The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-02-25
Events OF THE DAY
,.,,ome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
srRSE TICKS From THE WIRES
..r..tinx Collection Of Items From
1.-Two HemiEpheres Presented
,,s Condensed Form.

IN a Condensed Form
-, ernor Bradley. of Kentucky, has
Fad March 90 as the date for the exc
n n+ion of Jackson and Walling,- the
. vr Of Pearl Bryan.
Tho Havana authorities, in view of
J., r.orcitv of beef, have decided to re-
"G the government to allow the free
q?nortation of cattle from the United
States and Mexico.
Frank CASTLE, stockman, stabbed
and killed John Beck at Cleveland,
Wash. in an alteration at a mas
onprade ball. CASTLE surrendered him.
ssIf to the sheriff and claims the act
Was one OF self-defense.
Dr Arthur Duestrow, the st. Louis
millionaire, who on February ID, 1894,
sbot and killed his wife and child in
Ct Of drunken rage, in that city, was
HANGED in the courtyard of the county
ial in Union. He broke down at the
last moment and confessed to the crime.
Secession has entered the proceedings
If the convention Of the League of
American Wheelmen, now being held
in Albany, \. Y. Colorado will take
tbe initiative and will probably be fol-
lowed bv California and several other
states. Sunday racing is the bone Of
Contention.
Before the legislative investigating
committee on trusts in New York, John
F. Searles admitted that the average
margin Of profit between raw and re-
fined sugar during the five years before
the trust was formed was 1854 of a
cent pound and during the subsequent
FIVE years l.96.
A letter received by an official in
Panama from La Paz, Bolivia, states
that the Bolivian congress will declare
war upon Peru. The letter also states
that there is great activity in military
circles, the army is being placed On a
war footing, and recruiting has begun
throughout the republic.
A special train form Chicago to Den
yer, distance of 1926 miles, made the
run in is hours SO minutes. The jour-
ney goes into history as the greatest
railroad feat ever accomplished. The
train was special conveying Henry j.
Mayham, mining broker of Chicago,
to the death bed of his son. He arrived
few hours too late.
The battleship Oregon has returned
to San Francisco after her first long
cruise. She went as far as Acapulco,
Mexico, and has been absent five weeks.
During her voyage she practiced with
her guns and has been tested as fight
ing machine and seagoing craft. The
vessel proved satisfactory in every re-
spect. She will soon proceed to Seattle
and enter the drydock.
Dr.. Langley Hall, SO years of age,
pioneer OF Oregon, died at Oakland.
The Office Of the Pittsburg Post was
almost totally destroyed by fire. The
WsS Is s0U, O0O, we'll insured.
Harry Banquist was knocked over
board by the boom of his fishing-boat
and drowned in the Columbia near As
tOria.
D. Danach, travelling man, was held
up and robbed of $40 by three masked
men While driving through grove near
ROseburg.
capt. Chas. Swanson, of the pilot
schooner Jessie, was drowned in As
10 "fia harbor while attempting to board
Ills vessel from a small rowboat.
Ouoan sympathizers held an open-air
meeting In Tacoma and denounced Pre-
. ultf Canoyas. The Spanish flag was
Ialled In the mud and then burned.
" resolution was adopted praying that
"eSief might be subjected to the same
"fture by his victims.
1ne arrangements for the Inaugural
"On OF President Mckinley are rapidly
%'@iilg completion, and the indications
NC laat In point of brilliancy and at
s:a''I'eness the ceremonies, the decora-
nuns and the festivities incident to
..llauguratlon week will be more lavish
Uan those of former years.
A. a prominent church member of PEN
E'0n VI, has headed a subscription
ns' with s. for the relief of Jim HENS
,h V''n, the Rossland miner who saved
tb.n ii'es OF his two companions by
,a .us.lng his arm into the cogs of a
nv r-UiY turning windlass and in that
f,a p prevented heavy bucket of ore
nan: Ealing on the heads of his COM
fNIl0ns IN the shaft below.
Inarles Frohman and his manager,
70, L. Dillingham;, of the Garden thea
q" Hos gave a special performance of
MIL I%l'sease" (by courtesy of Henry
man ,' i, ana his company, to the clergy
cloa.9 u New York. The theater was
sest s0 70 all except the clergy, and no
and were sold. The box Office men
coo,a uShefs We're dressed in long black
and nd; !. ana black ties, and the playhouse
nao. .'s strange audience had every APP
Ices ce OF a church. There were
en- ministers and their friends pres
inv DHrUeludlng a number of ministers
lion + Jew Jersey. The only denomina-
dis+s ''i"' sent regrets was the Metho-
had p e sale Of the Northern Pacific Rail-
to tho eV@mpany's property and transfer
panv northern Pacific Railway Com
eOmn,ot tne purchaser, has been fully
san Pp,e'ea' Judge Jenkins, of Mil
Cn;toS having entered an order in the
ton ' ~ oates court confirming the ac-
hanss ~ Master Carey in executing deeds
ing tbe o n. the property and sanction
By t hue disposition of proceeds as made
the ~; master. This is the last act in
Years sl;3s of the property, but
done Will %lli e. elapse before the court is