The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1898-01-06
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

HAllle ana NdluO Olen, CI1ldr0n.
were asphyxiated by coal gas at their
home in Leipsic, O.
The barge Canistee, which went
adrift off Cape Cod, has been found in
Barnstable bay, with all the crew we'll.
The Auditorium at Kansas City, re-
gently burned, will be rebuilt at once,
and will be ready for occupancy Sep
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In saloon row between Kentucky
mountaineers at Manchester, Will
Burdv, James Philpot and Bob Gregory
were killed.
Veins of gilsonite of sufficient size to
warrant development have been dis
covered on Willow creek in the Middle
Park, Colorado.
NJ. Tunakoshi, Japanese vice-consul
at San Francisco, has been hurriedly
recalled to Toxic. 1t was thought he
would be secretary to the legation at
Washington.
The French embassy at Washington
denies that M. Maillard passed through
Washington en- route to Cuba to invest
gate for his government the conditions
on the island.
Jacob Stryer and wife were cremated
in their burning farmhouse in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania. Within 48
hours, six others burned to death in
that county.
Frederick Walsen, state treasurer of
Colorado, was married to Miss Emma
Storck, aged %. After the war, Wal
sens broken health was nursed back by
the brides mother.
The burgomaster of Wieschowitz, a
suburb of Prague, has been arrested.
Many compromising papers concerning
the recent riots in Prague were found
in his possession. 1t is alleged that he
assisted in placing the bomb under the
German schoolhouse at Wieschowitz,
which the Czechs attacked and at
tempted to demolish recently.
Fire destroyed the large pipe organ
in the Great Northern hotel, Chicago,
entailing loss of $4,000. Although
the fire was confined entirely to the
organ, it sent out such clouds of smoke
that many of the guests became
alarmed, and serious panic was mar
rowly averted.
Sheepmen in Southern Colorado are
losing thousands of sheep by snow and
extremely cold weather.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany has reduced wages of car repairers
at Superior 25 cents day.
The schooner Ballora Loherman,
Captain Plummer, from South River,
N. j., for Boston, foundered without
warning Sunday morning off Highland
Lights. No lives were lost.
Charles w. Winkler, brakeman on
the Columbia & Puget Sound railway,
was run over by coal car and killed
in the Seattle yards. Winkler form
erly lived in Butte City, CAL, where
he has relatives.
A bomb, made of gas pipe and filled
with powder, was exploded in the Ger
man theater, in Olatuez, Monrovia.
Little damage was done, but the incl
dent caused great excitement among
the German residents.
The Turkish government, replying to
the representations of Greece, has ex-
planned that the firing upon the Greek
gunboat Actium by the Turks at Per-
vassa, on Saturday last, as the vessel
was leaving the gulf of Ambracia, was
due to misunderstanding.
Jacob Sarigs, of Ooramiah, Persia,
now in Cincinnati, giving talks on
Persia and Armenia, has just received
a letter from friends in his Persian
home, informing him that band OF
raiders from Koordestan had massacred
all the inhabitants of Persian Chris
tian town, 500 souls, near Salinas,
Persia.
Peter French, prominent cattle
man and landowner of Harvey county,
Oregon, was killed by a man named
Oliver. 1t is reported that the deed
was cold blooded murder. The VIC
tim was shot in the back of the head,
the bullet coming out between the eyes.
A land DISPUTE is said to have been the
cause of the trouble.
The Overman Wheel Company. OF
Chicopee Falls, Mass, has made an as
signment for the benefit of its creditors.
Henry B. Bowman, president OF the
Springfield National bank, has been
appointed trustee. Albert h. Over
man is president of the company, and
the principal owner and has given out
statement showing that, on Novem-
Der 10, last. the assets we're $i,3lS,0oo
and the liabilities $539, 900.
Frank 6. Farley was accidentally
shot and instantly killed by Ed. Alvord,
In Tekoa, Wash. Both men were y.
L. & N. conductors. At the coroner
Inquest, the evidence showed that Al
word was turning the cylinder Of re-
Volver SO the hammer would not rest on
cartridge. The weapon was. dis
charged, and Farley fell and expired
without uttering word. The jury ex-
onerated Alvord.
Stenographers employed by the de-
tense in the Luetgert case have struck
Attorney Harmon will ask the state to
furnish copy of the testimony eacn
DAY On the ground that Luetgert has no
money to pay for stenographer.
Frank Murphy, . San Francisco
patrol wagon driver, admitted that be
bred the shot that struck Baldwin
Gardiner. the stock broker, Christmas
night. He fred two shots at Stroll.
the burglar, one of which struck Gard
'ner, and may cause his death.