The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-02-06

ton that has left this country. 1t il
said he will take command of the ex
petition on the high seas, where h'
will meet the fruit steamer Jasof. with
over 800 men and large quantity o.
arms and ammunition on board.
The announcement was made thii
week that large number of white
miners would be discharged from TIT
employ of the New Vancouver Goa
Company during the next two months
and the superintendent of the collierJ
plainly limited that the introduction Of
cheap Monaghan labor would follow
in the near future.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
ambassador, has submitted the final
acceptance by the British government
of the plan for Behring sea commits
sion to pass upon the claims of Cana
dian sealers seized prior to the Paris
award. 1t remains only for the presi.
dent to submit the plan to congress, and
as the legislative branch refused to
pay lump sum for the seizures, it il
considered certain that the commission
arrangement will be approved.
Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is being
considered by the administration as
the possible successor to Theodore Run
yon, as ambassador to Germany.
1t is reported that Germany has or
dered twelve torpedo destroyers from a
London shipbuilder. The new vessels
are to have a speed of thirty knots an
hour.
A railroad bridge near Sausalito,
Cal, collapsed from the weight of a
locomotive, resulting in the death OF
the engineer and serious injury to the
fireman.
Right Hon. Hugh c. E. Childers,
formerly first lord of the admiralty,
chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
and financial secretary of the treasury,
died in London.
sEGeneral Joseph Fl. Porter died at the
Grand Union hotel, New York. The
immediate cause of his death was COM
plications from gunshot wound in the
lungs, received during the war.
The rolling mills of the Illinois Steel
Company, located at South Chicago,
which were shut down December 81,
have resumed, giving work to 5000
men, who have been idle since the shut
down.
A physician of Rio de Janeiro de-
clares that he has found cure which
is almost certain in its effects for yell
low fever. The physicians new rem
edy consists of the internal use of
doses of the extract of eucalyptus.
A dispatch to the London Pail Mall
Gazette from Cairo, Egypt, says a seri-
GUS revolution has occurred at Khar-
toum. growing out Of difeAto keep.
tween the mahdi and the tr1bt'ee 20.
ing to the interior of Soudan. The
mahdi is practically overthrown.
The Berlin Tageblatt says: "It will
be the duty of continental diplomacy to
convince America that England's mo-
tives in the Armenian question are po-
litical, and not humane, and thus dis.
suade the United States from co-operat-
ing with England.
A dispatch to the New York World
from Caracas, says: Anti-English
meetings are again being held. The
women of Venezuela form branches of
society for the defense of national ter
ritory, and will boycott all English
household goods.
Belva Lockwood, once a presidential
candidate on the woman's rights
ticket, and now practicing attorney
in Washington, has been debarred as a
practicing attorney or agent before the
pension bureau. She is accused of
having improperly accepted pension
fee of $25.
Pinkerton detectives have arrested
Express Agent George Krout, of Colo
RADIO Springs, Colo, on a charge of be-
ing implicated in the theft of $35, 900
from Wells-Fargo Company several
months ago. Krout claims to be in
nocent, saying he had been robbed by
highwaymen.
William Gambold, a railroad brake
man, has begun suit against the Penn.
sylvania Railroad Company for $25, 900
damages for malicious prosecution
The suit is the outgrowth of the Ameri-
can Railway Union strike of 1894, and
is brought as test case.
A special dispatch from ST. Peters
burg says: Arrangements point to a
conclusion between Russia, Great
Britain, France and Italy for a final
settlement of the Armenian question
These include Russia's occupation and
administration of Anatolia, and the
purchase of Cyprus by Russia.
The first signs of the Dominion gov.
ernment's intention to carry out it's
promises towards the protection of the
country, in the event of trouble with
any other natiCn, are seen in the esti-
mates of the coming year, which have
been presented to parliament by the
Hon. g. E. Foster, minister of finance.
The total estimate for the ensuing year
is $41, $50, 681. about the same as last
In the expenses for the maintenance of
the militia, however. there is an in
crease of $372,716 over last.
The unexpected order for Commander
Burlington Booths recall to England
from America, has occasioned SO much
disquietude and murmuring among
the rank and file of the Salvation
Army in this country that General
William Booth, father of Burlington
Booth and commandments of the
Salvation Army forces throughout the
world, who is now in Australia, has
docidod IN visit tho rInifod States uoxt