The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-04-06
LATER NEWS.

Ecuador has decided to 90 to the gold
basis.
Immense damage to Texas crops by
frost is reported.
The maple sugar crop of Vermont
will be total failure this year.
A presidential boom in behalf Of
Richard Olney has been launched.
Five bodies were recovered in the
ruiEs of the Armour felt works. at Chi
cagO.
Reports to the effect that Alper will
soon resign are again in circulation at
Washington.
Washington gossips are busy with
the name of General Macarthur az
presidential possibility.
Admiral Dewey is said to have
'abled, to Washington a requisition for
more men and more ships.
Plans ale afoot to Ieorganlze the
National Red Cross Society, with a
rev to greatly increasing its scope.
Brigadier-G General D. A. Flaeler.
chief of ordnance, is dead at his home
at Old Point, Va.
Claude Holland. a victim of the
Santa Fee wreck, at Lang, Kan, in
1897. has just received gil, 500 in set
Element of his claim against that COM
pany.
A positive statement to the effect
that the Philippine group was offered
by the United States to England on
certain conditions has been published
in London.
The steamer Rowena Lee, with
about 81 pass engers. besides her crew
OF 80, exploded opposite Tyler. Mo-,
and Immediately sank. with all on
board. except Captain George Carvell
and one OF the crew.
Claus Spreckles has decided to es-
tablish in San Francisco an electric
plant that will be without rival in
the world. and which will furnish to
the people of that city light, heat and
power almost at cost.
The Oregon wounded will be brought
home as soon as possible from Manila.
They will come on the 6rst ships desig-
rated for that purpose by the war de.
,artment. The dead will also be
brought to this country for burial.
At Wednesdays session the army
beef court of inquiry had Eagan on the
stand. He explained his contracts
with the beefpackers, but his testi-
mony was in no way startling. He de-
clared that Senator Hanna had nothing
to do with the matt ter.
General Miller, now in the Philip
pines, having reached his cath year,
has retired.
President Mckinley has returned to
Washington after an outing Of two
weeks and day.
Stocks of the sugar companies in the
Hawaiian market are booming and
large advances are noted all through
the list.
A list prepared in the Office Of the
adjutant-general shows the casualties
in Manila since February 4 to be l57
killed and 864 wounded.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Vienna says there are 10000 cases OF
influenza in the city of Brunn, capital
Of the province of Moravia. Austria,
and that the death rate is enormous
The restoration of the wages of 1.700
employees in the York cotton mills,
Saco, Me-, is announced to begin Mon
day, when a similar raise will affect
over 1000 hands in the Laoonia and
Pepperell cotton mills, Of Biddefold.
Harry Sanderson, the young farmer,
who attempted to murder his sweet
heart. Myrtle Fleischer, near Mayetta.
Kan, bat instead wounded Mrs. John
Fleischer, her aunt. 60 that she died
later. was lynched by q mob from
Mayetta.
Since General Macarthur made a
gallant advance north OF Manila there
has been some talk that he should be
chosen a. brigadief general OF volun-
teers. his rank in the regular army be-
ing lieutenant-t olonel of the adjutant-
generals department.
| A Washington dispatch says: Gen.
eral Thomas M. Anderson has been Tor
some time past slated as q brigadier-
general in the regular army until he
retires next fall. He is to command
the department OF the Columbia. with
headquarters at Vancouver.
The cruiser Chicago. which lef
Hampton Roads March Is under ORDER
to oyertake the American liner Paris
and transfer from that ship ex-6eore'
tary of State John Sherman, who hae
been taken seriously Ill. has arrived Al
Newport News with the distinguished
invalid on beard.
Seniors Jose r. Villalon and A.
Hevia, who were appointed by the Gu
ban assembly to present to the WASH
inqton authorities the resolutions o.
that body. have arrived in Washington.
Their mission. in addition to the pres
entation Of the resolutions. il to ex'
plain in detail the situation with ref
erenos to the insurgent army.
The naval board Of promotions has
named the following ofhcers TO %
raised to the rank Of reaT-admiral:
George G. Ren,ey. Norman 81. Far
ouhar. John G. Watson. Henry p.
Robeson, Winfield s. Schley. Sllal
Casey. william T. Sampson, Bartlett
II. Cromwell, John w. Philip. Francis
~. Higeinson, Henry r. Picking. Fred
erick Rodgers, Louis kempn, ueoIse
w. Sumner.
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