The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-05-20
NEWS Of THE WEEK
,,om all Parts of the New
and Old World.
trr AND INTERESTING ITEMS
r.iv, Review Of the Import
COmpre
ant happenings of tho Cur
rent Week.

rent Week.
rm men we're drowned at the Cliff
tonse in San Francisco
disnatch from Honduras says the
.,,+ion there has ended and the
mnntry is peaceful.
rno blaeksmiths of Brownsville, Or,
-, invented a new machine for pull
pa a';,ng clods. 1t has been tried, and
Sis said works to perfection. They
b.va apolied for patent.
NJ tho ia Chinese who came on the
.+s,mer Victoria to Tacoma, only fifty
Ill bp admitted. The other sixty-four
VII no returned, orders from the secre-
..rr of the treasury to that effect hav
ing been received.
Judge Day, of Ohio, qualified as as
sis+ant secretary of state. Rockhill.
whom he succeeded, will remain until
Assistant Secretary Day becomes en-
frelv familiar with pending negotia-
tions when it is expected he will be
,Dnojpted TO some foreign mission.
Harry FLYNN was drowned in Lake
Michigan. near Chicago, and 1900
nsopIe saw him die and were unable to
id him. During the excitement
which prevailed Albert Mattari, spec
t,tor dropped dead. 1t is supposed
that heart disease was the cause Of the
second accident.
The 0. R. & N. will send experts to
be Seven Devils mining district to
make estimates of the probable traffic
Of that region. The company is figur-
ing on dividing the freight business
with the Union Pacific. The construc-
ton of sawmill near Riparia is part
Of the company's plan.
The cabinet has decided to send one
Of the new gunboats now building on
the Pacific coast to Sitka, Alaska,
about July l. Great activity in Alas
ka growing out Of the gold discover
les, has made the president and cabi-
net deem this step advisable for safe
guarding American interests.
The recall of the forces from Crete
has been received with resignation by
the Athens public. The Delyannis Or
cans attack the government bitterly
orappealing to Europe, but most Of
the papers accept this as inevitable and
violently attack the Ethnike Hetairia,
aking it to render an account of its
action.
The steamer Rover, flying the Ameri
can flag and plying between New Or
leans and ports OF Spanish Honduras,
vas fired on by Nicaraguan man-of-
war, while four miles from Puerto
C@tez, and narrowly escaped being hit
anhshlps. 1t is said the man-of-war
thought the Rover was aiding the Hon
duas reyolutiOnists.
The Brussels exposition has been
formally opened. King Leopold and
Inc dlplOmatic corps were present.
FRINGE Bismarck was honored at
rrnelrchsruhe, Germany by torch
Dsht procession given by his townsmen.
The agricultural department crop re-
port puts the condition of wheat at 500
against STA last month and 70 on May
last year.
Inc interests of United States citi-
F1s at Puerto Cortez, the seat of the
s'Olltlon in Honduras, will be looked
Aef BY the cruiser Marblehead. The
vessel is now on her way there.
:, Petition is now being circulated in
t Sss York and signed by bankers and
IaslAess men, urging President McKin-
4. 70 DO all in his power to effect q
lTtiOn.
Lewis L. Macarthur, member of the
=: ,'i urn OF Bronaugh, Macarthur, Fem
W. wv " nronaugh, of Portland, Or, and
r ~ =" the prominent lawyers of tne
S Ss", Gied in Walla Walla, WASH, of
aart disease.
g. .AV supreme court of the United
49, es mas decided the Berliner patent
Cam- IN favor of the Bell Telephone
m ,rlpang' The decision is against the
iIg 10, and has been pending since
psn y according to the decision the
IN ~ company will control the patent
hi frank Barr, his two sons and a
Dan Ohrls Barr, prosperous Ger
ssbr ,almers of Redfeld, S. D., were
f,nh A "a In a we'll on their farm.
sra.t Dafz was overcome by gas while
sn5.a IN the we'll. The others de-
ss,s' 'u one at time in an attempt to
D'in' and all met the same fate.
is srS British ship County of Had
CuiisI ' w which has just arrived out at
lent NJ, wales, reports terrible acci-
as % " ~ happened last December,
IL CoI VIC vessel was getting away from
he nS ,unoia river, after letting &c
I spt u.s. hawser. Four seamen were
Ill and AND 70 unturl the main topgallani
But sE one of them named Edward
d h. @pped and fell to the deck, break
epp ; neck and both of his legs, death
Aded Simultaneous .. The body was
ep No, a. sea the same day, and the
aai nm r0I < ON her way, making .
aSs IS,ackay was run over and killed
o. southern Pacific yards at Salem,
At srr steamer Nicaragua, which hal
es Of .ea In New York, brings the
eaads Of disastrous u earthquake in the
THE w. 1uadaloupe and Montserrat
u. roe aA group, in the West In.
10, and Oie ;, hundred people lost thei,
soa @4 T the property damage is enor.
@pe .a a~elve brick houses in Guada
slhbssd1 u six in Montserrat were de-
ID Msmos ana scores of others crackel
~SQ DIV tho c1