The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-16
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Events of the Day In a Con.
densed Form.
az INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Ham, OF Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.

and Foreign Sources - Cream
of the Dispatches.
The Chinese government has decided
n enter the postal union.
H E. Topping, furniture dealer OF
Astoria. committed suicide by blowing
his brains out.
The schooner J. B. Leeds is long
ovardue at Gary's harbor from Quay
ans, Mexico, and great anxiety is felt
for her safety.
The London Times correspondent In
Vienna says: The Vaterland publishes
q communication from the superior of
the Catholic station at Orfa, declaring
that 5000 Armenians have been mas
sacred there.
The money order transactions
throughout the United States during
the last quarter Of 1896, beat all pre-
vious records in volume. The accounts
have lust been audited and show the
receipts to have aggregated $l5, $780,.
97l.
= A foreign dispatch says: 1t is be-
lieved the dervishes lost 5000 dead,
wounded and prisoners in the engage
ment at Mount Moeran on April o,
with the Italian native battalion COM
manded by Colonel Steveni from Cas-
sala
Fire broke out in the Washburn &
Moen Manufacturing Company g plant,
at Quinsigmond, Mass, resulting in a
loss of from $3.50, 900 to $165, 900, fully
insured. Two hundred men will be
out of work until the building is re-
built.
The Genessee river is higher than in
twenty years. 1t is over its banks in
the southern part of Rochester and has
washed away part of the Erie tracks.
The houses are surrounded by water
and the occupants have had to desert
their homes.
Arthur Bradley and Richard Ingra-
ham, two factory hands employed in
Haverhill, Mass, engaged in prize
fight, and as result the latter was
killed by blow on the jaw. The
fight was to be friendly one to settle
the title as to who was the better man.
A novel measure, aimed at high
theater hats, was enacted into law by
the Ohio legislature. 1t provides that
any manager permitting any person to
wear hat or other headgear in thea
ter obstructing the view, shall be guilty
of misdemeanor, and shall be fined $40.
William Kemper and John Limpke,
of Otis, Ind, engaged in a friendly
contest for boxing supremacy in a sa-
loon at that place. After few passes,
Kemper struck Limpke in the abdO.
men. The injured man fell uEcon-
sciOus, and remained so until he ex-
pired soon after.
1t has been announced that chair
of the Russian language will be estab-
llshed at Harvard next year. Profess
sor Leo Weiner, of the University Of
Minnesota, a native of Poland and a
well-known scholar of the Slavonic
tongues, has been appointed to the
chair for five years.
A dispatch from Bucharest to the
London Times says: The papers here
announce the conclusion of military
convention between Russia and Bull
garia under which, in the event of
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ports on the Black sea, and would con-
centrate an army at Shulma.
Edward Davids, a prominent farmer
Of Cox Lake, was shot and instantly
killed by Julius Zilke, a farmland
working for him. Davids had inter
Tered to prevent Zilke from striking a
young man in quarrel, and Zilke
waited for Davids to come home, when
ne shot him in the presence of Davids'
wife.
John Selman, the victor of no less
tnan twenty fatal shooting ARRAYS in
Texas, the exterminator of bad" men,
and the slayer Of the notorious John
wesley Hardin, was shot and killed by
United States Deputy Marshal George
scarborough. The men had a quarrel
over game of cards, which resulted
In the shooting.
Letters received from Rainy river,
on the Canadian boundary, report the
death IN Rainy river of the entire
party who accompanied Colonel A. f.
Naff, United States special agent.
They were on the way to investigate a
report of timber stealing by Canadians,
and were ascending the river in
Slelghs. They broke through the ice
and all but Colonel Naff- were lost.
AT meeting of the bondholders OF
the Northern Pacific railroad held in
Berlin, it was unanimously resolved to
accept the reorganization plan. The
Northern Pacific plan of reorganization
mas been adopted by two meetings, one
OF third mortgage bondholders. repre-
sentlng $4.97l, ZOO out of $7,845, 900
and one of second mortgage bondhold
ers representing 1884, 900 out of Sc.
1850
There has been considerable rivalry
between the masters of the sailing yes
sells plying in the coal trade between
Gan Francisco and Nanaimo for thu
past year, and some very fast passages
nave been made, several of them inside
VI twenty days. The wilma. Captain
slater, arrived at San Fran DISCO, max
ing the round trip in sixteen days and
-FOUR hours, which is by far the bes
time on record.
Sir Hercules Robinson, governor o
cape Colony, has cabled to the govern
ment the details of the massacre O
"nite men in hyatt. in Matabelel and
intending Messrs. Handley, Cass ant
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