The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-12
LATER NEWS.

Senator Hale has been renominated
by the Maine Republicans.
Hon. Joseph 81. Choate will be our
next ambassador to Great Britain.
DR.. H. Seward Webb, president OF
the Wagner Palace Car Company. 10
mentioned as successor to Senator Nor.
rill as senator from Vermont.
The first formal state dinner of the
season took place at the White House
Thursday, when President and Mrs.
Mckinley entertained the members of
the cabinet.
A sensation has been created in Ger
many by the publication in Cologne
paper of an alleged conversation had
with the late Prince Bismarck, in
which he predicted the fall of the Aus.
trian empire.
An American named Boynton, who
is trying to travel around the earth
without money, met with terrible fall
into chasm while entering France by
night through the Pyrenees. He was
seriously injured.
Another disagreeable consequence of
the late war has been presented to the
government of claims from the cable
companies for damages sustained
through the suspension of their bust
ness by the United States military and
naval forces. The aggregate amount
of these claims cannot be foretoid.
The secretary of war has transmitted
to congress letter from the state
claims committee recommending legis-
lation to provide for the payment OF
all meritorious claims for materials or
supplies furnished and services rem.
dered by individuals during the Span
ish American war, together with
draft of bill to accomplish that pur.
pose.
Representative Tongue, of Oregon.
has prepared an amendment to the bill
for codifiCation of the law of Alaska,
now pending in the house, providing
for the licensing Of main business con-
Germs in the territory. and especially
the liquor business. Mr.. Tongue says
that the Treadwell mines does not pay
anything in the way of taxes to the sup
port OF the territorial institutions, and
that from the region surrounding Ju-
neau about $4,000, 900 in gold is pro-
duced annually, and does not contribute
cent to the government.
The Havana afternoon papers sent a
thrill through the city with report
that torture and execution chamber
had been found at the residence of the
Spanish military governor, adjoining
the palace. The papers declared that
there the Spanish officials questioned
and murdered political prisoners. Ac-
cording to their accounts. the floor of
the chamber was covered with dried
blood, and its walls were indented with
machete strokes. An excited crowd
soon gathered outside the house which
was last occupied by General Parade.
The monthly statement of the re-
ceipts and expenditures Of the United
States shows that the total receipts for
December were $41. 4O4, 1893, as COM
pared with $50, GAG, 69S for December,
1897.
camp, 200 miles westward. near Mar
ciso. has issued proclamation to the
Cuban army advising against disband-
ing until the proceedings at Washing
ton regarding the pay of the insurgent
troops have been completed.
By the purchase of large block Of
stock of the Calbarien railway, in Cuba.
L. Ruiz & Co., bankers, representing
English capitalists, have secured con-
trolling interest in that line. The
same men have also been large pur-
chasers of the stocks of Sagua and Glen
fuegos companies.
The monthly treasury statement Of
the public debt shows that at the close
of business. December 81, the debt,
less cash in the treasury. amounted to
81, 1879, ITO, 1856, an increase during the
month of $l,7O2, 799. This increase
IS due to the delivery of 8 per cent
bonds of the new issue, previously paid
for
At Evansville, Ind, Minor Garrett.
Edgar Gardner, Elijah Scott, Frank
Curl and William Morris, boys ranging
in age from 10 to IL years, were given
a public whipping in the police court
for stealing some old wash boilers.
Their parents were given the option by
Judge Winfrey Of whipping the boys or
having them sent to the reform school,.
Governor Roosevelt, Greater New
York's new executive. has established
a code Of rules to govern his oonsidera-
tion and determination OF applications
for pardons and combinations OF SEN
tence. He will not exercise executive
clemency in behalf of a man who has
been convicted of numbering or abusing
his wife, nor will he pardon any hab-
itual criminal. His mercy will be
shown only to those whose sentence
seems to have been severe or whose
commission of q crime was the result
of influence.
A most remarkable wedding has
taken place at the village Of Trail, @.
four brothers being married to four sis
tiers. The four knots we're tied at the
home of the brides, who are the daugh-
tiers of farmer named James Hoch-
stetter. Their ages range from ~ 70
80, and the ages Of their respective
husbands vary only slightly. The
grooms are four sons of John Summers.
The ceremony of marrying the four
couples occupied almost an hour. the
same clergyman performing all. The
fonr brothers and their wives will live
within stones throw Of each other.