The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-04-12
LATER NEWS.

boers In Natal are becoming active,
and an engagement with Bullcr is i'm.
minent.
The German flag has been raised over
the Samoan islands Of Upolu, Manono,
Apolima and Saru.
Captain John Goldman, tho famous
advocate of free ships and free trade. is
dead at Boston, aged SO.
The statue of Maud Adams viii. not
be admitted to the Paris exposition be.
cause it is personal exhibit.
At Pittsburg. Pa, big eight-stor
department. store was destroyed by fire,
causing loss of over a 81 200, 900.
Another brother of President Steyn,
of Orange Free State, was captured at
Karee Siding, and is now at Bloem.
fontein.
The squadron of the United States
navy, recently formed in Chinese
waters, is to have its headquarters at
Hong Kong.
Forty people lost their lives at Austin,
Texas, due to an overflow of the Col
orado river. Property destroyed ex.
ceeds $4,000, 900.
Walter E. Groffe, the defaulting
cashier of the Adams Express Com pany
at Dayton, Ohio, who left the city
October 6 last, taking with him So. 900
of the corporations money, has been
arrested in San Francisco.
The sitution in Ashactee is unchang-
ed. A Coomassie runner reports that
all the Ashantee tribes are in arms, the
king of Bekwal alone remaining loyal.
1t is believed that the Ashantee golden
stool has been found and that the rising
is due to the endeavor of the governor
of the colony, Sir Frederic Mitchell
Hodgson, to take possession of it.
The American Plate Mirror Company
was chartered at Harrisburg, Pa, with
capital of $50,00O,0O0. This COM
pany is composed of well-known plat>
glass men, and is looked upon as the
beginning of determined move on the
part of the American plate-glass men
to wrest the trade in this country for
plate mirrors from foreign manu-.
facturers.
Senator Tillman, from the committee
on mines and mining, reported che
bill providing for the utilization of a
part of the proceeds of the sales of pub
lie lands in support of schools for min.
ing in the public land states. 1t pro-
vides for the appropriation of $40, 200
annually for the present in each case
and the gradual increase of the amount
to 500, 900.
The Republicans elected 10 out of S5
aldermen in Chicago.
Admiral Dewey has announced him.
self as candidate for president.
Genreal French has given up his
chase after the retreating Beers.
Boston is agitating the question Of
prohibition of ringing church bells.
| The United States building at the
Paris exposition will be closed on Sun,
days.
Queen Victoria landed at Dublin.
Ireland, her first visit to the island in
80 years.
A temperance movement has been
inaugurated in Mexico, owing to the
increase of drunkenness.
Admiral Dewey's collection of curios
and trophies, at his request, will be
placed in the Smithsonian Institute.
Turkish tower at the Paris exposition
obstructs the view of the United States
building and Commissioner Peck has
protested against it.
The Vanderbilts and Morgans now
have plans almost perfected which
will give them absolute control OF the
coal supply of America.
Forty -four young men of Thurston
Or, have petitioned the military board
for the organization of company O.
the National Guard at that place.
The mammoth auditorium in which
the Democratic National convention
was to have been held on July 4, wal
burned to the ground, entailing los'
of $3.50, 1000.
At Logansport, Ind, $50 masked
men blew up-two bridges and burned
two toll houses on the Logansport ant
Burlington pike at midnight. Ths
road is the only pike in the county
and protests have been directed against
high toll and the alleged bad condition
of the pike.
| Michael j. Dady, the Brooklyn con
tractor who obtained from the Spanish
city government of Havana $l2, 900,
600 contract for sewering and paving
has received q letter from Governor
General Wood, informing him that hi
plans for the construction OF sewers ant
the paving OF the city of Havana ar'
disa approved and rejected.
|, The newly organized American
Match Machine Company, New Jer
sey corporation, is about to enter int
competition with the Diamond Mattel
Company, known as the match trust
The new company does not intend t.
! confine it's attention to the trade OF tht
United States, but will make . vigor
ous fght for European trade. through
the sale of rights.
A national congress OF mothers is Il
be held at Dea Moines, Ia, May 2l-25
i The department of agriculture vii
plant 100, 900 rubber trees in the Ha
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