The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-02-02
LATER NEWS.

WHICH LILO lattoI lOICIUly Expresses ulu.
self against expansion.
According to figures published at
Madrid, $4,000 Spanish soldiers per-
shed, chiefly through sickness, during
the last campaign in Cuba.
1t is reported in Havana that Gen.
eral Rabi, with 1900 Cuban insur-
gents, has taken to the hills in Santa
Clara, in defiance of American author.
tiles.
A battle has taken place at San An
Gamma, Ecuador, between government
troops and insurgents. Four hundred
men were killed and 800 wounded, and
400 insurgents were taken prisoners.
The premier, Senior Sagasta. has an
nounoed that the government had de-
cided to convoke the cortes during the
second half of February, whether the
United States senate ratifes the peace
treaty or not.
A bicycle saddle combine is to be or
ganized and capitalized at 1000, 600
preferred and $500 common stock.
Those already in line are said to pro-
duce 90 per cent of all the saddles used
In North America and fair percentage
of those used abroad.
Considerable alarm is felt in admin
istration circles over the possibility
that Spain and Germany may recognize
the Philippine republic = Germany
from interested motives and Spain to
free the 5000 or 10000 Spanish troops
held as prisoners by Aguinaldo.
The strike which has been in prog
ress at Colon, Colombia, for nearly
fortnight, among the dock laborers, has
extended to Panama. partly owing to
the fact that the CHILEAN line of steam
ers has increased the wages of its en-
ployes. thereby acoentuating the dead
lock.
John F. Kennedy, who attained no.
toriety in connection with the numer-
GUS train-robberies and other crimes in
the vicinity Of Kansas City, has been
held without bail at Mansfield, Mo-.
for hearing before the grand jury Of
Wright county on a charge of train
robbery.
The Planters bank, at Kansas City.
with a capital Of $25. 900, has been
clio. ed by the state. The proprietors
are under arrest by order Of Secretary
of State Leseur andAssistant Attorney
General Jeffries. The bank has no Wis.
ible assets, it is alleged, whatever.
The second annual convention of the
National Livestock Association is in
session at Denver. Nearly 1000 dele
gates are present.
Governor g. A. Culberson has been
elected by reclamation in the Texas
legislature to be United States senator,
to succeed Roger Q. Mills.
Amalgamation of the copper mine
interests of the Houghton, Mich. dis
trict and of Montana has been delayed
by the severe illness of Levy Mayer.
Judge E. w. Woodbury.. who framed
the first prohibitory liquor law enacted
by the Maine legislature. is dead at
his home in Bethel. in that state, aged
81 years.
The fourth annual convention Of the
National Association of Manufacturers
is in session in Cincinnati. 1t is
thought a full attendance OF 1900
mem bers will be present.
The Spanish minister Of war has de-
cided to abolish military marshals. to
retire half Of the unattached generals
and to greatly reduce the number OF
officers on the active list in the interest
of retrenchment.
A dispatch from Washington says:
There is reason to believe that the va
cancy in the Angio-American joint
high commission caused by the death OF
Mr.. Dingley will soon be filled by the
appointment of Representative Tawney.
of Minnesota.
The commissioners sent by the Cuban
assembly to Washington to learn what
the United States government will do
about paying the Cuban army. have
sailed for Havana. General Gomez
secretary, Captain Kohly. said that the
commission had obtained part OF what
they asked.
No more names will be considered
for appointment to any branch OF the
postal service in Cuba. The Postofnce
department has been overwhelmed with
applications for these appointments,
and enough eligible names are now on
file to fill all possible emergencies for
five years to come.
Heavy rains. unusual in this lati-
tude at this time of the year. have In
jured the spring crop of sugar cane in
Nicai aqua. The coffee crop in Mica
ragua, now being gathered. will not ex-
coed half of the annual crop. Laborers
are asking high prices to gather the
harvest, and are indisposed to work.
A somewhat serious state OF Affairs
prevails on board the Philadelphia,
now in the harbor at San Diego. Since
the arrival Of the vessel, nearly or quite
80 members OF the crew have deserted.
and OF these Is have been recaptured.
The men say they were denied shore
leave at Central American and Mexican
ports, but promised it when they should
reach an American port, but since ar
irving here very few have been per-
mitted to come ashore.
The two richest prima d0nnas are
Adeline Patti and Sibyf Sanders0n.
Pensions have been granted to tho
widows of Capt. Allyn Capron and
Capt. Allyn X. Capron, father and