The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-08-23
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Fpitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TEBSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
,t.restinc Collection Of Items From
IN. Two Henispheres Pres '1t
I'm "a CorIensed TCrn-

.Irtercstinc Collection OF Items From
.h. Two Hemispheres Pres 'lh
In "a CorIensed TCrm-
Theodore Roosevelt will not visit the
Pacific coast.
General Methuen is in touch with
Dewet's rear guard.
shanghai has word that the Pekin le-
actions we're desperately attacked Aug
ust 8.
In a collision near Colorado Springs,
Colo, two passengers were killed and
five injured.
President Kruger has applied for a
TEMPORARY asylum in the American
consulate at Lourenco Marques.
C.P. Huntington, president of the
Southern Pacific railroad, died in the
Adirondacks, n. Y, of heart disease.
The army OF the Philippines elected
General f. V. Greene president, Gen.
sral O. Summers as second vice.
president.
The clothing factory of X. B. Olson
&Co., of Chicago, was destroyed by
fire with loss Oh buildings and goods
Of $4,000.
Contractors are making close exam
nation of the route for the Klamath
Falls railway. preparatory to signing
the contract
Steamer Deutschland made the run
from New York to Plymouth, England,
in DAYS, IL hours and As minutes,
breaking the record.
Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey
have been matched to fight August %
before the Coney Island Club for a
purse of $25, 900. Charley White is to
be referee.
The question of making the perma.
nent repairs on the Oregon at home in
stead of in Japan has been discussed by
some of the authorities of the navy de-
partment and may result in her being
brought back to the Pacific coast.
The official report OF the Colon bian
government commander in the recent
battle at Panama says the rebel casual
ties were 600 and those of the govern
ment 100. The commander intimates
that the cOnsuls favored the rebels. and
that their intervention was dangerous
and pernicious.
The detective bureau of New York
City, is looking for Antonio Pesce, q
banker, with offices in that city. He
has mysteriously disappeared. Scores
of excited Italian dep9sitors have
thronged Pesce's offices, and it is re-
ported to the police that the banker
has gone to Italy, taking with him
$4,000.
site has been chosen for the new
Fort Hall Indian school.
The Russian minister will not leave
Pekin before his comrades.
The besieged foreigners in Pekin have
food to last them only week.
Bryan's speech of acceptance will be
reproduced by photograph.
Twelve persons were killed and 40
injured in train wreck in Italy.
The empress intends to leave Pekin
before the foreign troops arrive.
Appropriations by the last session
o. congress were $40, $50, 862.
The ameer of Afghanistan is prepar.
Ing to cross into Russian terri litory.
The annual convention of the Typo.
graphical Union opened in Milwaukee.
Several cannerymen were arrested
ior packing salmon after close of sea.
son.
BY mistake British and Russian ar.
tllery shelled the Americans at Vans
Tsun.
Judge Lacombe, of New York, re.
FUSED to sign writ of extradition fol
Neely.
ABOUT 20 farmers near Salem real.
i-ea o6 cents per bushel fol wheat Dy
pooling the same.
Export OF gold from New York is ex.
Pected to relax the financial tension al
European capitals.
Inc state department replied to the
euict appointing Lii Hung Chang 9
peace commissioner.
Two government pack trains leave
vancouver to take transport at Seat.
Tie Tor service in China.
The report that the Canadian govern.
n,ent has abandoned the royalty on the
iukon gold output is not correct. An
export duty is under consideration.
rsreJita, well-known Cuban bandit,
"" was shot and killed at Palma SOrito,
" miles from Santiago, by y corporal
VI the rural guard. This outlaw had
Oeeh terrorizing the country for several
years. lie has committed numerous
murders.
a pitched battle occurred near Gra'
rAn' n. NJ, between a posse, under
peputy Sheriff w. X. Foster, and two
oAnults who robbed a store in Graham
~ broad daylight. One of the robbers
was killed. The other was wounded,
ou' ne escaped.
fetroieum fields of some Importance
Afe being opened in Japan.
Belgium is one of the few countries
CIV ~nich the death penalty, though
i part OF the criminal code, is never
ion. fS Nf--
three women, the wives of famous
ssoands, have been accorded the honor
OF burial in m, y