The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-04
gEy1S Of THE DAY
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News of the World.
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inf Condensed Form.
,.u.mq,ure explosion OF dynamite
L,rarel pit in Murray, KY, killed
s,s : negro laborers and wounded as
many more.
bonsa Of i'll repute was burned near
r1aaIinr ". Va, and two girls and
VIZ mon were burned to death. A
wv Of others are reported seriously
injured.
.CaIeutta dispatch says that cholera
,,s broken cut among the people en-
r rI,rsj At the relief works among the
r .+;ras in the state OF Rewah. In
wa DAYS 100 deaths occurred.
Amin an offer for the LIE Roi gold
nine has been refused. This time the
Tord-be purchasers, the Royal Tinto
rompanv, Of London, made an offer of
4 GOO coo. of which 500, 600 was to
W cash and the remainder in thirty
DAYS.
Eghtv-two passengers, more than
half of them outfitted with dogs. sleds
and other paraphernalia necessary for
,ba INVASION Of the Yukon country,
nv]ed the steamer Al-Ki on her last
trin to Alaska. This is said to be only
beginning of the vast numbers who
will leave for that country the coming
spring.
Louis Mansfield, who was confined in
the county jail in Baker City, Or. !,
svating the action of the grand jury
On charge of robbery, committed sui
eide He told his fellow prisoners
some DAYS before that he preferred to
be dead rather than 90 to the peniten-
tarT. Mansfield leaves a wife and two
daughters.
The East has again been visited by
foods, resulting in great loss of life
anil property. Many plants at Pitts
burg are under water, and a cloudburst
at the headwaters of the Monongahela
has caused great damage. More than
10000 men have been forced to quit
work in Pennsylvania on account of the
rapidly rising waters.
At the annual meeting of the Lum-
Der Manufacturers Association of the
Northwest, held in Tacoma, the secre-
ay was instructed to formulate an in
yltstion to Eastern lumbermen to visit
the Pacific Northwest next July. An
executive committee was appointed to
make suitable arrangement for enter
tanning the excursionists, who are to
be shown the great forests and mills OF
the Northwest.
special from McMurray, Skagit
county, Wash, says that sad accident
occurred there by which the 3-year-old
daughter OF ". +. Merry was instantly
Killed and his wife seriously injured.
Merry was engaged in falling a tree
Which endangered his house. In fall
ing, the tree struck another, which
stood IN its path, the latter falling in
The direction of the woman and child.
The chlld's neck and back were broken.
Mrs. Merry now lies in critical condi-
ton.
a mail train on the Pennsylvania
AlIFoad crashed into a box car near
rnloenSburg, Pa, and was badly wrecked.
1--WE persons were seriously hurt.
Charles F. Miller, sailor, brutally
murdered his wife at Port Blakely,
"asn' Much excitement was occasion
T' and lynching was prevented with
great difficulty.
Stephen Ringhoffer, aged IA, the son
u Joseph Ringhoffer, of Walla Walla.
~ds snot and killed by Charles Woody,
VINO Is l6years old. The boys were out
-uA'lhg when the accident occurred.
"hlte settlers at Yerrington, in Ma
S valley, Nevada, have appealed for
Isih tearing an outbreak of the Piute
-. .Iuans In that neighborhood. One of
,Is indians was killed in quarrel and
Wy rs indians have begun gathering in
A A.. Governor Sadler has sent
t!u'aht-General Galusha on a special
'aln to investigate.
-He Chesapeake & Ohio west-bound
aaS'enger train encountered washout
SapOsl'e Portsmouth, o. The engine,
on ss'se and express car, mail Car and
s NJ VOach We're derailed. A. G. Stout,
M p'''4sor OF the G. & O.. was killed.
s,n N.Y. engineer, fireman, mail clerk and
ao t-eSs messenger were all injured, but
,,' "1lle making desperate effort to
Nio lu arrest for some trivial offense,
Aa l.U u, Mentgen lost his life under
INV, Hneels OF train in Chicago. Fol-
vsn ou oy an excited crowd and patrol
h sp containing officers, Mentgen ran
snn.a tracks and did not see the train
Erp 'O a. The locomotive knocked
ua. u ulrty feet and the train passed
MN; Snafles Kreiner was drowned in the
n Sol O., river at the Altonas' wharf
R,r naien' He was cook on the steamer
sn1 " that plies between Portland
h Aluependence. An effort was made
st ave the man with a small boat,
ao5 " avail. The river was dragged
bot S Isnamite used, but the body hal
no, 'Ven recovered. The unfortunate
port,i raves widow and one child il
ir tb cornerstone of the new school
sptaN revival of the lost mysteries o.
he su u was laid in San Diego, Cal
pst Meosophical crusaders, who have
eorId ieIurned from trip around ths
eeren,'a were the central figures in thu
Vas &c postoffice at Mount Angel, Or,
bow uttered by burglars. The safe wal
AM :. open and about 91oO in stamru