The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-03-12

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his body embalmed. He then told him
he was going to commit suicide. He
went to the home of his cousin, and
locking all the doors, adjusted a gas
tube to burner, turned On the gas
swallowed five grains of morphine, lay
down on his bed aud, putting the othe,
end OF the tube in his mouth, quickly
ended his life.
Chales Carleton Coffin, a famous
newspaper correspondent in the war Of
secession, died in Boston.
The rates of exchange in Brazil have
fallen lower than was ever known be.
fore. Grave fears are entertained that
a commercial crisis will result.
The French chamber of deputies has
adopted the project for a new sub.
marine telegraph line between France.
the United States and the Antilles.
The massacre of thirteen Armenian
families is reported from the district
of Moosh. Five Armenians are said to
have been killed at Kirchehir, in the
Angora district.
Superior Judge Murphy, of San Fran
cisco, has granted another stay of exc
cution in the Durrant case, until March
ID. The bill of exceptions is not ready
for settlement.
Three hunrded tons of side armor for
the battleship Sebastapool were shipped
by the Bethlehem, Pa. iron works to
Russia. This is part of the first order
for armor the company has received
from Russia.
The steamer Clyde was burned to
the waters edge at Point Grey, just
outside the harbor of Vancouver, B. G.
Captain Woodwork and the crew
had a narrow escape. The steamer
was valued at $4,000, and insured for
$1,000 in the Western Isurance Com
pany.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says:
The Novosti, in an editorial, says that
Russia will maintain the Independence
of Corea and that if Japan continues
intriguing Russia may be forced to oc,
cupy the peninsula. Japan must con-
slider that if she wishes to acquire
Corea this means war with Russia.
Secretary Lamont has issued an or
der locating the military post at Mag
nolia Bluff. near Seattle. While this
settles the location, much remains to
be done efore the site can be estab-
lished. Seattle must give perfect
title to the site, and then an apprOpria-
ton from congress must be obtained.
Andrew F. Burleigh, the well-known
attorney of Seattle, will continue to re.
main receiver of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company in Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and Montana. Circuit
Judge Gilbert, of Portland, and Dis
trict Judge G. II. Hanford so decided in
decision handed down in the federal
courtroom at Seattle.
With the subsistence of the waters
which overwhelmed a great part Of
New England, figures of losses sus-
tanned in the section will be consider
ably more than $4,000, 600. This does
not include the wages Of laboring men
and women through suspension of
manufacturing and other industries.
Six lives have been lost.
Although the officials at Cramps
shipyards, Philadelphia, say they have
received no special orders to rush the
three warships, the Massachusetts, the
Brooklyn and the Iowa, to completion,
because of the pending trouble with
Spain, there is, nevertheless, an air OF
activity about the yard which contrasts
strongly with the recent dizziness there
A dispatch from Kobe says the king
of Corea is still at the Russia legation
in Seoul. Internal uprisings con.
tinue. 1t is rumored that Japan is
making advances to Russia with view
of arranging dual control in Corea. 1t
is believed the Marquis Yamagata,
while in attendance upon the czar's
coronation, will negotiate treaty OF
alliance.
Miss Edith M. Day, the young
woman who, in the spring OF 1894.
made trip by railroad around the
United States and through Mexico
without touching her foot to the
ground, died in San Francisco. The
scheme for her trip was devised by rail
road men of Portland to Offset the at.
tention given to Miss Nellie Bly's trip
around the world.
One hundred and fifty five-tael cans
of opium were washed ashore at the
logging camp of Edward Latour, neal
Utsalady, Wash. The opium is valued
at SIS, 900, and is supposed to have beer
part of the cargo of small smuggling
, sloop which left Victoria last week.
The sloop, it is supposed, was wrecked
; during the severe gale OF last week ant
the men drowned.
Expert Cation, who was appointed t.
examine the city officials books O
Walla Walla, has submitted his repor
to the city council of that city. Th'
report is from June 1, 1886, and show
i total deficit of $3,47l, divided be
tween the city treasurer and two ex
marshals The shortages, SO the repor
{ states, occurred through negligence OF
= the part of the city clerk, who COLLECTED
the delinquent taxes for the marshal.
The United States supreme court ha
decided the Stanford case in favor o
Mrs. Stanford. The title of the case i
the United States vs.. Jane L. Stanford
executrix of Leland Stanford, de
ceased. 1t involves the individual liza
bility of stockholders in the Central Pa
, cifio Railroad Company for the deb
due the United States on bonds issues
in aid of the Central Pacific under tn
J California constitution.