The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-02-23
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News of the World.
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Tvo Hemispheres Presented
in a Condensed Form.
Can Brooke cables from Havana an
.nncips the death of Captain Oliver
n nO smith, commissary, from acute
nephritis
Dan Graves, Alexander Clark and
u,;l Johnson, Collins county farmers,
WA frozen to death Saturday night
near Dallas Tex.
Tho sanate has passed bill creating
..a Office of admiral of the navy.
p D., Admiral Dewey, it is understood,
iii he named for the position.
n, Monday an ocean liner in dis
,.ass was sighted off Dread ledge, in
-ramns.ott bay, Mass. The life-sav-
II, crew could not reach her on &C.
count of the ice.
Tho outbreak at Manila has enliven-
Il husness at the United States re-
..,,;t;ro office in Portland. Nineteen
mOro men mustered out Of the Eighth
california we're enlisted last week.
Tho senate has confirmed the nOmi-
,ot;on of G.. J. Bell, assistant secre-
,o,v Of the treasury, and that of Lieu
,onant. Colonel +. NJ. Coke, to be a.
,iotant paymaster- general OF the army.
Otis wires the war department list
of Deaths in his command since Febru-
uv A. not including those of men killed
in action. They number nine. Among
the names appear those of Private Dam
iel Kyger and W. Chopwood. First
Washington, and Michael P. Crowley,
Second Oregon.
Sneaker Reed was not at the capitol
Monday, and Sent word he thought 1t
advisable to adjourn on account OF the
storm. Less than a hundred mem ben
we're present, and those who braved
the storm refused to adjourn, and went
on with consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill.
There is reported serious hitch in
the work of the Anglo American COM
mission. The obstacle is said to be Q
demand made by the Canadian COM
mission for the cession of the town OF
Skagway, Alaska. The American com.
missioners have definitely refused to
reded that gateway to the Yukon.
Terrible billiards. swept over the
South, East and Middle West Sunday
and Monday. The winds went 80 high
On the Atlantic seab0ard that ocean
steamships were st0rm-bound in the
harbors Nine big Atlantic liners due
at New York Saturday had not put in
their appearance Monday. Intense
sold accompanied the storm and much
suffering is reported. The cold wave
extends from the Atlantic to Western
Texas
The Spanish government has decided
not to sell the Caroline islands.
The secretary of war has given orders
tOi the mastering out of the Third regi.
ment of immunes, now stationed al
Santiago and vicinity.
The notifications appropriation bill,
Mlt will be recommended by tine com.
mlttee, carries 81, 744.79S, as against
estimates of 1851, 1893.
1t is said the administration will
uphold Chief Justice Chambers, al
Apla, in his selection of Malietoa Tan
Us as king of the Samoan islands.
The secretary of war reports thai
SICKNESS IN some of the American regi.
ments In the Philippines is high as L
Der cent, but the average is about Ia
per cent.
Inc report of the war investigating
submission is in the hands of the pres
ment, and the commission is dissolved
Duflng the investigation 500 witnesses
we're examined.
MANY accounts of deaths from frees
ny, ny are reported from the East. Al
Huntington, Ind, ]. w. Hinkle, wht
as served several terms as sheriff, wal
h nulen to death while going to hi,
nOlle' Near Dayton, O., Martin Dufin
81 suffered like fate while feedin,
bis hogs.
h. ane Filipino junta at Hong Konl
nI Is issued statement in which it j,
@'ned that the American soldier
r; the recent battle at Ma
INA and that the bombardment of tn,
W MINIS OF Malate, Pace, Santa Ana ant
vam aOoh caused the slaughter of 1000
"Omen and children.
Ooa contract has been let for two H..
ra U,sOn steamships for the Pacific Mai
90, @mship Go. They will be the larg
,.,s 81 Lar built at an American ship
tb.n' u tneir dimensions being greate
lou hose of the American liners St
bstusa ana st. Paul. They are to pl,
wen San Francisco and China.
ebu, n,nese rebels are raiding Christian
A, Cho and driving out missionaries
man @ ~ Yang and Liechuan the Ro
and "a chapels have been burne.
nerh no houses of the native church
hund,e1 nave been destroyed. Severa
ROM u children under the care of tn,
been Catholics, are said to hay,
Eua;t'a io~hed by the raiders nea,
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