The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-09
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
densed Form.
~ INTEREST TO ALL READERS
dam, Of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.

Foreign 6OuEC05 SHO0AA
of the Dispatches.
The state department has received a
ool leo am from United States Minister
G, vt q at Port au Prince, Hayti, con.
m ~ the Paris report OF the death OF
President Hippolyte.
A terrible explosion of fire damp took
Mace in a mine at Brunnerton, N. u.
Five nersons were killed outright, and
oivtv more were entombed, with no
hone of being rescued.
An order in the Canadian council
has been passed under which Spain is
added to the list of the countries en-
titled to participate in the advantages
conceded to France under the so-called
French treaty.
The Iron Horse group of mines,
among the best known in the Trail
Creek district in British Columbia, has
been sold for $1,000 to Peter Porter.
The Iron Horse is gold producer, and
has defined ledge, and is shipping
ore.
The Vose block, one of the finest in
Machias. Me-, was burned and several
business firms renting offices in the
building, as we'll as lodge-rooms, lost
all their effects. The total damage is
estimated at $25O,O00; insurance,
$50, 900.
An attempt was made to derail the
Oregon express between Tehama and
Vina, Cal, by placing ties on the
track The engineer saw the obstruc-
ton in time to avert smashup. No
motive can be given for the attempted
derailment.
The battleship Iowa has been sue
cessfully launched. Mary Lord Drake,
daughter of Governor Drake of Iowa,
broke the bottle of champagne over the
vessels PROV and gave it its name.
The vice president and several cabinet
officers were in attendance.
The London Standards Berlin CORE
spondent says that China has granted
concession to Russia to build railroad
from the Chita, in the trans-Baikal
district of Siberia, through Manchuria
to Port Arthur, the latter port being
coded to Russia in exchange for certain
important concessions.
The resignation of John l. Hall as
assistant attorney general of the inter-
ior department., has been presented to
the president to take effect May l.
Juge Hall resigns to accept the general
counselship of the Georgia Southern q
Florida Railway Company. His sue
cessor as assistant attorney general
will be W. A. Little, of Columbus, Ga.
A new play is being written in San
Francisco, in which Matte Overman
and Mrs. Tunnel are to have star
parts. The play will follow closely
the dramatic incidents of the recent
careers of the Rev. @. o. Brown and
Mrs. Mary Davidson. Richard G.
White is the author of the play. He
says it will eclipse the famous Durrant
play.
The two three-story warehouses of
the Pleasure Ridge Park Distillery
Company were destroyed by fire in
Louisville, KY, with all their con.
tents, including upwards of 10000
barrels of whisky. The total loss is
about $3.50, 900, of which $4,000 is
on bonded whisky, $4,000 on free
whisky and the remainder ON the
buildings
Three hundred Chinese were blown
to atoms by the explosion of a maya
zine attached to the fort at Kiangyin,
CHINA. The disaster, according to
mail advices received by steamer, was
the work of mutineus soldiers, who
were preparing to join the secret So
ciety rebels in an attack on an adjacent
town, but whether through carelessness
or by intention is not known.
In the last week of mild weather,
Grand Valley, Colo, throughout its
length and breadth, is riddled with
holes dug for fruit trees. 1t is esti.
mated that between 100000 and L.
700, 900 fruit trees, apples, peaches,
plums and pears, chiefly, will be
planted as soon as water is turned into
the lrrigating bitches. This is far the
largest planting the valley has ever
known.
A desperate fight took place in the
village of Berry, Ill. James and
Cnarles Horning, two prominent young
farmers, and James Housick were shot
In the fight. One of the Mornings re-
celved wound in the leg, and the
otner had his hand and his arm shat
tered by ball. Housick was shot in
the neck, and his injury is regarded as
serious. The trouble grew out of the
sending of valentine.
CONSERVATION was thrown into the
camp OF the numerous heirs and claim
ants to the Davis millions, when At.
torney M. ]. Cavanaugh filed petition
IN the district court in Butte, Mont
IN behalf of Mrs. Huldah Queen Davis,
otherwise known as Haldah Smell, OF
hern county, Cal, laying claim to the
whole of the estate, worth many mil
lions, alleging she is the surviving
Wife of the dead millionaire.
1t is stated that the Rev. G. o.
Brown, of San Francisco, will be tried
oy the Bay conference on the charge Of
unmlnisterial conduct. The charges
1t Is said, will be presented by either
Dr. RAIDER or DR.. Williams, and among
the items alleged against the accused
minister are said to be his attempted
deception of the press; the discrepancy
In his testimony in the Davidson trial
where ne is alleged to have testified
one way in the police court and direct
~ opposite in the superior court.