The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
nprrF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
ron,rchensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings Of tho Cur
rent Week.

rent Week.
An endemic OF cholera has broken
mt in Bangkok.
Proof is positive that DR.. Ruiz, the
American, was murdered in Spanish
prison in Cuba
A boiler exploded in the print works
Of Norcega Bros, Puebla, Mexico, kill
ING 90 or more persons.
Fire destroyed $50, 900 worth of prop
prtv in Cairo, Ill. twenty-five head
If horses and a number of dwellings
were burned.
A cloudburst, which caused the river
Norge in France to rise suddenly,
wrecked over 500 factories and work
shops and desolated many small towns
1t is said in Astoria, upon what is
apparently good authority, that NAL
colin W. Sale, of Young's River, whose
disappearance in March last created
somewhat of a sensation, is alive and
well.
Earthquakes were experienced in the
state OF Oaxaca, Mexico, and some dam
age was done on the isthmus of Te-
huantepec, where slightly constructed
houses were cracked. One shock lasted
10 seconds.
Jerome Smeathers, his wife and seven
children were poisoned at Yelvington,
Ky, with Paris green, which acct
dentaly fell in bucket of water. One
child is reported dead, two dying and
possibly none will recover.
Owing to engineer and conductor for
getting orders a freight train crashed
into a work train, both going at high
rate of speed, near Hudson, Wisconsin,
and four workmen were instantly
killed, three bodies being burned.
There was a collision between Ameri-
can and Spanish marines in Vera Cruz,
Mexico. The Spanish hurrahed for
Weyler and the Americans for Cuba.
The latter were helped by Mexicans and
d the marines were put to flight.
The department of state has been
officially Informed that an information
al conference will be held in Berlin
from October II to 16, 1897, to discuss
the lepr0sy question. There will be
lectures and exhibits connected there
with.
A Spanish captain and two lieuten-
ants were tried by court-martial in Las
Cabanas fortress and sentenced to be
shot for cowardice in having, after l
ha ~
forts at Casa Orro in eastern Cuba, to
the patriot forces of General Calixto
Garcia
More than three score of men have
recently deserted from the warships
New York and Massachu sets, together
with those who left the Texas while
she was in New York. Twenty-eight
men took French leave of the Texas
and 80 are missing from the New York.
1t is not known how many are missing
from the Massachusetts. In every case
the deserters are of foreign birth.
Alfred Pearce, in attempting to
board train at Mendoza, CAL, was
run over and horribly mangled. He
died at the hospital few hours after
the accident.
Lansing, Ia, was visited by sup-
posed earthquake. An explanation has
been found in the fact that meteor
Was seen to fall near the city at the time
OF the shock.
James Williams, editor of the Chron-
cle of Armore, l. T., was shot and
Killed by prominent attorney of that
city for an attack made through the
columns of Williams paper.
The grasshoppers are doing consider
able damage in Morrow county, Or.
Gardens have been completely ruined
around Lexington, and in many places
entire fields of wheat have been eaten
up.
The pleasure steamer Hermosa, of
Nan Francisco, while 90 miles off the
0olden Gate, was shaken up consider
soly while on her last outward trip by
0lllding with a whale. The whale
was nearly cut in two and the steamer
VIII have to 60 to the drydock for re-
pairs
News comes from Grant county, Or,
VI the tragic death of jeff Conley, a
Neepman, at his cabin in the noun
'ains. He went to the creek to get wa
er, and as he stopped over, his pistol
ieil from his belt against the pail he
was carrying, and the weapon was dis
tInaarged. The bullet passed through
us body, resulting in death the follow
Ing day.
An Astoria dispatch says the past
week has seen radical change for the
ye'ter IN the run of salmon. The de-
,,'erles of fish have been remarkably
T 1Srse' even for this time of the year.
sne eanneries are all running at full
capacity. Not only are the fish un-
asually numerous, but the run as to
auSllty is extraordinarily fine. AS an
,,Aanple, fisherman one morning, at
ss' lew hours work, turned into one
- 'he lower town canneries 80 chinook
"inon, which averaged by actual
''lght more than so pounds apiece.
a committee of German protection
.ss have addressed a communication
The foreign Office complaining of
nerican competition, and asking for
e, n,eavy import duty on American
;s0les on the ground that if such duty
g. not imposed, 2,000 men employed in
o nvrinan cycle factories will be thrown
AZ ~ VI work, owing to the extradordin-
nj cheapness of American wheels.
h ae petition, it is said, is not likely to
nj. granted, for the cheapness COM
h tIained of generally lasts only until
~scyele in question becomes famous.