The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-12-02

From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.


The great trial of Arroyo's murder.
prs is over, at the City of Mexico, hav-
ing terminated with the sentence of
death pronounced on 10 of the police
officers and policemen concerned in the
bntchery of the hapless wretch whose
audacious attempt on the presidents
life caused so profound a sensation
there. The jury was out over seven
hours
One of the most important features
of the Behring sea negotiations not
heretofore disclosed is that in the event
that Great Britain and Canada consent
to a suspension of pelagic sealing for
one year, the United States for the
same time will agree to suspension
Of all taking of seals for one wear on
Prbvloff islands. constituting the
American seal possessions in Behring
sea-
Postmaster General Gary is receiving
many letters regarding the postal-sav.
ings bank proposition strongly urged
bv him in his annual report. Many
people throughout the country have
written commenting on the projected
radical extension of the postal service,
and have submitted some suggestions
calculated in their opinion to make the
scheme more feasible. AS whole,
the correspondents indicate rather
general commendatiOn.
Ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
who was consul general to Mexico
under the last Cleveland administra.
ton, announces that he will leave
Kansas City next week for San An
tonic, Tex, where he will be joined by
W. J. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan, and that
the three will depart from San Antonio
on a weeks tour of Mexico. Aided by
the ex-consul's knowledge of the people
and country, Mr.. Bryan will make a
careful study of Mexico's financial sys.
TEN.
Passengers on the steamer Mascotte,
which has arrived in Tampa, report
that Engel Pasee, who betrayed Gen
eral Castillo to the Spaniards for
$4,000, was captured by insurgents on
his way to Cienfuegos, court-mar-
tailed on drum head and hanged.
A great fire broke out at Melbourne,
Australia, and in a very short space OF
time did enormous damage. 1t is esti-
mated that the loss will reach 81, 000,.
600, while the trade in soft goods has
received serious setback. Hundreds
OF employees of all sorts have been
thrown out of employment.
20 n nd rY,l nc h.
American Railway League has become
full-fedged political organization.
Hereafter it will be known as the Rail-
way Employees and Photographers Polit.
zeal League of America. Its object is
to deal entirely in state and national
politics, chiefly on legislative lines.
A big masonry wharf, having 'front.'
age of 800 meters on the river Tagus
opposite the custom house in Lisbon
suddenly subsidized and completely dis
appeared in the riverbed. The wharf
which was recently constructed at q
cost of $780, rested on mud. For
tunately, no one was hunt in the col
lapse.
The hostility between the Christian
socialists and the social democrats
which exists in all parts of Austris
and frequently leads to sharp collision!
between the rival partisans, has result
ed in serious rioting at Gratz, the CAPT
tai city of Sitira, and the seat OF I'M
portant cotton and wooden manufac
tories.
The official programme for the re
ception of 1898 at the White House b,
President and Mrs. Mckinley has beer
issued. All of the events, excepting
New Years reception and the public
reception, will be by card invitation
Only those invited will be given an OPP
portunity to be present at least onc'
during the season. The avoidance Q
excessive and dangerous crowding VII
add to the attractiveness OF all the re
ceptions.
The theosophists of San Francisco
are taking very active interest In TIT
fate of Durrant. 1t is tenet of thei
faith that capital punishment is wrong
and they are getting up a petition
praying Governor Budd to stay the exc
cution and to commute his sentence 7
life imprisonment. The petition wa
prepared by DIR. Jerome A. Anderson
president of the San Francisco Thee
sophical Society, and it has already re
ceived number of signatures
The commission appointed to revls
the criminal code of the United States
in the partial report which it will max
to the president and congress, vii
present a code for criminal justice i
Alaska. The commission is authorize
to do this in the act which creates It
territory. At present the laws
Oregon are made applicable to Alaska
and these will be revised, codified an
amended by IL commission to suit tn
present conditions, and will be SUI
mitted as partial report for the basi
OF legislation by congress
The discovery of many children
Of very little if any Indian blood IN tn
government boarding schools through
out the country, leads to the recon-
mendation by the superintendent g
Indian schools that, inasmuch as ther
seems to be no remedy underlying e
listing laws, it is imperative IN the y
terests of justice to both races that cor
gress should early Indicate by statut
what degree Of blood shall constitute
Indian, and to what extent adopted Ia
dams shall be entitled to GOV ernmenfa
support, in matters Of education.