The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-02
IELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
denSed Form.
NJ INTEREST TO ALL READERS
,.a,,,s of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
OF the Dispatches.


OF the Dispatches.
The race tor the Hircsh cup in Nice,
O total distance of thirty miles, Satan
i+s won. Ailsa second, Britannia third.
The schooner Noyo, from San Fran
cisco for Fort Bragg, collided off Point
Arena with the steamer Pasadena. The
Novo was damaged.
The German reichstag committee
has concluded the first reading OF the
sugar bill, and fixed the import duty at
40 marks per 100 kllos.
Ex.Chief of Police Thomas M. Speers
died in Kansas City of heart disease,
aged 50. He was chief of police in
Kansas City for thirtytwo years.
The miners employed at the Win
tbrop mine, in Ishpeming, Mich, quit
work. because the management wanted
them to work ten-hour shifts, instead
Of eight.
The Prince of Monaco has renewed
his concession to the Monte Carlo
Casino for fifty years, on condition that
his annuity be increased from $500, 600
to 100000
In San Francisco, G. f. Mars, a
lathing contractor, was assaulted and
beaten by strikers, who claimed Mars
WAS working for less than union rates.
He died from the effects of the injuries.
William @. Judge, of the Theoso-
phist Society, died in New York, after
an illness of two years. He has been
since the death of Nine. Blavatsky, the
most prominent Theosophist in this
country.
A Washington dispatch says the Or
der soon to be issued drawing into the
civil service large number Of officers
of the government who are now except
ed is still under deliberattoa by the
president.
The strike of the special order, or
custom tailors, is already practically
broken About forty of the shops
closed have opened, the contractors
having signed the contract drawn up
by the men. The strike begun with q
reported number of 1900.
The big suit of Swift & Co.. the Chi
cago packers, against the Grand Trunk
railway, which has been pending since
1892, was dismissed by stipulation.
Swift & Co. sued for $500, 200 on &C.
count of alleged excessive charges for
freight on shipments east from 1887 to
1888
The scheme of adding the latest
weather forecasts to the regular post
marks on letters will be commenced
by the postoffice department July l.
Applications for this service from over
forty postoffices have been fled, and it
will be introduced in Chicago and
other large cities.
News has reached New York from
Luayra, Venezuela, of the bursting OF
the magazine of the Venezuela war
ship Marscale Ayacuche. Eight men
were killed in the explosion. The re-
mainder of the crew were rescued by
fishermen. The warship was burned
to the waters edge.
A dispatch to the London Globe from
Cairo says the Kalifa has proclaimed q
Jehad (holy war; against Egypt, and
called on all dervishes capable of bear
ing arms to enroll under his banner.
1t is said Osman Digna is to leave
Cassala and join the dervishes now
mastering at Dongola.
In Chicago the cupola in the shed OF
the iron foundry on Ashland avenue
fell from its supports. Molten metal
was hurled in every direction. Michael
Donovitch and Peter Rovitch were
fatally burned, and Edward Davis,
Miles Conway and Alexander Cameron
were seriously injured.
That trade between the United States
and Asia is increasing is indicated by
the heavy trans-Paclflc mails now ar
irving and departing. The steamship
Victoria that sailed from Tacoma, car
ried the largest mail ever taken out by
a Northern Pacific liner. There were
As sacks of papers, amounting to 1850
pounds, and 6, 500 letters.
In Cleveland, O., the fishing tugs
Jessie Enas and Helene went out on
the lake, and after gathering the nets.
set out the night before, started back.
When outside the breakwater, a bliz-
zard struck them and they were soon
hemmed in by dense stacks OF floating
ice. The powerful harbor tug Bacon
forced her way to the rescue, and, after
hard battle, brought the Helene in.
The Bacon put back to rescue the Jessie
Enas, but the effort was finally aban'
doned.
The British ship Auldgirth, which
arrived in Cork recently with cargo
of wheat from Portland, Or, reports
having passed in latitude 5000 south,
longitude 1881 west, two large ice
bergs, about five miles long and. about
500 feet high. On the following day
in 56:27 south and $500 west, shs
passed eight icebergs from one t.
twelve miles long, and from 100 to 70l
feet high. There were light northeas
winds at the time, and fine weather
The icebergs were right in the track o.
ships
Chairman Gideon, of the League O
American Wheelmen, says active step
will be taken to prevent amateur rider
from violating the rules of their class
He insists that Southern and Northern
California must be regarded as tw'
distinct states by the L. A. w. and tn
racing board, and an amateur residen
of either division cannot compete ont
side the boundary Of his division at {
distance of over 100 miles from hi
hnrnA ia n1a{vns that tha urankna