The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-05-18
LATER NEWS.

Fifty thousand Galician IMMIGRANT.
are said to be on their way to this
country.
The Finns are fleeing to this conn.
try at the rate of 500 weekly to escape
Russian military service.
At test at Sandy Hook nrov;no
ground it was found that wet guncot-
ton could be safely used in shell fred
by powder.
Dumarais, Frenchman, who had
entered the rebel lines to negotiate for
the release OF Spanish prisoners, ls said
to have just been assassinated by in.
surgent soldiers.
Every postoffice in the island of
PORTO Rico. about 80 in number. soon
will be flying a United States flag.
Flags will be bought by the postoffice
department and forwarded to Director
of Posts Elliott.
Captain Barker, the senior officer of
Dewey's feet and the commander of
the battle-ship Oregon, will be the next
commanding officer to come home.
His place will be filled by Captain
| Wilde, of Boston.
According to dispatch from Cairo
to the Daily Mail. the director of the
Egyptian museum has discovered the
mummy of Thothmes l. of the 18th
| dynasty, B. G. 1888, and three other
mummies in gilt collins.
La Patria. one of the best ed tied pa
pers in Havana, has come out with an
editorial strongly indorsing the Ameri-
can administration. Its utterances are
regarded as representing the best think
ing element of the community.
Capt. ]. Mason, of Philadelphia.
the well-known commander of the
| Munson line steamship Vimera, fell
| from his vessel into the water while
passing close to the Bahama islands
and was swallowed by shark.
The war department is preparing to
send four regiments of regulars to Ma
| Mia, via New York and the Suez canal,
in the transports Thomas, Meade and
Logan, which are to be permanently
| transferred from the Atlantic to the
| Pacific feet.
If the inhabitants of the San Fer
nando region are to be believed, there
is little sympathy with the insurrec-
| ton in that quarter. Before evacuat-
ing the city, the rebels burned the
church and the public buildings. and
looted the Chinese quarters. They
drove many rich Filipinos, with their
families, out of the city before them.
| as we'll as hundreds of Chinese, to pre-
| vent them helping the Americans.
They cut the threats of many. Many
Chinese hid on roof-tops or in cellars,
and some escaped by cutting off their
queues. There are 30 fresh graves in
the churchyard.
vice-President Hobart is slowly i'm
proving.
All hope of reconvening the joint
| American Canadian commission in
| August has been abandoned.
The Chinese legation at Washington
protests against the restriction Of
| Chinese immigrants to Cuba.
Acting. Secretary Meiklejohn has de-
| cided that the Chinese exclusion act
does not apply to our new possessions.
Newest trusts: Window glass, $780,
600, 900. will control 90 per cent OF the
product; pillow manufacturers, 500, 00O,-
| 600.
| In spite of precautionary measures
virulent smallpox is spreading in Ger
many. The disease was imported into
the country by Russian laborers.
Andrew Carnegie gives as his reason
for selling out to the steel trust that he
was never SOY prosperous. but deter
mined not to selflshly struggle for more
money.
The Algerites regard the beef report
as complete vindication, and are
happy; General Miles lefuses to talk;
| congress may make another investiga-
ton next fall.
Ex-President Harrison is on bis way
to France as counsel for Venezuela In
it's boundary dispute. Ex-Secretary oil
the Navy B. F. Tracy ia associate coun-
sci, and may accompany him.
| Governor Thomas, of Colorado, has
wired Adjutant-G General Corbin as 1oi.
lows: ''The reported interview OF
mine in the Denver News concerning
the Colorado volunteers is false ana
malicious.
Rioters attempted to blow up West
Duluth street car with dynamite.
There were 10 passengers in til car and
they all received slight bruises. Inc
car was thrown violently on It's side,
and its trucks were blown to pieces.
The beef-packers are bringing ire
mendous pressure to bear on the presi-
dent to remove General Miles from
command of the army in spite OF the
closing recommendation OF the WADE
beef court that no further action DC
| taken.
At Jamestown, O.. Postmaster
George A. Mclaughlin. with some boy
friends. was putting "tick-tack" on 9
window at the home OF his friend, =.
r Ginn. Mr.. CHM fred shot
through the window, killing McLaugn-
| lin instantly.
An Adelaide, South Australia, dis
match saws: The British ship Loch
SLOW. Captain Nicol, from Clyde on
Jannary s, for Adelaide and Mel
bourne. was wrecked on kangaroo
Island. April ~. Five passegers ana
25 of the crew were drowned.
The international Sunday school con.