The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-07-27
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the Two Hemisphere Presented
in q Condensed Form.

Admiral dewey mas nled his claim
Tor naval bounty.
Agunaldo is said to be negotiating
with General Otis for peace.
Sacramento river steamers are tied
nm on account of a deck hands strike.
The new French cabinet wants TO
end the Dreyfus agitation and hush the
scandal
Near London, KY. as the result of
ieud, five men were killed in q
pitched battle.
Senators and representatives are said
to have dictated appointments of new
volunteer officers.
C. B. VIM, of Albany, has been ap-
pointed census supervisor for the first
district Of Oregon.
Americans have gained another VIC
tow at The Hague in securing the
right of revision of arbitral rewards.
Mckinley will recommend that con-
gress give Eighth army corps men, bers,
including Oregon volunteers. special
bravery medals.
All of the bodies of the dead in the
Second Oregon regiment will be
brought home for burial at the govern
ment's expense.
Dissolution of the o. r. & N. voting
trust means that hereafter the road
will serve Union Pacific and itself rath-
or than Northern roads.
The Colorado supreme court has de-
cded the eight-hOur law unconstitu-
tional The smelters will resume
operations on the old schedule.
There are now at St. Michaels be-
tween 200 and 800 stranded prospec-
tors, who do not know where their
next meal is coming from. The gov
ernment station on the island is be-
slesed with piteous appeals for aid.
Attorney General Blackburn has
rendered an opinion at the request of
Newt Livingston. sheriff of Grant
county, Or, in which he expresses the
opinion that sheriffs are not entitled
to constructive mileage in serving pa
pers.
Newspaper correspondents in the
Philippines have made a vigorous pro-
test against the close censorship of dis
patches, and say they are forced to in
dulge in Misrepresentation. Otis has
appointed new censor and promi ses
more liberal policy will be pursued
in the future.
A fruit Gamers mbine, including
II corporations and % plants, has just
been formed in San Francisco. The
new combine includes almost every
important cannery in California, and
will cut a prominent figure in the fruit
industry of the state, besides controll-
ing prices and debating terms to the
fruit-growers.
Two American ships are quarantined
at Japanese ports with the plague.
Bleak winds and pneumonia breed
ing fogs are threatening disease to Ore
CONS brave soldiers camped at the San
Francisco Preside.
To July /, 1899, the United States
e''NAHhiOhb HAS paiu III pohSiOAo Y"s
523.42S.212.9l. Nearly double this
sum is yet to be paid.
The civic federation of Chicago, that
will investigate trusts, has sent letters
to $50 trusts and com binations asking
20 pertinent questions.
Fifteen Austrian coal-miners, who
came to this country in violation OF
the contract-labor law, are being de-.
ported from Nebraska and Iowa.
The Indians of Oklahoma Territory
are largely engaged in dancing, in
spite of the efforts of the government
to prevent the practice and trouble is
feared
Another trolley strike is on in Brok
Ign, n. Y. So far it has not been as
effective as the strike of 1895. but there
Is no telling how far-reaching it may
become.
AT Libertyville. ILL.,, following a
family quarrel, Mrs. George Treiter
Shot and killed her mother, Mrs.
Christian Foss. wounded her husband
and killed herself.
Captain Andrews, 'the lone navi-
gatlor." who left the Atlantic coast in
June for England in l2foot boat.
has been picked up 700 miles from the
irish coast in an exhausted condition.
A bad derailment occurred at Blue
cut. near Delta, Cal. The car on
which Governor Geei and party were
returning from San Francisco jumped
The tack. and narrowly escaped going
on bridge. No one was seriously in
Jured.
Tinplate workers throughout the
country, to the number of nearly So
VoO have resumed work after an idle
ness of two weeks. They will receive
an advance of Is per cent and 30 per
cent further because of the recent rise
IN tinplate.
Minor News Items.
Mrs. Celestina Nigro, of Philadel-
PIMA, celebrated her one hundredth
birthday by dancing three waltzes.
Edwin c. Donnell. the l6-year-old
grandnephew of Horace Greeley, has
invented wireless telegraph OF his
own.
Probably the richest person in Cuba
N woman, Mrs. Rose Abien. She
owns millions and vast estates. but il
.emocratic in taste and favors the Uni.
ted States.