The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-11-02
LATER NEWS.
A national billiard association NAV
soon be in the field.


colonel Frost says the stories Of
american soldiers looting churches i,
absolutely false. He praises Otis.
The university of Oregon will pla,
FOOTBALL against the university of Cali
fornia at Berkeley campus November lS.
st. Louis worlds fair is to be 4
great one. The fund has already
reached 81, 900, 900. The total amount
aimed at is IS, 100000.
Michael Davitt, an Irish nationalist.
has announced that he will resign his
seat In the house of commons as a pro.
test against the Boer war.
The White Star steamer Germanic
collided with barge near Liyerpool
and was seriously injured. She will
not sail for New York this trip.
Reverend McKinnon asserts that
General Luna, the rebel chief killed by
Aguinaldo's orderly, had killed his
wife and mother-in.lawi in Paris and
fed.
A Paris dispatch says Russia has no
interest in Kruger's people or their lit
tie republic, and will not interfere.
Germany is said to be friendly to the
English.
A giant brass combine is being
formed which it is stated will comprise
all the plants in the Naugatuck valley,
Connecticut. The main office will be
in New York city.
The 10 Russian men-of-war in the
Pacific will shortly be reinforced by
six ships from the Eastern squadron.
The Berlin Tageblatt sees in this con-
nection with the rumors of the Chino
Japanese alliance.
Secretary Long will make recon-
mendation for but a limited increase of
the new navy in his forthcoming annual
report. He will devote most of his
energies to urging abolition of limit of
cost in the construction of battleships.
Herr Hopeff, ex-treasurer of the AL
bert Verein, charitable organization
under the patronage of the king and
queen of Saxony, was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for four years and nine
months for misappropriating ESQ, 900
marks of the society's funds.
At Paris, Mo-, the grand jury re.
turned an indictment for murder in the
first degree against Alexander Jester,
on the charge of numbering Gilbert
Gates, son of Chicago millionaire, 28
years ago.
The Thirty-ffth infantry may have
a new colonel. Cobbe is mentioned as
a probable candidate for brigadier-gen-
eral, and Lieutenant Colonel Plummer,
who commanded the regiment at Van
couyer barracks and on the voyage to
Manila, will probably succeed him.
The Burghers are said to have secured
the services of $4,000 natives.
Prolongation of war beyond British
expectations is now said to be certain.
The navy department is to give Mar
coni's wireless telegraphy a practical
test.
England will expect the Beers to
pay the cost of war when the end
| comes.
The government of Venezuela has
been turned over to Castro, who seems
to be very popular.
United States army officers have
been sent to South Africa to watch the
progress of the war.
A Chicago candyman has confessed
to the police that he has AZ wives in
different parts of the world.
Fifteen sick men of the Iowa regi-
| ment are now in the general hospital
| at the Presidio, San Francisco.
Russia has at last agreed that the
claim resulting from the seizure OF
seals in Behring sea shall be arbitrated.
lilo lilo is stirred by the expectation
of important fighting. Volleys are be-
;np fred at the American outposts
nightly.
| Colonel John B. Yates, one of Cen
eral Sherman's main supports In the
famous march to the sea, is dead at
Amesburg, Ont.
The battleships Texas and Indiana
are to go out of commission, as the
officers and men are needed In the
Philippines. Others MAY follow.
A Berlin dispatch says kilograms
from Brussels announce that In the
Transvaal legation circles 1t is stated
that France and Russia will not per-
NIT the annexation of the Transvaai
and Orange Free State to England.
At Atchison, Kan, two robbers snos
and killed one man and wounded an
other in store, which they Later rod
bed. They were pursued by posse
and they shot and killed . pohcemsn
and another man, both members OF sne
pursuers. ~.
Canada has made new proposision
for permanent settlement OF the AiaskA
dimute. She again asks Tor arDisfa,
t;cn an terms similar to those imposed
hv the United States and Great Britain
oyar ~ Venezuela. Fifty years of occu-
nancv Is considered conclusive evi-
f.rce of title. She Is willing 70 give
mn Skagway and Dyea, but wants ryiA
mid Harbor.
/ ..1t begins" says Tin and Terne'
...o look a. though Anderson ana FL.
rod are TO be tho tinplate cense1s "
r,arufacture in the West.
The union cigar-makers OF Ismps,
r,a have enforced . demand sn.s
es..,. fectories be scrubbed ana cios"o