The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in Il Condensed Form.
General Buller occupied Dundee.

ngned.
President Steyn's brother captured
nv General Butler.
Great rush is on from Dawson to gold
5igginss of the Koyokuk.
There is no hope of action by the sem
ate on the Nicaragua canal bill this
session.
Germany is seizing Congo Free State
territory, and now occupies about 5000
square miles.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, introduced
A bill making it crime for railroads
to blacklist employees.
The United States court of appeals
holds that boycott is malicious inter
ference with business.
London papers want to ostracise
Richard Croker in revenge for the posi-
ton Iammany has taken in the Boer
war.
Democrats complain of Kansas City
hotel men. They object to paying five
dollars per day for bed in room with
four others.
President j. j. Hill paid $4,000
for Spokane flour mill in order to get
an entrance to the city for the Great
Northern.
Porto Rico and Hawaii will send
convention. Each island will be ac-
corded six delegates.
The grandstand, famous glass betting
ring and all the buildings of the race
track at Clifton, n. j., were entirely
destroyed by fire, with loss of $780,
600. The fire was the work of incen.
diaries.
Assistant Attorney General Boyd has
rendered decision in the case of ex-
press companies, in which he holds
they are not liable to taxes as brokers,
by reason oi their issuing money orders
and travellers checks.
An explosion of tank in the gaso.
line storehouse of A. G. Wykoff, at
Raritan, n. Y, called out the fire
engines. While the firemen were at
work, a second tank exploded and its
flaming contents envelcped and fatally
burned two men.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, on the ami
versary of her deceased sons birth, has
delivered over to Bishop Grace the
deed to the old Stanford manson, which
shall henceforward be known as the
Stanford Lathrop Children's Home.
At the same time the $4,000 transfer
was made which is to serve as an en-.
dowment fund for the institution.
Congress will adjourn about June 20.
Burglar rified the postoffice and store
at Jefferson, Or.
Buller has taken Beers stronghold
on the Biggarsberg.
The British were received at Kroon.
stad with open arms.
The minority report on the ship sub.
sidy bill is strongly against subsidy.
The governor of Missouri has offered
aid to the police in the st. Louis strike.
Nationalists won two-thirds of the
vacant seats in the Paris municipal gov
eminent
The Chicago & Rock Island railway
will probably build to Portland, Or.
Surveyors are now in the field
Dreyfus is in Paris and France 10
worried. Officials will try to hurry
him away, owing to fear of demonstra.
tOnS.
Landing privileges at Manila are
held 10y an INSCRIPTIONS monopoly that
accumula. ing a fortune and throt-
ting trade.
The number of cases of bubonic
plague at Sydney, N. s. W., officially
reported to this date is ZIG, of which
i6 proved fatal.
chicago and other Mississippi valley
cities are expecting the hottest May
weather in years. There were four
p.oStrations in Chicago.
Joe Barker, found guilty of man.
slaughter for the killing of Charles
Johnson, in Seattle, three months ago,
was sentenced to l5 years. imprison.
ment.
In the United States supreme court
"' Boston, Charles ii. Cole, former
president of the now detunct Globs.
National Bank, who recently pleaded
guilty on an indictment charging him
"l'h mlsapprOpriation of funds of the
institution, was sentenced to serve eight
years IN Greenfield.
AIec Whitney, aged 25, society
le"oer, was shot and killed on a street
."r AT Augusta, Ca, by negro in
quarrel g,c over a seat. The negro, Gus
wilson, was taken off Georgia rail-
toao passenger train at Harlem. 25
Lllies nom Augusta, by a mob and
Enched. He was being taken tc
Atlanta for safekeeping.
An American laundry plant has been
exported to China.
over $4,000, 900 capital is invested
~ 'nis country in the manufacture o.
playing cards.
!. Coal is worked SO easily in Chine
.ii"t IN Shansi it sells for Is cents Del
ION at the mines.
David I. Haraden, who died a few
eSs go ago at Roxbury, Mass, had been
~ years in the service of one firm OF
plano makers.