The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-12-14
THE NEWS OF THE Week.
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review Of tho Import
ant Happenings OF the Past Week
Cuned From tho Telegraph Columns

Comprehensive Review Of tho Import
ant Happenings OF the Past Week
Culled From tho Telegraph Columns
The British transport Ismore was
driven ashore near Cape Town.
Private Merritt, of Battery B, com.
mitted suicide at San Francisco.
Archbishop Chapelle will sail for
Manila on the transport Sherman.
Thirty eight wheelmen started in a
six-days' bicycle race in New York.
General Methuen is believed to have
resumed the advance to Kimberley.
Four vessels from Brazil are quaran-
tined in New York for fear of plague.
The schooner Eureka, on the beach
near Coquille river, will be total loss.
After S2 days the Glory of the Seas
has arrived at Frisco from Puget
Sound.
The postmaster at Cape Nome reports
to Washington that the district is as
rich as is represented.
Mr.. Taylor, of Ohio, objected to the
swearing in of Roberts, of Utah, as
soon as congress opened.
A big log boom gave away at Che
halls and 100000 feet of logs are
afloat in Gray's harbor.
Appropriations for the three state
schools in Oregon are running short
and the schools may have to quit.
The United States supreme court has
declared that a combination of pipe
manufacturers is unconstitutional.
Section men on the Southern Pacific
near Milwaukee, Or, struck because
they could not 60 home to meals and
lodging.
Eastern woolen mills have bought
1850, 900 pounds of wool in st. Louis
at one sale. 1t is the biggest sale ever
made in the West.
The latest report from the Modder
river camp says the Beers were not
driven to retreat, but marched away in
the right after the battle.
TIE Lake Whatcom Shingle Company
has purchased block of $500 acres
of fine timber, thought to contain 120,-
100000 feet, all in Skagit county.
The purchase price was $50, 900, and
:ailwsy will be built to the timber.
Among the river and harbor improve
ments eestimatd for under continuous
contracts on which the sum asked for
is $1OO, 900 or more are the following:
Oakland, CAL, harbor, $3.50, 900; San
Francisco harbor, $l70, 900; San Pedro
habor, 5000, 900; Everett, Wash, har-
Dor. $3.50, 900; Gray's harbor, WASH,
$345, 200. Also the following river
and harobr improvements: Mouth of
Brazos river, Tex, 1920, 900; lower
Willamette river below Portland, Or,
5000, 900; Columbia river at the cas-
cades, Oregon, $125,O0O; waterway
connecting Lakes Union and Washing
ton, 100000.
The Samoan treaty was signed at
Washington.
This years hop product of Washing
ton amounts to 33, 983 bales.
The new Austrian budget provides
for consul-general in Chicago.
The tone of the Japanese press on the
war in the Transvaal is decidedly pro-
British.
Genreal Joe Wheeler writes that the
Filipino war is being prolonged by tho
antis in this country.
The British railway companies have
agreed to convey free to the port of en-
barkation, all books, papers and peri
odicals intended for use of the troops
engaged in South Africa.
The Hernandez revolution is gaining
ground in Venezuela from day to day,
and is supported by leading members
of the financial and commercial worlds,
who supply the revolutionists with all
the arms and money theyneed.
General Leonard Wood will be the
master of all Cuba under the direction
of the president until the time comes
when congress takes action by provid-
ing q new civil government for the
island.
The British dead and wounded at the
hard-fought battle of Modder river
numbered hundreds. The war depart
ment has given out the information
that the total number of causualties
was 452, and the number killed, 73.
The Boer loss was slight.
Bubonic plague has made its entry
into Japan, five undoubted cases having
been reported at Kobe, three already
proving fatal. The pest Is traced to
cotton imported from China. Much
dismay prevails in the infected city
and the most drastic measures are be-
ing taken by the authorities.
According to late advices the great
drought in Australia was broken in
October. Terrific storms followed, do
ing great damage, epecially to build
ines. The Adamstowr Roman Catholic
school, in which 40 children were as
sembled, collapsed. One scholar was
killed and two others seriously injured.
Chickamagua Is to have q confeder-
ate monument to cost $65, 900.
Baltimore claims the largest negro
population of any city In the world.
The Berlin police forcibly dissolved
an anarchist meeting in memory of the
Chicago bomb throwers.
Commissioner Evans has granted .
pension of $15 per month TO Adelaide
w. Bagley, mother of Lieutenant
Worth Bagley, who was killed In the
var with Spain.