The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23

and majority has been found to IA
vor the proposition, 80 far as it ap-
plies to letter carriers, as proposed in
the Aldrich bill The committee will
probably report the bill favorably with
in ten days or two weeks.
Intense interest has been aroused in
medical and other circles in Berlin,
Germany, by the announcement of
young physician, Erich Langhels, at
the international physicians congress,
that he had discovered a new remedy
for tuberculosis, named anti-microbia.
It's principal ingredients, it appears,
are ozone and codliver oil, applied by
simultaneous injection. Of the ninety
cases of tuberculosis he treated in the
Moabite hospital during the past year,
all have been cured.
The stone of the Oregon Pioneer
quarry, of Yaquina bay, has been
selected to be used in the construction
of the San Francisco Call building.
There has been some effort il Cali
fornia to create prejudice against
Oregon building stone in favor of the
California product, but Oregon con.
tinues to get some very desirable con-
tracts. Besides the Call building,
Oregon has furnished the stone for the
ferry depot and the handsome PARROT
building, in San Francisco.
Rich placer grounds have been found
in Washoe valley, near Carson, New,
and there is considerable excitement
in consequence.
Charles II. Voorhees,, formerly lay
judge of Bergen county, N. j., and
an ex-member of congress, committed
suicide in New York.
Five men were fatally injured by
an explosion of fire damp during fire
in the Red Ash vein of the Woodward
mine in Wilkeskbarre, Pa.
John Jones, colored, aged 10, who
committed an assault upon 12-year-
old white girl near Mormon Springs,
Miss, was hanged by a mob. Jones
confessed his crime.
An explosion occurred in the colliery
at Wellington, S. G. Eight miners
are known to have been killed, and
it is believed Is persons will lose
their lives through the disaster.
On April another powder explosion
occurred at Juneau, Alaska, this time
in the new tunnel of the Treadwell
Company, between the Treadwell and
Mexican mines. Some of the men in
jured are expected to die.
A dispatch from Buluwayo, South
Africa, says: The whole country is
in the hands of rebellious natives, and
they are moving in great force north
ward. 1t will require large force of
troops to dislodge them.
Joseph Selamel was put to death in
the state prison at Clinton, N. Y, by
electricity. He murdered his sweet
heart. Theresa Kammora, by cutting
her throat with razor, August 80,
1895. The cause was jealousy.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Standard says: The new
chamber just elected will certainly
support the government in resisting
American interference in Cuba, and it
will also be a very protectionist body.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times says he learns that at
Frances invitation, Russia now d.
reefs the negotiations with England on
the subject of the Nile expedition,
growing out of the objections of Russia
and France.
1t has been discovered that some of
the Matabeles who are employed as
servants in Buluwayo have been act
ing as spies and conveying information
of the movements of the expeditions
to their friends in outlying districts.
One of these traitorous natives has
been shot.
While brooding over the idea that
his family would suffer from want,
John Lehman of Chicago shot and
killed his three children. After COM
uniting this terrible deed, Lehman
attempted to end his own life by hang
ing, but, failing in this, he turned the
revolver upon himself, and sent bull.
let through his heart, killing himself
instantly.
Meager reports from the lower Brule
agency in South Dakota, state that
Handsome Elk, an Indian belonging to
that agency, shot two Indian police
who were trying to arrest him. In
dian Commissioner Browning and
United States Marshal Peemiller have
been notified, and deputy marshals
have gone to the scene of the difficulty
: | More trouhle Is feared
Chairman Aldace Walker, of the
Atchison, in an interview stated that
Judge Golfers decree in the foreclos-
ure case of the United States Trust
Company against the Atlantic q Pa
, cific railroad, was preliminary step
toward the foreclosure sale of the line.
, The decree covers the property in New
Mexico, but no decree in Arizona has
, yet been given. Similar proceedings
will be taken in other sections of the
company's territory.
The senate committee on public
= buildings and grounds has authorized
favorable reports on the amendments
, to the sundry.civil bill, increasing
] the limit for cost for public buildings
3 at Cheyenne, Wyo., from $780, 600 te
f $3.50, 900, and at Boise City, Idaho,
: from $3.50, 900 to $500. 900, and al
Helena, Mont. from 81 30, 900 to $500,
: 600. An appropriation of 100000
was made available in each case.
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