The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-10-21
VIEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
PREF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
comprehensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.


rent Week.
The state department received word
shot Ahferouck Bey has been appointed
Tnrtish minister to the United States.
Hon. Charles w. Jones, former
tinted States senator from Florida,
Had at Detroit, after sickness of sew
eral weeks.
The national council of Switzerland
hos adopted a bill making insurance
s9ainst sickness compulsory in cases OF
iii dependent persons.
II is reported that an English syndi-
cate has purchased, for 1000, 900, the
bo plsnt of the J. l. Case Machine
Company, at Milwaukee.
Jackson and Williams, the O. r. &
trainrobbers, were sentenced to the
Oregon penitentiary for a term of 80
Years and seven months each.
Heavy shipments of wheat to Europe
continue. Over 60 grain-laden vessels
have left San Francisco during the last
two months, and six more are ready to
SAIL
The naval armor board will leave
Washington soon for the South to look
At certain places, with a view of ascer-
tanning their adaptibility for sites for
the proposed armor plant.
The cruiser Baltimore has been put
into commission with Lieutenant Com
msnder Gottfried Blocklinger, her first
lieutenant, in command. The Balti-
more will meet the Philadelphia in San
Francisco on the latter's arrival.
The monthly treasury statement of
the principal articles of domestic ex-
ports shows that during September last
the exports of breadstuffs from the
United States amounted to $34, 629, 946,
an increase, as compared with Septem-
Der, 1896, of over 100 per cent, and an
increase of about 800 per cent over Sep
tember, 1895.
General Weyler announces that he
will embark from Cuba on October 20.
Benjamin Nelson was found dead on
the floor of his cabin near Hendricks,
Or.
The general grand chapter of Royal
Arch Masens is in session at Baltimore.
Delegates are present from all parts
Of the world.
The whalers that wintered in the
Arctic last year are having hard luck
this season. Only one of them succeed
ed in killing whale this summer, and
the feet that will return this fall will
bring only a small revenue to their
owners e
Sunday was the sixth anniversary OF
the death OF Charles Stewart Parnell.
Five thousand nationalists paraded the
streets of Dublin to the bleak Glasnev-
cemetery, where they heaped high
the grave OF their famous and talented
leader with flowers brought from all
the counties of Ireland.
Senorita Evangelina Cisneros, the
Cnban girl who escaped from Casa de
kecoglas, in Havana, is said to have
arrived in New York city. American
Trends accompanied her by train from
New Orleans. On reaching Jersey City,
MISS Clsneros was taken in closed car
mage to the headquarters of the Cuban
EmpathiZers.
Cubans of New York celebrated the
ssth anniversary of the beginning of
'ne ~ years war by mass meeting,
presided over by Tomas Estrada Palma,
PRESIDENT of the junta. All the speak
sfs emphasized, amid great applause
from the audience, the firm resolution
Inc Cuban people to carry on the
struggle until absolute independence of
Ouba is accomplished.
dispatch from Long Valley, Idaho,
"ys there has been battle between
%''lers and sheepherders, and that
afee OF the farmers were killed. The
UVuole Is the outgrowth of the strained
.slA'ions that have existed in that Sec
sOn between the settlers and sheepmen
W some time. 1t has been no uncom-
IiOn thing for stock to be MANNED and
.1ys'acks to be burned, and even for
%'''ers and sheepmen to exchange
a ,U's, but no one has heretofore been
killed.
:, Inc United States board of geogra-
s"cal names, which meets at Washing
wi, D. e., at state intervals, has just
,sHuefed decisions determining the
'Tgsling of l49 geographical names.
-, Use include number in Alaska, sig
T1'Vaht at this time in view of the
W. excitement. Many varia-
NJ, rvls OF nomenclature for the same
s saSe are encountered, and the boards
n I E1 settles the uniform usage. As
nlondlke, the decision is to spell it
is mere gwen. and not Clondyke. The
Te'' liver and village at the head OF
ns snn canal, which now appears in the
h., ~Spapers almost daily under the
Ga OF Dyea, the starting point for
W. VI overland route, is an Indian word
ADJ: n"s appeared In many lorme.
r. Vllfal Meade, in 1869, wrote it
MA; Krause, in 1882, wrote it
h Jan! ,ao Schwatka, in 1888, Dayi; Dali,
S,a 800 Taiya. The board adopts the
n Co,i MS annual report, Myron H. Mo
Ns governor of Arizona, discusses
,eoD question of statehood, and says the
linz Elements as to population, educa-
" and wealth are fully met.
,sfn ,Ofe than 1000 revolntionists and
Neees have fed from Guatemala to
tjos 'I y, dreading the vengeance Of Bar
n sn ne refugees know their property
ias oe confscated, as the government
psor issued decree to that effect. Some
S sip.e took the precaution to deposit
NO Valuables with the British consul
"yuszaltenango.