The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-11-16
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Fpitome of the Telegraphit
News of the World.
rrRsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
. Interesting Collection OF Items Frog
the Two Hemispheres Presented
I'm a Condensed Form.

Tho Indiana, with the Tennessee
.,lrnteers on board, is overdue at San
Francisco.
Tho Tacoma News announces author.
,.,tivelv that the Seattle Post-Intelli-
ooncer has been sold. The purchasers
name is withheld.
The officers of the transport Ohio,
,rbicb has arrived at San Francisco,
rsport that there is a scarcity of food
~, the island of Guam.
Trouble is anticipated on the Chero-
loe Indian Nation, owing to ballot-box
.,nAinr at their election last August,
,ba facts of which have just leaked
out.
President Samuel B. Donnelly, OF
the International Typographical Union,
was accorded enthusiastic receptions
nv the printers of Portland and Seattle
and Spokane.
An ungrateful Indian, who had been
furnished with food and lodging. MUIR
dpred Nevada white woman and her
infant son. Robbery was tho motive
Of the assassin.
The Russian steamer Dolney Vastok,
which was to have entered tho trans
mort service, arrived in San Francisco
TOO late, q British steamer having
taken her place.
War in the Transvaal has effected
tbe markets of the East and specula-
tive operations have ceased. The effect
on prices, however, has not been as
great as anticipated.
A divorce has been granted to Count
Won Moltke, the emperor of Germany's
aid.de.camp. The decree places the
entire guilt on the wife. The case has
caused a sensation in court circles for
Syear past.
Having learned that White is still
safe at Ladysmith, the British are Civ
hg attention to General Joubert's plan
for the conquest of Natal. Such a
movement is regarded as more daring
that Sherman's march to the sea.
Judge Schofeld, of Illinois, has ar
rived in San Francisco from Samoa
and Hawaii. He says the natives of
Samoa should be allowed to work out
their own salvation. He reports the
landgrabbers as doing a rushing bust
ness in Hawaiian islands.
Swindlers in Wall street, New
York, have been selling washod-out,
cancelled revenue stamps, the traffic
having reached enormous proportions.
1t is estimated that 10 per cent of the
daily sales were fraudulent and that
the government has been losing S., 900
day in the deal.
The British think they inflicted terri.
bic loss on the Beers in Thursdays
fighting.
Ex-President Harrison has returned
to the United States after an extended
trip abroad.
Puerto Cabello has surrendered to
General Castro and the officials of the
ue Mcto government.
Half million dollars worth of
property was destroyed by fire in Kan
Ss City.
The Washington boys arc home.
ihey were greeted everywhere with en-.
musiastic demonstrations.
The general belief in London is that
'ne Beers are now waiting for more
guns from Pretoria before attacking
Ladysmith.
Eastern Oregon is experiencing its
nrst labor strike. Fifty miners of the
bonanza mine near Baker City, are out
lot shorter hours.
VI the Coeur d'Alene rioters tried in
=, MOSCOW for conspiracy against the
0li'ed States, 10 were found guilty
~la three were acquitted.
The ship Charles E. Moody, long
Ueraue at Honolulu, has at last ar
.'eo' She was 100 days in making the
passage iron Norfolk navy yard.
Beers are said to have issued letters
VI VI marque in Europe and the United
S%.es' and British commerce may
'uuer' even if the transports do not.
IN his annual report United States
seaSurer suggests the impounding of re-
eehed treasury notes and thinks
'anks should increase their circulation
England has sent 10000 rounds of
:uI!ee shells to South Africa. Ac-
I.u,ng 10 estimates, single shell OF
S;S ,rrS KIND falling into a compact body
Will kill 800 men.
..n Inc most important expedition Of the
n". NO.. campaign chasing Aguinaldo is
NV, NV on and it is predicted that the
Oei bO capital will soon be untenable for
'ne Insurgents.
Marconi will not operate with the
w;n nai corps of the United States, but
W.. M return to England in connection
tslol Ian 'ne use of the wireless system of
geography in South Africa.
yopA nUarke Cochran, the famous New
7 g. orator, was once a porter for A.
NsI.n naries les E. Littlefield, who succeeds
tnso. Dingley in congress, will be the
feet a. man in that body, being six
'' I'VE inches in height.
tive AL oall has been issued by the execu-
conrooai Uuncii for the nineteenth annual
uIat0o Islon OF the American Federation
Decemtr, 10 be held at Detroit, Mich,