The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-21
lOINGS OF THE WEEK
What Has Happened In the
Civilized World.
GIVEN m THE PRESS DISPATCHES
,o+s Review of the News Of the
Past Seven Gays In This and
Ali Foreign Lands.

Tho town of Antelope, Or. has been
.,nost totally destroyed by fire.
c,oat military hospital under tents
10 established at Fort Monroe.
ell, another cabinet crisis is report
, ~ snain. All the ministers have
.ondprei their designations. and Sagas-
10 10 form new cabinet.
p,orce's new minister, NJ. de l..
c..aa has notified the Spanish ambas-
O aIor at Paris, Senior Leon Castillo, that
.bo French government is ready to ten
". Wv tba GOOD Offices of the French am
sossodor at Washington in opening
mutations for peace if the Madrid
,oSs,nment will permit it to do SO.
Ambassadors at Madrid have ex-
,.as.ed desire that negotiations for
peace be opened at once. The senti-
mont in favor of peace is said to be
mining in strength throughout Spain.
Tho Madrid government favors the
movement if it implies only the loss OF
Cnba No peace overtures have been
received at Washington.
A dispatch from Nicaragua says Ae-
Iavs's government has released several
hundred political prisoners. A coali-
tion is being planned and representa-
t;vas Of Salvador, Honduras and Nicar-
o,ra have held a meeting with the
nnrnose Of forming a union to succeed
the greater republic of Central Ameri-
ca, which is thought to be upon the
eve of dissolution.
General Shafter has sent revised
and corrected report of the casualties
before Santiago July /, 2 and 3. 1t
slightly increases the number killed
and wounded, as given in the first re-
mort, and is as follows: Killed, %
officers, 2OS men; wounded, 80 officers.
1.O2S men, missing, 81; total, 1885.
General Shafter is of the opinion that
the number of missing will be reduced
somewhat
The movement Of the American army
on Porto Rico may he said to have be-
gun. The continued forwarding of
additional troops to Santiago, when it
IS recognized that Shafter has as large
an army as he needs to hold that town,
is in reality the laying of the founda-
ton OF the Porto Rican evolutionary
iMce An effort will be made to avoid
The mistakes of the Santiago campaign.
The expedition to 90 against Porto Rico
will consist OF between $4,000 and So
900 men.
Captain Rowell, second officer, was
killed during the ombardment of San
tiagO, Sunday.
Major-General Otis is authority for
the statement that the regiment to be
stationed at Honolulu has not yet been
selected.
William Jennings Bryan's regiment
of Nebraska infantry has been ordered
to JOIN General Fitzhugh Lees corps at
Jacksonville.
A force OF 10000 men is to be kept
contantly in our Southern coast to serve
as re endorsements for our troops in
Cuba if needed.
II Is reported from London that the
spanish government is preparing to send
additional troops to Porto Rico by the
fastest steamers 6lo
1he war department has instituted q
system of bulletins for the benefit oil
ue public, giving quick and concise in
iO'na'lon OF important happenings.
The encouragement of Great Britain
HAS ruled that in evicting the Spanish
spies from Canada the Canadian gov.
eminent Is not liable to be sued fol
damages
hospital train bearing the wounded
10 Fort Mcpherson was in a rear-end
vOlllsion six miles south of High
springs, Fla. No one was hut, but q
private car was demolished.
ine refugees from Santiago are be.
CVning serious military problem te
''iefal Shalter. The most intelli.
gent OF the refugees say that only a few
S S. soldiers have recently entered
an'iaso-not more than 1000. They
a'poft friction between General Toral
ana General Linares.
al AL inc warships of Camara's feet
5an reu from re- Port Said for Spain, Mon.
I ay The Spanish admiral was al.
S S"ea 10 transship 600 tons of coal from
;n H." Ausstine in the harbor, on furnish
nnsS written guarantee that the Pelayt
w' u'eu IT, and that the entire squadron
Sn >" iesurnlng to Spain direct. The
fr r%n'Sl, tordedo-boat destroyers sailed
SAM ,aessina, Sicily, for home thu
nni ine brooklyn, Indiana and Texas
tho Commodore Schley, bombarded
Srna I''y OF Santiago at 5:1O O'CLOCK
oH 'ay afternoon In obedience to a re
h. bres' from General Shafter conveyet
Eno Ishai from shore. The warshipl
tar -, up rom the east to west, a quar-
tba u u mile from shore, and fired owe,
the SOL cliffs that come down t
tan, cd "a and hide the city, FIVE miles dis
hon., lie COMMANDMENT continued on.
Co.,. MINOR News Items.
NPdlu Is armipu q xb;I a
" nave 1t at sea in five weeks.
vaca ,esldent Mckinley will take \.
ioh until the war c,is;s !. Yassod