The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-03-26
the considerations that made the step
seem advisable of placing the country
under martial law.

treasurer, said that some of the refiner-
les might be closed, but that there was
no real special significance in this.
Times were dull and is it said the price
may be reduced again. The Cuban
controversy in congress is giving the
sugar trust some concern, for if the
belligerency of the insurgents is recog-
nlzed the trust may be cut off from re-
ceiving supplies from that source for
an indefinite period, whereas, if the
debate on the resolution is postponed
the shipment of sugar from Cuba will
continue for while longer.
Frank Robinson, of Spokane, who
was possessed of a comfortable home,
an estimable wife and three interesting
children, and who had always borne a
good reputation, was shot by Horace
Mann, a lawyer, while in the act Of
burglarizing his residence. He is
dead, but the strangest part of the thing
is that the shot fired by Mr.. Mann and
which took effect in his right breast,
was not the shot that caused his death
He escaped from Mann's residence, ran
two blocks, and was found after day
light with bullet through his brain.
Who fired the second shot, which must
have caused instant death, will prob.
ably never be knowon.
Two young men, named Montgomery
and Fox, rivals in love affair, fought
a duel with revolvers on Birch creek,
Alaska. Fox received two wounds,
neither of them fatal.
Complete arrangements have been
made by the Princeton Athletic Asso-
citation to send team to represent
America in the Olympian games, to
be held in Athens, Greece, April 6
to II.
A Cairo dispatch says the Egyptian
troops have started for Wady Halfa,
where the entire Soudan expeditionary
force is expected to assemble April l,
when the advance on Dongola will be
commenced.
Kid Thompson, convicted of partici-
pancy in the Roscoe train robbery,
was sentenced by Judge Smith, in the
Los Angeles superior court, to be
hanged at Folsom on May %, between
the hours of 10 and o'clock.
The case of the United States VS.. the
state of Texas, involving the owner
ship of Greer county, has been decided
in favor of the United States. Justice
Harlan handed down the opinion. The
case involves 1900, 900 acres.
The New York Herald correspondent
in Rio Janerio says that the Brazilian
government will present to congress an
agreement with France upon the ques-
ton Of the contested territory in
Amapa, on the border of French
Guiana.
A powder mill which gives employ
ment to seventy-1ve men at Riflon,
Ulster county, N. Y. blew up. The
mangled bodies of five men have been
found in the ruins. The same mill
blew up eighteen months ago. killing
our men.
A Paris paper says it has been in
formed at the ministry of the interior
that John L. Waller is still in prison,
no order for his release having been re-
ceived, and that negotiations between
France and the United States on this
subject are still proceeding.
In Chicago, ] J. Colvin, a promi-
nent manufacturer of galvanized iron
cornice. was experimenting the work
of the new station on the Lake-street
elevated road, when the temporary
scaffold on which he stood was struck
by train, aud he was hurled into
the street, being almost instantly
killed.
Mayor Broatch, of Omaha, Neb., has
sent out letters to 500 mayors of cities
in the trans Mississippi valley, asking
them to present the matter to the coun-
ellis of their respective municipalities,
and urging the adoption Of resolutions
favoring the exposition that is to be
held il Omaha during the summer and
fall of 1898.
DIR. Brown, of San Francisco, has
been acquitted on the charges of i'm
morality and censured for unminister-
ial conduct. He considers himself
vindicated of ali the charges preferred
against him. The Congregational
council has been in session for the past
three weeks trying the charges against
DIR. Brown.
The Kentucky legislature has ad.
journed, after a sixty-day session. The
| legislature failed to accomplish the two
/ important acts it had before 1.-THE
election of United States senator and
the enactment of legislation to save
the states financial reputation. Cover
nor Bradley has refused to order spe-
cial session, and the state is in a bad
way.
! Fire in Clinton, Wis. inflicted a
loss of from $780, to 100000 The
large stock of general merchandise OF
Crosier Brothers is a total loss; also
the Y. M. G. A. fixtures, and the
buildings and stocks of several other
firms. The fire is the second one which
has occurred recently. and is believed
to have been incendiary in its origin.
The United States supreme court
has reversed the decision of Judge
Maxey, of the Texas federal court, in
the case of Consul Ornales, of Mexico,
asking for the extradition OF certain
men claimed to have been engaged IN
the Cara instruction of 1891 and
1892. The decision has the effect OF
holding them subject to extradition.
Chief Justice Fuller read the opinion.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon is pre-
pairing his report in favor OF an amend
ment to the constitution providing for