The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-11-19
Events OF THE DAY.
,.;.ore OF the Telegraphie
News of the World.
rrRsg TICKS FROM THE WIRES
,n,.re.ting Collection OF Items From
the Two Hemi.phere' Presented
in. Condensed Form.

Condensed Form.
mo british steamer Strathclyde.
Inv Calcutta for Galveston, went
, Ashore in the Caloutt" river
coDorsl Weyler has taken personal
.,orse Of the Spanish army in Cuba.
Cp'. -ssr;awed the troops at Mariol, and
issn took up the march to the interior.
The Chicago Tribune prints list of
49, nils and factories which have re-
' .nod business within the past ten
s.rs giving employment to 155, 495
/ men.
Constantinople dispatch says
ub;lo counseling American mission.
'.o. 10 remain at their posts in Ana
.al;. Minister Terrell has advised the
.,movsl of the children Of missionaries
10 places of safety.
Three men were injured by the burst
mo of naptha retort in straw fac
,orv in Milford, Mass. Their injuries
nroved fatal. The men were blown out
II the building, and when picked up
The skin peeled from their faces and
breasts.
Fourteen buildings in the business
norton Of Traverse City, Mich, were
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss OF
100000 Ed Newberry, a hotel porter,
was burned to death. 1t is rumored
other lives were lost, but no other
bodies have been recovered. Thirty
guests escaped through the windows OF
the Front.street hotel in their night
4 clothing.
From Greer county, Oklahoma, comes
the news of a battle between officers
Of Greer and Washits counties and a
large body of Mexican horsethieves, in
which one robber was killed outright,
several wounded and two officers
wounded. The Mexicans had been
stealing horses and committing numer-
Gus Expectations In western counties in
Oklahoma.
Rev. E. L. Benedict shot and fatally
wounded Harry McWhorter, a promi-
nent druggist, Of Larrabee, la. The
shooting was in self defense.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has
issued decree making lard duty free
from October to April, and -four and
corn, which are also scarce, are made
free Of duty.
The country home at Clover Bend,
Lawrence county, Arkansas, Of Miss
French, suthoress and magazine con.
rlbuter, well known as OCTAVE
ThaDet" was destroyed by fire. A
large and valuable library was burned.
Serious riOting has occurred at Shot
sput near Bombay. Five thousand
men looted 1900 bags of grain. The
police fired upon the mob, killing four
men and wounding six. A further
outbreak is feared as Shotaput is one of
the worst famine tracts.
A St. Petersburg dispatch to the
London Times quotes the Novosti as
saying that towards the close of the
war with Japan, China offered to cede
'ne island of Formosa to England with
cut condition, with a view to excluding
'ae Japanese, but that Lord Rosebery,
'lFn PRIME minister, promptly declined
the offer
Mrs Walter NJ. Castle, of San Fran.
VlscO' recently sentenced in London to
'afee months imprisonment without
lsfu !aroor, after having pleaded guilty
W charge of shop lifting. has been re-
,saTO from prison on medical grounds,
" order Of the home secretary, Sir
matthew White Ridley.
Inc report that was recently sent out
nun Constantlnople that sixty Arme-
.als were massacerd there early last
"OeA was not exaggerated. On the
'OuHsry, The affair turns out more seri-
Wy man was at first announced The
r as'dcfe occurred at the village of
-''fek' where nearly one hundred per-
-' were Killed and all the Armenian
houses pillsged.
q tramp, while going over the Balti-
t u40 i" Ohio, near Mitchell, Ind.
T ,SuuO enough dynamite on the track to
~" an engine to pieces as soon as ii
s It, He ran to the nearest
f. ,"u' tore off lamp, and returning,
g sualea the approaching express train.
~ was shot at by the wreckers and
NV. iO0nd unconscious by the train.
So nlonmond, Mo-, a mob collected
bOlS a the Jail and attempted to get
cb..o VI Jesse Winner and Lon Lackey,
W a.sSo with the murder of Mrs. Eva
s,;da u'f and her two children. Thei,
b,otS .a' purpose was to lynch them. A
d,ssasa OF the murdered woman ad.
II T 1a the mob and pleaded with them
sooen a.e tne law take it's course. They
~sp'ed his counsel and retired.
Dr. L. o. tucker. a painter, me,
IN ia lanes S. Wintermute on the street
rol, .s'Oms' and suddenly drew a re-
Ss ss, shooting Wintermute through
roI, uOuy' Tucker then turned the re.
hrDOa,0 on himself, shooting himseli
On, usn the head, blowing his brains
ms, "intermute was not killed and
to iD rsCOver. The latter processes no,
M the cause of the shooting.
CsIi,0 0ss Is shortage of dry wines in
70 .ao' and the manufacturers wish
dssIa 'ance the prices, but to this the
pstti ,s OBJECT, for fear of foreign com
handed supreme dq1'sa court of Oregon hal
ssr urn asylum case, and this time hal b.,'
cou,. 4so the Judgment of the lowe,
i'm N h restraining the state treasure,
Issued IiO o the ss5, 900 warran
tor ii. n ioI Payment of a site purchased
buildinn,o =; Of the proposed asylum
IL E21tarr n~a-,.,.