The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-08-26
lEVS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
o,,rE AND INTERESTING ITEMS
comprehensive Review 81 the Import
ant Happenings Of the Cur
ront Week.

T0AS "Ooks
navid G. Swain, United States
o,nv retired, judgeadvocate general,
lied in Washington, D. c., aged So, of
Brisht's disease.
The twenty-third annual session of
.bo American Bakers Association con-
rored in Detroit, Mich. About 500
delegates were present.
Two $1,000 counterfeit notes were
resented to the treasury department
for redemption. They were made over
% wears ago and are clever limitations
If the originals.
Rv decision of Acting Secretary
RYAN. of the interior department, the
decision being prepared by Assistant
attorney General Vanderventer, it has
been settled that any person can take
lso acres of land, and if the person has
heretofore taken any part Of the 100
acres. he or she is entitled to make up
the full amount.
Railroad officials in st. Joseph report
that there is danger of car famine on
Western roads, caused by the immense
Grain crops. All roads entering that
citv are taxed to their fullest capacity
nov and the switching force has been
increased 25 per cent. The Burlington
COMPANY has issued orders that no more
coal be loaded in the tight box-cars,
stock-cars being used instead.
Or. J. NJ. Bleir, reputable physi-
rian. of New York, announces that he
has discovered new cure for consump-
ton bv electricity. He will read a
paper before the county medical society,
giving the details of the plan, which
isin effect the sterilizing of the effected
lungs in what is known as eiectrolys.
He claims to have cured a dozen per-
sons classed as hopeless cases complete
". and many physicians OF high stand
nc are said to agree that the cures are
complete and effectual.
The repOrt of the commissioner Of
education. Dir, William T. Harris, for
the year ended July l, 1895, has just
been completed. 1t shows a total en-
rolment in that year in the schools
and colleges, both public and private,
Of l5,997,I97 pupils. This was an in
crease of 3OS, 557. The number in pub
lie institutions was l4,465,37 and In
private institutions 1 ,535, 500. In adj
iition TO all these, there were 4l8.0O0
pupils in the various special schools
and institutions. including business
colleges. music Conservatives, Indian
and reform schools, making the grand
total enrolment for the whole country
l6,415.197.
Frank Manninger, an aged painter.
ILL., penniless and proud, starved to
ieath in his room in West New York.
\ J.
Angiolllo, the Italian anarch-
list who murdered Premier Canovas,
has been tried by court-martial and
sentenced to be garroted.
A Canadian Pacific train struck q
carriage containing five persons at q
crossing near st. Therese, Quebec, kill
ing two women and injuring three 9TH
arS.
a special from Rome says it is report
ID the pope will excommunicate Prince
Henry of Orleans and the COnnt OF
Turin, as dueling is forbidden by the
Roman Catholic church.
Ii is stated that President Mckinley
has expressed himself in favor Of the
admission of New Mexico to statehood.
A bill to that effect will be introduced
at the next session of congress.
a Southern Pacific freight train
struck a burning stump that tnmbled
down the mountain side in Cow creek
canyon in Southern Oregon, completely
demolIshing the engine and four cars
and killing Fireman Robert McEwan
and an unknown tramp.
Justice Stephen J. Field, OF the
United States supreme court, has es-
tabllshed the record for the longest
Service on that bench. The service OF
Chief Justice John Marshall had been
tie longest in the history OF the court,
covering So years. Justice Fields
service exceeds that of Marshall. lie
Was appointed in 1868 by President
Lincoln. and is in his 81st year. lie
has reached the age of retirement. but
he prefers to remain in active service
on the bench, and there is no present
indication that he will retire.
Thomas Jefferson Sappington, an
oid-time resident of st. Louis county,
Missouri, who saved General q. =.
Grant from capture by Confederatcs'
lled near Sappington. a suburb OF st.
Louis. In 1864, when Grant came back
to make short visit to his farm near
The latter city. Mr.. Sappington. who
Was first lieutenant in the Second Mis-
souri, militia, learned that number OF
HE most radical sympathizers witt, the
south had planned to capture General
Grant and take him South a prisoner.
Mr.. Sappington determined to thwart
The scheme. He hurried to st. Louis
and met General Grant just as he was
Starting out for his farm. The result
Was disappointment to the men who
were lying in ambush for Grant.
>: H, Prawi shot and mortally wound.
20 Daniel Maloney, ex-city marshal
VI The Dalles. The trouble arose ovel
Morse race that occurred in Kiickitat
county two months ago.
For the second time within . little
over two years the Utica mine. the most
lannon's gold producer on the mother
.ode' in Angels Camp, CAL. caught
A,e through the carelessness ct some
VI the wOrkmen. No lives were lost,
S Out the property Was considerably