The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-08-12
NEWS Of THE WEEK
c.om all Parts of the New
and Old World.
.orrF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
.bsnsiye Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.


Tho natives of New Guinea are muir
.;ns Australian miners.
p.l,raI and state authorities are
tangle in Kansas and clash
/. expected.
r,s corn crop in Kansas is now said
49, e damaged 80 per cent by the pre-
,,iIius hot weather.
Senators Quay and Morgan are to go
~ -. Sandwich Islands to post them
.ira. on the country and It's POSSIBLE
ines
Tbointernal revenue office has issued
I,rs to local collectors to seize tobacco
,aza uackages under the provision of
he new tariff law.
ovqr 100 tramps and harvesters took
,,ss4sson Of freight train on the
yotnuestern line, near Omaha, Neb.
Tho train was sidetracked, and the
.,aritf and police were called upon for
,..istance. After an hours delay this
r,mps we're disIodged. The sheriff
Lal g, desperate fight in trying to Jail
5a men, hat was successful. The sur
nnpdins country is overrun with
u.mps
The following is an extract from a
miyate letter received in San Fran
.,co from Manila, Philippine islands:
Here things are in a frightful mess.
smri,h dollars have been introduced
At 10 per cent less value than Mexican.
Everybody wants to sell out. Native
brokers' are all over the place trying to
sell their possessions, and find no buy
gs. In the sugar provinces, cane
plants are being burned up for lack of
tain
Samuel Wolf, Jersey City contract
Or. offered a dish of cream to the boy
who would hold his arm the longest
time in an ice cream freezer. A num-
her Of bows who were around VOLTS
sore contested for the prize. Willie
lockwood outdid them all. Although
afering great pain, he held his arm in
the freezer for four minutes. When he
withdrew it the arm was frozen stiff.
He was taken to the hospital, where it
Vas said it would be necessary to am
pltate the arm.
A letter received in Portland from
Juneau, Alaska says: There are 500
people DOW at Dyea, waiting to get over
the pass. There are several more
saamer loads now on the way, loaded
Dthe guards. The Indian packers at
LFea and pack animals have all the
height they can carry to the lakes by
The time winter sets in. There will
be hundreds camping at Dyea and on
the lakes AL winter, eating the provi-
SONS they have taken with them.
Other parties bound for the mines by
tins route have to carry their own
height over the mountains. The prices
@rpacking across the mountain have
tSen 10 p and p cents per pound, and
the packers are independent at that.
-AHi'NN anu hlSSOuTl are again DclIiS
SOrched by heat.
Six persons were killed in a noun
am slide few miles from Berlin Sat-
uriay.
4 non-union coal miner was shot
ant killed at Scottdale, Pa, during
4ahrel with striking miners
The potters of Trenton, N. j., and
NE Sheet iron workers of Phillipsburg,
A. H., now threaten to 60 on strike.
Inc monitor Puritan broke her rud.
yer In New York and will be laid uI
M month, and will cost about SIS, 900.
george Il. Walker, Washington, D.
~ lawyer and former correspondent,
"S been appointed assistant postmas-
h-general.
-FOUR boys were drowned at Kansas
Wy While in swimming, four in Win
1ITs and two more at Boston, one OF
'NOnl Was 50 years of age.
DIueJackets from the warship York.
@'n and Boston were stoned and beaten
SapaneSe at Kobe, Japan, and some
"0lem We're badly used up.
=, Anaree's north pole balloon is report.
a." nave been seen in several places
entity, but each time away off its
Vu'Se' Many have given him up as
tio-essor Arion, professional high.
A.. e performer, fell from his wire, a
r ~1'nce OF IS feet, while riding bi.
w., sF al Rldgewood Park, N. j., and
H., nc monthly statement issued by the
n Jn .,'of OF the mint shows that during
~ ioS', the coinage executed at the
b., l,V "a States minis amounted to
~ sa;.i nlssourl Pacific train ran into q
rnsn' standing on the main track at
lsa @ center, Kan, and Engineer
4 w., SYN clown and Fireman Cal Rowan
4 n,a4 Killed. Other persons were in
loa aP'aln General Weyler has par
3a,,l lorty political offenders under
4 sa o." ana other hard sentences, at the
: AL aoS'lon OF the home government,
Ran. i'oVo Cuban exiles have been
'aated amnesty.
asa1 -s'aht Secretary Howell has rem
slfsl: decision in which he holds that
n ,. alns should be classed as "hides
i soIas We and are therefore dutiable
VOL Vie new tariff, but at 15 per cent
efh,I e engagement of Chakdara the
ut ~ troops suffered but slight loss,
boOsa ne native loss was heavy. Six
ttac l%" {, tribesmen were preparing to
eekaa me tort when they were at
(sIona, W the British column, under
hutaS Meikeljohn, and completely