The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1898-01-13
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
rent Week.

"Ae A@PPOAAAhSs Va CAAC OOXs
rent Week.
The sultan is negotiating for the
building Of a irst-class armored
cruiser.
The steamer Concho has arrived in
New York from Havana with 968 bales
Of Cuban tobacco.
The English engineers announce that
they have plenty of funds and intend
to continue their strike.
1t is reported that the Afridis are
assembling in tribal council, with
view to concluding peace.
Eight of the principal buildings in
Lebanon, Tenn, were destroyed by
fire Thursday night, with loss of
$4,000.
The death rate of Chicago for the
year was IA in the thousand, the lowest
recorded for any city of over 900, 900 in
habitants.
The British bark Taymount, bound
from Liverpool for San Francisco, is
now 224 days overdue, and her owners
have given her up.
John Williams, at Marseilles, O., at
tackled Mrs. Flint and cut her so badly
with knife that she is not expected to
live. He then fatally cut himself.
British bark Samaritan, from San
Francisco. arrived in Liverpool consid-
erably damaged from hurricane
which she encountered December %.
Walter Gregory and Philip McNelly
were instantly killed by switching
engine on the track in the yard of the
Murden Boiler Works at Philadelphia.
A thief stole 81, 900 worth of jewelry
from the house of Volney Mallett, pres
dent of the Indiana National bank, Of
indianapolis, while the family were at
dinner.
Joseph Lockley, clerk of the manager
of the McHenry Estate Association. has
disappeared from New York, after Sc
curing several thousand dollars by
raised checks.
A fortnightly steamer service be-
tween this coast and Australia will
commence in February, the Canadian
Pacific line and the Oceanic line alter
mating their sailing dates.
French bark LON bard, from Mobile,
Ala, sunk while entering the port OF
Cette, France. Five of the crew, in
Guiding the captain, were drowned,
and eight were saved.
Mrs. Sarah McGovern, wife Of one
of the wealthiest residents of Rankin,
Pa, was shot and killed at her home
Friday night, and her husband has
been arrested for murder.
A new law went into effect on the
first of the year in Massachusetts,, pro-
viding that not over 80 per cent of the
inmates of any penal institution in
the state shall be employed i'll any one
industry.
A line of steamers is to be estab-
iished between Valparaiso and San
Francisco.
Five shots fired by an unknown per-
son into a saloon at Picton, Col, killed
Robert Mandolin, the proprietor, and
Dave Evans, and carried away portion
of the chin of Dick Owens.
A council of the Uintah and White
River Utes was held Friday, and an
agreement finally made to consummate
the sale of their lands on the terms pro-
posed by the commission.
A destructive wind storm visited
Chattanooga Friday. A large frame
church and considerable other minor
damage was done. The wind WIS fol.
lowed by a heavy snow storm.
ytadimer Bourtzeff, editor of the
Narodnaya Voltz, and, Wierzbecki,
printer of that paper, have been COM
mitted for trial in London for publish
ing articles melting persons to assas-
sinate the czar.
The trustees appointed by Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst to obtain architectural
plans of the buildings and grounds for
the University of California have COM
pleted the plan of an international COM
petition which is to be issued lmmedl-
ately.
Colorado will not join the combina-
ton proposed among certain Western
states to biennially inspect the books
of large Eastern life insurance COM
panies as condition precedent to per-
hitting them to do business in those
states.
Morris Mueller and Victor Goldstein
attempted to drag William Smith, q
passer-by, into secondhand store in
St. Louis. Smith drew pistol and
fred several shots. Mueller is ID the
hospital dying, Col istein has some
bullet holes In his arm, and Smith is IN
jail
The building trades council OF San
Francisco has Endorsed the action OF
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald in urg-
ing the annexation of Hawaii, advocat-
ing the eight-hour labor law and the
Naturalization law, and striving to
have clause inserted in the specinca-
ton for the new postoffice requiring all
stone to be dressed in San Francisco
E. g. Tripiett, president of the
Algorn agricultural and medical college
for colored people, near Rodney, Miss
was shot and fatally wounded by some
unknown assassin.
James w. Miller, of Pittsburg, has
closed a contract to deliver 1000, DOC
tons of "a per cent Messaba iron ore
on the douks at Cardiff, for the Cardln
Iron Founders Company. This is the
largest ore deal ever contaminated, the
amount involved being $40. 0o0, 900, on
which Miller gets commission o.
$500. GOO.