The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-07-12
IA1sR NEWS.
Many prostrations from heat in New
York city.

posed by an enthusiastic Frenchman.
Fire in the business section of Pitts.
burg caused the death of four persons
and injury to six others.
Fine in the Cramps shipbuilding
yard near Philadelphia. destroyed prop
erty to the value Of 5000, 900.
Nine deaths in one day in Chicago
from extreme heat. The record for
week is ~ deaths and 96 prostrations.
The total number of bodies recovered
from the recent Hoboken fire now
number l43, and 14O persons are re.
ported missing.
A cyclone. accompanied by a cloud
burst and hail storm. swept over Kala
mazoo, Mich. resulting in damage to
property of 100000.
On June II. the. Chicago & North
western railway opened for traffic their
new line from Belle Plaine, Ia, to Ma.
son City; also their new. Fox lake
branch. The length of this new line
is 1876 miles, which added to their mile.
age gives them total of 8,462. 85
miles, the largest mileage of any rail.
road in the world.
The dock laborers' strike at Rotter-
dam, Germany, is assuming threaten.
ing proportions. The carmen have
now joined in the strike, and the police
and marines are guarding the streets
in order to check disturbances. The
strikers have picketed all the ap-
proaches to the town, so as to prevent
non-unionists from entering. The la.
borers of Rotterdam will hold mass
netting to discuss the best means of
aiding the strikers.
The orders recently issued for the re-
moval of a large number of truops from
Cuba have been gladly welcomed by
the Cubans, and General Wood is in
receipt Of many letters from various
municipalities Offering thanks for what
they call his disposition to trust the
Cubans, and declaring that the entire
island is in state OF absolute tran
quillity. The Tenth infantry, it is be-
lieved, will leave the island shortly af-
under orders to proceed home.
James w. Porter, OF Chicago, has re-
ceived cablegram from Che Foo, an
nouncing that his brother, the Rev.
Henry j. Porter, and his sister, Miss
Mary HI. Porter, missionaries of the
American board of commissioners for
| foreign missions. stationed at Pang
| Chuang, 200 miles south of Tien Tsin,
had arrived safely at Che Foo. July g.,
coming overland from Gilman Flu, cap
ital of the province. They we're accom-
panied by the Rev. H. P. Perkins, an
other missionary stationed at Pang
Chuang.
President Kruger is reported to have
moved to Nelspruit.
Eight deaths from extreme heat are
reported from Chicago.
In a wild plunge of street-car into
a gulch at Tacoma, SO people were
killed and 60 injured.
Elizabeth Chapman. q Salem pioneer
of l848, died at that city in her 81st
| year, of complication of diseases.
An explosion of fireworks in Phila-
delphia caused the death of four chill
dren and the fatal. injury of three 9TH
| ers.
By the explosion of an oil tank in
Parkersburg. w. Va, six men were
blown to atoms and three others fatally
injured.
Three men were killed; one wound.
ed in wreck on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western road at Durkin' q
Cut. near Henryvillv. Pa.
Southern provinces of China are
drifting away from the empire. Ii
Hung Chang and the friendly viceroys
are engineering the movement.
The foreigners in Pekin will be left
to their fate. The allies cannot rescue
them on account of the overwhelming
force of Chinese that oppose them.
The United States battle-ship Ore
gon, which ran ashore of the island OF
| How Ke, in the Miatau group. 35 miles
northeast of Che Foo, on June 20, has
been flOated.
The steamer Dirigo arrived at Seat
tie from Skagway, bringing 10 boxes OF
gold dust, valued at nearly $500, 600.
The Dirigo carried 72 passengers,
mostly from Dawson.
Rear. Admiral Bare, now command
ant of the Norfolk navy yard, has been
selected to succeed Rear-Admiral
Philip, deceased, as commandant of the
New York navy yard.
Charles w. Dickinson, inventor OF
the geometry G lathe. which made q
successful counterfeitlng of bank notes
impossible. is dead at his home in
Belleville, N. j., aged "a years.
| June 80 the grand staff of the Rus.
sian army estimated the Chinese army
to number 1.72O,OOO men. He also
said that about 900, 600 Mausers have
been imported within the last three
years.
A dispatch from Bombay says that
in all except three districts cholera is
raging in Bombay presidency, the cases
reported for the week ending June 26
numbering 2O,6s9, and the deaths. l2,-
1888.
i An ordinary sight in Manila IL .
fFil pino market or washerwOman smok-
ing q large cigar and clothed in a low
necked gown. with flowing sleeves and
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