The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-09-03
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome OF the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

n Interesting Collection Of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in . Condensed Form.
A powder house near Xenia, O.,
blew up and shook the country for
miles around. Two men were killed.
A farmer named Silvers, living near
Santa Rosa, CAL, attempted to poison
himself, wife and family by putting
arsenic In the coffee. A doctor ar
rived in time to save them.
The locked out men of the Brown
Hosting and Conveyancing Company's
works. at Cleveland, O., have voted
to return to work, and the famous
strike, productive of several battles and
riots, is broken.
Minister Terrell has notified the
Turkish government that the latter's
answer to the demands Of the United
States for indemnity for the burning of
the American missions at Kharput and
Marash are not satisfactory.
Hilton, Hughes & Company (once A.
T. Stewart & Company, one Of New
York's largest department. stores, have
made an assignment. The assignment
is without preferences. The failure is
due to the gradual decline of business.
The civil service commission has is.
sued all order to federal ofice-holders,
warning all their employees against
seeking or making contributions for
campaign purposes. The order en-
braces all branches of the government
service. Violators will be prosecuted.
In New London, Conn. as an excur-
sion train was just landing it's passen-
gers boy bent on mischief let loose
heavy tramcar on an incline. 1t dashed
into the crowd killing one woman and
seriously injuring several persons. A
panic ensued in which several more
were injured.
According to a cablegram received
in Philadelphia the steamer Laurada
has just landed one of the most for
midable filibustering expeditions yet
shipped to Cuba. She landed over 200
men and an immense cargo, which con-
sisted of $4,000 pounds of dynamite,
eleven field guns, four cannon, seven
gatlings, and a quantity of ammuni-
ton.
Fire has destroyed the village of On
tonagon, Mich. The large mills of the
Diamond Match Company were COM
II 1oc%~oroJ Tho Aoyooc fhor
descended into the business and resi-
denoe quarter of the city and finally
lodged in 165, 1000, 900 feet of sawed
lumber on the dock. The destruction
of the village was complete. The loss
is nealry 100000. About 1900
men, women and children are homeless
and in need of clothing and shelter.
P. O. Minor, pioneer resit ent of
San Jose, Cal, a prominent lawyer
and capitalist, shot and killed him
self in that city. No cause is assigned.
United States Marshal Thomas and
deputies killed Bill Doolin, noted out
law, in q battle near Clayton, Payne
county, o. T. One deputy was
wounded.
g. M. Schilling, the one-armed
athlete who has undertaken to walk
from Pittsburg to San Francisco and
back In ten months, and to return
with 81 900 in cash, although restrict
ed from begging or purchasing supplies
en- route, has arrived in the latter city,
twenty-six days ahead, but 5000 be-
hind his schedule.
Captain Burnside and twenty two of
the crew of the British tramp steamer
Moldaya were picked up at sea in
three open boats by the Anchor line
steamer Circassia, which has just ar
rived in New York The Moldava
struck an iceberg in fog and sank
giving the crew barely time to provi-
sion the lifeboats and lower them.
All hands were saved.
The wedding of Miss Gertrude Van
derbil., the eldest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Mr..
Harry Payne Whitney, the eldest son
of former Secretary of the Navy w. c.
Whitney, took place at 1.-The Break
srs," Newport, R. I. The affair was
somewhat of a disappointment to So
ciety owing to its simplicity. Only
fifty persons were present.
The sultan of Zanzibar, Hamed Bin
Thwain Bin Said, is dead. He was
about 40 years of age, nephew OF
the late sultan, Ali Khalif, and Bur-
cash. and succeeded to the sultanate on
the death of Sultan Ali. March 5, 1898.
He was one Of a number of claimants,
and was selected as the most fitting
bv the British government, which ex-
ercises a protectorate over the sultan
ate.
Feeling against the Southern Pacific
Company is, intensifying among the
Is. 900 wheelmen Of San Francisco and
40. 600 wheelmen in the state, over the
recent decision of that company to
charge % cents for carrying a bicycle
between any two points, and for tax
ing bicyclists who Cross the bay 10
cents for each wheel. A boycott has
been declared on the Southern Pacific
nv a large number Of wheelmen and
the others, it is said, will doubtless
take the same course.
1t is reported that the Northern ia.
cific is about to enter upon the work OF
reducing many of its grades, with the
view Of decreasing the cost OF operat-
ing the road. By lessening the grades
it will be possible for the road to haul
train loads very much larger than at
nresent. It is said that the Great
Northern hauls trains 90 per cent larg
ar than those on the Northern -Paclnc