The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-04-27
LATER News.
Three young girls perished in the
burning OF an orphans' home At Berns
Ohio.

Three young girls perished in tn.
burning OF an Orphans home At Berne
Ohio.
Cosimir, the Indian who mnrda,al
Philip Walker. has been capturcd At
Kamloops.
Fire destroyed the department store
OF Ever q Co., at Newcastle, Pa. Loss.
100000: insurance. $50. 900.
President Mckinley has accented an
invitation to attend the Ohio state en-
oampment OF the g. A. r. in June.
The American Car & Foundry Com.
pany. at Jacksonville, Ind. Increased
the wages of its 1000 employees 10 Der
cent.
At Sioux Falls. Judge Garland sen.
fenced Bad Elk to be hanged June 1e
for killing policeman who tried to
arrest him.
1t has been decided by the German
government to adopt the English
Thornycroft system Of water-tube boil
ers in all German men-of-war.
Reading railroad repair-shop me-
ohanics and other employees will have
their wages advanced from to 10 per
cent. Two thousand men will be
affected.
The new sternwheel revenue Gutter
Nunivea had her trial trip at San Fran
cisco. She is for use on the Yukon.
and will be towed to st. Michaels BY
the Bear.
Gomez has determined to announce
to the people of Cuba his support Of an
American protectorate until such time
as stable, independent government may
be formed.
Serious student riots havesoccurred at
the university of Kieff, Russia, the
rioters smashing windows with stones.
Troops dispersed the mob and arrested
400 students.
The Major investigating committee
of the Missouri state senate, which has
been turning over the affairs of the
state and municipal Offices in St. Louis,
has made report in which it finds
millions Of dollars worth of property
in st. Louis has escaped taxation.
Speaker Reed has decided to become
q member of the law firm of Simpson.
Thacher & Barnum. of New York. It
is understood that Reed will resign
his seat in congress and remove to New
York. The statement has been made
that Mr.. Reed is guaranteed yearly
income OF $4,000
Mail advices from Australia give full
particulars of the terrible hurricane
which swept the northeast coast Of
Queensland early in March, and in
which IA white and about 400 colored
men were drowned. Eighty luggers
ana six scho0ners were wrecked. The
damage is estimated at $3.50, 900.
A. M. Larue. murderer, was taken
from Jail at Henderson. Tenn, and
lynched by mob.
Fourteen men were killed by q
premature explosion in blasting. opera.
lions on the railway from Bilboa to
Santander, Spain.
Ed Hawthorne, charged with about
40 burglaries in various parts OF the
country, mostly in San Francisco, II
under arrest in Denver.
James j. Hill is reported to have ac.
auired control of the st. Paul & Du.
luth road, thus shortening his line
from Duluth to tho Twin cities.
At Moontown, Mo-, Frank Yeager
killed with an ak man named Powell,
shot Mrs. Yeager three times. and
then cut his own throat. Yeager was
jealous.
Governor Tanner has signed the bill
appropriating $3.50. 600 to pay the llii-
nois volunteers from the time they
were mustered into the service OF the
United. States.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to
give 81, 750, 600 to cover the cost Of
the proposed addition to the art. SCI
ence and literary departm ents OF the
Carnegie library at Pittsburg.
At Bedford, Ind, stone quarry
train was pushed over q 40-foot en-
bankment by the helper. Charles
Meinser, engineer. and D. J. Menough'
were killed. Three men were hurt.
Five thousand Indians, dissatisfied
with conditions in the reservation Of
the Indian territory. left in body fo'
Mexico to establish union reservation
on a large lot Of land near GuadaiaJara.
In Chicago three people were
smothered to death by smoke IN z
small two-story frame building. They
had been drinking together, and i ia
thought one Of them upset kerosene
lamp.
Governor Stephens, Of -lissouri. has
signed the Farris insurance. bill. Ems
measure makes the antitrust law apply
IN ST Louis and Kansas City. ana VIII
practically destroy boards Of nre unde'-
writers in both cities
While the king and queen Of italy
were starting from Cagiiari for sassal'
10 meet the British Feet. in the 0e,l
of Gassari. balcony filed with Y
from school collapsed. Fourteen Of tne
children we're injured and : man wa1
killed.
San Francisco Baptists arc MAKING
rrenarations Tor the receptions o. o,VVV
neonle next month to attend the an.
mai meetins OF the Ma tiona! naps's'
Societies The celebrati on TINS -.
i the golden Jubilee. for = = 81 49,
since the work Of the "a pflsse ~ ~