The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-14
LAT GR NEWS.


General Pho del Pillar, the Filipino
leader, was captured by Americans six
miles east of Manila.
Two men were instantly killed and
eight seriously injured by the explosion
of boiler at brick works at Annis-
ton, Ala.
The Boxer movement is spreading
throughout China. Russia gives notice
that if the powers do not act she will
60 it alone.
An explosion, caused by mining
fuses at the customs department., at
Oporto, Portugal, killed two persons
and injured l3.
Harry Decker, a we'll known pro.
moter of Western railroad properties,
shot and killed himself in his apart.
ments at New York City.
One man was killed and four hurt
by the falling of freight elevator in
the Nichols & Shepherd Implement
building at Kansas City.
A fire in the oil refining and salt.
peter district of Hamburg, Germany,
destroyed property to the value of
1000, 900 marks, including many
dwellings.
A tannery owned by Fayette, Shaw
& Co., at Miller, Wis. was destroyed
by fire, causing loss of $lOO, 900.
Nine hundred men were thrown out OI
employment.
The investigation of the affairs OF
Adolph A. Kuhn, junior member of the
firm of Kuhn Bros, brokers, of Chi.
cago, shows he has left a shortage OF
ST 900, 900.
The president has approved the find.
ings and sentence in the case of Cap.
tain Deming, of Buffalo, assistant COM
missary of subsistence, U. S. ", tried
at San Francisco on a charge of forgery
and embezzling public funds.
Alexander Stevenson, a line repaire,
of the Utah Electric Light & Power
Company, of Salt Lake, was instantly
killed by electricity on Third South
and Main streets. He went up a pole
to do some work, and took hold of q
live wire. His body hung suspended
in the network of wires in the presence
of hundreds of people.
In Japan new law just put into op
GRAFTON forbids smoking by persons un
| der 20 years old, and also forbids the
| selling of tobacco or other smoking
material to youths of this age. Fines
are provided for the smoker and fol
whoever sells to him the stuff. The
law provides also for fining the parents
of such youthful smokers, because they
did not teach their offspring better
| habits.
Indiana Democrats indorsed Bryan
Roberts army is resting at Pretoria
Democrats of Missouri indorsed the
Chicago platform.
End of the Chicago labor trouble!
seems to be in sight.
Wolverton's plurality for supreme
Judge of Oregon is more than 10000.
Affairs in China are gradually work
ing up a crisis of the first magnitude
The legislature of Oregon will be Re-
publican on joint ballot by majority
of "a.
Chicago people contributed $4,000
toward the relief of the Indian famine
sufferers.
"A Christian journal in Japan has
been suspended for showing disrespec1
to the imperial house.
Alexander M. Dockery, of Gallatir
county, Missouri, has been nominated
by the Democrats for governor.
Fire at Susanville, CAL, destroyed
three blocks of stores. containing forty
buildings, entailing large loss.
London papers think that the Brit.
ish squadron is recognized as inferior tt
the Russian as we'll as the japanese.
Chinese soldiers attacked the Boxers
near Peking. and in the engagement
which followed many were killed on
both sides.
A dispatch from Cucuta, department
of Santander, Venezuela, say that after
13 days of fighting, the Colon biaI
revolutionists have routed the govern
ment forces near Buracamanga, captur'
ing q number of prisoners, including
General Penasolan.
Secretary Long has issued an order
for an experiment of the utmost i'm
portance. The purpose is to see how
much time would be occupied in put
ting into condition for active naval
service part of the United States feet
to meet an emergency.
Judge Morrow, of the United States
circuit court at San Francisco, on COM
plant made by Jew Ho, has granted
an order temporarily restraining the
board of health and chief of police
from prohibiting the surgeons employed
by the Chinese to care for their dead,
entering the quarantine line.
Steps have been taken to organize q
national Negro party in Philadelphia.
Prominent negroes-bishops, ministers,
editors and lawvers-at meeting de-
cided to place a presidential ticket in
the field with negro candidates. The
plan is to organize the party in every
state of the Union, and nominate can
didates for state and c0ngressional
Offices.
An American water hyacinth which
is not infrequently an obstrution to ma
vieation in southern rivers has been
successfully killed on the Melpomene