The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-06-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
rom all Parts of the New
and Old World.
,,rp AND INTERESTING ITEMS
.h.r.tve Review Of the Import
ant happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.

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are total wreck, and the loss il
heavy
dispatch from Berlin says that
.ba movers, including Turkey, have as
spnted to the appointment of Prince
rrancis Joseph Of Battenburg as gov
ernor general Of Crete.
dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Rome saws the king of Greece is be-
ginning to reassert himself and will
soon be able to dismiss NJ Ralli and to
appoint NJ. Kalaptano as premier.
At Colfax, Wash, John Leonard,
who murdered Jacob Malquist last
LIv. was sentenced by Judge Melon
aI3 TO be hanged July 2. The sentence
did not affect the prisoner. He had
nothing to say.
While.George Allen, George Warren
and his son Willie were crossing the
Grand river at Fruita, Colo, in a tenn
norarv ferry, the cable broke and all
three were drowned. The river is very
high. and is half mile wide at that
place.
The New York Herald's correspond
emf in Guatemala cables that the gov
eminent has issued a decree suspend
ing specie payments for six months.
The banks lend the government l, $780,
900 pesos to be repaid in six months in
silver.
Officers of the Cuban league have de-
cdel to attempt the raising of fund
Of s.. 600, 600 in the United States, be-
lieving that this will enable the Gu
bans to establish their independence.
The fund is to be raised in two ways
by donations and by the sale of gold
bonds at 6 per cent, payable "ten years
after the evacuation of Cuba by the
Spanish troops.
E. c. Brice, whose claim to pro-
cess for making gold and silver from
chemically pure antimOny and other
base metals has been under investiga-
ton by committee of experts, with
only negative results, has made appli-
cation to the comm issioner of patents
for another test. In his request he as
serts that the other commission did not
follow his directions in important par
ticulars
The decree of the Turkish govern
ment calling for the expulsion Of all
Greeks from the Ottoman empire, has
been suspended, in view of the peace
negotiations.
Governor Ellerbee has announced
that he will appoint Congressman
John l.. McLaurin to be United States
senator, in successin to the late Sena-
tor Earle.
The Cretan chiefs have sent docu-
ment to the Greek government declar-
ng,that they are almost unanimously
IN favor OF political union with Greece,
but asking the advice of the govern
ment as to the best course to pursue
consistently and with due regard to ma
tOnal interests.
President Mckinley sent q cablegram
queen Victoria, congratulating her
on the celebration of her 10th birthday.
The message was as follows: ITO the
Ambassador of the United States, Lon
don: The president desires you to con-
Sey to the queen his sincere congratula-
Tons and those of the American people
upon the celebration of her 10th birth
day"
Governor Lord has appointed J. V.
3. Butler, of Monmouth, to succeed
himself; Judge John ]. DAILY, of Dallas.
wee j. c. White, and E. G. Pentland,
u Independence, vice P. Haley, mem
Vtrs OF the board of regents of the state
normal school at Monmouth, Or, each
70 mold for six years. Judge g. G.
Dakely, of The Dalles. has been APP
pointed a member of the Oregon state
Voard of pharmacy, vice M. M. Davis.
The 70-year widow of Colonel
samuel Colt, the millionaire firearms
manufacturer, has been sued by Nor
man Colt, of Seattle, and James B.
CcIt' of Washington, D. c., for big
snee OF the estate which has been in
"htrol OF herself or her son since the
"lone's death in 1862. Mrs. Colt is
accused of alternating her husbands
auction from his nephews by fraud
anu deceltful statements, while he was
N weak mental and physical state.
-"lhtlfts also aver that the million
are death was fastened by an over
uVse OF medicine.
seven years ago James Brazell made
proposition to the English govern
nent to send out Is, 900 prospectors
tn0.erlng an area of 10 miles through
pilush Columbia, in a nothwesterly
direction from Rossland. The cost of
fuVh an expedition was such that the
~Hsilsh and Canadian governments
t rvuid have nothing to 10 with it, the
~aAZard being one that the home Sec
e'arF would not countenance. The
question, however, has met with
aue approval of syndicate of English
capitalists, who sends forth $50 men
a nv,n San Francisco, with James Bra
-eli at the head.
r.. n blast in mine at Forbestown,
81 3D. santine Navoni, q Portuguese
ba au frightful injuries. His eye
a. oa' !. We're dislodged and left hanging
~ ~ HIS cheeks. his shoulder was partly
s stin away and his scalp cut open. He
Il GENERAL Miles has been afforded by
sn o sultan and the Turkish officials
,,e eiy facility for studying the Turkish
Guy m! He is pursuing the work with
Ia Tea' vlgor. and is kept very busy.
ev0. onclals are most kind in Offering