The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-06-08
LATER NEWS.
with Russia.

Aiiiou III OnlO ny train running
into hand car.
Signor Chinaglia was elected pres;.
dent OF the Italian chamber of depu.
ties.
Confederate dead's graves we're deco.
rated by Union veterans at Philiadel.
phia.
The queen of Spain has appointed
Martinez Campos to presidency of the
senate.
In Lower California miners are said
to be getting as high as two ounces of
gold to the pan of dirt.
Canada has an eye on Skaeway, if
given the slightest encouragement to
hope fol the concession of a port.
Canadians claim they have discovered
a document which obviates further
question of ownership to Deadman's
island.
The German AMBASSADOR at WASH
ington has protested against the Unit
ed States sending another warship to
Samoa.
The state department has made pub
lie an official abstract of the report OF
the Nicaragua canal commission. 1t
estimates the cost at $118, l13,79O.
Duke de ARGOS, the new Spanish
minister, has arrived. He says this
country is SO powerful, the Philippine
insurgents will soon be compelled to
surrender.
The 10th annual session OF the
Trans Mississippi Commercial congress
opened in Wichita, Kan. with 800
delegates in attendance, and 200 more
reported en- route.
General OTIS force of regulars in the
Philippines will consist of IS Iegi-
ments. and he will have more if he
needs them. President Mckinley has
declared he has no present intention
Of calling out the provisional army. ).
Robert Creighton, quartermaster' 8
clerk ON the transport Sheridan, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the temple with revolver
in San Francisco He recently arrived
here from Manila. Dependency
caused by i'll health is the supposed
cause of his act.
Four thousand of the volunteers now
in the Philippines are reported to have
signed petition to the president and
secretary of war. Praying that they re-
ceive their discharges in Manila, in
stead of at the places of enlistment.
1t was explained that they believed
that the Philippine islands Offered
rare opportunities for industrious and
enterprising Americans to make for
themselves homes.
e. r. Rollins, a rancher at Quilcene.
WASH, was crushed to death by tree
falling on him.
Major Marchand was welcomed with
enthusiasm by the French on his ar
rival at Toulon.
At Paris ex-President Harrison de-
livered the Memorial day Grafton at
the tomb of La Fayette.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
was udu6Xcu Wy otIiAAn& /" A'NSASA1 ~
srtuction in New York harbor.
Frank Bouts, brutal parent, was
killed while he slept by his two young
children, whom he had almost starved
to satisfy his own wants.
A tramp assaulted the l2-year-old
daughter of F. w. Mespelt, near Scio,
Or. az she was returning from school.
| The girl broke away and escaped.
The winter wheat crop of Southern
Russia has been completely destroyed
by a protracted drought. The spring
wheat crop is also in jeopardy from the
same cause.
As a result of the tests made at the
Chicago stockyards by the livestock
commissioners and health officials. 1t
has been discovered that all of % cows
| examined were suffering from tubercu-
losis.
M. de Beaupre created deep sensa-
ton in the French court OF assizes oy
solemnly declaring that he had become
convinced that the bordereau was writ
ten by Major Count Ferdinand Walsin
| EsteIhazy.
Reform in the navy is being talked
of in Washington. A plan for reor'
uan;zation of that department is on
foot. Dewey, it is said, may be placed
at the head of board to pass on pu-
reau matters.
A dispatch from Manila says that
the men from the hospital-ship Reliei
captured by the insurgents OF Para
naoue were the third engineer. another
officer and a boats crew. They were
sailing in q catboat, and natives from
the shore set out in boats and took
| them.
Abraham and Oscar Juntti. brothers,
ore the flrst Columbia river fishermen
ranorted drowned this season. Iheil
hat was capsized on Peacock spit, and
thew sank before the lifesaving crew
could reach them. Another fishing.
hoat containing two men was carried
over the bar. The Point Adams lie.
saving crew went out after them. Du'
WAS unable to pick them up ana re-
turned. What became OF the men Il
not known.
The contract for distributing govern
ment seeds this year has been let y
the AGRICULTURAL department to Charles
psrLer Of Santa Clara. CAL. for &c.,
600.
For The first time in u years, E