The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-30
IELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
densed Form.
az INTEREST TO ALL READERS
,.o,.,s Of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources cream
of the Dispatches.

of the Dispatches.
Arstin Abbot, LII. D., died at his
Lore residence, 6 East Fifty first street,
Nav York city, after an illness of ten
weeks.
New York Herald special from
Cairo. Egypt, says: A telegram to the
war deDartment states that Colonel
Lloyd defeated the dervishes near Sau-
kin.
4 nogtoffice has been esta blished at
Chase in Yamhill county, Or. Will
liam O. Chase is the postmaster and
the Office is a SPECIAL one from McMinn.
vile.
The young ladies' club of the uni
versity of Washington defeated the
vonng ladies' of the Ellensburg normal
school at basket ball by score of six
points to three.
A Madrid dispatch says: 1t is an
nounced that the royal speech to be de-
livered at the opening of the new cortes
will premise political and administra-
tive reforms for Cuba and Porto Rico.
An old fintlock gun, smooth bore,
and bearing the date Of 1875, was
found in a cabin on the Colville Indian
reservation by two prospectors. They
also found string of curiously carved
beads and a scalp-lock of woman.
Judge B. T. Dennison, ex-chief JUS
tice of the supreme court of Washing.
ton territory, and one of the ablest jur-
lists of the state, died in Olympia, aged
rs. He was a native of Vermont and
one of the Argonauts of California.
From Washington, D. c., comes the
news that the postoffice at Excelsior,
Pierce county, Wash, will be discon-
tinued April so, next. 1t is to be con-
soldated on May 1 with the postoffice
at Tacoma, to which all mail should be
sent
Sir Hercules Robinson, governor OF
Cape Colony, telegraphs to the English
government that there is no sign that
Buluwayo is endangered, and that pre-
cautions are being taken to keep the
road to Buluwayo open in order to sup
ply it with food.
The first sleeping car porter is dead.
He was john D. Mitchell, and he was
with the Pullman company over thirty
years. He began his service as porter
on the Pioneer" the first sleeping car
ever built, the rolling foundation of its
inventors vast wealth.
A dispatch to the Volks Zeitung,
Cologne, dated from Shanghai, declares
that it is true, as has been before re-
ported, that Ii Hung Chang, who is on
his way to Moscow to be present at the
coronation of the czar, bears with him
a secret Russo Chinese treaty.
The arrest of the Baptist missionary,
BiSOhp Diaz, in Havana, was due to
the declarations by some prisoners who
were captured at Vivora, near that
place, and to the documents which
were found in their possession. His
case will be summarily pushed.
A dispatch from Rome to the Pail
Mall Gazette, London, says the papal
nunclO at Madrid has been instructed
to propose the mediation of the pope to
bring about a settlement of the trouble
III Cuba or to urge upon Spain the ac-
ceptance Of President Cleveland's re-
ported offer of mediation.
James E. Allsop, alias A. A. Austin.
who was arrested in Seattle by Detec-
i've John Courtney, of Minneapolis,
On the charge of numbering Lena Olsen
On the shore of Lake Superior, near
Duluth, in order to get possession of
S45O, committed suicide in the city
JAN at Seattle, by hanging himself with
piece of blanket.
Undertakers of Chicago are interested
III the propositions of an Indiana COM
pany to manufacture glass collins on a
large scale. In an interview George +.
hlmball, the plate glass manufacturer,
stated that the idea is entirely practic-
able, and that collins can be constructed
III the cheaper grades for not more than
on cents running foot.
A dispatch from Havana says: Three
prisoners of war, Gregorie Birges, Es-
tsban Hernandez and Jose Pacallao,
were executed at Cabana fortress. They
belonged to the insurgent band COM
manded by DR.. Bruno Zayas, and were
captured by the soldiers of Aarapiles'
battalion during the attack on Mana.
qua.
4 number of the newspapers of Mad
I'D and elsewhere demand that the
elections in Cuba be annulled and ex-
premier Sagasti intends to ask the
chamber of deputies to annul the Cuban
elections on the ground that the elec'
tors, owing to the state Of rebellion
prevailing, were not free to vote az
they pleased.
The steamer Gaelic brings news that
Aomlral McNear, in command of the
Asiatlc squadron, is contemplating a
naval demonstration in Chinese waters.
me fleet, consisting of the Detroit,
olympia, Charleston and Boston, will
rendezvous at Shanghai during the
summer, and will sail north along the
coasts of China and Japan.
Deputy United States Marshal Sam
Flnson and Secret Officer Harris made
raid on den of conterfeiters near the
Union Pacific depot, Spokane, Wash.
ana captured two. A complete plant
LOT the making of half-dollars was
found, with about thirty of bogus
CONS. They are splendid limitations
ana have been in circulation freely iI
saloons and sporting resorts.