The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-08-10
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphit
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in q Condensed Form.

The messenger boys of Boston have
roue on strike for an increase OF pay.
The cup-challenger Shamrock j,
about ready to start for New York.
Henry Willard is visiting POI tland for
the first time since 1891.
Martin Dotz, said to have married
six women, all but two of whom are
now living, was arrested in Chicago.
Admiral Kautz has raised his flag
on the battleship Iowa. which is now
the flagship of the Pacific squadron.
The garrison at Fort Monroe has
been ordered 20 move north AS a pre-
caution against yellow fever.
New York and San Franc isco capt.
talists will start a national bank in
Hawaii about September /.
Ex.Ambassador Eustis has written
the facts in the Dreyfus case and they
are soon to be published.
The North Dakotas. Wyomings and
Hahos have left Manila on the trans
port Grant.
Fred L. Ballau, of company H. First
Washington. was wounded in the
shoulder during the capture of Ca
lamba.
Bombthrowers are making life miser.
able for the population of Seoul.
Seventeen persons have been arrested
by the police.
The Al-Ki has arrived in Seattle
with $4,000 in Alaska gold. One
third of the amount is from the famou,
Treadwell mines.
Governor Jones. of Arkansas says so
long as negro Outragea upon white wO-
men continue in the South there is no
remedy for lynchings.
Admiral Sampson has entered suit
libelng the Spanish vessel Maria
Teresa and claims large prize money
for the battle of Santiago.
Brakeman Constable was killed.
Fireman Goldsworthy fatally and Con-
ductor Frame seriously injured in q
wreck near Winslow. Ariz.
Governor Poynter was on hand to
welcome the Nebraskans. They were
given great ovation by the citizens OF
San Francisco and are now in camp at
the Presidio.
The monthly statement of the gov.
eminent receipts and expenditures.
show deficit for July of about IS, 518..
900, The total receipts for the month
were $S.U54, 1853.
An officer of one Of the volunteer
regiments now in the Philippines has
written letter to the Associated. Press
saying there shrould be 100, 900 SOL
ders in the islands.
The California volunteers have sailed
for home.
Dreyfus is reported to be seriously i'll
with fever.
American stocks now command con-
ddence throughout Europe.
Caroline islanders want to be an.
nexed to the United States.
President Heureaux. of Santo Do
mlngO, has been assassinated.
The body of the late Robert g. In
gersoll was cremated at Fresh Pond,
Ny.
The fight between the linseed oil
combinations has been amicably ad-
lusted.
The messenger boys strike in Pitts
burg has been settled. The boys claim
victory.
At Hartford City, Ind. Ralph Shelby.
9-year old boy, was thrashed to death
by his playmates.
Otis reports another engagement
with bandits in Cebu, in which Ameri-
can forces were victorious.
A Chicago negress is alleged to have
attempted the stealing of four children
within an hour. She is now in Jail.
-Four life-timers in the Columbus,
u, penitentiary were so unruly that
special steel cells were built for their
Incarceration.
Otis has been cabled to send volun.
teels home as soon as possible. it being
The desire of the president to have no
delay in the matter.
William H. Proctor, who went to
california in lS49, remained there ID
Years and accumulated fortune. 10
uead In Brooklyn, aged "a years.
1t has been decided to discontinue
.ne use of coal az fuel on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road and to substitute coke for II on
all locomotives.
United States manufacturers will b
pehehted by our new treaty with
france. Farmers, however. will 70.
'eiVe no help. as maximum duties will
stay On agricultural products.
The Illinois Central has . new COM
petltor on business from Chicago to
'he gulf The St. Louis & South Nost-
T @rh Is building a connecting link -
chicago and Eastern Illinois.
Two syndicates, one including the
,icnest and most powerful men in Eng
a"d' the other representing the largest
financial interests in the United States,
lave combined to build more than
~'0oO miles of railroad in China.
lie report on the production Of cop
,er IN 1898 has just been submitted to
S .e united States geological survey BY
,; peoiai Agent Kirchhoff. The produc-
WI IN the United States in that year
ta. o@o' 1875. 59l pounds, which is BY
' 'ne largest product ever reported.