The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-08-03
LATER NEWS.

oNShSO throughout EulOD0.
Caroline islanders want to be an
nexed to the United States.
PRESIDENT Heureaux, of Santo Do.
mlngo, has been assassinated.
The body Of the late Robert q. In.
gersoll was cremated at Fresh Pond,
N. Y.
The fight between the Iinseed oil
combinations has been amicably ad-
justed.
The messenger boys strike in Pitts
burg has been settled. The BOYS claim
q victory.
At Hartford City. Ind. Ralph Shelby,
9-year-old boy. was thrashed to death
by his playmates.
Otis reports another engagement
with bandits in Cebu, in which Ameri-
can forces were victorious.
A Chicago negress is alleged to have
attempted the stealing of four children
within an hour. She is now in Jail.
Four life-timers in the Columbu
o., penitentiary were so unruly that
special steel cells were built for their
incarceration.
Otis has been cabled to send volun.
teels home as soon as possible. it being
the desire of the president to have no
delay in the matter.
William H. Proctor, who went to
California in l849, remained there Is
years and accumulated q fortune, ia
dead in Brooklyn. aged "a years.
1t has been decided to discontinue
the use of coal as fuel on the New
York. New Haven and Hartford rail-
road and to substitute coke for it on
all locomotives.
United States manufacturers will be
benefited by our new treaty with
France. Farmers, however. will re-
ceive no help, as maximum duties will
stay on agricultural products.
The Illinois Central has a new COM
petitor on business from Chicago to
the gulf. The St. Louis & Southwest
ern is building connecting link to
Chicago and Eastern Illinois.
Rev. John Morrison. pastor of CAL
vary Presbyterian church, of Portland,
died at Caml Wiley, near the Grand
Canyon hotel. in the Yellowstone Park.
| where he had gone on pleasure trip.
1t is rumored in London that Sails
bury may resign.
Dewey will spend all Of August at
Mediterranean ports.
Talk of wal with Great Britain does
not alarm Washington officials.
Jealousy caused the death of one and
probably another at Long Beach. Cal.
Two cool Americans are said to have
dispersed bowling mob of 400 in
COrea.
Meiklejohn will be acting secretary
OF war until Alger's resignation takes
place.
Mrs. Rich, of Texas. was taken to
Mexico for murder trial, wrapped in an
American flag.
The Catholic archbishop of Cleveland
has issued an appeal to the strikers to
respect the law.
Russia and Japan are reported to be
preparing with view to a possible
conflict in Corea.
The Transvaal it is said must COM
ply with England's every demand or a
hot war will follow.
Freight handlers are on strike in
New York. They ask for an increase
from II to 30 cents an hour.
The militia was ordered out to pro-
teot a Georgia sheriff and Jail from a
mob, who threatened to lynch negro.
William T. Stead says the peace con-
ference has achieved great success,
and went beyond the expectations OF
the delegates.
The threatened rate war to Missouri
river points has been averted and the
reduced rate tickets have been taken
of the market.
A wreck occurred on the Central Pa
cific near Clark's station. Nevada.
Engineer Read was killed and his fire.
man badly hurt.
Dom Paul Kruger rendered his resig-
nation as president of the South Afri-
can republic. It was not accepted, and
he later withdrew it.
Information from the lower Yaqui
river, at the south end of the state OF
Sonora, in Mexico. conveys the intelli-
pence that an outbreak has occurred
among the Yaqui Indians. In fight
one white man and 30 Indians were
killed.
At Hattiesbuig. Miss. Henry No
walls, q negro who attempted to assault
Rosaline Davis, Saturday evening. was
captured Fear Bond City. Miss. and
later identified by the young lady. A
mob tied him to tree and shot him to
death.
The steamer Bertha has arrived in
San Francisco from St. Michaels via
Unalaska with 81 passengers and about
81 900. 900 in gold. $3.50. O00 of which
is in charge of Purser Reyes. The pur-
I, ser SAYS there is wealth in the Cape
Nome district, and declares there is no
truth in the stories OF failure to find
gold which have been published.
According to the Washington Times
, Rev. Sam Jones' income for several
years has been between $25, 900 and
| $50. 900.
Sarah Bernhardt says she was born
in Paris and not in Amsterdam or LIE
Havre, a. most OF her biographers re-
late