The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-09-06
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Fnitome of tEe Telegraphic
News of the World.
TrRSE TICKS FROM .tHE WIRES

,Irter.sting Collection Of Items From
.b. Two HemIsphcres Pres .1h
m Cor lensed Gem.
povers attempted to mine the Ameri-
can legation.
, strike of 100000 anthracite coal
miners is threatened.
General Chaffee is preparing to win.
cor Il 600 men in Pekin.
The battle-ship Alabama averaged IL
Lnots on her official trial.
Tho Nehalem and Tillamook fisher.
mems strike is at an end.
Several of Minister Conger's guests
have arrived at Tien Tsin.
4 movement to clear the country
south of Pekin is in progress.
Official American dispatches are be.
mo tampered with in China.
From st. Petersburg it is reported
that peace negotiations have begun.
Primary returns indicate that Croker
will control the New York Democratic
convention.
Senator Scott, of West Virginia, says
the Republicans will lose lOO,0 900 votes
in New York.
Heavy fighting is reported to have
occurred at Machadodorp. between
Beers and British.
PIG. Stewart, member of the pro.
yisional government of Oregon, is dead
at Tacoma, Wash.
Four townships surrounding Sho-
shone Falls, Idaho, have been reserved
for a national park.
San Francisco's population, accord
ing to the United States census, is
S4?, ?,7S2; Bostons', $50, ,892.
Ten square miles of forest reserve in
the san Gabriel reservation, near Los
Angeles, Cal, have already been swept
by fire, and still the flames are devour.
Ing the timber. 1t was reported from
Sturtevants Camp that the fire had
spread on the north side of the west
fork of the San Gabriel river and the
south side of the Tejunga river, between
Devils canyon and the Short Cut. g
Jose Castroy Garcia, who was arrest.
ed in Havre, France, on July 20 last,
charged with absconding from Porto
Rico with $4,000 of United States
funds, has arrived in New York. He
was in the custody of Luis Barrios,
assistant chief of the insular police OF
Porto Rico, who went to Havre to
bring back the alleged embezzler. By
his eXtradition the French government
recognizes the sovereignty of the Unit.
ed States in Porto Rico.
Fitzsimmons announces his retire.
ment from the ring.
The district west OF Pekin vas taken
by the allied forces.
Denyer's population is 1873. 859; that
ol Baltimore 5OS,957.
The allies are sal to have lost l 300
men in battle in Pekin.
Senator Carter will accompany
Roosevelt on his Western trip.
Minister Conger reports the situation
practically unchanged in Pekin.
Bressi, the assassin of King Hum.
bert, attempted to commit suicide.
General Olivier, the Boer leader,
was captured by the British at Win
burg.
General Lung WI is declared to be
'le real author OF the anti foreign out
break.
Inc Hankow uprising was started
o.y followers of Kang Yu Wei, the re-
former.
"old Hill postoffice and store safe
was cracked by burglars and over $500
secured. Z.
Two men We're killed and three
men and woman wounded in q Gil
man, Ill.,, riot.
Camille d'Arivlle, the opera singer
was married to h. w. Crelin. an Oak
land millionaire.
The Populist national committee 40
.eP'ed Stevenson as the vice. presiden
oa' Nominee of the party. 4
lhe naval veterans parade was ths
,e"'ure OF the second day of the G.. A
H. encampment at Chicago.
Work on The Dalles portage road
,iosed Tor want of funds. COMPANY
Oe'ng organized to complete the same
oregon timber lands offer goot
en"hce Tor investment. Situation re
viewed by former Michigan lumber
man.
Nicholas Aylward, aged 7S, an in
""'e OF the county intirmary. at st
Joseph, Mo-. died from the effects O
Dealing administered by Jack Han
On' an attendant. Hanlon cannot b
found.
"a a Wholesale Jail delivery occurred q
Neu Lodge, Mont. Persons outsid
Pl,eo @ OH window bar and opened tn
.ils W with skeleton keys, and fou
lon'ana desperadoes made thei
escape.
Is stated that Germany will tax
more nrst prizes at the Paris exposition
than any other nation.
fllty residents of Massillon, O., lei
op i oklahoma, where they will take u,
I;al lai'is on government land and estab
"sh a colony.
me comptroller of the treasury ha
decided that a common carr;ar a. rssror