The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-30

our frontier.
The wheat market took a sudde1
jump in Walla Walla and caused con
siderable excitement. Over 100, 0O(
bushels were sold in one day. L
reached so cents for bluestem. One
buyer purchased $4,000 bushels Of
bluestem at so cents, while another lot
was sold for 501s cents, f. o. b. Buy
ers attributed the rise to the excessive
demand for milling purposes On the
Pacific coast.
Earthquakes have been noted in vari.
GUS parts of the state of Oaxaca,
Mexico.
| General Thomas Ewing, ex-membe1
of congress from Ohio, is dead, at the
age of e..
Three men were killed and four re-
ceived serious injuries by the explosion
of gas ir New Haven, Conn.
England's application for the
American loan will involve the export
Of 50. 900, 900 of gold within a week.
Advices from Crown Point, Ind. +,
state that bloodhounds are to be used
to trail criminals hiding in the Kan
kakee swamps.
AS the result of fire in st. Louis
five fremen were buried in the ruins,
and another died from injuries received
while fighting the flames.
Despite the prohibitory decree of the
| Sn1ton tho Rod Crocc Cooiotu ia pro.
pairing an expedition to Turkey to dis
tribute relief to the Armenian suffer
erS.
The hoisting machine in the convert
ing department of the Ohio Steel Com
pany, at Youngstown, O., went wrong
and one man was killed and two seri-
ously injured.
The death of Prince Henry, of Bat
tenberg, is announced He accom-
panied the British expedltionary forces
to South frica, and while there con-
tracted a fever of which he died.
The supreme court rendered an i'm
portant decision in San Francisco, de-
claring that the stockholders of the de-
funct Pacific bank are individually
liable for the debts of the corporation.
The Mohammedan rebellion, in the
Chinese province of Kansu, has been
entirely suppressed, and the country
pacifed. There have been many ex-
ecutions, including the leaders of the
| insurrection.
The site for the United States peni
Tertiary, which was located by the
! commission about eighteen months ago
near the state penitentiary in Walla
Walla, has been approved by the gov
eminent, and the title accepted.
A detailed account of the surrender
of King Prempeh, of Ashantee, to the
British expeditionary force in South
Africa, state that his majesty actually
groveled in the dust as a mark of his
complete submission to England.
A row between Theodore Luebcke, a
carpenter, and William Solomon, a
German compatriot, at the home of the
former in Portland, Or, ended in
Luebcke stabbing to the heart and al
most instantly killing Solomon. Fam
lily troubles were the cause.
A dispatch from Ekaterinoslav, the
capitol of the government of that
name, in Southern Russia, gives de-
tails of a fire that occurred in
theater, causing great loss of life.
The fire was discovered while a per-
Torrance was going on. The specta-
tors became panic-stricken, and made
wild rush for the exits. Forty nine
bodies have already been taken out.
Truly Shattuck, the young actress,
has fed from San Francisco to avoid
testifying against her mother, who is
being tried for the murder of Harry
Poole. Truly was the chief witness
against her mother during the first
trial, as Mrs. Shattuck shot the young
man on account of the attentions to
her daughter, and it was proved that
Truly, at the command of her mother,
wrote Poole q note which summoned
him to her house the day he was shot.
! { There is to be a sensational contest
| in Andersonville, Ind, between DIR.
Covert, who has recently sued and
been sued by the Indiana Spiritualists,
and DIR. Harry Adams, of Crawfords-
Vile who claims to represent the
Spiritualists, but many disclaim him.
For six nights DIR. Adams is to appear
and DR.. Covert has wagered that he
will do everything DR.. Adams per-
forms, Covert not claiming any med
ium assistance. The men have put up
$500 with the judges.
Negotiations between the Rio Grande
Western and the Wesern Passenger As
ISOLATION have been broken off again.
The Rio Grande Western has agreed,
however, to cease paying commits
sion on tickets from Salt Lake to Dem
yer, reserving to itself the right to cut
rates whenever necessary to meet the
competition of the Union Pacific. The
| Western roads have agreed to make
half fare rates for commissioned officers
of the army and navy and the depend
emit members of the families when they
travel at their own expense.
j. G. Oswold, who has just returned
from the Orient, and who was wit
ness of the execution of the Chinese
rineleaders of the recent massacres of
missionaries in that country, in speak
ing of 1t says: "After the execution
had taken place the heads of the five
ringleaders were placed in buckets
| which were cut SO as to give full
4 view of their CHASTITY contents and the
buckets were hung on the Foo Chow
bridge, where they remained on exhi-
bition for two days. Then they were
taken to Ku Cheng, the scene of the