The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-14

Robert Campbell, aged 40, commit
ted suicide at his residence in Denver
by shooting himself thorugh the heart
He was respondent on account of the
loss OF his possessions in mining prop
erty and the Cripple Creek fire. HI
owned buildings in the camp which
were burned. He was worth $1OO,.
600. He leaves a wife and fou,
children. The widow attempted te
shoot herself, but was restrained.
Edwin f. Uhl, the new ambassador,
was formally presented to the emperor
OF Germany. The emperor. replied
briefly to Mr.. Uhl's address, joining in
the hope the latter had expressed, and
speaking very appreciatively and ad.
miringly of the United States and OF
Americans. He trusted, he said, that
Mr.. Uhl's activity would rebound to
the better understanding and more in.
innate relations between the two coun.
tries.
George Haag, 25 years old, killed
himself in San Francisco by taking
strychnine. He was a member of a
suicide club
The First Congregational church,
San Francisco, of which Rev. c. G.
Brown was pastor, will be sold to the
highest bidder.
The controller Of the currency hasde-
elared dividend of 5 per cent in favor
of the creditors of the insolvent Stock
Growers National bank, of Miles
City, Mont.
At Alonzo province. in Huelva,
Spain, miscreant set fire to build.
ing in which dance was in progress.
Six persons were burned to death, and
many were injured.
A telegram received from Santo Do.
mingo says that the president. Ulysses
Heureaux, has had the minister of war,
Castillo. and Governor Estay, of Ma
coris. shot for conspiracy.
Senator Kyle, from the committee on
forest reservations, has reported favor.
ably the bill authorizing the purchase
of toll roads in Yosemite National
Park, and making them free.
Twenty special agents of the general
land Office in Washington, D. c., have
been ordered suspended from May 10
inadequate appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year.
The Denver chamber of comm cree
authorizes the statement that no con-
tributions for the Cripple Creek fire
sufferers from other states are needed.
The contributions in sight in Colorado
amount to nearly $4,000.
The senate committee on public
lands has agreed to press upon the SEN
ate steering committee consideration of
the bill granting per cent of the pro-
ceeds of the sale of public lands to the
states where the sales have been or may
be made.
The schooner Viking, which arrived
in San Francisco, brought news OF the
probable loss of the schooner Norma.
The N orma sailed on February 9 with
ten persons aboard, for the South seas,
and should have arrived at it's destina-
ton six weeks ago.
A dispatch from Valparaiso says:
The statistics of the general army
staff, which have just been issued,
show that the national guard now mum
beers throughout Chile 100000 men.
The figures were made up Immediately
after the late enrolment.
A disptcah form Havana says: An
American newspaper man named HAM
ilton, captured on board the Key West
filibustering schooner Competitor, will
be released, but the other persons cap
tured at the same time will be shot, III
spite of protests from Washington.
The New York Herald's correspond
emit in Salvador writes that congress
has approved the treaty of Amalpa
which unltes the republics of San Sal
vador, Nicaragua and Honduras, which
will henceforth be called by the name
Republica Major de Centre America.
At Port Townsend an unofficial test
of the new revenue launch Scout show
ed her to be able to easily make four
teen to SIXTEEN knots an hour. Revenue
officers are delighted to think that the
first government boat constructed on
Puget sound is such an eminent success'
It is said, on what is considered good
authority in Washington, that the ex'
pert accountant employed by the secre'
tarv of state has found a shortage OF
$4,000 in the trust fund account OF
F. J. Kieckhoefer, until recently the
!, disbursing officer of the state depart
ment.
The secretary of the treasury has &C.
cepted offers for the sale OF sites fo'
; government buildings as follows; Boise
City, Idaho. Sera M. Jackson, $1,000.
bounded by Seventh and Eighth ano
Bannock streets; Helena, Mont, G. T.
J Ellis & Co., $40, corner Park ave
. nue. and Clark street.
The American Medical Association
met in its 47th annual session IN tine
Grand opera house in Atlanta, ga
The association has over 1, 500 mem
bers, being the largest body OF physi
: clans and surgeons in America, ant
] probably in the world. DIR. Beverly
/ Cole. of California, presided.
The Herald's correspondent In quay
aouill, Ecuador, telegraphs that tn
{ province of Manabi suffered terrloi!
. from EARTHQUAKES. In Puerto V1eJ'
houses were thrown down, many per
sons were buried alive in the ruins ant
$ many injured. The province OF MAN
-: =: - 40 ,,orfh 40 stern mart OF Ecua