The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
LATER NEWS.
London is enthusiastic over the relief
Of Mafeking.

cG. MARY SCHOOL at Belmont, s. T..
Loss is estimated at 5000, 900.
William H. Hunt, of Montana, has
been selected to be secretary of state
Tor the island of Puerto Rico.
Street-car strikers of st. Louis are
restrained from interfering with mail
cars by a temporary injunction.
Texas has declared quarantine
against San Francisco on account of the
prevalence of plague in that city.
Fenian sympathizers with the Beers
made an attempt to blow up the Brit.
ish Notifications at Esquimalt, B. G.
Congressman George B. Mcclellan.
son of Little Mac," the federal gen.
eral, is being urged as running mate
for Bryan.
Washington Democrats in convention
at Spokane, indorsed Bryan for presi-
dent, James Hamilton Lewis for vice.
president.
The Beers announce they will defend
Johannesberg, and the consuls of the
neutral powers have been advised to
look after their citizens.
Owners of Chicago breweries have
defied the city ordinance requiring
them to pay $500 license fee the first
day of May each year.
American warships are leaving
Manila for Chinese ports to escape the
hot weather which comes to that city
every April, May and June.
In the coast towns of Colima and
Jolisco, Mexico, an earthquake caused
houses to be submerged, boats swamped
and several natives to drown.
The statue of General Grant, pre-.
sented by the 6. A. r. to the nation,
was unveiled in the great rotunda OF
the capitol with impressive ceremonies.
In the senate, the proposition relat.
ing to the transportation of mail by
the pneumatic tube system, was laid
on the table by vote of 80 to 16.
A work train on the Guadalajara
branch of the Mexican Central road
ran into an obstruction, wrecking the
engine and a number of cars and kill.
ing IL men.
Assistant Surgeon A. S. Lloyd, OF
the United States marine hospital ser.
vice at Chicago, has been ordered to
San Francisco to assist in the work OF
prevention of the spread of the bubonic
plague.
General Brabant has occupied Lady.
brand.
More Christians have been massacred
north of Tien-Tsin by the boxers"
Kentucky Republicans indorsed the
administration of President Mckinley.
Disease is causing the deaths oi
many American soldiers in the Philip
pines.
Filipinos reject civil marriage,
claiming it as no more than concu.
binage.
Boer peace ENJOYS will be allowed to
present their credentials at the state de-
partment.
Collector of Customs Ivey has with
drawn his resignation and will serve
out his term in Alaska.
F. P. bengal, who eloped from Pros
ser, Wash. with q Mrs. Brackenburg,
was arrested in Spokane.
There is strong sentiment in favor
of Hepburn, of Iowa, for vice-president
ON the Republican ticket.
Manila editors and correspondents
protest against the press censorship.
Many papers are shutting up shop.
Four persons perished in the fire in
the Hotel Helena. in Chicago. Guests
were>forced to jump from windows.
Elijah Moore. aged 10, who murdered
Rev. Jesse Moore, his father, at Dex-
ter. Mo-, November l last, was ex-
ecuted.
Americans in Yucatan lose contracts
on electric and bridge work through
being underbid by Englishmen and
Germans.
Fire destroyed the works of the Can
ada Cycle & Motor Company of ST.
GATHERINGS, Ont, causing loss of half
million dollars.
Columbian rebels threaten Panama,
great excitement prevails in that city
and United States vessels have been
ordered to the scene.
An alleged nobleman. charged with
forgery, in a~yictoria, B. c., court,
swallowed glass during the trial and
will die. His name was Elliott.
A factory is now constructing at
Corvallis to manufacture many articles
of hardware, thus utilizing valuable
timber that has been going to waste.
Webster Davis was called upon to
speak at the Missouri Republican con-
yentlop, but debate on the question
of appointing a committee to escort
him to the stage came near diMupting
the convention.
Secretary Gage, in response to an in
quiry from the house of representatives
as to the extent of the influx of Jap
anese, has submitted letter from i'm.
migration Commissioner Powderly,
stating thrat the arrivals for the nine
mouths ending March 81, last, were
4,427.
Governor Roosevelt has signed the
bill compelling provision of seats for
mattresses in New York restaurants.