The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-03-26
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
densed Form.
M INTEREST TO ALL READERS
$780,. of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources - Cream
of the Dispatches.


of the Dispatches.
The strike of ~, 500 Berlin jointers
.ros ended this week. The workmen
have obtained higher pay and shorter
hours.
While sitting in his cabin at Eliza
bethtown, n. j., JEFF Bailey was blown
10 atoms by the explosion of 85 pounds
of giant powder.
The British colonial Office has
been asked to sanction chartered COM
many to exploit Ashantee, but it is un-
likely it will conesent.
To escape arrest for embezzlement of
government funds, Frank Mapes, post
master of Kansas City, Kan, COM
mitted suicide at his residence in that
city.
The Anglo German loan of 100, 000,-
GOO taels has been issued at "a, with
interest at 5 per cent. The contract
stimulates that the customs administra-
ton is to remain unchanged.
According to a report on the organ
lied militia of the United States, just
prepared by the war department, the
United States in case of need, can put
9.487, G94 men in the field.
The senate of Cambridge university,
London. by a vote of 1873 to III, has
rejected the proposition to appoint
committee to consider the question of
comforting degrees upon women.
During February, the exports of gold
coin and bullion amounted to So, 1885,
700, and the imports to $11, 559, O89.
For the eight months, the exports were
SIS, 642 992 in excess of the imports.
Two hundred fishermen, belonging
to Reveal, near st. Petersburg. Russia,
with their horses and carts, have been
blown cut to sea on floating ice. They
have only one days provisions with
them
A disastrous collision between
freight train and a snowplow occur" ed
On the Berkshire division of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail-
road, near Kent furnace, Milford,
Conn. Two men were killed and
seven or eight others injured.
A Moscow correspondent of the Lon
don News believes it true that the porte
has decided upon the expulsion of the
British and American missionaries in
Asia Minor Such a measure would
be consonant with the wishes of
Russia, the correspondent adds.
At the request of the state depart
ment at Washington, the United States
embassy at Berlin has formally invited
all the German universities to send
delegates to the Princeton celebration
IN October next. Some of them, in
Guiding the university of GOettingen,
have accepted.
One hundred students of Muhlenberg
college, Allentown, Pa, participated
IN an antiSpanish demonstration.
They paraded the college corridors and
campus, singing patriotic songs and
cheering. and ended by burning the
Spanish flag and hanging General
Weyler in effigy.
The Pope Manufacturing Company's
building, Boston, was completely gut.
ted by fire, necessitating a general
alarm. The loss is between $3.50, 900
and 800, 900. The block was five
story structure of brick, profusely orna-
mented with terra Gotta trimmings.
Seventeen thousand bicycles and parts
were destroyed in the flames.
Lord Dunraven presided at a meet
Ing of the Yacht Racing Association
held IN London. Before the meeting
was called to order, the question Of
the advisability of making reply to
the New York Yacht Club in regard to
the expulsion Of Duraven was inform
ally dicussed, and it was decided that
1t would not be good taste to do SO.
The matter was dropped.
A terrible tragedy occurred in Seneca
Falls, n. Y. 1t was the murder of a
mighty respectable young girl, Miss
Mary Mansel, by Thomas Pelkinton, a
farm hand. Pelkinton, Immediately
alter the murder, and with the same
weapon with which he committed the
murder, took his own life. The girl
received two bullets in the head, one
entering the brain.
The Goulds will not be compelled
10 pay taxes on $40, 800, 900 assessed in
New York for the year 1885. Five
suits had been filed against the estate
Oh Jay Gould and his sons and daugh-
ters to enforce the finding of the COM
nllsSloners of taxes and assessments.
Inc defendants pleaded non-resideAce.
Inc corporation counsel has announced
mat 1t has been decided to abandon
the suits.
1t Is now generally thought that the
river end harbor bill will carry about
sI2,OOO, 600 for the whole country,
though 1t may fall below that. This IL
what the chief of engineers of the army
says Is absolutely necessary to prop.
tfly carry on the work Representative
hermann says that, whatever the
amount, Oregon and Washington will
get their share, and perhaps a larger
percent OF the whole amount than ever
before.
The whole of the republic of Hon
1uras has been placed under martial
law, pending the settlement of the civil
revolt in Nicaragua, in which thu
president of Honduras has espoused thu
cause OF the Zelaya government agains
the rebels. The near approach of thu
Gontending forces in Nicaragua to tn,
honduras frontier, and the disposition
VI the president of Guatemala to inter
pose for the settlement of the war, ar,