The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-03-12
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con
densed Form.
NJ INTEREST TO ALL READERS
,.o,os NJ Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources cream
OF the Dispatches.


of the Dispatches.
Chief of Police Crowley, of San
francisco. has resigned. He has been
in service for nearly forty years.
Rallington Booth has announced his
rIans for an independent American
salvation Army, of which he and his
wife will be leaders.
General Lewis Merrill died in Phila.
delphia, aged 60. He was one of the
noted officers of the war, and was re-
tired from active service on surgeon
certificate of disability in 1886, after
several years of frontier duty.
Two little girls lost their lives and
two men were injured in a fire which
nartlv destroyed the big double tene.
meut at 1853 Prospect street, Brooklyn.
The origin of the ire is unknown. The
loss will not reach more than 81, 500.
As train on the Ferris & Cliff
House railway III San Francisco was
on its way to the beach, tunnel near
the ocean terminus caved in. No one
was seriously injured in the debris
Several passengers were bruised, and
the road was impossible for some time.
The British and French negotiations
at Paris on the Niger question have
been temporarily suspended. The
French representatives accused the
British of trying to acquire control of
territory within the French sphere,
and there the matter ends for the pres
ent.
The Very Rev. Father Bergmeyer,
father superior of the Franciscan mis-
sion in Santa Barbara, Cal, was ia
tally shot by man who had been en-
ployed at the mission for over year.
Three shots entered the priests body,
and one in the head. His recovery is
impossible.
The British troops which formed part
Of the Ashantee expedition returned to
Londn in a dilapidated, though not
battered condition. They were enthu-
siastically cheered as they marched
through the city from the docks where
they landed TO their barracks in the
west part of London.
At Rome, Ga, a desperate street
fight occurred between Y. 7. Sanford
and Policeman MILKY. Mulky is dead
and ex-Sheritf Matthews critically
wounded Several stray shots took
effect in innocent spectators, one a
young lady. The alteration began
because MILKY dubbed a friend Of
Sanford.
The supreme court of the state OF
Washington has decided that county
treasurer is liable personally or on his
bond for money deposited in a bank
which afterwards becomes insolvent,
in a case wherein there is no charge of
negligence against the officer and in
which the county failed to supply de-
pository.
The complaint recently made by the
citizens of Antelope, Idaho. that the
waters Of the Big Lost river had
been turned out on the public lands by
a ditch company and had created dam
age to settlers, will be inquired into by
the government. A special agent OF
the general land Office has been ordered
there to investigate.
The conference between President j.
Edward Simmons, of the Panama Rail-
way Company and G. P. Huntington,
president Of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, regarding the recent fric-
ton between the two companies, is
said to have resulted in the adjustment
OF all differences. 1t is understood
that entirely harmonious relations have
been restored.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com.
pny has reopened the rate war between
Portland and San Francisco. The cut
Is a radical one, putting the figures
back to where they were during the
early days of December, namely, SIC
Tor first class passage, including berth
ond-class in the tourist sleeper.
For February the receipts from GUS
toms shows falling off of 50, 474, 403.
and the internal revenue receipts de.
cresae Of $234,6 49. AS the expendi.
lures during the month, however,
We're exceptionally light, small sur
IS oh %o%a <0,
the present fiscal year amounted t6
1858, 537, and it is the opinion Of
treasury officials that the deficit July
/, next, will not exceed this amount
st. James Gazette, in commenting
upon the recent dismissal of Lord Dun
raven from the New York Yacht Club
said; The New York Yacht Clui
very properly expelled Lord Dunraven
and we now only regret that the credi
oi British craftsmanship was evel
identified with a man who can behav'
so badly. His charges were improb
aole, and his refusal to accept the de
cislon of the committee was a shee
piece OF childish obstinacy."
Governor Lord, of Oregon, has beer
notified that land claimed by the state
under the swamp land grant of 1868
winch afterwards passed by grant O
tne state to the United States Militar.
wagon Road Company, in 1866, ha
oeen rejected by the commissioner o
the general land Office. at Washington
Attorey- Idleman has the mat
Ter under advisement. and will likel.
appeal on behalf of the state to the sec
rotary of the interior, Hoke Smith.
Alarming reports have reached Der
ilh from Buda Pesth of the most terrifl
SAND storms that have ever occurred il
southwestern Hungary. The dis
patches say that several moving train