The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-12-29
LATER NEWS.
Senator Mcbride of Oregon. has In.
troduced bill making Astoria the ter
minus of the trans-Pacific cable.

Senator Mcbride of Oregon. has In
troduced bill making Astoria the ter.
minus of the trans-Pacifc cable.
According to new time card Of the
Great Northern to 60 into effect Janu-
airy /, the transc0ntinental schedule
will be reduced IL hours.
Congress has adjourned until Janu-
airy 4. After the holiday recess the
rights of General Wheeler and others to
hold their seats will be inquired into.
Among network of wires 90 feet
above the ground, Roderick Chisholm.
a Chicago electrician, was slowly
burned to death in sight of several
hundred spectators.
Colonel E. s. Barrett, national pres
ident Of the Sons of the American Rev.
olution, was killed by falling from a
window of his home at Concord, Mass.
He was 60 years of age.
In Louisville. KY, it is estimated by
the health department that there are
10000 cases of grip. The ravages OF
the disease have been SO widespread
that in some cases business has been
seriously impeded.
Hereafter brooms will cost 2 cents
more apiece. Members of the Broom
Manufacturers Association of the
United States met in Chicago and de.
cided to advance the price of brooms 2E
cents dozen.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
pennsylvania railroad three miles
from Railway, N. j., which resulted in
the loss of two lives and injury to MANY
persons. The killed are William G..
Dewolf, railway clerk; and F. Knight,
colored porter of the sleeping-car.
Two fast moving electric cars collided
on the Worcester q Suburban railroad.
near Leicester, Mass, in dense fog.
John Kerigan. aged 45, of Cherry Val.
ley, weaver land Walter II. Holbrook,
of Leicester, aged 10, a newspaper
man, were killed, and dozen or more
other passengers were more or less seri-
ously wounded.
While examining state documents OF
the 18th century in the Vatican library
recently, Able Cozzaluzzi, assistant
librarian, found the original manu-.
script of treatise by Galileo on the
tides. The manuscript is all in Cali.
leo's handwriting, and ends with the
words written at Rome in the Medici
Gardens on January 8, 1916.
The president has nominated Ethan
A. Hitchcock, of Missouri, to be secre.
tary of the interior. MI. Hitchcock is
at present ambassador to Russia. He
was appointed minister more than a
year ago. and when the rank was raised
to an embassy, he was re-appointed.
He is a wealthy lawyer and business
man of st. Louis, and was fol- some
time an extensive plate-glass manufac-
turer. He is great-grandson of Ethan
Allen, of Revolutionary fame.
The Prince of Wales is promoting a
war against tuberculosis in England.
Secretary Long will soon issue adj
vertisements calling for proposals for
raising the Maine and the Cristobal
Colon, in accordance with the decision
of the board of construction to which
the matter had been referred.
A financial statement just issued by
the Southern Pacific Company shows
that for the month of October the gross
earnings of the company reached
SIS, $50. 725. This is an increase Of
$1,125, 791 over the same month of last
year.
Corliss, of Michigan, has introduced
a bill in the house to facilitate the con-
struction and maintenance of tele-
graph cables in the Pacific ocean be-
tween the United States and Hawaii,
the Philippine islands, Japan and other
countries.
The agricultural appropriation bill
passed by congress contains retaila-
tory clause authorizing the secretary of
agriculture to inspect imported articles
dangerous to health, and also author
izing the secretary of the treasury to ex-
clude such articles. The restriction is
designed to apply to a large number OF
articles imported from foreign coun-
tries.
London advices just received bring
promise that the West Indian colonies
will enter upon the new year with
brighter industrial prospects, owing TO
the successful launching OF the West
Indian Col Operative Union, organized
on the lines Of the California Fruit
Union, and the Irish Agricultural or
ganization, which achieved wonderfully
rapid success.
Great Britain has given another
striking example of friendship Tor the
United States, and at the same time
has taken action which is looked upon
in the light of recognition OF the
sovereignty Of the United States over
the Philippines. A filibustering ex-
petition organized to go to the support
of Aguinaldo has been suppressed at
Hong Kong by order of the British au-
thorities.
The first order for an English railroad
to be received at the Schenectady. n.
Y, locomotive works calls Tor ten
mogul freight engines, which will be
built for the Midland railroad. The
machines will be OF American pattern,
with cylinders 10 inches in diameter.
with 24-inch stroke. and fitted with all
modern appliances. The shipment 81
~ locomotives has just been completed
for the Nippon railroad, Of Japan, and
the works are running night and day
with force of 2. 900 men.