The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-04-23
TELECRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con
densed Form.
~ INTEREST TO ALL READERS
,. ~ Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources cream
OF the Dispatches.

will lut1lCt capltdl puuioAuoho NY
aioctricity, the bill having passed both
houses
Gns+av Koerner, ex.lieutenant-gov-
ornor Of Illinois, and ex-minister to
Sim died in st. Louis aged 81. He
had a good war record.
The house committee on territories
has voted to report favorably the New
wevico statehood bill to the house, aud
olso decided to defer action on the Ari-
IONA bill.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
DON Chronicle says the pope sanctioned
rho notification of the appeal for arbi-
tration bv Cardinals Vaughn, Logue
and Gibbons.
Senator Gallinger has introduced in
the senate bill for the creation of a
United States commission to treat with
commissions from other Christian ma
tons for the correction of intolerable
evils in the Ottoman empire.
Baron Won Schrader, master of cere-
monies at the Prussian court, is dead
from injuries inflicted by Count Won
Kotz formerly one of the court cham
berlains, in duel fought in the vicin-
ity of the Neus Palais, at Potsdam,
Prussia.
Americans intending to travel in
Germany and Russia this summer are
advised to obtain passports at Wash
ington, as the new rules make identifi-
cation indispensable before the pass
ports are issued from the American
embassies in Europe.
Deputy Game Warden Brewster, of
Grand Rapids, Mich, has begun
wholesale arrest of fishermen and seiz-
ure of their nets upon the charge that
the meshes are smaller than the law
full size. Nearly every fishing firm in
Grand Haven is complained against.
The first bicylce militia company in
the Northwest has been organized in
Tacoma by twenty five members of
Company G., under command of Cap
tain Howell. The members are prac-
ticing the cycling movements adopted
by the United States army.
By the explosion of 200 pounds of
powder in a magazine on the 1, l00-foot
level Of the st. Lawrence mine in
Butte, Mont, six men lost their lives.
Their names are Con 6. Lowney. John
Quinlan, Ed Shields, James Dryer,
John McVeigh and Patrick O'Rourke.
The Taylor brothers, the condemned
murderers Of the Meeks family, broke
from the county Jail in Carrolton, Mo.
George Taylor made his escape, but
Bill was retaken, aud is again behind
the bars in jail, in which the two
brothers were to have been hanged to-
gether on April 80.
John Hayes was shot and killed by
two masked robbers in Los Angeles.
The men entered his store, and com.
PEELED him to throw up his hands.
They took what money there was in
the cash drawer, and demanded that
ne open the safe. He resisted and was
shot IN the breast and killed.
In Philadelphia regularly organ.
lied and equipped military bicycle
corps Is now engaged in drilling and
other work preparatory to embarking
Tor Cuba. About 100 members are en-.
rolled. Officers have been elected,
and the baggage and munitions of war
are now being secured. They are all
Phlladelphians.
Robert W. Edgren, of the university
u california, has again beaten the
worlds hammer-throwing record.
FROM the regulation seven-foot ring he
hurled l6-pound hammer the aston
Ehlng distance of 14S feet 5 inches.
ms was over three feet farther thar
the worlds record and foot farther
'aan Edgren's previous best trial
throw.
According to telegram form Vladi
VosFock to the Novoe Vremya, the las
news from Seoul says that the Coreanl
are determined to exterminate the Jap
anese' holding them responsible for thu
murder OF the queen. Bands of meI
nave been organized to threaten thu
Japanese factories. Japan has sen
~"rShlps to Fusan, and other points OF
the coast.
PREMIER Bowel has introduced bill
n tne Canadian senate respecting thu
touring sea claims, the object of which
Is TO confer on the commissioners VIII
Lay oe appointed to investigate ant
prepare the claims that will becom
uu0 under the Paris award the full
power OF judges, with respect to tn
Sum.nonlng of witnesses, while adjudi
eating upon the claims.
Inc situation in Gloucester, Eng
lana' Where the virulent smallpox i
aging Is so serious that the govern
M uont Is likely to take charge. Up t
-nSrch 70 there were 700 cases, an
o,nce then there has been an increas
VI nifty weekly. The percentage o
a0"'ns Is twenty five, and the town
- safe OF panic The dean of Glou
oos'er has issued an appeal for assist
4, neavy drifts of Arctic ice drove alon
I snore IN the neighborhood of 81
Oonn', N. +. and crowds of fisherme
'0rtea on the foes in search of seals
WHO snowstorm overlook the fisher
b ,uen' 1t is feared that many of thel
love been caught and will be unabl
~ return. Much anxiety prevails fe
0i safety. When such storms swel
,n NC ice helds years ago, 30 lives wei
'Ost In similar way.
'ns federal government may emit.