The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-08-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
rrom all Parts of the New
and Old World.
,D,rF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
r.bensive Review Of the Import-
ant Happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.

rent Week.
voman's Klondike syndicate haa
Lam organized in New York city.
Tho transatlantic liner st. Paul has
Ain lowered her record across the
ocean.
Mrs c. A. Shurte and her two chill
,,an were suffocated by smoke in their
Lome at Arlington, Or.
Ward has been received in New York
s.,n, Calcutta that the Indian relief ex-
orion which left San Francisco last
ff,ra has arrived safely. The cargo,
+ is said. will be more acceptable even
than expected.
wind. rain and hailstom which
rossad over Northern Wisconsin did
mare than 500, 900 damage to the to-
bocco farmers on Coon prairie, the
heart OF the growing section of the
eouptv. Fully four-fifths of the crop
is destroyed.
A rich gold find is reported from the
Snarta district in Union county, Ore
ron The find has caused no little ex-
ftement, and big amount of quartz
has been boxed up for shipment direct
ia the mint. 1t is estimated that it
will 20 at least $40, 900 to the ton.
For month or more people living
near Bald Knob, Ark, have been find
ug valuable pearls in a lake near that
place. Hundreds of people have been
onpning mussel shells N search of the
rearIs, and some of the gems have been
found, some being sold for as much as
$500.
Either crazed by liquor or laboring
under deusion that he was being per-
secuted John Thomas, prospector
lately from Fort Steele district, started
siusilade with a revolver on the streets
Of Spokane, which resulted in MORALLY
vOunding two men and painful injuries
to another man and boy.
A special to the Toronto Globe from
Ottawa says that the Dominion govern
ment has received several important
decisions in regard to the Yukon coun-
try, and the working of the gold fields
there. 1t has been decided to appoint
an administrator for the district, who
will have entire charge of all the Can
allan officials there and be the chief
executor for the government.
Freight rates have been reduced con-
sderably by the o. R. & N. and N. P.
to British Columbia points.
The Seattle Coal & Iron Company
men at Issaquah, Wash, have quit
work They want more pay, and object
Da deduction by weight for carloads
having slate and shale.
The government armOr board met in
Washington and accepted the offer of
Cramps to furnish diagonal armor for
the battleship Indiana. The govern
ment price was satisfactory.
The New York Tribune, in discussing
events that led up to the assassination
ct Canovas, makes the statement that
the government is responsible for the
Use and progress of anarchy in Spain.
An explosion of lamp started fire
In load of hay in livery barn in
lewiston, Idaho. The flames spread
With great swiftness, and before they
could be suppressed caused total loss
GSll, 900.
+. L. Johnson, while driving band
Of horses near the Pine Creek reserve,
In Baker county, Oregon, bent over to
annk out OF stream in the ravine,
hlS revolver fell out of his pocket, and.
exploding, killed him instantly.
An official dispatch received in Con-
Santlnople says several thousand Ar
nenlan agitators from Persia invaded
Turkey and killed 200 of the Migriki
nloe, including women and children.
Inc wife of the chief was put to death
Win the most cruel tortures, and sew
Vfal other victims had their noses and
ears cut off.
Oonsul-General Hayward, in report
" The state department., states that
uuIlns 1896 American vessels number
Ng ~, of 243, 9S3 tons, entered Ha-
'Allan ports, while vessels of all other
aAuonallties numbered 1879, of 234, Ola
~ns' These are the only foreign ports
aHere majority of the carrying trade
snow under the American flag.
UoIll has confessed that he killed
sTnor Canovas to avenge the Barcelona
rnlaFehlsts, and the insurgent leader,
ron Jose Rial, who was executed at
.% va Philippine islands. December
" last' as the instigator of the Philip
sHe revolution. DIR. Rial denied that
~ Was rebel leader, but he admitted
-, vat ne had drawn up the statutes OF
~e Philippine league.
a., PORTLAND, Ind, dispatch says: A
ss. ~: Grand Rapids & Indiana
asht train went through the bridge
FAnhing the Wabash river mile
sS',n OF Geneva. The engine and
A. ,''l " Tell into the river and cars piled
r .nem' Engineer Barney Reid and
ny agHian James Gallagher went down
It'll the engine. The former had both
i, : crushed, and was otherwise badly
!uFed. He will die. Fireman Gal
ssler and Brakeman James Clifford
e severely injured
a result of war between Atlantic
t lines, freight is being carried
AL. bm New York to Galveston for 2 cents
hundred weight.
b. aaCcordlng to dispatch from Copen-
Nss's.n' received in London. Captain
bo ~-'ensen, of the bark Ansager, bound
tb su q dublin to Omega, at the mouth Of
n.. mega river, on the White sea, re-
5.,a s mat on July Is, when about two
en-, Nc sail east of North cape, the north
Ar luost point of Europe, then being in
bnn waters, he saw collapsed bal
~ which he believed to be Andree'A