The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-02-27
TELECRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
denSed Form.


OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items Of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
An Athens dispatch says that the
German excavatols near Theseum have
discovered marble bust of che Roman
emperor, Antonius Plus.
The Cramp Shipbuilding Company,
OF Philadelphia has been awarded the
contract for building revenue cutter
No. 3, for the Pacific coast. The new
cutter is to be 100 feet long.
While the American steamer Paris,
from New York, was docking in South
ampton, she came into collision with
the steamer Majesty, belonging to the
Isle of Wight The Majesty was sunk,
but all her crew were saved.
Meager details have been received in
San Francisco of disastrous hurricane
on the Tonga islands, in the South
seas. The banks Woosung and West
Australia and the Samoan schooner
Aele were wrecked, but no lives were
lost.
Ii Hung Chang and Shas Yu Lien
have been appointed delegates to rep
resent the emperor of China at the
coronation of Emperor Nicholas II, of
Russia, at Moscow. Negotiations are
still in progress looking to the conclu-
sion of commercial treaty between
China and Japan.
Through Senior Andrade, it's min
lister in Washington, the government
Of Venezuela has notified Secretary
Olney that it will respond affirmatively
to the invitation of the Venezuela COM
mission to submit all the evidence in
its possession touching the location of
the true boundary line.
Magnus G. Crosby died in Astoria.
The deceased was one of Astoria's lead
ing business men, and was twice elect
ed mayor of the city. He left widow
and five children. The cause of his
death was a complication of Bright's
disease, from which he had been suf-
fering for several years.
Count Zeppelin, of Germany, has de-
livered a lecture at Stuttgart in the
presence of the king of Wurtemburg
and the military authorities on steer
ing airship, which, it is said, will cost
about $75, 900 and travels eleven miles
an hour. 1t is claimed such an airship
can remain in the air ~ days.
The Brisbane river in Queensland
has been greatly swollen by floods. A
small steamer crossing the river with
about ninety passengers capsized, and
only forty were saved. The capsized
steamer was the ferryboat Peral. The
current was very swift and the river
banks and Victoria bridge were endan
gered.
Advices just received from Seoul,
the capital of Corea, say an uprising
took place there February II, during
which the premier and seven officials
were murdered. These dispatches add
that the king and crown prince sought
shelter in the Russian legation. The
king ordered the ministers put to
death. Two hundred Russian sailors
and mariners are now guarding the
legation in that country.
For the first time in half a century
the American falls of Niagara practi-
cally ran dry, by the formation OF an
ice bridge or dam, extending from
Schlosser's dock, on the American
bank, about half way across the river.
The water was almost entirely diverted
to the Canadian falls. 1t was possible
for time for man with a plank to
have walked from the mainland to
Goat island without wetting his feet.
During the debate on the address in
reply to the queens speech in the house
of commons, Sir William Vernon Har-
court, supporting the amendment for
not proposing self.government for Ire
land, pointed out that the colonies,
from which there was evidently a
splendid testimony of loyalty to the
crown, enjoyed home rule, and he
maintained that the policy of home
rule could be as successful in Ireland
as in the colonies.
D. Willis James, of New York, has
offered $500 toward paying the
debt of the American board of foreign
missions. The gift is to be made on
condition that 100000 additional be
subscribed before March 1. The board
members are making determined
effort to carry out the conditions of the
offer. The 500, 900 has been appor-
toned as follows: Boston, $50, 900;
New York, $4,000; Chicago, $25, 900.
A great fire ragged in Guayaquil,
Ecuador, resulting in the death Of
thirty persons. When the firemen and
soldiers, who were burriedly ordered
out to help them finally brought it
under control, thousands of panic
stricken persons were wandering home
less in the streets, many lay dead in
the morgue, and property worth nearly
81. 600, 900 had been destroyed, includ-
ing the noble cathedral and the con-
vent which adjoined it.
A dispatch from Toxic, Japan. says
} there is great activity among all the
naval forces. The japanese govern
ment is confident that Russia is en-
couraging the revolt in Corea, with
view to the early establishment OF
Russian protectorate over the kingdom.
The seat of the Corean government is
now in the Russian legation at Seoul,
| where the king remains guarded. II
, is said the king of Corea authorized
the outbreak in revenge for the murder