The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-04-29
EVENTS OF THE DAY
,,,,ome OF the Telegraphic
News of the World.
,rssE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
,,..r.,ting Collection Of Items From
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in. Condensed Form.
Two BOYS were drowned in slough
..or Marietta, Wash.
rbo 9.year-old child of Frank Floyd,
10 lives in Arroyo valley, California,
Nn killed by the bite of rattlesnake.
Edward Neill was mangled to death
Wallace, Idaho, by line shaft in
'b;cb his clothing became entangled.
rwo elderly women were knocked
dawn and robbed in their home in Gin
';nnati O., by three men, who escaped
9th iewelry valued at So, 900.
Governor Adams, of Colorado, has
,.oed the bill regulating the manufac-
,re and sale of oleomargarine passed
:, the recent session of the legislature.
Tho veto mt sa is sensational, as the
,ovprnor shows in his message that the
nost barefaced bribery ever attempted
"a, employed to secure the passage of
the BILL
Alta meeting of prominent Parnell-
ties in Dublin, Ireland, a resolution
Vas adopted providing for the forma-
fen of an independent Irish league, in
which agrarian interests are not to be
dominant, and which will be founded
m the broader and sounder basis Of
ndependent political action for the
benefit of the whole Irish nation" The
object of the league will be "civil and
religious liberty, and absolute indie
pndence of all alliances with any En-
gish party.
The famous "hat-trimmings case,"
which indirectly invovled between $780,
100000 and $50, 100000 and which
has been postponed from time to time
for the past three years, has been
finally decided in favor Of the govern
nent by jury in the United States
circuit court in Philadelphia. The suit
was brought as a test case by an i'm
porting firm, who sought to recover
from the government a difference of 80
per cent in customs duties. The firms
Wntention was that the importations
question consisted solely of hat trim
nings on which the duty, under the
Mckinley tariff act, was only 30 per
cent, but the federal officials prov ed
that the merchandise was used chiefly
for dresses, and dress trimmings, on
which there was duty of so per cent.
Anumber of Japanese have left San
Francisco for Mexico, where a colony
will be formed on land granted them by
the Mexican government.
The body of Captain Evan Davies, of
The British fOurmasted ship Delcairnie,
VINO drowned over four months ago in
the harbOr at Astoria, has been picked
upby fisherman. The remains were
positively identified by papers found in
The pocket.
The great coon and varmint hunt on
fG island, Washington, in which sew
aa hundred hunters participated, was
'MIythlng but success as a varmint-
Killing bee, though all who attended
we're we'll satisfied, as the courtesies of
us ISLANDERS made the outing a most
enjoyable one.
'eth L, Milliken, representing in the
MUSE OF representatives the third dis
s't OF Maine, died at Washington.
'O some time he had suffered from
serious affection of the bronchial
1Ts' which last week developed
rss y, and was accompanied by
ADney and liver complications.
bernardino Assure, Mexican set
c cI On the tract of land near HOLSTER,
S sal' claimed by Portuguese, was
Sulu murdered in the charred re-
s aaas OF his hut. Investigation shows
~, .'' Asseuro was murdered with an ak,
t s''' which the body was laid on the
~ and the hut fired, to conceal the
~ rHe nrst wool of the season has been
n I"'e[ed to warehouse in Heppner,
MI II is said the wool is lighter and
,;u De,'er staple and brighter than the
ny ny from the same sheep last season.
i. ran has greatly delayed the shear
H. III mat section. Few sheep are be-
n,n SOla' owners holding firmly for a
na sA advance, about 10 cents head,
'llan buyers are willing to pay.
a.. dispatch a from Baker City, Or,
~ mat Powder river is higher than
hi a@S ever been known to be. and is
smI s great damage. Only one bridge
ss,.t lls In the city, and if the warm
spn 'uef Continues, it will go out. The
sla p'ef Valley railroad is flooded for
n ana trains will not be running
d, ' 's The northern residence por-
u the city is inundated.
ss ra.ei Justice Fuller, of the United
NJ, supreme court, has refused q
,er,o VI naoeas corpus in the case Of Ell
h,J4 H. Chapman, broker, who re-
h,ss.; " testify in the sugar speculation
AS satlon as to whether senators
sjlsaps REGULATED in sugar stocks while the
h. WI 'arlff bill was before that body.
Ss n sentence of the supreme court Of
Bit a Of Columbia to so days in
Cb,, ano 800 fine was affirmed, and
6rss; Ian application for writs OF GER
A.. A., and hsbeas corpus were denied.
n;.; result of terrible accident in
1ma camp near Rossland, b. G..
Snraaa were killed and several others
Ss w. Twelve men were asleep in
%, amp when a landslide, 800 feet
hde ' o' SIX feet deep, and fifteen feet
.O'efwhelmed them.
tpct1 ain near South Lyon, Mich,
hntl, Vehicle on a crossing and in
Nah d. kliled Harry Clark and Miss
kto fisher. Miss Ethel inst was