The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-12-28
LATER NEWS.
In Illinois.

The navy is in need of more TRAINING.
vessels and two first-class ones will
soon be asked for.
Three wagon loads of mail will leave
on the transport Grant for the soldiers
in the Philippines.
The Santa Fe is now q connection
against the Southern Pacific for South
American business.
A Paris dispatch says that the bank
OF Russia has advanced tho bank of
England es,0OO,OOO.
Two big lawsuits have been insti-
tuted in Chicago courts between Mon
tana cattle companies.
Samuel Gompers has been unani-
mously reelected president of the
American Federation of Labor.
The interstate commerce commission
will grant railways more time to equip
their cars with safety appliances.
A marvellous quartz discovery is re-
ported from Dawson. The ore assay
$500 to the ton, and the ledge is o mile
wide.
Senator Fairbanks has introduced a
bill granting 8 pension of So, 900 yearly
to the widow of General Lawton. A
similar bill has been introduced in
the house.
The National Association of Retail
Druggists is strengthening its focres to
fight the cut-rate druggists throughout
the country.
Nestor Ponce de Leon. a lineal de-
scendant of Ponce de Leon, discoverer,
of Florida. is dead at Havana. He
was treasurer of the Cuban junta dur
ing the war.
Beers, with sense of humor, sent
Baden-Powell, at Mafeking, a message
in fve-pound shell: Don't drink
all the whisky; leave some for US
when we get in"
The consul from the Orange Free
State in New York city reports that
many Americans have applied to him
for enlistment in the Boer army. The
majority of the applicants were sold
iers who fought in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war.
England's troubles are multiplying.
Abyssinia now threatens to turn upon
the British. Emperor Menelik can put
200, 900 men in the field and is said to
have been preparing for war over the
question of territorial rights. His
armament is in excellent condition.
The senate will take up the currency
bill on January 4.
The Federation of Labor has declared
that slavery exists in Hawaii.
The Negros uprising was caused by
the Filipino junta at Hong Kong.
Two Chicago electricians are heirs to
an estate in Hungary worth 4,0O0,-
900.
Fire in Florence, s. c., destroyed
the city hall, hotel, bank and five
stores.
The controller of the treasury finds
that Admiral Sampson was allowed too
much pay.
The remains of the late Lieutenant
Brumby were sent to Atlanta, Ca, for
interment.
Eight lives were lost in the burning
of two big tenement houses in New
York city.
Goebel is making preparations for his
coming fight against Governor Taylor,
of Kentucky.
The transports Hancock and City of
Puebla have reached Manila with two
regiments of infantry.
All aged employees of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad will be retired and PEN
stoned January 10, 1900.
England has at last decided to send
more cavalry to South Africa. This is
according to Buller's wishes.
Senator Mcbride, of Oregon, has in
troduced bill to increase the pay OF
letter carriers in large cities.
Senator Shoup and party will visit
Arizona and New Mexico to report on
their application for statehood.
General Lawton was killed while in
front of his troops at San Mateo, Luz
xon. He was shot In the breast and
died Immediately.
Chairman Joseph H. Manley, Of
Philadelphia, believes that only metro-
politan newspapers should be repre-
sented at national conventions.
DIR. Andrews, superintendent OF the
Chricago public schools, may lose his
lob through public advocacy OF Great
Rr;tain's side In the South African war.
The supreme court of Ohio has rem
dered its decision in the bribery case
of Attorney General Monnett against
the Standard Oil Company. The at
torney-general furnished information 70
the effect that he was approached by
Charles Suuires, of New York, with
bribe Of $4OO, 900 if he would permit
the cases pending against the Standard
Oil Company to 60 by default. 1t was
claimed that Mr.. Squires was the repre-
sentative of the Standard Oil Com
nany. The decision dismisses the cases
ON the ground that this fact was not
established.
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, ex-
nresses the opinion that every husband
should deed to his wife the homestead.
Senator Depew has leased the Cor
coran mansion at Washington for his
full senatorial term of SIX years as an
aOcrerate rental of $50, 600.