The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-05-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
DIFF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
rnrebensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings OF the Cur
rent Week.


rent Week.
Four lives were lost In tenement
house fire in Brooklyn. N. Y.
The banking firm of Sehar, Koch q
Co. failed for $65, 1000 in Chicago.
Fire consumed the elevator and other
property of the Iowa Elevator Company
at Peoria, ILL.,. loss, 5000, 200.
Lieutenant Etoff, grandson Of Presi-
dent Kruger, has been acquitted of the
charge of SANDER against Queen Vic
tOria.
Trainwreckers threw switch and
wrecked train on the Houston & Tex
as Central and killed one man and in
jured several.
The schooner Annie was crushed in
an ice foe off St. Johns, N. B. The
crew Of twenty-f five men barely escaped
with their lives.
n. Burris, Son & Co., of Norfolk,
Va, one of the most prominent and
widely known banking firms in the
South, has failed.
The insurgents against Spanish rule
in the Philippine islands are still 90,
900 strong and offering stout resistance
in the mountains.
The Hansard union of printers and
publishers in London, which collapsed
in 1884, has paid quarter of a million
sterling of its Indebtedness.
The mineowners of Leadville, Col. :,
met and subscribed $50, 900 toward
draining the mines, and it is estimated
that opening the mines will put 750
men to work.
The Democratic members of the
finance committee object to reporting
the tariff bill direct to the senate.
They rely upon the Nevada senator to
secure amendments in full committee.
The French fishing vessel Valiant,
Captain Pierre, from st. Malo for Mi
quelon, struck an iceberg on the Grand
banks, near St. Johns, N. F., on the
18th inst, and almost Immediately
fOundered. She had seventy-three
fishermen on board, and all took to the
boats. Only one of these boats has so
far been heard from. When it left the
vessel, its complement was ten men.
Three persisted from exposure and hum
ger. The bodies of the first two were
thrown overheard, but the survivors, in
their desperation, were driven to can
nibalism, and ate the third. The boat
was picked up by schooner. The sur
vivors are in shocking condition, and
are so badly frostbitten that their arms
must be amputated.
1t is reported that the Oregon delega-
ton IN congress has recommended Pro-
lessor II. B. Miller, president of the
state agricultural college at Corvallis.
for diplomatic appointment to Ger
many.
Company G, Oregon National Guard,
Allan j. Walker, captain, has been dis
banded by order Of Governor Lord.
The company's headquarters were at
Myrtle Point, Coos county. The
resignation of Captain Walker, made
necessary by his removal from the
state, was the cause for making the Or
der.
The president has sent to congress the
report OF the boundary commission ap-
pointed to locate the boundary line be-
tween Mexico and the United States,
west of the Rio Grande river. The
PRESIDENTS message merely transmits
The papers filed by the commission
with the state department. consisting of
printed volumes and maps.
dispatch from Coulee City, WASH.
SAYS that while Grit Jones, Charles
Deeter and Ray Weston were rounding
upa band of young horses on lower
Grab creek, they undertook to swim the
horses, below Rocky ford, across the
stream. While crossing the horses be-
zane entangled and unruly. and Jones
and Weston We're thrown into the water
and drowned, while Deeter managed to
reach the shore.
Prlyate John N. Stamm, of Walla
"alla barracks, was accidentally shot
uuflng target practice, and it is not
possible for him to recover. Sergeant
Names pistol snapped while aiming
a. The target. He returned to where
o'amm was standing, and was explain
ing to him the reason why the car
ridge failed to explode. In doing this
ne pulled the trigger, and the revolver
was discharged, the bullet striking
s'ainm in the groin, and passing entire
!; through the body, perforating the
'"'esunes, and coming out OF the back.
The governors of Oregon and WASH
.is'on have received copies Of the call
y, w The annual meeting OF the trans
rnississlppi congress, to be held this
.ear IN Salt Lake City, July IA to 16.
WIN request that they designate .
lumber of citizens to represent the
s'a'es' including, Eat least one speaker,
WIG VIII be prepared to present some
seneral subject in which the state is in
crested" The objects Of the congress
sle 10 secure closer trade relations and
nauonal legislation of benefit to states
es. OF the Mississippi. w. ]. Bryan
DAs oeen made president of the congress.
b. me fourth annual meeting of the
aclnc Coast Women's Congress has
'P7hed IN San Francisco.
g. 0onn Forepsugh and two prominent
npahiards were killed in . railroad 40
nsueht near Tampa, Fla. A careless
o ~O'ornan left his post, and the trolley
wi Was run down by q fast mail train.
supervisor Rakestraw 10 preparing
~ The national educational institute
~ ~ Oe held in Portland, Or, in August.
ssh which it is expected all the Indian
,sloois and agencies in the west will b
represented.