The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-16
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and Foreign Sources - Cream
of the Dispatches.
Recent census figures show that in
zen years Massachusetts has lost in
population.
The sale has been announced of nine
Leadville, Colo, mines to an Enlgish
syndicate for 100000.
A severe shock of earthquake was re-
Gently felt in New Westminster and
most portions of the Fraser valley.
her cable and went to pieces on the
locks at Santa Rosalia, Cal. One man
was drowned.
Fire in the Chicago Forge & Bolt
Company plant did $4,000 damage.
The plant is owned by the American
Bridge Company.
1t transpires that the Bosphorus is
rkely to be the destination of the
North Atlantic squadron of American
battleships, instead of the Caribbean
sea.
The secretary of the interior has ap
proved the selectin of /, 800, 900 acres of
land in the Bismarck, N. D., district,
and $50, 900 acres in Montana made by
the Northern Pacific
The members of the Venezuela COM
mission met in Washington and re-
ceived their commissions from Secre-
tary Olney, and were administered the
oath of office, and elected their officers.
The Cheyenne north bound passenger
train was wrecked at Chugwater,
Wyo., by running into bunch Of cat
i tie in a cut. Fireman Parker was
killed and Engineer ONeill hurt.
Four coaches were derailed.
Warships flying the star and stripes,
and manned by American bluejackets,
may force the passage of the Dardan-
Giles and Bosphorous, anchor at Con-
stantinople and show the sultan that
Uncle Sam is not to be trifled with.
The National Associatiiation of Man
ufacturers of the United States will
i shortly hold their annual meeting in
Chicago. Particular attention will be
given to the Nicaragua canal, the con-
vention favoring the government own
ership of the great waterway.
The United States bureau of eth
nology expedition to Tiburon island
has returned to New York. The Teri
Indians abandoned their ranches on the
approach of the party and hid in the
i mountains. The expedition embraced
the first white people who have visited
the island in fifteen years and returned
alive
A desperate battle has been fought
near Colon. The Spanish troops were
routed, and suffered heavy loss.
The insurgents captured the Spanish
artillery and have gained position
commanding the overland entrance to
Havana. General Oliver was killed,
and General Compos' son seriously
wounded.
The recent massacre at Ormah is
stated to have been terrible. Official
dispatches admit 900 Christians were
killed, but according to private ac-
counts about 2,000 Christians were
killed. A massacre is said to have
occurred at Birejik, an important town
on the Euphrates. This outrage is be-
lieved to have been committed by Kurds
and Hamedics in the colony. The am
bassadors have received word that the
/ bIoodshed there was exceptionally seri-
i Gus.
A large meeting of the 4 llegheny
County Bar Association was recently
held in Philadelphia to decide the ques-
4 ton whether women should be ad-
mitted to practice. The women were
victorious by a vote Of more than 10 to
l, consequently they will be accorded
the same privileges as their male COL
leagues. The question was decided
after a lively discussion of a resolution,
which called ON the judges to prohibit
women from becoming members OF the
bar in Allegheny county.
Another uprising has occurred in
FOrmosa.
At hotel fire in Altoona, Pa, three
people were killed by falling wall.
Meetings are being held in Chicago
to devise means to aid the suffering
Armenians.
In railroad wreck in South Africa
twenty-eight persons were killed and
twenty three seriously injured.
h Nearly 1000 chests of tea q the
,, 20 of the big tramp steamer Afida
were damaged on the voyage from
Yokomhama to San Francisco. and
some of the stuff will be total loss.
An open switch, caused by the care
lessness of a conductor, resulted in
collision of a freight and passenger
train near Chilcothe, o. Six people
were killed and many more were in
lured.
a Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
train crashed into funeral procession
at Pima street, Chicago, injuring five
persons. One of the carriage drivers
was thrown fifty feet, but none of the
injured will die.
Two children, aged and s years.
were captured by the police in San
francisco in the act of robbing a store
They had been assisted by larger boys
In securing an entrance, and confessed
to having had previously entered an
4 other store in the same manner.
Monsignore Satolli, apostolic dele
gate to the United States, has been
laised to the rank of cardinal Of the
8 church. The ceremony, which took