The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-19
The NEWS OF THE MEEK
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
INTEREST TO OUR READERS
,.iye Review of the Import
ant Happenings OF the s' -
Chilled From the Telegraph Columns

..hen.ive Review OF the lmpor'-
at happenings of the Past week
,a From the Telegraph Columns
Thirteen persons were killed and
.,a 70 to Is injured in a railway COL
ii:D. near Bound Brook, N. J. There
iI''9 head-end collision between a
wa wa, train and the Black Diamond ex-
press.
President Alonzo's advance guard is
thin six leagues OF La Paz, capital
~ the republic of Bolivia. 1t Is likely
u Ian;s;ve battle will be fought soon
tween the government troops ana
.ro rohels who now hold the capital.
It is proposed that a memorial oe
..o..od at Manila to the memory or all
Americans who fell in the capture or
d;od If disease during the campaign.
Tho nronosal is that all Americans now
.as;dant in the Far East, OF whom
.Ioro is very considerable number,
sboull be invited to contribute toward
this object
F,l;nino committees have made a
formal protest, and President Mckin-
1o7 has heen warned from Paris, Madrid
on5 London not to attempt to take
forcihle possession of lilo lilo. The
cronnd is taken that the American
Claim of sovereignty is premature,
and that the United States is not the
nossessor of the Philippines until the
naace treaty is ratified. The Filipino
AGENT at Hong Kong says fight with
the Americans at lilo lilo is unavoida-
BILE, but little apparent uneasiness is
felt at Washington.
The Cincinnati Express Gazette has
collected data anent the operations OF
traiprobbers during the past year. The
effect of federal jurisdiction upon train
rohpe1ies is evidenced in Mexico. Dur
ing the past year there was not even
an attempt at train robbery in the Sis
ter republic. The crime is punishable
there with instant death. The record
for 1888 is as follows: Number Of
train hold-ups, 20; number of stage
robberes. Z; number of passengers and
train men shot, 4; number of robbers
killed, 5; number of robbers shot, 6.
Captain r. r. Shaw and the crew of
the British bark Glen Huntley, long
given up for lost, are alive and we'll,
and on their way to Liverpool. They
abandoned the Glen Huntley in fierce
gale June 4, 1898. For l54 days the
II sailors lived on Tristan d'Acunha
isle, more than 1900 miles south by
west of the Cape of Good Hope. They.
subslsted on penguin eggs and the flesh
OF sea eagles, and shared with 70 white
inhabitants the scanty stock of provi-
slOns that the captain of passing ves-
sci had given them.
The Farmers bank of Inwood, Ga,
was entered by burglars, who secured
$4,000 and escaped.
At a fire which broke out in the Ho-
tel Rlchelieu, at Pittsburg, Pa, three
guests lost their lives and five people
were badly hurt.
Colonel Potter, special emissary OF
General Otis to lilo lilo, reports that the
rebels threaten to burn the town If the
Americans lombard the place.
-Four dead, two injured. one of these
perhaps fatally, and the loss of proper
W OF the Southern railway to the
amount of about s25, 900, is the result
OF a wreck which occurred at Knox.
vile, Tenn.
A heavy wind storm swept over the
remote section of Scott county, Ark.
AT bOles, a schoolhonse was blown
"oWn and three pupils were killed, an.
o''ler was fatally wounded, and dozen
Ut more sustained more or less injuries.
A tremendous landslide occurred nea,
spence Bridge, on the Canadian Pa.
1inc railroad. A mountain which has
iohg been an object of curiosity te
travellers crashed into the Fraser river,
uallming it completely, and sending
W. Nle water in torrents over the fertile
Nicola valley. The course of the riyel
was changed completely.
according to late advioes from Daw-
PO"' the United States government will
oe called upon to relieve INDECENT min
w s IN the Klondike. The Dawson
usset says there is a strong move
lien' on foot at Dawson to send a rep.
Iesehtatlye to Washington for the pur.
pose OF enlisting the United States
sO'ernment in the cause of aiding ir
neuyins the great distress which
le'"lls among the miners of the Yu.
"a. 'ne annual convention of the
D'ot I of Steam Shovel ant
Diedge Engineers and Cranesmen q
Aaneflca, held in Chicago, resolution,
tha "a adopted, urging congress to pas,
iCai aqua canal bill and also tina,
ho" w." should be passed making eiph,
oI Da:s days work on said canal. Res
g,aa s.oi's We're also passed urging con
o, 81 ~ pass the river and harbor hill
v,oa n0 present session of congress. Con
CO.'S sS was also urged to create a labo
thu. in u OF three union men to se,
;n"s 'Ne laws in the interest of work
ment work. y" al govern
Minor News Items.
Frona lieutenant and 13 men of tn,
ncii Warship Sure wara k;I,oa - a..