The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-02-08
LATER NEWS.

The Beers credit divine providence
with their Tugela victory.
No river and harbor bill will be pre.
sented at this session of congress.
General Correa, formerly minister of
war for Spain, Is dead at Madrid.
The British parliament has reassem.
bled. No disorder was manifested.
Alexander Dunsmuir, the coal king
OF the Pacific coast. died in New York
city, aged AZ years. !.
Services in commemoration of the
martyrdom of Charles l, of England.
were held in Boston.
The transport Missouri, en- route to
San Francisco from Manila, has II in.
sane soldiers aboard.
Fire destroyed the business portion
OF the town of Winfield, Kan. Hun.
dreds of people are homeless.
Lieutenant Winston Churchill de.
scribes the battle of Spionkop as the
hardest fight of the South African war.
All is quiet in Samoa. The natives
are more settled than at any time since
the disturbance between the native
factions.
The sheriff of Colfax, WASH, has
offered reward of $500 for the capture
of Clemens, the murderer of q man
named Boland.
A special dispatch from Cape Town
says $50 American scouts, who arrived
there as muleteers, have enlisted in
the British forces.
A cold wave is prevailing east of the
Rocky mountains. The temperature is
eight degrees below zero at Chicago and
six below at Omaha.
The Fergus Printing Company, Of
Chicago, one of the oldest printing
houses in the city, was thrown into the
streets for on-payment of rent
Great Northern officials and EN-.
ployes' grievance committee held q
conference and it is announced there
will be no strike, all differences being
settled.
Governor Taylor declares that . state
81 insurrection now. prevails In Ken.
lucky. He has ordered the legislature
adjourned, but the Democrats have re-
fused to obey his edict.
R. v. Wilson has been arrested in
San Francisco on the charge of having
smbezzled package containing 5000,
while he was agent for the Great
Northern Express Company at Frank
lin, King county, Wash.
Lee Gong, q Chinaman of Fargo, N.
D., who alleges St. Louis is his home,
appealed today from the United States
court to the secretary of the treasury,
and was released on bail. He was the
irst of the 20 Cinnamon charged with
violating the exclusion act, to be heard
oy the courts.
Plague at Honolulu is under control.
Dawson evil-doers are forced to saw
wood.
General Buller's position is becoming
precarious.
Surveyors are now at work on the
Oregon Midland railway route.
A big steel mill was wrecked in
Pittsburg by q boiler explosion.
A bill was introduced in congress to
provide mining laws for Cape Nome.
Money is now ready for the purchase
of the Salem, Or, federal building site.
Census Supervisor Kelly has left for
Alaska to enter upon his duties there.
Owing to split in the National
League, Baltimore may lose her base
ball. club.
An attempt to rob the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railway train at Holden,
Mo-, was frustrated.
The United States transports City OF
Pueblo and Senator have arrived At
San Francisco from Manila.
Near Corunna, Spain, 8 torpedo boat,
name and nationality unknown, has
been totally lost, with all on board.
Quarantine officers in San Francisco
are adopting stringent measures to pEo.
tect that port from the bubonic plague.
The Union hotel, at Revelstoke. B.
c., was totally destroyed BY fire, the
blaze originating in the furnace rooh:
The German steamer Remus has been
wrecked near Aarhaus, Denmark,
where she was bound. The captain
and Is men perished.
Colonel Charles F. Williams, com.
mander of the United States marine
corps at Mare Island, died suddenly oi
hemorrhage of the stomach. 1
"Nick" Haworth, suspected murder.
or of Night Watchman Sandal. q
Kaysyille, Utah, attempted to commit
suicide at Salt Lake by bleeding.
Robert Fitssimmons now claims he
va. drupced when he was whipped BY
James Jeifries for the championship
of the world ct Coney Island, last June
A runaway electric car on the Day
ton q Xenia traction road, at Dayton.
O.. left the track at . sharp curve and
was demolished, killing three persons.
An American scouting party OF the
Twenty-fifth was caught in ambush BY
Filipinos and an officer and three men
killed. Insurgents lost 20 in killed and
wounded.
senator william: Goebel. OF Ken.
tuckv. was shot and seriously wounded
bv : crazed Kentuckian, two shots pas
sine entirely through tho Democratic
leaders, body.
A newsboy Of Philadelphia was ar.
rasted under the blue law of 170z and