The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-08
TVS OF THE WEEK.
r.om all Parts of the New
and Old World.
oo1rF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
rebensiye Review Of the Import.
ant Happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.

rba Oregon state Sunday school
.;nn met in convention at The
n'ras The secretary reports that dur
p, =, +be year 26 new Sunday schools
NJ organized. There has been a loss
,.,,o enroIlments of last year of 225
,.booIs 2, 544 officers and teachers and
1879 scholars
At special meeting of the San
r.,rcisco chamber of commerce the
anastion of the ACCESSIBILITY of an
savin, Hawaii was considered. A
momoriaI was drawn up for presen-
,,tion 70 both the houses of congress,
ar,ing prompt action looking to the an
aq2atjon OF the Hawaiian republic.
The administration has determined
n solve the Behring sea question by
handing all seal pups found on Priby-
Inv islands this season. Instructions to
This effect have been transmitted to
Professor David Starr Jordan, the seal
.vnart who will soon leave San Fran
cisco for Behring sea.
# has been decided at the admiralty
10 build a new yacht for the queen and
tbe design has been submitted to and
approved by her majesty. The new
vessel, which will be built at the Penn
broke dockyard, will. in general out
line. resemble the great Atlantic liners.
Il will be go feet long, with only so
feet beam, and be fitted with powerful
engines, so as to have great speed.
Representative Crumpacker, of Indi-
ana. has introduced in the house resO.
lution for constitutional amendment
providing that hereafter no noncontig-
nous territory shall be annexed to the
United States except in pursuance of
treaty negotiated by the president, con-
cured in by two-thirds of the houses of
congress and ratified by the legislat Ire
Of three-fourths of the states, and no
contiguous territory except by treaty
cmcurred in by two-thirds of each
house, the vote of concurrence not to
be taken into the house of representa-
tyes until two years have elapsed from
the time of taking the vote in the sem
ate.
Nine children have been killed and
many others injured by the collapse OF
schurch wall at Solino, in the province
Guido Real.
George D. Ladd, an attorney, and
one of the most prominent wealthy
business men of Peru, H., committed
suicide by shooting.
The estimate of Chicago's population
by the publishers of the directory just
printed is 1928, 900, an increase of 49,
900 over last year.
Minnie Rose, aged 20, whose mind
was unbalanced by the great tornado
Of last year, committed suicide at st.
Louis by taking dose of Paris green.
dispatch from Berne says the fed
eraI council has refused to ratify the
commercial treaty with Japan, owing
to the prohibitive duty placed by Japan
upon clocks and watches.
The Spanish government has signed a
contract for six per cent loan Of e8,-
100000 to meet the expenses of the
Philippine war. 1t will be guaranteed
oy the Philippine customs.
One OF the most sensational tragedies
ever enacted in North Texas took place
In the Methodist church in Pleasant
valley, Dallas county, in the course OF
the services. AS result Augustus
harrison and Frank Jones are dead and
Thomas Jones fatally wounded.
The volcano Mayn has been in a
state of violent eruption, and the flow
Oh lava has done great damage in the
province of Albay, particularly to the
village of Libon, where the tobacco
crop has been completely destroyed.
There has been considerable loss of life.
During thunder storm, lightning
struck convict camp near Dakota,
ua., and as a result four convicts are
aead, 10 are dying and 20 escaped DUR
ing the panic which ensued. The camp
at the lumber mills of Grees Bros,
and about $50 prisoners from the state
pehltentlary were at work there.
Several mysterious robberies have oc.
CURED on steamers touching at Hong
hong. The steamer Tayuan on arriv.
Ing there recently from Australia, re-
ported that boxes containing $25, 00O
ID gold sovereigns had been stolen from
Her treasure roo,x, A fou, Iorc lafoy
so'OOO IN gold leaf was stolen from the
treasure chest of the steamer Loosooi
while she was loading at Hong Kong
Tor Bangkok.
On June ii men from the United
states cruisers Marion and Philadel
pnla We're landed at Honolulu. While
VI march to the drill grounds an order
= brought an order, and the battalion
.e.urned on board. This action wa!
''Aen, 1t is understood, on account o.
atunor to the effect that the Japanese
~uiser Naniwa would land force Of
nen to take charge of the Hawaiian
sus'om-house. The Japanese failed t.
re'' and it is believed that Admiral
'aiuslee's prompt action caused th'
, m of the Naniwa to change hi
u dispatch from Madrid says that on
aOoount of Senior Silva's recent belli
~ use speech and constant news OF Span
tou,. defeats from Havana province,
WI; ing Is reviving there in favor of wa
WITH the United States.
r. Inc Union Savings Bank & Trust
SSOlnpany, of Tacoma, has closed it
a aoofs and went into the hands of re
sa.'ef' as direct result of the recon
lapreme court decision deciding tina
inr ss amount of the city's warrants N