The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1898-01-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Cur

ant happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.
The controller of the currency has
declared dividend in favor of the First
National bank of Helena, Mont, of 10
per cent.
The Field Colum bian museum at
Chicago has put in series of casts of
Pueblo Indians, clad in garments pur-
chased from Indians.
County Judge ]. 81. Carpenter, of
Madison, Wis, has decided that
,hild cannot be legally adopted without
consent of both parents, if living.
The Western Union Beef Company
has sold 5000 head of steers off its
Texas ranch to Clinton Anderson, of
Wyoming, and will retire from BUSH,
ness.
Ore assaying $652 in gold and SO in
silver to the ton was discovered two
miles from Adams Springs, Lake coun-
tv, California, and the district is wildly
excited.
George Dobbs and Mrs. Emeie New,
Jointly indicted for the murder of the
Iatter's husband at Eureka, Kan, have
been convicted of murder in the second
degree.
Patrick A. Largely, president of the
State Savings bank, and one of the best
known citizens of Butte, was shot and
killed in the bank building by Thomas
J. Riley.
The Steer mansion at hyatt, one of
the best known residences along the
shore of Narragansett bay, Rhode
Island, was burned to the ground Sat-
urday night.
An insane man named Ramon Vivesa
created sensation in the cathedral at
Madrid, by firing several revolver
shots. He was arrested and will be
sent to an insane asylum.
Civil Engineer A. @. Menreal, U. S.
N, will be brought to cOurt-martial on
n account of the faulty character of the
work of cons truction of dry dock No. 8,
approved by him.
The Spanish minister of finance has
j abandoned the idea of floating loan
A on the guarantee of the Almaden quick
81 silver mines.
The members of the family and the
81 immediate friends of Secretary Alger
are seriously disturbed about his ILL
hess. His physicians now fear that
he has typhoid fever General Alger
has been confined to his bed for more
than three weeks.
The mule spinners of Lowell and
mission to strike by the mule spinners'
al union and an assessment of 20 cents
81 per week was levied on the members
OF the union. Delegates representing
every mill center in New England were
present.
A dispatch to the London Mail from
Hong Kong says it is reported there
that England, Japan and Russia have
81 arrived at an agreement respecting
8 Corea The details of the agreement
are not known to the correspondent,
but the dispatch says the British fleet
is returning to Hong Kong.
The Creek council. in spite of the
E message of Secretary Bliss, through In
dian Agent Wisdom, warning them not
k to 10 so, has passed an act appropria-
"A ting $780, to be used in employing
81 attorneys to fight the constitutionality
"a OF the act of congress giving the United
M States courts full jurisdiction after
III January /.
Francis D. Newton, a prosperous
farmer of Brookfeld, Mass, his wife
Sarah, and their 10-year-old adopted
daughter, Ethel, were found murdered
in their beds. The crime was discov-
cred by neighbors, whose curiosity was
aroused by the believing of unfed cat
tie The three had been killed with
an AK. A hired man named Paul il
missing.
John Lincoln, of Bolshow, Mo has
applied to the Marysville board OF ex'
animation for a pension. Lincoln and
his sister, Mrs. Washington Hoshor, OF
Marysville, were second cousins oil
Abraham Lincoln. John Lincoln en-
listed early in the '6O's in the Fourth
Missouri and served in that regiment
for three years. He then enlisted in
the 18th Missouri cavalry. and served
to the end of the war. Before he was
finally mustered out he fought Indians
f. on the plains for some time.
Fred Lewis, a prisoner in the Seattle
city Jail, committed suicide in his cell
by hanging himself with pocket hand
ierchief, which was fastened to hook
Used in suspending hammock. Lewis,
Fho was waiter in hotel. had fight
On New Years day with Joseph Kurtz,
the head cook, in which he strucE
hurtz on the head with an icepick.
INJECTING wound from the effects Of
which Kurtz died. Lewis was arrested,
but no formal charge had yet been made
against him, pending the result Of
hurtz' wounds. When the news o.
Aurtz' death was conveyed to Lewis
he showed great agitation, and short
time afterward took his own life.
At session of the Augusta, Ga.
city council, Councilman Goug got into
controversy with Jailer Collins, ane
reached for a guu Peacemakers In
'erfered and quiet was restored.
The civil service debate which wal
lnaugurated in the house week az
has been ended. It opened with row
bot ended very tamely. There was moi
e'en vote on the appropriation IN thu
e5ecutiye, legislative and judicial ap'
pfOpriation bill for the commission
UPON which the debate was predicted