The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-11-09
EVENTS OF THE DAY.
roitome of the Telegraphit
News of the World.
rrRsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
,.,.rssting Collection Of Items Frog
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in a Condensed Form.

The recuperative powers of the Boers'
,-a regarded with wonder by the
British
The south American republics will
,-v TO patch up their difficulties by ar
bitration.
The Peruvian cocoa crop is failure.
The plants were damaged by insects
and the price has already doubled.
professional baseball league for
,ooo TO include Seattle, Tacoma, Port.
land and Vancouver, B. c., is now on
the tapis.
Admiral Schley will go to South
africa in command of the South At
lantic squadron to protect American
interests during the progress of the war;
Interesting experiments of Marconi's
svstem on warshlps resulted in wire
loss telegraph messages being success
bIly transmitted over 20 miles OF
space.
Professor Arthur McGiffert, of Union
seminary. New York, refuses to quietly
resign from the Presbyterian ministry,
and another heresy trial seems inevt-
liable.
The president, it is said, considers
that the Germans and British caused
the trouble at Samoa and that they
should pay the greater portion of the
damage.
At Kamloops, B. c., John Hayes il
to be tried for murder. He is accused
by the confession of his sister of hav.
inc killed her husband, she acting as
accOmplice.
Dwight L. Townsend, founder of the
Postal Telegraph Company, United
Lines Telegraph Company and the fam.
Gus Havemeyer sugar factory, is dead
at New York.
In his message President Mckinley
will ask for an appropriation for .
commission to be appointed to investi.
gate the commercial and industrial con.
dition of the Chinese empire.
Bell had hot brush with the insur.
gents at West Guagua, killing four
rebel officers and wounding 18 men.
One enlisted man was killed and cap
tain and lieutenant wounded.
The Aberdeen Packing Company's
cannery at Fairhaven, WASH, was
burned. All machinery and stock, in.
Cluding 10, 900 cases of canned salmon,
went up in smoke; loss, $3.50, 1000.
Captain Leary, the naval governor Of
the island of Guam, in the Ladrones,
was forced to adopt heroic measures to
enforce his administration. The friars
were hostile to his orders so he invited
them to leave.
Another case of man being mis-.
taken for bear occurred about five
miles east of Glendale, Or. The re.
suit is that Gilbert Gilbertson, .
swede, is crippled tor life by shot
from 44-caliber winchester in the
hands of Chris Hagan, a 17-year-old
boy with whom he was out hunting.
John Barrett, ex-United States min.
lister to Siam, is lecturing in the South.
Eight men were buried alive by q
cave-in Oh the Isabella mine at Cripple
Creek, Colo.
President Mckinley and Secretary
Long attended the launching of the Shu-
brick at Richmond, Va.
The Twentieth Kansas volunteers
nave been mustered out. They left for
nome on special train.
Colonel Ray thinks the Valdes trail,
an all-American route to the Alaskan
gold fields, suitable for a railroad.
Agents OF the Transvaal government
are In Chicago seeking to enlist Amer.
leans for service in the ranks OF the
EOers.
With impressive military honors the
nody OF General Guy V. Henry was
buried at Arlington cemetery, Wash.
ngton.
The move for the increase of the Ger
man navy was made by Empeeur Will
liam in person, and as yet is wholly
Unsupported.
ihe Fourth infantry, 1900 officers
ana men, has left Fort Riley, Kansas,
IOr San Francisco, en- route to the
Philippines.
A circular issued by the Ohio repub-
mean state executive committee, solic-
Nins contributions from federal EN-.
pIoyes has been declare by the civil
service board, contrary to law.
General Fitzhugh Lee, while visiting
~ Washington, said in an interview
'nat the Cuban people are steadily i'm
proving under the existing professionals
Vi the United States, but are not yet
quite ready for purely Cuban govern.
A desperate street fight bctween
members of Tennessee colony recently
.Ocated at North Salem, Ind, and citi-
aens OF North Salem, resulted In the
Instant death of one man and the fatal
;sounding of another, and minor injuT.
les Tor many others.
William Waldorf Astor has paid
VfVo'S96 taxes in New York this year.
A bust of ex-Speaker Reed Is being
lAecuted in bronze for the Maine legis-
e"ge george F. Edmunds has presented
t;Ovo to volumes of standard books TO the
n school library in Burlington, VI.
~. mrs. d. M. Rice. of Aptos. CAL. 4
ho.n oiest daughter of American parenta
old In that state. She is but 6S yearl