The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-03-19

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terests is regarded with great favor in
banking circles in Europe, and, it is
understood in America as tending to
remove the rivalry between interests,
and the governments are also believed
to be friendly TO the proposed combina-
ton. 1t is believed that an Anglo
French-American syndicate for canal
building is being formed, but the de-
tails are withheld.
Fire destroyed block of ten houses
in Pittsburg, Pa, rendering ten fam
| lilies homeless, and causing a loss Of
$4,000.
The Commercial and Savings bank,
of San Jose, CAL, has closed its doors.
The depositors, it is said, will be paid
in full
The defenses at Esquimalt, B. c.,
are again being strengthened. Seven
new heavy breech- loading guns have
just arrived from England.
The collapse of the rear of frame
factory building in Chicago resulted
in seriously injuring five persons and
nearly 100 others had narrow escapes.
Four men were killed and one in
jured by the blowing up of an~~engine
on the Delaware, Susquehanna &
Schuylkill railroad at Gum Run, Pa.
A project is on foot in Vancouver, B.
c., to hold championship professional
regatta at the time of the meeting Of
the Northwest Pacific Association of
Amateur Oarsmen.
There have been foods in the Alpine
districts of the Tyrol and in Bohemia,
with avalanches and landslides on the
railways. 1t is feared that many lives
have been lost.
In Oakland, Cal, two children. aged
10 and 5. were run down by an electric
car and instantly killed. The children
were daughters of Frank E. Booth,
commission merchant doing business in
San Franicso.
James Duggan, well-known citizen
of Denver and five others have left
there for the Alaskan gold fields. The
praty will number fifty and they will
go in chartered vessel, and carry sup
plies for two years stay.
President Cleveland held his first tri :.
weekly reception to the public at the
White House, after a suspension Of
nearly two years. About 200 persons
took advantage of the opportunity to
shake hands with the president.
In San Francisco 800 painters went
on strike They ask for an increase
of 80 cents o day, making their wages
So instaed of So. so. The strike was
ordered by the Painters union, and
was decided upon some days ago.
The president has pardoned Nathan
Blum, convicted in Oregon of SNUG
Cling and conspiracy, but whose sem
tence was suspended, and F. NJ. Sauls-
bury, convicted in Oregon of misusing
penalty envelopes, and fined $500.
John L. Sullivan and Parson Davies
are preparing to head movement to
place pugilism on paying basis again
Sullivan believes sporting men should
oragnize and refuse to cast their bal
lots for legislators or congressman who
would not agree to let pirzefghters 60
unmolested.
Robert Edgren, the well-known uni
versity hammer thrower, has broken
the worlds record for throwing the
16-pound hammer. On the Berkeley
campus, in Berkely, CAL, he threw the
missile which has made him famous
lat feet and z inches. The world g
record was 145 feet.
The National Armenian relief COM
mittee of New York will send $40. 200
to Constantinople. 1t is stated by the
committee that the distribution OF
money is being now made among the
Armenians, and at the present time the
greatest obstacle to the work OF relief
is lack of funds rather than opposition
by the sultan.
The disreputable women who infest
Morton street and St. Mary's Place, in
San Francisco, are in state OF terror
on account Of the murder OF two OF
their class within a month. Both
women were strangled to death in
their rooms, and in both cases the muir.
derers have escaped.
A dispatch from Barcelona says that
the merchants Of the city have agreed
not to sell American products in the
event of Cleveland approving the Cuban
belligereacy resolutions. They have
also opened a subscription toward
fund, which is to be devoted to the
purchase of warships.
Delegates from the various CONNER
cial organizations of San Francisco held
a conference as to the best means Of
protecting San Franicsco's trade with
Eureka and other North Pacific way
ports against Portland's competition
A committee was appointed to wall
upon the o. r. & N. and North Paciht
steamship companies, and ask them *
discotinue their services between Port
land and Eureka and intermediate
points.
|. An attempt was made to wreck tn
/ Union Pacific, Butte & Salt Lake ex
press one mile from Pocatello, Idaho
J When within a short distance OF TIT
: last switch, Engineer Andrews saw
man throw the switch and run away
The engineer Immediately reversed MI
engine. The train left the track, bu
fortunately the cars remained upright
: and no one was injured. There is
deep fill at this point, and, had TIA
train not been promptly stopped, l
would have dashed down the steel
Grade No mnfiya Ia known for tn