The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-04-26
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphit
News of the World.
TFRSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
Interesting Collection OF Items Fror'
IN. Two Hemispheres Presented
~ ~ Condensed Form

The Ohio anti-bicycle law was de-
carod unconstitutional.
Democrats, Populists and Silver Re-
.mhicans have fused in Nebraska.
Fire in tenement house at Newcas.
fa. Pa, caused the death of four per-
sons.
Republican party leaders have agreed
ppon planks. Expansion will be the
hcyuote.
Charles II. Allen, Of Massachusetts,,
was nominated for governor of Puerto
Rico by the president.
Large steel mills in the vicinity of
Chicago and Joliet have closed down
IN account of labor troubles.
In speech on the Philippine ques.
tion, senator Hoar said that the war
to date had cost 5000 lives.
An Albany, Or, man, whose SOD is
cdrnetist, but iost his hand, has had =
leit-handed cornet made for the boy.
The historical church of Notre Dame
des Iortus, on the outskirts of Paris,
was pilIaged, then burned by vandals.
Commodore Cowle, u S. N, has
sailed for the Philippines on the
steamer Doric, to take charge of the
machine shops at the Cavite navy yard.
General Montenegro, one of the Fill
pinos' best fighters, has surrendered to
Colonel Smith in the mountains near
Camaling in the province of Pangasi-
nan.
BY the closing of nine additional
cigar factories in New York city, the
number, Of striking and locked out
cigarmakers has been increased to
5000. -
Twelve hundred Tagalos attacked
Cases battalion headquarters Caga-
yam, island OF Mindanao, but were re-
pulsed with loss of so killed and 80
wounded. Americans had five casual
ties.
Sixteen months have elapsed since
the sultan of Turkey promised to pay
100000 indemnity for the destruction
OF American missionary property dur
ing the riots of 1895. The usual sharp
hint is necessary.
The secretary of war has ordered an
Investigation of the case of Major
Knight, United States engineer.
charged with interfering with Father
Tierney, of the Roman Catholic church.
in the performance of his duties.
Congress will adjourn in June.
War taxes will not be reduced at
this session of congress.
Great Britain will levy a tax OF
mines to pay the expenses of the war.
A burglar entered saloon in Che
halls, Wash, and took $500 in silver.
Four men were killed and several in
jured in drunken riot of coal miners
near Johnstown, Pa.
Heavy rain and snow storms in the
vicinity of Denver are causing much
delay to railroad traffic.
John EIannigan, aged 63. one of the
beSt-known horse trainers in the coun-
try, died at Mildale, KY.
Two Mexican outlaws held up a
gambling house in Johnson, Arizona,
and killed prominent mining man.
Rev, William J. Rutledge, of jack
sonvillc, H., prominent Methodist
minister and originator of the G. A.
H., Is dead, aged sc.
The legislature of Trinidad has re-
Jected the offer of Canada for recipro-
cal trade and adopted the convention
with the United States.
Fourteen thousand people have en-
gagged passage from Pacific coast ports
TO Cape Nome, Alaska, on the first
ieet OF steamers, which sails about
May /.
Two hundred or 800 families bought
I'2OO acres of land near Eugene, Or,
with the intention of dividing it up
INTO 4O-acre tracts and working ON the
coonization plan.
burglars at Toronto, Ont, dug
'hrough the nine-inch brick wall of
'le vault of st. Simon's church with
crowbars and picks and stole 81, 1,175,
'he Easter Offering.
Conditions in famine-stricken India
are deplorable. Sixty millions of peo-
PIE are suffering and $4,000, 900 are in
oire distress, and only 5000, ZOO are
receiving government aid.
IN New York, a school of voice cul-
'ure was begun on a portentious scale
at Carnegie Hall, under the direction
y. Ulacomo Minkowsky, called the
metropolitan School of Voice and Sing
ing. Edouard de Reezke and Nine.
Hordica will give scholarships to the
Ues' gifted pupils under Minowsky.
Naunce Grau and Andrew A. McCor-
mick are lending their influence. Min
Aowsky is composer of note.
former Secretary of the Interior
Iioke Smith has sold his Atlanta, Ca,
journal to Boston syndicate.
Germany and Russia are said to have
reached an agreement as to railway
concessions, practically dividing Asia
Minor between them.
0yrll Arthur Pearson. principal
O"ner, manager and editor of Pearson Q
magazine and many other journals.
Intends shortly to launch a London
Tny Iaily newspaper modelled on American