The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-07-27
LATER NEWS.

Italy has subscribed 5000 lire to
Texas flood sufferers.
The Union Pacifc's Ogden Omaha
line will be double tracked.
Secretary Alger has rendered his
resignation. to take effect in two weeks.
Prince Henry of Prussia is in Corea
looking out for the interest of Ger
| many.
The secretary Of the Chicago school
board has confessed embezlement of
$34, 500.
Frances w. Healy, of Vancouver, has
been appointed lieutenant in the reg
ular army.
President Angus Cannon, Mormon
leader, has pleaded guilty to unlawful
cohabitation.
Spanish prisoners are to be ran
somed. the money to be placed in a.
bank until the war ia over.
A fire, origin unknown, destroyed
more than $3.50, 900 worth Of property
on the Brooklyn water front.
The wrecker of the Perth Ami.
bank has been sentenced to six years.
in the New Jersey penitentiary.
The Oregon volunteers think Otis is
incompetent and nearly all are of the
opinion that General Miles should be-
in charge.
A Rome dispatch says there was an
eruption of Mt. Etna, accompanied by
subterl aean noises and a number of Sc
we're earthquake shocks.
New York trolleymen have joined
the Brooklyn trolley men in their big
strike. In Brooklyn dynamite was
used to blow down the elevated struc-
ture.
The price of -four has dropped 20
cents barrel and is now cheaper than
for sometime. The drop is said to be
due to the steady decrease in the price
of wheat.
Abe Rothschild, known throughout
the country as a crook and diamond
thief of the first water, has been con
victed in Texas and given three years
in the penitentiary.
Friends of Major General Shafter are
endeavoring to have him continued in
his present position after his time OF
retirement. 1t is not thought, how
| ever, that congress will accede to this.
The Petrol is cruising around Linga-
yam bay, about 200 miles from Manila.
! The crew is unable to get any fresh
| food or fruit from shore and is com
PEELED to subsist on the regular ships
rations.
A statement prepared at the war de-
partment shows that of Sc officers and
1916 men enlisted of the Second Ore
gon regiment, only 40 were killed in
battle or died of disease during the
campaign in the Philippines. percent
age of 500.
Reports of foreign grain crops ar
unfavorable.
A government assay Office will be
established at Seattle.
Kansas has the biggest corn crop in
sight in the history of the state.
Los Angeles will issue $4,000, 600 in
bonds for purchase of waterworks.
Three tons of gold dust were deposit
ed in one day in the Seattle banks.
Admiral Dewey will be banqueted
by the Americans at Trieste. Austria.
The battleship Iowa has received or
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cisco.
A reciprocal treaty between the Uni
| ted States and the West Indies has been
signed.
The Philippine commission reports
encouraging progress toward pacifica-
ton of natives.
The Addison steel foundry at Gin
cinnati. employing 200 men. burned;
loss, $500, 900.
President Mohler. of the O. R. & NJ,
has been offered the presidency OF the
Big Four system.
BROOKLYN trolley men are without
funds or managers, ansd the strike is
proving 6zzle.
The Shamrock in a race with the
Prince of Wales yacht Brittania easily
beat her Is minutes.
Three were killed and three injured
in a railroad wreck near Portsmouth.
| O., caused by heavy fog.
The administration will ignore the
| Manila correspondents' "round robin, -
| and await favorable news.
The royalties paid to the Canadian
government by Klondike mine owners
| will amount to over $500. 900 this sea-
son.
Five thousand immigrants were
landed in San Francisco last year.
They brought with them a total OF
$3s7.754.
The efforts to form an upper-leather
com bine have succeeded. The new
company, it is said, will be capitalized
for $40, 600. 600.
The Filipino junta will be moved
from Hong Kong to the island OF La
baum. British colony. six miles from
the northwest coast of BoTneo. as the
American officials have watched tie
members of the junta SO closely at
Hong kong that the latter have found
| it i'm possible to supply the insurgents
| with arms.
Admiral Dewey's cabin is stored
/ with remembrances from admirers.
Two sisters, the Misses White, have
/ formed 4 law firm in Grant City, Kan.