The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-07
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Foitome of the Telegraphic
News OF the World.
reRsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
t,+aresting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in "A Condensed Form.

An
tb. Two Hemispheres Presented
i'm a Condensed Form.
There was large increase in Berlin
during the past week of deaths from
influenza and pneumonia.
The conference for international ar
b;+rstion held in Washington, which
hos been very harmonious one, has
Just closed.
Russia has ordered seven ironclads
opd ten cruisers for her Pacific fleet, in
view of Japan's extensive naval prep
arations.
The battleghip Massachusetts, made
IL II knots on her trial trip in Boston
barbor. and her builders win a bonus
Of 100000.
In Glasgow, Scotland, the steamer
Marsden collided with the British bark
Firth of Solway, near Kish lightship,
causing the latter to sink.
A crap game on Grant avenue in
San Francisco was held up by two
men. About $3.50 was taken. They
were captured by the police soon after.
Miss Laura White created sensa-
tion in Ardmore, |. T., by publicly
borsewhipping Professor Linn, a drug
gist. because ne had charged her with
theft.
A Rome dispatch says the cabinet
has decided against reopening the cam
paign in Abyssinia in the autumn, on
the ground that such a course would be
disastrous to Italy.
1t is said in Washington that there
is a strong possibility that the dele
gates from territories who have state
hood bills in charge will not attempt
to secure congressional action until the
next session.
A serious conflict between Christians
and Turks has occurred at EpiskOpi,
island of Crete. There were two days
fighting, and fifty persons were killed
and wounded The Cretans have ap-
pealed to Greece for aid.
In HoughtOn, Mich, sixty trammers
have struck III Quincy mine to enforce
demand for higher wages. The mine
is still in operation, but the trouble
will probably extend to the miners of
the Quincy and other mines.
The London Chronicle has dispatch
from Brussels, which says that the
Baroness Henri, a lady 80 years old,
was strangled, her body mutilated and
her house robbed at Ixells, fashion
able suburb. The murderer escaped.
The treasury deficit for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1895, will be approx
mately $40, 900, 900. This is the opin-
ion of officials and others best qualified
to make an intelligenS estimate of the
result of the fiscal operations of the
year.
A Madrid dispatch says the minister
Of finance, Senior Juan Navarro, has
notified the cabinet of the necessity of
relief measures on account of the pro-
Ionged drought, which has caused
rapid rise in the price of cereals, also
lnjuring livestock.
a 100000 bicycle trust is being
formed in New York. A prominent
member says the trust will cut the
price Of highgrade wheels from 500
to about S65, eliminating jobbers'
profits and advertising expenses, and
will make money at that.
Senator Warren, from the committee
on claims, has reported the amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill for the payment of the French
spollation claims. which have been al
lowed By the court of claims. 1t car
rles an appropriation Of 81 ,O2O, 900.
Inc two associations of manufac-
turerS OF wire and cut nails have closed
three days conference in Chicago.
In consequence of the rise in the steel
market, 1t was decided to raise the
price of both wire and cut nails 15
cents per hundred weight, to take effect
May l.
A Louisville & Nashville fruit train
ana the Evansville & Terre Haute pas
senger train collided at crossing near
Mount Vernon, Ind. Alexander Dris-
coll, brakeman, was killed; James
1oVntgon, an engineer, and F. R.
thompson, brakeman, were seriously
Injured.
a mob of armed men, about fifteen
IN number, entered the Jail at McMinn-
vile Tenn, dragged the jailer from
MS bed and forced him to give up the
Keys William and Victor Hollis
were taken from the Jail, carried on
horsebsack FIVE miles from McMinnville
and hanged.
senator Mcbride has secured a pro-
VISION appropriating $50,000 for con-
unulng the work at the Cascades,
$4,000 of which shall be used for ex.
ending the walls of the lock, so that
1t may be opened for commerce. The
appropriation is intended to secure
the building of another lock.
The crop bulletin for thu northern
part Of Idaho indicates that in gen
erai way the wheat crop will be late,
ana the fruit crop good this year. Cold
ana unfavorable weather has checked
'ne growth of vegetation. Over the
greater portion of the state ice formed
nearly every night the past week.
The county board of Outagamit
county, Wis, has appropriated 81 500
To build workhouse where tramp'
VIII be sent to hard labor. The county
has been overrun with tramps for sew
eral years, and the cost of maintaining
them In ldleness has been from $10 ,00t
70 $4,000 yearly. The workhous,
pan Is expected to correct this.
Inc ten days allowed the presiden
Or thu