The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-02-13
TELECRAPHlC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
denSed Form.

Events of the Day in a Con.
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items Of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
G. w. Smith, of San Francisco, has
been named as new receiver for the
Atlantic & Pacific railroad.
The American board has received
word from Erzeroum, Turkey, that
through the relief money which is sent,
bread is given daily to about 1900
persons in that city alone. But appli-
cants fer relief are nearly twice that
number.
March 25 the German reichstag will
celebrate in an elaborate manner the
signing of the preliminary peace of
1871.
Three members of the last Ohio
legislature have been indicted for
bribery. The names are not made pub
lie yet.
The Liberty bell, which has been on
exhibition at the Atlanta exposition,
has been returned to Philadelphia
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salute of forty-five guns.
Charles Asimus, who murdered
James Greenwood September 21 last,
died on the gallows at Kalama, Wash.
His last words were: II must die; 1
am all right; the sheriff he good man;
one bad man, I, must die. I'm all
right"
Whitaker Wright, an Australian
yachtsman, has offered $500 cup, to
be sailed for during the Riviera season,
and with the object of bringing about
a meeting between such big yachts as
Britannia, Satanita, Ailsa and possibly
an American yacht.
The japanese legation in Washing
ton has received an important cable
gram from the foreign Office of Japan
with direction to make it public, by
the terms of which the rich island of
For-osa, which Japan acquired from
China, vii. be opened up to trade and
commerce.
The Blue Jay, Silver Bow and Gray
Rock mines, of the Butte & Boston
group, in Butte, Mont, have closed
down, and over 800 men are thrown
out of employment. The pumps have
not been withdrawn from the mines,
which shows that the shutdown is only
temporary.
In view of the report circulating in
the United States that William K.
Vanderbilt is shortly to announce his
engagement to Miss Amy Bend, Vanity
Fair, published in London, this week
asserts that William K. Vanderbilt
will shortly announce his engagement
to an English duchess.
Lord and Lady Sholto Douglas have
abandoned their theatrical tour through
California and returned to San Fran
cisco. The lord attributes the failure
of the trip to the heavy rains and the
fact that his advance agent left him In
an inopportune time. He says he will
try it again shortly.
The London Observer says: 1--WE
have good authority leading us to ex-
press the belief that Germany recently
invited Russia and other powers to CO.
operate in a plan hostile to England's
continued occupation of Egypt. Ac-
cording to our information and belief
this proposition was declined by
Russia"
4 Emperor Will a.,o On. y, firmly deter
mined to carry out the project Of doubl-
ing the size of the German navy. A
high German official says he has had re-
peated conversations with the emperor
on this subject during the past three
weeks, and he asserted that during the
coming summer the plan for the reor-
ganization of the navy will be drawn
up.
A terrific coronado, accompanied by
floods, occurred in North Queensland,
attended with great destruction OF life
and property. Many vessels are miss
ing as result of the storm. The rain
fall during the tornado amounted to
% inches, and it is estimated that the
damage to property will amount to
So, 100000 A large number OF per-
sons were drowned.
The forthcoming monthly state
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures for January will show
that aggregate receipts will be approx
imately 500, $40; expenditures,
$50, 500, 430, leaving deficit for the
month ofs about 3,459, 100, and for
the seven months of the present fiscal
year of about $13,813,875. Receipts
from the customs during the present
month will amount to about $16, $780,
1876; from internal revenue, $11, 041,-
4O1; from miscellaneous sources, about
$1,815,472. This is a decrease OF
about 81 200, 900 in receipts from the
customs as compared with January.
1895, and an increase Of about ~, OOO,-
900 in receipts from the internal reve-
nue..
A dispatch to the London Standard
from Madrid says: The papers here
protest theoretically against the United
States senate committees attitude ON
the Cuban question. They declare that
the insurgents have fulfilled none OF
the requisites by international law or
usage for the recognition OF belliges-
ency. The government organs, with a
view of pacifving the public irritation,
point out that President Cleveland. MS
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