The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-06-11
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key.
The Southern Pacific Company hat
granted amnesty to the strikers who re-
fused to work three years ago, and
who were afterward refused reinstate.
ment by the company.
News is received of disastrous
cyclone in Eastern Colorado that blew
down the postoffice at Lansing. The
schoolhouse and number of residences
were also damaged. A lady was seri.
ously injured, but will recover.
A two-story building in Astoria, Or.
was Quilted by fire. The occupants OF
the upper floor barely escaped with
their lives. The loss on the building
is $4,000; insurance, $1,000, and the
loss TO the tenants is about $4,000.
Every day reveals great distress
among the people in Seneca, Mo-, as
the result of the cloudburst, and imme-
date aid is imperative. At first all
were engaged in recovering lost bodies,
but attention is now being given to
clearing the wreckage and establishing
homes. This task becomes formidable
and is retarded by the demolition of
many houses. Scores of residents have
lost all their effects, and in other cases
furniture not destroyed is damaged by
water and mud so as to be unfit for
use, but people are too poor to replace
it. An appeal has been made for as
slstance and says $4,000 is needed to
repair the damage.
At Wallace, Idaho, while workman
named Hutchinson was engaged in
wiring house for electric lights, a
joist on which he was standing broke,
and he fell to the floor, sustaining in
juries which will probably prove fatal.
q. W. Boggs, the ex-city treasurer
of Tacoma, who was convicted last No
vember Of having Incorporated
funds belonging to the city, and who
was sentenced to six years imprison-
ment, has been released On $4,000
bonds.
1t is alleged that George Hickey, a
constable of Oakesdale. WASH, has ex-
torted money from merchants of that
town, by threatening to arrest them
for having sold lemon extract to In.
dams, which, he claims, is in viola
ton of the liquor-selling laws.
The body of the late James G. Blaine
will be taken from Oak Hill cemetery,
Washington, and will be brought to
Augusta, Me. Mrs. Blaine has de-
cided to have both the body of her hus-
band and her son. Walker, buried
there, and the removal will occur prob.
ably this month.
A special from Livingston, Mont.
says: East bound passenger train, No.
4, on the Northern Pacific railroad, left
the track five miles east of there,
wrecking the engine and five coaches.
Three tramps were killed, and several
trainmen injured. No passengers are
reported seriously injured.
A Pretoria correspondent says Presi-
dent Kruger is anxious to commute
the death sentence of the reform lead
ers to heavy fine, but the other men,
bers of the executive council object on
the ground that the government would
be charged with mercenary motives.
They suggest that they should be con-
fined for five years in prison.
The glorious Fourth will be cele-
brated in Portland, Or this year as
never before. The patriotism of the
citizens has been aroused thoroughly
and the committee appointed to arrange
the celebration has met with spontane.
ous encouragement on every hand.
The celebration will begin Wednesday,
and continue uninterruptedly for four
days, ending in blaze of glory Satur-
day night. Each day will be crowded
as full as it will hold with events of
all kinds.
In report sent to Governor Lord,
of Oregon, as commandments Of
the state militia, by Adjutant- General
futile, it is stated that no actual dis
turbance now exists upon the Columbia
river, and that present conditions do
not warrant the sending of the militia
to the scene of the trouble, but the
sending of a few troops to Westport to
patrol the river is recommended.
China, it is said. is in dire straits
for money. The diversion of the
steady and always-increasing revenues
of the imperial maritime customs,
which are now mogrtaged to the full
extent to French, Russian, English and
German bondholders. from the i'm
perial exchequer, to pay the interest on
the various foreign loans, has crippled
the government until now it does not
know which way to turn for money.
The work of relief and restoration
goes on in st. Louis. Contributions OF
money, clothing and provisions are be-
ing sent there, and all the destitute are
being cared for. The losses caused in
directly by the tornado are just begin
ming to reveal themselves, and will be
nearly as cruel as the immediate
effects. Because the tornado ruined
many mills and factories large num-
Der Of men will be out OF employment
for weeks and months.
The supreme court of the state OF
Washington has reversed Judgment IN
the case of the State, appellant, VS..
Thomas Clayborne, respondent, charged
with murderous assault upon Ed Ions
dale, in King county. After convic-
ton. the lower court granted an arrest
of Judgment, because of the INSULT
cheney of the indictment, in that it used
the word personal. rather than
bodily injury, as provided by stat
ute, but the supreme court holds these
words to mean practically the same