The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-02


the leader of gang of youthful rufians
who attempted to burn alive a small
boy against whom they had a grudge.
They persuaded the little fellow to en-
ter the cellar of an empty house and
then tied him securely to post. After
torturing him with tales of death in
various forms, they set fire to the
building and ran away. Parties passing
saw the fire, broke in and extinguished
it and rescued the almost unconscious
child, tied in the cellar.
Edison has succeeded, with the aid
of the Roentgen ray, in penetrating the
human body with the naked eye, the
successful experiment having been
made at last. He looked into the
lungs and heart, and examined the
arteries, muscles and blood vessels of
one of his assistants. With the pow.
erful cathode light placed behind the
subject he looked through a screen of
prepared chemicals, and is said to
have plainly seen the workings of the
various organs of the body.
Ike Pizer, negro, was lynched in
Shreveport, La, for attempting to as
sault two young ladies.
The negotiations between France and
Great Britain, however. promises a
satisfactory settlement.
A dispatch from Bombay reports a
tremendous fire in the native quarter
of Calcutta, as the result of which
many persons were killed.
Governor McGraw, of Washington,
has offered $500 reward for the appre-
hension, arrest and conviction of the
murderers of DR.. j. 81. Lyon, of Roslyn.
Thomas Hughes, @. c., the author
of "Tom Browns School Days." "Tom
Brown at Oxford" etc., and the foun-
der of the British settlement at Rugby,
Tenn, died in London, aged 76.
It is asserted in Paris that more
powers besides France and Russia will
seize the occasion of the British Egyp-
tiar expedition up the Nile to demand
a guarantee for the evacuation of Egypt.
Rebels recently attacked the Japan
ese near Fusan. After several days
igting the rebels were repulsed. Many
japanese have been murdered, and
japanese warships have been sent to
the scene of the disturbance.
The athletic team of the university
of California has received a telegram
from the Harvard team accepting a
challenge to meet May 90. The Cali
fornia team will meet tho athletes of
several other colleges on their Eastern
tour.
Louis Melberg, car repairer on the
Great Northern railroad, was fatally
injured in Seattle by being caught be-
tween the Drawbacks of two fat-cars.
A coupling link was driven through
his body, tearing his intestines in a
horrible manner.
A prominent butcher and one of the
stockholders of the American Dressed
Meat Company of Walla Walla, and
W. A. Montgomery, who was employ
ed as a butcher at the company's
slaughter-yards, have been arrested on
a charge of stealing cattle.
Bicycle tourists from the United
States and other countries will this
year be required to deposit, at the Can
adian custom house, the retail price of
their wheels on entering Canada, and
when they are exported back the money
will be refunded to the owners.
The Mexican government is making
preparations for the abolition of all
interstate and inter-municipal duties
in July, and taxes will be apportioned
scientifically. The reform is of the
greatest Importance and far-reaching,
and will greatly facilitate interna.
tional trade.
Hiram 81. Morrison, arrested in Bos-
ton after his wife had been found dead
in their home, with finger marks upon
her throat, has confessed that he
choked the woman to death in fit OF
jealous rage at her having crowd Of
neighbors in the house drinking. He
alleges he was also drunk.
The American Electric Heating Cor.
poration, which includes all the COM
panies of Importance engaged in the
manufacture of electric-heating appar-
atus, has been formed, with headquar-
tiers in Boston. The new corporation
is controlled by syndicate of Boston,
New York and Western capitalists.
The trans Missouri roads have not
been as liberal with the Grand Army
as the roads in the Western Passenger
Association. They have decided upon
a rate of one fare for the round trip for
the annual encampment in st. Paul,
instead of rate of cent per mile, as
authorized by the roads of the Western
Passenger Association.
A New York paper says the revolu-
ton in Nicaragua, according to intel
ligence received through private chan
nels, is more serious than the dis
patches from that country would indi-
cate. The strict press censorship estab-
lished by President Zelaya renders ii
impossible for news of any character
except what is favorable to the govern.
ment, to be made public.
The Spanish government has official
| " disclaimed responsibility for the
fiery views expressed in the columns OF
the Madrid newspaper Ell Epoca, de.
manding that the United States cease
talking about the Cuban insurreotior
or else declare war at once upon Spain.
The government felt that it might be
harmful because it was intimated that
the article was inspired by it.
At a meeting of the Associated