The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-25
OF THE DAY
,,;tome OF the Telegraphic
News of the World.
,rRsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
..re.ting Collection Of Items From
H.. Two Hemispheres Presented
IN Condensed Form.

In Condensed Form.
-, mon we're injured, two fatally,
~ r,;Iroad accident at La Grange,
ID meat train bound for Hammond
lA .1I the track on the Belt Line of
llDlPCCb Chicago. Hammond & Western
p The engine was ditched, two of
io'' a.rs we're telescoped, and the re-
lD' ;1Isr Of the train thrown from the
track
small band of unemployed work.
-n have begun the construction of a
. n,I in Golden Gate Park, San
r r,a to pay for which public SUBJ
,,;ntions have been taken. Ex-MayOr
s sa,ro warned the workmen to keep off
IL ,a land and as the boulevard extends
.ross sutro's property, work had to be
n,nanded. Sutro has promised to sign
ds4d for the strip, however.
Mss Blanche Berard, the oldest
.ostmistress in the country, who has
Isu office for a half century, has re-
,;rnei Administrations and presi-
isnts changed, postmaster-generals
rmp and went, postoffices were reor-
e,rizpd and reclassified, great political
'Dbqarals annihilated every branch of
,5a government, but she remained un-
disturbed at West Point, N. Y.
A Havana special to the New York
World saws: Through Cubans here it
!. learned that a train carrying Spanish
toops was blown up by dynamite while
nssng over a deep gorge south of Can
haria Pinar del Rio province, and
rpsry $50 soldiers were killed or IN
mrei. The locomotive and six cars
we're demolished The tragedy occurred
about the 10th inst.
Inthe executive session of the senate,
Senator Stewart offered an amendment
pthe Alaskan boundary treaty, which
in the nature Of a substitute for the
myison for ascertaining the meridian.
hwoyides for the survey of the whole
boundary line, but fixes definitely the
boundary as provided in the treaty of
ISL. The boundary line in that
treaty is incorporated in the amend
nent Of Senator Stewart, and, if car
red is made part of the treaty.
Governor Rogers, of Washington, has
issued his Arbor day proclamation,
MOmmending that Friday, April 80,
1897, be devoted by the people of
Washington to planting trees, shrubs
and vines and in other ways beautify-
ing their homes. In connection with
the governors proclamation, State Su-
Ierlntendent Brown has prepared
FOgramme to be rendered in the diff
cent grades of the public schools from
The FIRST to the grammar grade, inclu-
aye
The report that the o. R. & N. Co.
vas contemplating an extension of it's
INES to the Kootenai country has been
enGally denied at the offices in Port
@d' No such enterprise is at present
Under consideration.
he Mississippi river is on the rise.
AZ Memphis 1t has reached 1873, the
lsneSt record since the establishment
y Inc weather bureau. Along the low
4lds OF Arkansas there is great suffer-
Isamong people who have been driven
a0n their homes by the oncoming wa
a Missouri Pacific passenger train
al mo bunch of horses near Wolf
.iFVA' han. The engineer and fire.
-aA were killed and a score of others
4lued' mostly train employees. ALI
cars but the sleepers were over
nn1' The passengers escaped with
imperative ease.
-, u revenge for being elected from
a.iS' ramps caused a wreck on the
s s,.s'llle q Nashville railway this
s ~%Ilns' They spiked a switch, de-
M ls and demolishing freight train
causing heavy damage. The
n aus mad intended wrecking the Chi
~, united. They have been cap
A. .S = General Gary has made
s,; asHnlte announcement that the ad-
n suauon had decied to adhere to
n a~u-years-tenure-of-ofice policy for
s,o. f'>'ihasters, except in few cases
n s.a removal for cause was required
p,r r.uun' OF delinquency, incompe-
sn % VI unsatisfactory conduct of ad-
~~lstraton of office.
p, %lessor j. B. McMasters, of the
acG SsI'y OF Pennsylvania, will arrive
s,,n. s1so this week with bundle Of
tba I u OF the new school history
= =; ;; united States, in which patriot
th h.. 'ne keynote. The making of
Dan, S'Ofy has been undertaken at the
Gand equest Of a committee of the
army of the Republic.
ss,s.s Apedltion is to be sent to North
aSsa. asa and Northwestern America
Aver II possible the ancestry Of
asid meflcan Indian. Morris Jessup,
lsp,si I' Oh the American Museum Of
se;n .. History of New York, is the
n al Ol |, OF the expedition, and will
NioL me bills connected with IL.
&psno uuring the six years of its con-
hl@Cce ' will reach considerably over
&sifa ss kodatinsky, a farmer, with
a NO and baby, started from Omaha
sNe VT NJ wagon with a gasoline
. ave-. 1ne stove exploded, the team
ssoa ' "a and the occupants of the
r.. T. were ref fatally burned.
spatrS y ". Wills, of Hay creek, Crook
ela,5 his section, has asked dI q Clover S,sr
ssternu ~ 70 lntercede in behalf Of the
&eseluo'f oregon people in the matter Of
srrs fusion h OF stock from the Cascade
b prss; sy making a special request Of