The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-09-20
LATER NEWS.
Boxers are again active at Pekin.

Boxers are again active at Pekin.
a gradual reduction OF the Russ;oc
forces in Pekin has begun.
Other towns in Texas besides Gal.
weston are in need of assistance.
General French has occupied Rarhs-.
ton, capturing 100 Beers and some roll.
ing stock.
At Tacoma. WASH, the North Tsco.
ma shlngle mill was entirely DESTROYED
by fire. Loss unknown.
John Wilson, a pioneer merchant Of
Portland, Or. who began busines,
there in 1850, Is dead. aged "A.
The exodus from Galveston grows in
number as the facilities for GETTING
away from the city are increased.
At Eau Claire, Wis, seven men wer.
drowned by the overturning of boat
while trying to cross the river at that
place.
Mexican thieves entered q saloon al
Guthrie, Arizona. for the prupose of
robbery and were compelled to kill
two men and then escape.
Three men were drowned and two
gasoline launches sunk as q rseult of q
collision between the small craft and
steamer at Stockton, Cal.
Another plague case has been re
ported at Glasgow, making total OF
II. In addition there is one suspect
and ll5 persons under observation.
Near Nanaimo, B. c., two coal
trains collidel on the center of q tres.
tie, killing four men and reducing one
engine to scrap iron. Misplaced sig.
nails was the cause.
The division of customs and insular
affairs of the war department. has given
out for publication q statement of the
receipts of the Havana custom house
for the month of August, 1900, show:
ing that the total receipts TOR the
month were $991, 926.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
men convened at Des Moines adopted
resolutions denouncing the governor OF
Idaho for maintaining martial law in
the Occur d'Alene district, the gov
ernment for using the government
troops and congress for making public
the testimony taken at the investiga-
tion by the house committee last win.
ter.
The Boer delegates, Messrs. Fisher,
Wolmarans and Vessels, have ad-
dressed an appeal to all nations for in
tervention in South Africa. The ap-
peal concludes as follows: "In the
name OF justice and humanity, we ap-
peal to all peoples to come to our aid
in this supreme moment and save our
country. We commit ourselves to
God, trusting that our prayers will
be heard.''
Conger advices Americans to leave
China.
Colorado Democrats nominated J. B.
Oran for governor.
General Botha is said to be making
overtuies to surrender.
Forest fires destroyed no timber in
Cascade reserve this season.
A man fell from a fruit tree at Eu.
gene. Or, with fatal results.
Negro vandals were tried by court
martial and shot at Galveston.
New York Democrats nominated
John b. Stanchfield for governor.
A number of vessels were lost or
stranded in the gale on the lakes.
American troops await the presi-
dents word to march from Pekin.
Fire at Narragansett pier, r. l..
destroyed property worth $35O,OOO.
President Kruger is at Lourenco,
Marques preparing to sail for Europe.
From $4,000 to 10000 Chinese con-
verts were massacred in July by Box
ers.
Nine persons were killed in South
ern Illinois by the wrecking of the
atrical car.
Three thousand bodies of storm VIC
tins have been buried at Galveston.
The property loss is estimated at $l5.-
900, 900.
The city of Dallas, Texas, has sub
scribed nearly $l5, 900 in cash and six
carloads of clothing for the South
Texas food sufferers.
DR.. Dennis Bowling Mulcahy, once
an active Ferian agitator. who was
imprisoned in England in the latter
part of the '60s with O'Donovan Rosa
and others. died in Newark, N. j.,
aged So years.
The trouble that was threatened be-
tween the whites and Indians, arrayed
on one side, against the Japs. on the
other side, in the hop fields above Puy-
allup, WASH, seems to have been avert
ed, at least for the time being. No ac-
tual clash has yet taken place, but
there is bad feeling between the fac
tions that may at any time break out
into open hostilities.
The plague is again increasing in
India. Over $4,000 deaths are report
ed to have occurred during the last
week. Lord Curzon of Keddleston.
viceroy of India, has cabled the India
Office that good rains have fallen in
Madras and Central Bengal and On the
Gangetic plain, relieving all present
anxiety regarding the autumn crops
in these territories. The total number
now receiving famine relief has fallen
to 4, ,3S4, 900.