The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-06-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.


island. 1t is not known how he was
killed.
The trustees of the university of Illi-
nois were arrested in Champaign and
held in 5000 bail to answer to the
grand jury the charge of failing to fly
the flags from all university buildings
Governor Altgeld is a member of the
board.
Except Savannah, the capitals of the
new states of Wyoming, Montana and
Utah are the only places that got ap.
preparations for public buildings at
this session of congress. The house
policy has been to report no bills for
new buildings.
The Hammond incident is finally
settled. At special meeting of the
executive council held in Pretoria, it
was decided to release John Hays Ham
mond, Cecil Rhodes, George Farrar
and J.. W. Leonard, the leaders Of the
Johannesburg reform committee, upon
payment of a fine of e25, 900 each, or
in default, fifteen years Punishment
Ben Dice, a rancher living on the
Tule river, twenty miles southeast OF
Visalia, CAL, killed his brother-in. law,
Grant Smith. They quarreled about
water in an irrigating ditch, and Dice
wife attempted to remove the dam in
the ditch on Smiths place.
Three thousand Harvard men, en-
couraged by the phenomenal event of a
Harvard victory, fought 100 policemen
in the streets of historic old Cam
bridge. 1t was the biggest riot that
the university has ever seen. Many
students and policemen were injured
in the melee, but the bluecoats finally
came out victorious and the students
were locked up.
Thiede, who was convicted of the
murder of his wife in Salt Lake, must
hang. This is the decision of the
Utah supreme court.
Fire destroyed the Boylston brewery
and mammoth icehouse, in Boston, and
damaged many buildings. The total
loss is $4,000.
The French Niger expedition from
Salaga, West Africa, has been routed
and many of it's members killed by
poisoned arrows, in the Borgeo coun-
try.
Two midgets, each less than four
feet high, were married in Niagara
Falls. They are M. L. Comfort. of
Oswego, N. Y, aged 50, and Miss Eva
B. White, of Monroe, Mich, aged a..
They have known each other for twen-
ty years. They met by appointment
and are spending their honeymoon
there
An emergency club has been organ
lied in Des Moines, Ia, its object be.
ing the care of sufferers from tornadoes
and similar public calamities.
The American line steamer st. Paul
has again broken her record across the
Atlantic. The st. Paul left Southamp-
ton at noon May 80 and passed The
Needles about ]: 25 P. M. June 5. Her
time for the trip was days. hours
and So minutes, beating all records by
over IL hours. The best previous
western record of the st. Paul, made
on her last voyage, was days, 9 hours
and minutes. She has, in the pres
emit trip, reduced that time 81 hours,
and also made new western record
from Southampton.
Alarming news regarding the plague
which is raging in China and other
countries Of Southern Asia was brought
by the steamer Peru, which arrived
from Hong Kong and Yokohama in
San Francisco, seven days late, on &C
count of being detained at quarantine
at Nagasaki. Deaths are occurring by
hundreds in the Orient. At Canton
there were 315 deaths in one week re-
Gently. At Hong Kong, when the
Peru sailed. May 5, GIT persons were
down with the cholera, and new cases
were being reported at the rate Of %
a day.
James Mckinney, of the commission
firm of Mckinney Bros, of Kansas
City, has practically cornered the po-
tato market Mckinney is said to
have more Of the product to sell than
all the other potato brokers in the
West. Within the past four days, Nc
Kinney has raised the price Of potatoes
25 cents, and further rise is antici.
pated. Twenty days ago Mckinney
contracted for the only available po-
tateos now in the West, 100 calroads,
from Greeley, Colo. Mckinney is said
to have cornered the market five years
ago, when he raised the pirce from 25
cents to 81 bushel.
s. Asano, one Of the chiefs in the
naval department, Of the government Of
Japan, will arriye on the next steamer
from the Orient in San Francisco. An
important matter connected with the
coming visit Of s. Asano to the Pacific
coast is the opening of new steamship
line between Toxic and the Pacific
coast. In heralding the advance Of
this new line Asano will say that it
/ will handle freight cheaper than either
of the lines running from San Francisco
and Puget Sound, and that the landing
place on this coast will be at Portland.
The japanese legislature recently ap-
propriated $4,000, 900 to float the COM
pany, and selected Portland as being
the most central point. Freight will
be carried at Is yen, or So, per ton,
and the passenger rates will be at
greatly reduced rates.
In drunken rage John Wolter, Of
Chicago, made an unsuccessful attempt
to kill his wife. He then shot and
killed one stepdaughter and wounded
another so seriously that she may die.