The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-22
lEVS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
0p1rF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
c.,nr,hen.ive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings OF the Cur
rent Week.


Tho Minnesota state board of par
aoas refuses to pardon the Younges
brothers.
The National Republican League con-
rontion met in Detroit. Delegates were
resent from nearly all the states
The departure from Portland Of the
british ship Glenelvan brings the grain
aoot for the present season up to ~
vessels compared with 68 the year be-
fore
Advices from Constantinople indicate
that the sultan is obdurate regarding
the acceptance of the peace proposals.
Edbem Pasha is Fastening back to Do
,nokos and the Burroughs Of all Turkish
officers have been cancelled, in readiness
for renewal of hostilities.
Advices from the south Of France
show that the destruction by the floods
there was greater even than earlier re-
norris indicated. The losses are esti-
mated at 200, 900, 600 francs in the aggre-
gate, Hardly village has escaped
damage. and the number of persons
drowned is nearly 800.
EN-. Waite, about 70 years old, who
was the oldest printer in Oregon.
.]ropped dead in Salem. The printers
were to play the BARRIERS game OF
baseball. Waite carried a printers
towel as a banner for the printers in
the parade. He tainted from the heat
and never regained consciousness.
The parliamentary South African
commission which has been inquiring
into the Transvall raid, has agreed
upon its report The report will ex-
press an emphatic opinion that what
ever justification there might have
been for action on the part of the peo-
pie of Johannesburg, there was none
whatever for Cecil Rhodes conduct in
Substituting, organizing and stimulat-
ing an armed instruction against the
government of the Transvaal.
Henrique Laidley, Portuguese vice.
consul at San Francisco, is at Monterey.
Cal, at the request of the Portuguese
minister at Washington to make thar-
ough Investigation regarding the dis
turbance over the hauling down of the
Portuguese flag from the pole above
Manuel Ortin's grocery store and the
burning of the flag. Ortin's notMca-
ton to the minister at Washington re-
suited in the investigation. Laidley
declares if the affair is not satisfactorily
explained the Portuguese government
will demand an apology from the Unit
ed States.
Reports from the North say the Al.
aska Commercial Company's steamer
Arctic was crushed by ice.
The International &c ldmining con-
rention at Denver selected Salt Lake
City as its next meeting place.
By the explosion of lamp Samuel
". Brown. a miner, and his wife,
Mary, were burned to death in bed at
Pittsburg.
Five thousand wrought nail workers
OF South Staffordshire and North
Worcestershire have struck for 10 per
cent advance in wages.
Preparations are ON foot in Dublin
for the Parnell anniversary demonstra-
ton in October, and it is believed this
year it will be larger than ever.
The British government has notified
the collector of customs at Vancouver
that TO duty will be charged on salmon
brought from the United States.
The statement of the Bank of Spain,
which has been formally gazetted, has
increased the adverse comment on the
bank management. 1t shows a note
circulation of 1876, 100000 pesatas In
excess of the authorized issue.
Fully 900 men are employed on the
branch line from SLOGAN, crossing to
slocan lake. About 450 men are on
each end of the line working toward
the center, and the contract requires
that grading be concluded by October ID.
1t is expected that trains will be run
over the road by December 1. Twelve
miles of wagon road have been complet-
ed from the crossing inland.
The difficulty growing out of the
boundary dispute between Costa RIGA
and Nicaragua is nearing the point
Where diplomacy and arbitration will
De ont of the question. The boundary
commission appointed by ex-President
cleveland shortly before he relin-
qulshed his Office has suspended work
ior two months to watch the actions OF
10th sides before proceeding further.
What is said to be the greatest Oil
discovery ever made is reported from
Alaska. Some gold prospectors several
months ago ran across what seemed to
oe lake of oil. The lake was fed by
ihnumerable springs, and the snrround-
Ing mountains were full of coal. They
brought samples to Seattle and tests
proved 1t to be of as high grade as any
ever taken out of Pennsylvania wells.
II Is said there is enough oil and coal
IN the discovery to supply the world.
1t is close to the ocean; in fact, experts
say that the oil cozes ont into the salt
Water.
The ninth session of the trans Mis-
s'sslppi commercial congress IL being
Aeid in Salt Lake. Every state and ter
tl'ory west of the Mississippi river will
"e represented.
statement prepared at the mint bu-
.eau shows the number Of silver dollar
Soined at the United States mints dur
ing the fiscal year was 81. 800, 701, on
which the seigniorsge, or profit 70 the
9.rv,'ernment. .aNounted to %. $50, To-.
.he profits have been turned into tho
treasury from time to time, e the COIN