The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-27
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome OF the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
n Interesting Collection Of Items From
the Two Hemisphere Presented
in q Condensed Form.


l.. K. Sanger, of Summit, Wash,
near Olympia, left his home to 60 hunt
ing and has not since been seen or
heard of. 1t is feared he has acct.
dentally shot himself.
Peter Ryan, foreman of the st. Law
renee mine. the property of the Ana
conda company, Jack Campbell and
John Manning, two miners, were killed
by the fall of cage in shaft.
1t is stated that measures will be
taken by the New York exchange to
secure the importation of a large
amount of gold, variously estimated at
from $500, 900, 900 to $4,000, 900.
The president has appointed Colonel
Charles g. SSwtelle quartermaster- gen.
eral of the army, vice General Batch
elder. retired. Colonel Sawtelle is
now stationed at Governors island,
N. Y.
An 81, 100 gold brick was brought to
Baker City recently from the Baisley-
Elkhorn mine, it being the result of a
ten days run. The average yield of
the ore taken from this mine is about
$50 per ton.
Six cars of Rock Island stock train
were derailed five miles west of To.
peka, Kan, and four white men, rid.
ing in the feed box, were crushed to
death. The head and limbs were com.
pletely torn from one body.
Mr.. Harrison, the owner of the Santo
Domingo gold mines in the province Of
Carabaya, department of Puno, and
other rich gold mines in Peru, has dis
covered a whole hill in the Andes
mountains, extending at least two
leagues and full of veins of rich quartz.
In consequence of frontier disputes
beween Bulgaria and Turkey, the Bull
garian government has notified the
Turkish government that unless the
latter appoints delegates to the frontier
commission by certain date, Bull
ga1ian troops will be ordered to re-
occupy the positions recently occupied
by the Turkish soldiers on the territory
Bulgaria claims.
Miss Matte Overman, of San Fran.
ciso, of the celebrated Brown case fame,
has at last confessed to the intimacy
with the ex-Congregational minister
that finally caused his downfall and re-
tirement from the church. The con-
fession is in her own handwriting, COW
ering many sheets of legal cap, and for
the present is in the safe keeping Of
Rev. w. w. Scudder, Of Alameda,
chairman of the Congregational COM
mittee on credentials.
A movement is on foot among promi.
nent clubmen of Chicago to extend an
invitation to Lii Hung Chang, the
Chinese viceroy. to have him stop over
a couple of days in Chicago while en-
route to the Pacific coast.
Eugene Burt, wanted at Austin,
Tex for the murder of his wife and
two children, about a month ago, was
arrested in Chicago. The dirk with
which the crime was committed was
found on his person, and blood stains
were visible on his straw hat.
A threshing engine, together with
it's driver and team of horses, went
through a bridge over Kriese creek,
about nine miles west of Oregon City.
The driver was slightly injured and
one of the horses SO badly wounded that
it was found necessary to kill it.
John J. Brough, well-known mer-
chant of Manchester, Conn. has re-
turned from trip around the world
which consumed exactly year. Mr..
Brough travelled on bicycle wherever
possible. OF the $4,000 miles covered
by him, 100000 were by water; $4,000
on his wheel and the rest by railroad
in the different countries.
Advices have been received by the
war department from General Wheaton
stating that three prisoners, supposed
to be Yaqui Indians, were brought
from Tubac, Ariz., to Nogales. They
will be taken before the United States
commissioner on a charge of violating
the neutrality laws. They are be-
lieved to be members of the raiding
party that attempted to loot the Mexi-
can custom house.
According to private advices received
in Philadelphia ten of the crew OF
twenty-one of the British bark Flora
Stafford, burned at sea several weeks
ago, persisted. Captain Oscar Smith
took one boat with ten men. and the
mate with nine other men got in the
second boat. Captain Smith and ten
men were saved, but nothing has ever
been heard from the others. The sea
was rough and probably the boat cap.
sized.
Bya collision between the yachts
Meteor and Isolde during the race for
the vice commodore cup, at Southsea.
Baron Won Zedwitz. the owner OF
Isolde, was so badly injured that he
died before he could be taken to hos.
pital. All the members of the crew
of the Isolde were swept overheard
when the yachts collided, but were res
cued from the water by boats from the
other yachts.
There appears to be no immediate
prospect of settlement OF the strike
Of the Adams Express Company en-
Moves in New York. General Agent
McWilliams says he has received more
than forty applications for each place
vacated by the strikers. The strikers
say delegates have been sent 20 Phlia-
delphia Pittsburg and Baltimore to
urge the men employed by the company
in the cities mentioned to join the
strikers. Some of the new men en-
oa ped by the company have quit work
at the request of the strikers.