The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-07-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK
from all Parts of the New
and Old World.
,n,rF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
,rehensfye Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.

rent week.
The president has signed the def
,;.p,v appropriation bill.
Miss Jean Ingelow, the distinguished
,.te., and novelist, died in London.
T.. was in her 18th year.
The formation of safemakers' COM
tna which will include almost every
s".rrfarturer in this country, is now
r,lar consideration in New York.
The new light draught gunboat An
rq,olis has been placed in commission
~ tbe navy yard in Brooklyn. The
,,r.ponies were witnessed by large
number of spectators and many naval
gficers.
John A. Creighton was held up at
tq cate of his home in Omaha, Neb.,
anil severely beaten about the head and
,oihei OF a valuable diamond stud and
considerable sum of money. John
,.bpnck, Creighton's brOther-in-law,
who answered his cries for help, was
eI.o robbed of a valuable diamond.
Crpishton's injuries are very severe.
Senator Pritchard announces that the
civil service investigations by the SEN
ate committee on civil service reform
will be discontinued until fall. This
committee will visit Omaha in October
and take testimony in the case of some
alleged violations of the civil service
law there and upon their return may
resume their hearings in Washington.
Yellow Hair and Sam Grow, the two
CHEYENNE Indians who were arrested as
accessories with Eugene Standing Elk
for the murder of John Hoover, over
whose death the late trouble on the
Rosebud reservation occurred, broke
nil at Miles City, Mont, by digging
through an l8-inch wall. A posse il
out securing the country for them, but
with little hope of catching them.
President Mckinley has received the
resolution adopted by the Pittsburg
MIXERS asking him to use his good
Offices in the settlement of the coal
strike, but has not yet sent reply. He
has also received many communications
anil suggestions on the subject, but it
Bimpyobable that he will take any
rtion in the matter in the absence of
some definite plan for the settlement of
the strike.
The freight department of the North
em Pacific has issued a special joint
tariff Of 60 cents on -four and wheat
mama. in carload lots, minimum
weight 24, 900 pounds, effect August, 5,
rom points in Idaho and Washington
10 points in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas
and Missouri. The trunk lines have
asked the Western roads to join them
in movement to allow the transpor-
tation of $50 pounds of baggage to trans
Pacific passengers having first-class
tickets to the Pacific coast and reduced
fare order for the ocean passage. The
request will likely be granted.
Col. c. F. Croker, president of
the Southern Pacific railroad, died at
his home in San Francisco.
The miners strike in the Eastern
states is assuming a desperate aspect.
The miners have appealed to the rail-
Taymen for help.
{. NJ. Shultz, of Chicago, has bought
the Tacoma Ledger and has placed ].
N. Bradley IN editorial management.
The price paid was SIS, 200.
There is great rush from Seattle
and the Sound to the gold fields at
CIndyke. One miner SAYS that many
Will 90 there who will never return.
John Durbin, one of Oregon's oldest
Pioneers and citizens, died at the home
Of his grandson, Duncan Ross, near
Salem. He was nearly 1913 years old.
The pioneer jubilee has been ushered
IN at Salt Lake, and this week will be
Witnessed one of the grandest celebra-
tons ever seen in the inter-mountain
country.
The Japan official press states that it
hNobahle that the Japanese govern
ment Will agree to the proposal of Ha-
Wall and submit the dispute between
ne two countries to arbitration.
The famous Broadmoor Casino, q
$4,000 pleasure resort at Colorado
springs, Colo, was burned to the
ground. The entire loss will be double
mat amount. There was scarcely any
Insurance.
,, Two masked men robbed the Sac and
aox postoffice, so miles from Guthrie,
y l. and secured a quantity of regis
's'ed letters, stamps and a small sum
u money They were after $40, 600
'elng paid the Indians.
". A, Bellwood, well-known
iHlIadelphia merchant, has been ar
t .eS'ed for obtaining jewelry under
.alse pretense. He pawned the jewelry
get money to bet on horse races, and
III TINS way lost $13, 900.
:, lhe Central Labor Union of New
t ivfk' after long wrangle, adopted the
..,'iloWlng resolution: Resolved, That
a appointment of T. " Powderly as
ooHihlssioner of immigration is the
seatest Official insult ever offered by
lDe FEDERAL government to organized la
9, Llnem Pasha, commander-in-chief
u Tie Turkish forces in Thessaly. was
,n Nc recipient of an internal machine,
nAich exploded while it was being
pSsled, severely wounding Edhem
'sia In the arm.
=. 1he tariff bill makes new conces
W., Sl 10 American vessels in the foreign
Que ,aut Or trade between the Atlantic and
ta INC by exempting from interna-
m "nal revenue taxes distilled and fer
A. (n'ed liquors, tobacco and cigars used
supplies on such vessels.