The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-09-29
LATER NEWS.

Cambon. the French ambassador at
Washington, is to be transferred to
Vienna.
General jackson has declined to
serve on the commission to investigate
the conduct of the war department.
General Miller, now in command at
San Francisco, will. it is learned, COM
mand the reinforoements ordered to
Manila.
Gomez has issued a general order to
the army under his command to the
effect that Spaniards must have con-
sideration shown them, and American
orders obeyed.
The navy department has ordered
400 sailors to be sent to Admiral
Dewey's squadron at Manila to take the
place of sailors whose terms of service
have expired.
General Blanco has issued an order
authorizing the soldiers of the Cuban
army to travel unarmed on railway
trains in the provinces of Pinar del Rio
and Havana.
As far as new discoveries went. the
expedition sent out by the university of
Pennsylvania to study North Alaska
from a scientific standpoint has been q
failure. Three men of the party re-
turned to Seattle on the Excelsior.
Nearly $4,000 specimens, weighing
11R tons, were brought back.
The report that the last Spanish gar
rison in the island of Luzon had sur
rendered is premature. The Spaniards
still hold seven seaports in Albay prov
ince. the principal hemp district.
The distur Dances have already resulted
in the diminution of the output of AL
bay hemp by 100000 bales. as COM
pared with last years figures.
Advices from the Orient state that
China and Japan have been visited by
thunder storms and destructive foods,
in which many hundreds OF people have
lost their lives. The region north OF
the Anshang mountains has been inun-
| dated for hundreds of miles by the Vel
low river. Several hundred thousand
persons have been plunged into the
deepest distress. and many into absO-
lutte penury, which local authorities
are unable to alleviate.
News received at San Francisco re-
ports the loss of the schooner G. G.
Funk, on Flanders island, on July 81,
with 10 of her crew. Only two seamen
were saved, and but one body has been
recovered. The list of the drowned is
as follows: Captain and Mrs. Nesson
and two children, aged 8 and years,
respectively; A. Hansen, chief mate;
j. Stump, second mate; Charles Olsen,
Peter Nelson. Charles Joahansen and
Peter Anton. able seamen. The vessel
was driven ashore by gale and went
to pieces in the surf.
Reports from Canton say the revolu-
| tion is as assuming alarming propOrtions.
The cabinet council has reappointed
| General Zurlinden. ex-minister of war.
military governor of Paris.
James Wyland, living near Climax,
Or, committed suicide by shooting
| himself in the head with a rifle.
A threshing engine on the Collins
farm, near Vancouver, WASH, ex.
ploded,. seriously injuring four en-
ployes.
Calixto Garcia has arrived at Jiguani
on his way to Santiago. He will prob
ably visit the United States, where
his daughter Is i'll.
Two horses attached to a wagon al
Dayton, Or, backed over the bank o.
the Yamhill river and fell l50 feet, land
ing in 10 feet of water. Both animals
were rescued uninjured.
Ell Provence, Santiago paper, de-
clares that the fruits of victory shall
not be snatched from the grasp OF tn.
Cubans after they have fought and blee
for 80 years to obtain them.
The coalminer's strike in the third
pool at Monongahela. Pa, is over anf
work has been resumed in all the pitt
pending settlement of the difference
by arbitration. Two thousand miners
are affected.
The wreck Of the American shil
Emily w. Whitney is reported fion
Shanghai, and q number OF the crew
lost. She was lost in a typhoon, which
caused the abandonment OF the Ger
man ship Trinidad.
Pittsburg conductors and brakemer
are on the eve of strike. They de
mand that their wages be increased
sufficiently to place them on an equal
/ ity of the pay received by their bretherI
in other parts of the country.
According to the report current 1t i
believed at Samoa that If her majesty
ship Ringdove had not been at Apia
the Germans would have hoisted thu
German dag there on Malietoa's death
and proclaimed the annexation OF sa
moa.
General Lawton intends to receive
General Garcia as an honored guest
Az he now holds no official position y
the Cuban army, he will be treated 3!
the American commander as distin
euished private citizen and grea
soldier.
| The southern part Of Spain has beef
visited BY terrible floods. At the vii
laee Of Herrera, near Cadis, 80 per
sons were drowned, and great mum
Der Of cattle pe1ished. The olive harv
est il lost. This il especially true p
/ the provinces Of Seville and Grenada
/ There have been many deaths In othe
pa1ts OF the flooded country.
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