooting affair
occurred the same evening, but no one
was killed.
Three dead bodies have been taken
from the Chicago river, and men are
at work dragging the stream for more.
The remains are those OF infants and
had been in the water for some time.
The doctors assert that they had all
been drowned, and it is thought that
they have been the victims Of q baby.
farmer.
A fatal collision occurred on the
Southern Pacific railway. half a mile
south of Green's station, Oregon, re-
sulting in the death Of John McGon-
lyle, of Portland, fireman, and A. N.
Toy, a brakeman. Five others were
seriously injured. The collision was
due to a conductors carelessness in
mislaying his papers and orders.
Cases of poisoning from eating
smoked whitefish continue to be re-
ported from Wisconsin. At Merrill,
in that state, Albert Radloff and an
other man died of poisoning. Twenty
five cases in all are reported from that
town. Twenty additional cases are re-
ported from Brotherton, on the east
shore of Lake Winnebago. some OF
whom cannot recover. Milwaukee has
also received her share, and fifty peo-
ple have been poisoned in Oshkosh.
The news is causing a panic among
fish eaters and dealers.
For the third time in six months the
Sonora stage has been held up, near
Cloudman, Cal. Two masked men
suddenly appeared on either side OF the
road and covering with shotguns the
driver. ordered him to "hold up" DE
was then ordered to throw out the mail
sacks and told to drive on. The mail
sacks were rifled of registered letters
and left on the road where they were
subsequently, found by the postmaster
of Cloudman. The amount secured by
the robbers is unknown, but Is believed
to have been large.
There has been run on the society
known as the Cuida Economlca IN hio
de Janneiro. The funds OF the society
are Guaranteed by the governments. but
numerous persons withdrew their de-
nosits. Coffee producers and export
ers are greatly alarmed at the falilng
nrioes In Europe. The agricultural
congress in San Paulo proposed the
Foundation of q bank for the needs OF
the rural depositors. Foreign capital,
e IL said, can be procured to open
srch an institution, and immediate
stems will be taken 70 start It