The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-03-05
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
densed Form.
Of INTEREST TO ALL READERS
,.o,,,s Of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.

of the Dispatches.
Irving Fleming committed suicide,
nv emitting his throat with razor, al
Woodburn, Or.
Bill Nye, the famous humorist, died
Of his home in Asheviille, N. c., from a
Daralytic stroke.
Daniel Galencia, residing near Spo-
kane. killed himself by shooting him
self through the heart.
The entire family of Jacob jacob
was aspayxiated in his farmhouse,
near Niles Center, ILL.,, by gas from a
coal stove.
The president has signed the bill ex-
tending the operation of mineral land
laws to the north half Of the Colville
Indian reservation.
A large amount of spurious coin in
tbe shape of 50-cent and 81 pieces has
been found to be in circulation at
Wenatchee, Wash.
At a meeting of Irish-Americans
held in New York, resolutions were
adopted demanding the release of all
political prisoners confined in English
jails.
E. R. Campbell, ex-clerk of the
United States district court, was shot
and killed by his son, Robert Camp
bell, in Nashville, Tenn. Young
Campbell has been regarded as men
tally uns0und.
Seven people were asphyxiated, one
fatally hurt by jumping from a Win
dow, and five others more or less injured
bv fire in the residence of James r.
Arminger, a prominent jeweler of Bal
timore, Nd.
At Seney, Mich, four men were
killed and seven seriously injured by
a steam log-hauler at lumber camp.
The engine became uncomfortable and
ran down the road at full speed, catch
ing the men before escape was possible.
Another big gun has reached the
Preside in San Francisco. 1t was
hauled to the top of the ridge back of
Fort Point This is the second Bottom
rife to be added to the Fort Point bat
terry and completes the trio ordered for
this coast several years ago.
A London special says the Natal
Times claims to have the best author
ity for the statement that the South
African republic will, on the fifteenth
anniversary of the Boer victory over
the British under General Colley at
Majuba hill, proclaim it's independence.
The great tailors' strike, which has
been in force several weeks in many
cities in Germany. has been ended by
the employers granting IL = per cent
increase of wages. The seamstresses'
strike, a movement allied to the tail
ors strike, is also on the eve of a set
Element.
Arthur G. Newsan, the former Brit
lsh magistrate at Cedros, Trinidad,
who was arrested in Brooklyn, July z,
last charged with having embezzled
about el00, 600 belonging to the Brit
lsh government, has been acquitted
after two trials, and has been set at
liberty.
The monitor Monadnock has been
formally placed in commission at
Mare-island navy yard, San Francisco.
The MOnadnOck was commenced twelve
years ago, and has dragged along at
intervals. Navy officers say she is
now most powerful battleship and
able to hold her own against anything
that floats.
State Senator Guy, of New York,
has prepared bill which will be pre-
sented to the Legislature very soon
which authorizes the city to purchase
and remove the Edgar Allen Poe cot
tage The bill provides for an appro-
prlatiOn of $4,000, which sum, it is
estimated, will cover all expenses.
The Chicago POSTS Washington spe-
clal says that on authority of a gentle
man who enjoys the presidents conf.
uence as fully as any one, the state
ment is made that if congress adjourns
Without currency legislation along the
lines suggested by Mr.. Cleveland, he
Will call a special session and force the
Issue upon the country as being the one
question of paramount Importance.
James Fitzgerald was hanged at St.
Louis for the murder of his sweetheart.
Annie Nessens, on the night of Novem-
Der "a, 1898. The rope broke and the
victim lay struggling on the ground
beneath the gallows. The doctors
found Fitzgerald still conscious. Slim
uIants were given and he revived. A
new rope was sent for and an hour
later the sick and trembling, but very
neryy victim, was again taken to the
scaffold. This time there was no
hitch.
Under the new postal appropriation
olll the secret inspection of letter car
1 Ilers by special agents will be stopped.
Inc bill provides instead, that there
snail be thirty additional postoffice in
sspectors, who shall be assigned to the
![ee delivery service exclusively.
while these men will be nominally
under the authority of the fourth as
sistant postmaster-general, they will
oe subject to the orders of the first as.
siStant and the superintendent of the
Ilee delivery service. They will de.
vote their time exclusively to the in.
spectlon of the free-delivery service,
ana will pursue the same methods pur.
sued by the special agents.
Inc secretaries of the American Bap
tlst Missionary Union, the American
Daptist Publication Society and the
american Baptist Educational Society