The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-06-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gam all Parts of the New
and Old World.
,,rrr AND INTERESTING ITEMS
h.r.,ys Review Of the Imp0xt-
ant Happenings OF the Our
rent Week.

rent Week.
The president has appointed j. B.
p-odr Of Alaska, to the governOrship
Of that territory.
George J. Hackett, a miner, was
crushed to death, as the result of an
s,.;3ont in the Brown Bear mine at
Desdwood, Cal.
lanes P. Harlan, brother of Asso-
oiata Justice Harlan, was accidentally
rr4d by being run down by train in
Louisville, Ky.
The 18th annual session of the grand
on,ampment of the Indian War Vet
or,ns of the North Pacific Coast, is in
mosress in Portland, Or.
rock and mud slide near Illecille-
vaet tunnel, British Columbia, on the
Canadian Pacific railroad, killed five
men and fatally injured another.
Asa result of earthquakes in India
the postoffice at Chittagong has been
swallowed up, some streets are closed
10 traffic and thousands of poor people
are homeless and living in the open air.
Reports from all portions of Wash
jngton and Oregon, east of the Cas-
caies. tell of the rainfall the past
week, which has been general in this
section. The correspondents ali agree
that the last vestige of danger to the
~ wheat crop is removed. The crop
Weld will be enhanced % per cent.
The rain has caused additional benefit
BY wiping out the grasshopper pest.
Senator Mcbride, of Oregon, has been
making an effort to secure the restora-
ton of the house rate of s. per 1000
on lumber, planed, grooved and
nngued, instead of So 60, as reported
BY the senate committee on finance.
He says that the lumber dressed in this
manner is worth at least twice as much
in the Portland market as the sawed
lumber, which pays a duty of So under
the bill, as agreed to. Senator Nc
Bride says that the importations of
dressed lumber will quite seriously in
terere with industries in Oregon and
Washington.
The universal postal congress, the
fifth convention of the kind in the
world, has finished it's labors in Wash
ington, D. G.. The sixth congress will
be held in Rome in 1908. All the
: Countries Of the world were represented
at the congress just closed, with the
exception of Corea and the Orange Free
State, and these two sent word that
they hoped soon to enter the postal
unlOn The congress, among other
things, succeeded in establishing uni
form colOrs for postage stamps, ar
ranged for facilitating Intermediary
transit rates and diminishing the tariff
quite materially on graduated scale
for the ensuing six years.
Howard A. Scott, who murdered his
wife in October last was electrocuted
In Sing Sing prison, N. Y.
fast freight train on the Santa Fe
railroad was ditched near Elma, Mo-,
and three tramps and brakeman were
killed.
The United States government inn
migrant station, on Ellis island, New
York harbor, was destroyed by fire.
out with no loss of life.
Assistant Quarantine Officer Blue
declared that the disease on the City
dPara, now at Angel island quarantine
station, San Francisco bay, is yellow
fever
A serious landslide occurred near
bnega, canton of Valais, Switzerland.
FaFt of the forest there and number
@oulldings have been buried. There
Was no loss of life.
Sir Henry Irving unveiled memorial
statue to Mrs. Sarah Scott-Siddons, the
Anous English actress, on Raddington
Green, London, where her remains
we're inferred &C years ago.
While Professors Marksburn and
Alehards were practicing on flying
niapeze at Fiesta Park, Los Angeles.
uleF Tell to the ground and Richards
sustained internal injuries which will
Probably result fatally.
fremen extinguished fire at the
hume OF Grant Prestel, a laborer, at
layton, o. They found the charred
. .Hs of Rose Prestel, aged Is, and
a st Prestel, aged 2 years. The
s sl played with matches and set
1'e to the house.
D Inc southbound express on the Grand
30 papids & Indiana, was derailed near
sseEllle. Ind. The rails are said to
5 5@'e spread, ditching the engine, ten
.; mail and baggage cars. The en-
s s%: Was totally demolished, instantly
N'llng the engineer.
y ihe Pacific Mail steamship City Of
.; @a' now in quarantine in San Fran
pps'o brings details of the loss in mid
a. a'inc OF the British ship Buckhurst.
april 4 last, she having picked up
r. ss'' OF the crew of the Inflated vessel
n; May ?, when 200 miles off the
pplcaragua coast, and landed them at
S. ''a Arenas. The Buckhurst caught
b. Gnu the crew after working ten
,an s 10 quench the flames. were COM
'''ied to abandon her.
.ne Salt Lake Tribune has published
d. "ly that party of desperadoes from
Sn., notorious Robbers Ro0st, " in
s Sauiem Utah. have gone to Wyo-
s uS and are located at Wamsutta, q
M station east of Rock Springs.
bla purpose, it is claimed, was to
O. :, up the Union Pacific express train
sssa ,se to rob the paymaster Of the
'ee'Water mines.
Rs ellIy L. Buehler, of Baltimore, Nd,
dad quest Odd Fellow in the world, e