The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-05-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
r.o,n all Parts of the New
and Old World.
,rp AND INTERESTING ITEMS
.,.ire Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.

.o,I;sion occurred at the Girdleness
sp.bonse near Aberdeen, Scotland,
Is" roon the British steamer Coldyne
r'" tbe Grangoe. The Coldyne sank
. .- eleven of her crew were drowned.
rho FIVE anarchists convicted of par
...ia n in the bomb outrage, June Z
'I.. ~. Of the feast of Corpus Christi, were
.a,s in Barcelona. They shouted
" Tonc live anarchy" just before the
,,Ier to fire was given.
, nopderous rock, weighing ten tons,
-h;Ia bejng swung from a fat car,
Washed through the sides of two cars
tbe westbound Chicago & Alton
.,sopnger train near Chicago, wrecking
t6e cars and injuring number OF peo-
pie.
Another citizenship question has
,-spn between this government and
Germany. An American citizen named
uorpr has been impressed into military
.pryice by the German government.
Tho state DEPARTMENT has requested his
release.
Eight-vear-old Emelia kissing, who
drank some lemonade which was kept
in tin bucket over night, died at
hnvile, Cal, from the effects of the
oison. Eighteen scholars who drank
4 the stuff are sick. The ladies of the
Rebekah lodge used a part of the lemon
,de at a social. The remainder was
presented to the school children next
lay.
Consul-General McIvor, at Kanaga-
va, Japan, reports to the state depart
ment that, according to current reports,
the Japanese government is about to
send commission to Washington for
the purpose of influencing reduction
Of the increased import duties, which,
according to the American papers, it
is proposed to levy on silk. The i'm
Eeral diet has passed a bill allowing a
bonus to exporters of raw silk.
There will be an encampment of the
Oregon National Guard this year. It
will be the latter part Of June or first
Of July. 1t will continue from six to
ten days. An effort is being made by
the agricultural board at Salem to have
the encampment postponed until Sep
tember 30, and to have it then held on
the state fair grounds, in conjunction
with the fair The selection of a place
has been left to General Beebe.
The Greek cabinet ministers who
have returned from the Greek frontier
seem to be in favor of a continuance of
the war Altogether, fourteen officers
have been recalled from Crete to be
Sent to Thessaly, and this is also proof
Of the Intention of the new cabinet to
continue the war. The movement was
actuated by necessity. All the best
Olhcers are being sent to the front, nor
there any intention yet displayed to
evacuate Crete
Forest fires are said to be starting up
again around Ashland, Wis.
lhe Santa Fe purchased the Allan
oc& Pacific railroad at foreclosure
sale for $l2, 600, 900.
The Transvaal will observe the
Queen's jubilee day as holiday as a
"ken OF appreciation.
A big fire in Pittsburg, Pa, de-
SHCyed $4,000, 900 worth of property,
and resulted in one death and the in
jury Of four persons.
The banking house of ]. B. Wheeler
@Vo'' In Manitou and Aspen, Colo.
nave gone into the hands of assignees.
'0 reason Is given by the directors.
w. D. Case, of Pittsburg, Columbia
"unty, and J. w. Duncan, of UNA
s S'A Omatllla county, Oregon, have
We'll appointed fourth-class postmasters.
a Washington special says that il
IHs Oeen definitely decided that Nation
a. ~ committeeman J. E. Boyd, of North
;Sa'Olina, will be appointed solicitor OF
Internal revenue.
oOonel John Hay, the newly APP.
y'H'ed United States ambassador te
l1usland, was received with unusual
Sa sunctlon while presenting his ere.
'H'ials to the queen at Windsor castle.
"Onanna Spath, widow of Jacob Spath,
ssulng KATE & Sons, sausage manufac.
d 5a,ers' OF San Francisco, for 500, 0O(
,h aliases' Her husband was killed in
s h0 uelendant's factory and the widow
m ses The firm with being responsible
'" account of negligence.
resident Mckinley has sent to con
S ino ); message concerning the lynch
le t. VI Ilree Italians at Hahnville, Va
eus' y, 1896. He recommends al
II ffttlOprlatlOn of $40, 900 tor the heir,
G.t H'e persons without admitting the
oraa Fly OF the United States in tn.
san;. .ne German reichstag Count vor
sl ~ the agrarian leader, interpellat
ho 'ne government on the subject o
asto proposed United States tariff. HI
tn ~ II the government wished to con
tbo n the agreement of 1891, and salt
ers. Dlngley bill implied less the in
bsa OF American customs revenu,
pasn :iie successful expulsion of Euro
imports from American markets
s,. NE effect of the action Of the financ'
our III of the senate in throwing
the N N mousse provision in reference t,
been " "a reciprocity treaty, ha'
0na The subject of some comment
The i; member of the committee says it j
viii, ri, Intention of the committee to dea
Of H. me matter hereafter. The effec
doubt " pi'l as it stands, he says will n
soaa. 0e to impose duty on Hawsiial
this ,r:,' Some amendment to regulat
iorm VIII " be prepared, hut just wha
p,nad u VIII take has not been deter