The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-01
IEVS Of THE WEEK
aft Parts Of the New
and Old World.
.,,rr AND INTERESTING ITE1D
n.,vs Review 81 the XnDo0o'
ant Hsppsnings OF the oos-
rent Wook.


rent wseh.
Louisville & Nashville express
~ VAS held up by lone robber,
r r5 secured about $4,000.
ur. Henry Scott, Of Chicago, and
v,s Maria Hay, formerly of Chicago,
~ killed by runaway at Du-
mque, la.
lain II. Moss and Levan Berg have
lam arrested in Seattle, charged with
& .', murier of Michael J. Lyons, the
Dart BIakely saloonkeeper.
Charles Peterson, a Swedish laborer
,tant % years old, committed suicide
;. farm near Ellensburg, by cutting
liz throat with pocket knife.
President W. H. Cromwell, of the
Blackburn university, and instructor in
LATIN. has resigned, to take the Latin
.-,ir in Puget Sound university, Taco
ma.
John Quincy Adams, Northern Pa
a:c swtchman, while running over
ta tons of cars at Missoula, Mont, slid
and fell between the cars and was
killed.
Lonis Sickmiller was instantly killed
end Albert Sickmiller, Charles Fable
and George Schneider fatally injured
BIZ the Erie fast express near Mans
field, 0.
The River Kur has overlooked it's
banks near the railroad depot of Nav
tbie, Russia. Nineteen men belong
ng to the Mini Novgorod dragons
we're drowned.
Every boat brings to Port Townsend
men to look over the proposed 70 tifica-
tons sites with 4 view to bid for the
contracts for construction. All the
Western, a. we'll as several Eastern and
Southern states are represented.
Ameeting of representatives of G.
A. r., Loyal Legion aHd Woman's Re-
lief Corps, has been held at Indianap-
oils, Ind, TO perfect plans for the erec-
ton OF monument and care of the
grave OF Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother
d Abraham Lincoln, in Spencer coun-
r. this state.
Christian Ross died of heart disease.
1t his home in Philadelphia. He was
the father of Charley Ross, and up to
bis last illness Mr.. Ross never gave up
the search for his missing boy, whose
abluction startled Philadelphia on July
lls14, and became an unsolved mys-
terry the world over.
Atewible explosion of a torpedo on
the Mexican International, near Eagle
Pass, Tex. completely wrecked a loco
motive and killed the engineer and fire.
man.
sidewalk collapsed in Chicago and
no people, mostly children were
thrown to the ground, ten feet below.
Anumber were seriously injured and
one fatally.
Mrs. Know, wife of ]. w. Know,
living near Latah, Wash, gave birth
70 three girls and one boy. Each child
swell formed and weighs 4 u pounds.
Mother and children are doing we'll.
The walls of a saloon gave way with
out warning in Watertown, S. D., bury
ns number of persons in the ruins.
lie place was crowded at the time.
Inc work of clearing away the debris
resulted in the finding of one body.
i've others were seriously injured
1t has been discovered that the act OF
Tie last session of the Colorado legisla-
'ufe IN regard to negotiable instru-
I'nts, repealed the statute establish
o my the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving,
christmas, New Years, Washington's
birthday and Memorial day as legal
holidays.
A mob of 800 Infatuated peasants al
ViesSa, Russia, seized and savagely
Hnched one Dunkirk, a murderer, who
WIS beng conveyed by the police to
AL Dunkirk was charged with the
@nmlsslon of Is murders. The po-
Fe nave arrested 80 ringleaders of the
Fnching party.
anna Fallmer, 10 years old, has been
Sulcted of theft, and ordered sent to
r nc reform school at Whittier, Cal.
'TA the bottom of a mortar box she
aVA an old plank, with which to build
Playhouse. She was convicted OF
rtV larceny by an Alameda judge.
sDu now she is behind the bars await
"s her removal to the reform school.
\ telegram received in Seattle from
Va, J"l'ei States Senator Wilson says that
S 5 Tor the Notifications at Magnolia
ia a' The army post near Seattle, have
son approved, and an assignment OF
,aUO'COO made. General Weeks, quar-
s a,Iui,aster-general United States army.
- oeen ordered to Seattle, and direct
sely. VI 'o VIZ" m " W
:. -Ae basement and entire lower por.
bnl VI the postoffice building in Port.
Iae l' w., was wrecked by terrific ex.
io s'Ion OF gas Monday. The head jani-
s,,, whose thoughtlessness caused the
h., fusion by taking a lighted candle
,hos 'le basement, was severely burned
H. 'u' The head and arms. A clerk in
h, stamp department was also hurt,
not seriously.
M. al ofhcial denial has been made al
q ~ OF the statement that the Unit.
so.o '"'es government has sent q fresh
MI; 70 the government of Spain on the
''plect of Cuba.
s,aS So dead bodies, those of d. w,
kssl and Phillip Patterson, have
hOd 'aken out of the wrecked Mulhoi
hin. olock at Watertown, s. d. The
E...aea who were rescued are: David
s. M MN who will die; Henry Zeck,
hl;oDowell and Mrs. Austin. Il Il
nin .'ed there are more bodies in thu