The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-08-17
LATER NEWS.
Cleveland strikers blew up another
car with nitro-glycerin. Nobody was
injured.


An English torpedo boat killed the
helmsman of French fisherman who
had come within the three-mile limit.
In the translation of words in the
secret dossier the French court was Of
ten puzzled. Dreyfus helped them out.
The-San Dominican rebels are meet.
ing with success and the government ia
helpless. The rebel forces increase
daily.
Parliament was prorogued by royal
decree. In her speech Queen Victoria
said relations with all powers were
friendly.
The insurgents wrecked the steamer
Saturnus flying the American flag.
They secured 100000 in specie and a
cargo OF general merchandise.
A barkceper at Wallace, Idaho,
knocked woman down in dancehall.
He was shot and killed by soldier
who witnessed the mans brutality.
England will send more troops to the
Transvaal. and will not wait % years
for redress. Secretary Chamberlain
says the present state of affairs cannot
be tolerated.
A letter received in Frisco from
Alaska asserts that the crew of the
Jessie were murdered and robbed by
Indians while they slept. and not
drowned as at first reported.
Two Cuban editors are on their way
to Washington to complain of the
wrongs they suffered by being confined
in Cuban prison and later required
to break stones on the streets of Ha-
vana.
At Canton. O., Mrs. Edward Eckin-
ger killed her husband and daughter
with shotgun, and then put another
charge through her own heart. Do
nestle troubles are supposed to have
been the cause of the tragedy.
In spite of denials on the subject, it
is said President Roca. of Argentine
guest of Brazil, is DESTROYS of nego-
tiating an alliance between Argentina,
Brazil and Chile against the United
States.
A captain Of a sailing vessel inst
from the Philippines has arrived in
Victoria. The captain severely criti.
cises the management of the campaign
and says LOTS is silly old man with
out knowledge of the necessities or the
responsibilities of his position. without
ability to improve it. and the first &C
tion of this government should be his
recall"
A movement is on foot to form an
opposing whisky trust. :.
Quiet has been restored in Cleveland,
but the strike is still on.
Thirty thousand Firms will form
colony in Newfoundland.
Former Governor w. Y. Atkinson,
Of Georgia, died at Newman.
A woman of noble birth died in
howell in Chicago. Up to the last she
refused all favors.
Cavalry horses for Manila will be
taken via the Aleutian islands and
Japan to allow rest.
Encouraged by the movement in 9th.
er cities the messenger boys OF Buffalo.
N. Y, are on strike.
A tank car loaded with naptha ex-
ploded in tunnel near Somerset, KY,
wrecking a train of 20 cars.
A Washington special says Bitishers
are getting a firm hold on Cuban trade
and American capital is slow.
Carlisle, KY. was visited by half
million dollar fire, which destroyed
nearly the entire business portion.
A Chicago man has been taken with
| a fit of laughing and is unable to check
it. He is unconscious, but continues
to giggle.
J. C. Hildebrand. an advertising So
licitor in the employ OF the Portland
Oregonian, fell from veranda and met
with instant death.
The coroner's jury has found that
the cause of the Bar HarbOr catastro-
phe was due to insufficient construc-
ton Of the ferry slip.
| Ambassador Choate says there will
he no war over the Alaskan boundary
dispute. Negotiations are always slow
in such matters. but are progressing.
Aguinaldo has appealed to the pow
ers for recognition OF Filipino inde-
nendence" in q document dated Tar
lac. July ~, and signed BY Buencaml-
hio.
The Santo Domingo rebels have
taken possession of Dajabon, driving
the garrison before them. The foreign
population and Hsytian consul have
left the place.
A broken flange on wheel caused
wreck ON the Southern Pacific near
Dos Palos, Cal. Engineer Ford and
Fireman Wood were scalded to death.
Two others were seriously and num-
Der slightly injured.
Italy and Uncle Sam will probably
not agree on the circumstances sur
rounding the lynching of the five ltal-
;ans in Louisiana recently. The
renorts Of the representatives OF both
Governments clash on nearly every
point.
spain has had 81 wars in the last
100 years.
Two thousand saloons have been
opened in Cuba since the war.
The first cotton mill in Kansas viii
soon commence operations in Independ-