The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-21

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employ of the A. p. A. ?-Pioneer Press
The fire at Atlanta Sunday night de
stroyed fifty-six buildings; loss, $500, 600
insurance, $I50,0O0. There was no los.
of life.
This talk about the prince of Wales an(
Will the prince never attain years of dis
cretion?
What between the frequent rains ant
the clean sweep of the Mckinley broom
the surface of the earth should be mode
of cleanliness.
Anti-missionary riots broke at Kin Yir
China, OH the l2tn instant. The British
mission was looted and burned. All the
| missionaries escaped.
1t doesn't often happen that the nomi-
nation seeks the man, but the presen,
| Democratic situation comes very neal
! that phenomenOn.-Pione Press.
| The treasury on the 18th, lost ST PA GOO
i'll gold coin and $4,000 in bars, which
leaves the true am INT of the gold reserve
Sil2, 400, S33. Oft coin Withdrawn, 81,
100000 was for export.
The Gaulois says that Senior Canovas
del Castillo, the Spanish premier, is about
to ask the Intervention of the European
powers with regard to the interference OF
the United States i'll Cuban affairs.
The house committee ON banking ard
currency, on the lotn, decided to definite
" abandon the attempt to report gen.
eral banking bill at this session, and the
committee adjourned until the next ses-
sion OF congress.
The world is expected to produce 456, :
OOO, OOO pounds or tea this year. In view
OF the alarming rate at which tea functions
have increased OF late it is to be feared
that this supply will not be more than
enough for the people of the United
States.
The cleanup of the Alaska Treadwell
Company, for the month of March, was as
follows: Value of bullion shipped 1873, 1871,
ore milled 1890 tons, bullion obtained
from shipments $l2,664, gross expenses
81, $40.
The Alaska Mining Record has estab-
liShed a column devoted 10 inc uirieS from
friends and relatives as to the where
abOuts of persons who have gone to
Alaska, and who have failed to commune
cate with their friends.
The Central American republics are
still working away at the Greater Re-
public idea, and they will undoubtedly
compass it, sooner or later. The irwin
chile example of the United States has
proved that federation is the key to the
Republican ideal.
Henry Bolln, ex-city treasurer Of
Omaha, has been sentenced to nineteen
years at hard labor in the Nebraska state
penitentiary and a fine of S2ll 900. Bolln
was for nearly four years city treasurer.
His shortage was discovered last July.
He is 80 years Of age.
The effort to establish cheese factory
at Sedro has fallen through because of
lack OF enterprise on the part ofthe farm
ers, SO the Times states. This, if true, is
lalnentable condition. The protector
wanted to contract for the milk of 200
cows, but only about 90 were guaranteed.
Rear Admiral Thomas II. Stevens, u.
s. N, retired, died unexpectedly at the
residence of his sOn-in-law, Robert Brad
ley, in Rock vile, Nd, on the 10th inst
Stevens, one of the heroes of the battle of
Lake Erie, and had brilliant war record.
If it is really to cost Italy 500, OO0, 900 to
retire with dignity from Abyssinia per-
haps she will decide to leave the dignity
have taught her once for all to abandon
the timeworn fetch of military prestige
and attend assiduOusly to the affairs of
her own domain.
The Denver News, of the 18th, in lead
ing editorial, suggests that the Colorado
Democracy organize with the Democracy
OF neigh boring state to present Teller in
the Democratic national convention as q
candidate for the presidential nomination,
should he bolt at st. Louis, as he is ex-
pected to do.
Mr.. E. V. Smalley, a very prominent
journalist of st Paul, Mimi, returned to
his home recently after absence of two
weeks in the east and south, during which
time he spent week III Ctnton, Ohio,
the homo of William Mckinley. Mr..
Smalley says the general impression
seems to he that Ma jOr Mckinley will be
nominated for preside 1T on the second
ballot.
From one standpoint, it would he wise
to make Tom Reed vice president. He
would manage somehow to fO.ce the SELL
ate to q vote on critical occasions. The
man who successfully achieved the once
seemingly impossible task of drawing
the dragons teeth of tilibusterism in the
house might he reasonably expected to
perform a similar feat in the senate, if
sensible members should stand by him
as they did in the lower body.
It is likely that meeting of the West
erD passenger lines will be called i'll the
near future to consider the question of
transportation of bicycles. The majority
of the Western roads declare themselves
opposed to the free transportation of the
wheels, but there are two or three of the
smaller roads that are in favor of it, and
they will have the matter brought before
the general meeting of the Western Pas
senger association to I've held after the re-
turn of Chairman Caldwell from Cali
fOrnia.
The Niagara fruit belt has heeu severely
damaged by the terrific gale which pre-
vailed on the Itch inst. The wind began
early in the morning to blow strong from
the west, and by noon it was a bowling
gale, which tore the young fruit off in
clusters. The indications from the bios
SONS in the orchards throughout this SER
ton pointed to one of largest fruit crops
in years. The fruit formed solendidly.
There has been no frost, and fruit growers
were congratulating themselves on the
future when this came along and changed
the aspect of affairs. Apples, pears and
pums suffered the most. So fierce was
the gale that whole branches were torn
from the trees. Small fruit ESCAPED with
out much damage. 1t is estimated that
half of the apple crop is lost, and nearly
as much in pears and plums. Peaches
sufferei some, but nothing near to what
the others did.
ERRORS IN ENTERTAINING.