The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-07-12
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of til Telegraphic
News of thH. World.
rEESE TICKS FROM .'HE WIRES
the Two Hemispheres Pres 'nt I
in "a Condensed Form.

In 70 condensed Form.
Twenty thousand Chinese soldiers are
u;tbin Pekin walls, 10000 outside.
Admiral Kempff reports that tie Ore
con is not III dangerous position.
The German minister at Pekin has
haen killed and other legations are un.
der seige and starving.
The cruiser Philadelphia arrived at
Astoria to take part i'll the Fourth of
Iuly celebration there.
The steamer Danube arrived at Ma
roimo. &. c., five days from Skagway,
With 40 passengers and $4,000 in
gold dust.
Asa last hope OF saving foreigners in
pekin, the powers may now threaten
70 DESTROY the graves of the imperisl
ancestors.
Fire destroyed the large soap and
fertilizing plant of tho Walker STRAIT.
man Company at Pittsburg, causing a
loss of $75, 900.
4 scandal in Klondike. Gold Com
missioner Senkler is charged with il
LEGAL grants to persons with whom he
was partner.
Lou Cramer, of Independence, Or. I.
pioneer of 1852, committed suicide
by hanging himself. No cause is
known for the deed.
The four-oared race between Penn.
ylvania, Columbia and Cornell crews
was won by the former. The race took
place at Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
At Chester park, Cincinnati, w. A.
Rutz and +. Hausman, of New Haven,
Conn, on motor tandem, made q
mile in l:29 As. This gives them the
worlds record for cement track.
By the bursting of reservoir OF the
city water works Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, l00,000,00 gallons of water
was precipitated upon thickly popu-
lated district of the city, doing dam
aye estimated at hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
The Boxer war is carried into Texas.
According to advices fight recently
occurred between eight cowboys and
ranchmen and Cinnamon belonging to
the Pei Chung colony, located in Du-
val county. Four Cinnamon are known
to have been wounded, one fatally. A
cowboy was wounded in the chest.
The timely arrival of detachment OF
state rangers saved further bloodshed.
The strength of the foreign forces at
present in China are as follows: Ger
many, A officers and l 400 men; Great
Britain, lS4 Off icers and l,700 men;
Austria, II officers and 1877 men;
America, 20 officers and 329 men;
France, II officers and 387 men; Italy,
seven officers and l3l men; Japan, 1l9
officers and 3, 700 men, and Russia, III
officers and 5.Sl7 men, with total OF
81 field guns and SO machine guns.
The Beers attacked Hammon.a. but
were repulsed.
The United States cruiser Brookly IN
has proceeded to Taku.
Chinese have begun the destruction
OF missions at Shan Tung.
Today and hereafter you can send q
letter to Hawaii for two cents.
At Angeles, Luzon, General Aquino
surrendered to General Grant.
Chinese situation exercises depressing
influence on trade in Germany.
Many workers in Pittsburg are idle
pending the adjustment of wage scales.
The postoffice at Union, Oregon,
was looted by burglars and $3.50 was
carried away.
A weeks scouting in North Luzon re-
suited In 90 rebels being killed and 4G
wounded. One American was killed.
The Indians on Rainy river, Ontario,
lhieaten an uprising. Three thousand
are gathered near the mouth of Rainy
river.
The great lumber yards, covering
nall mile, at Black Rock, suburb o
Buffalo, n. Y, were burned, with {
loss of 100000.
Ihe steamship Nome City. which
made the trip from Portland to Nome,
rescued AZ people ON the way, the
crews and passengers of two wrecked
schooners.
Over Sic. 900, 900 worth of property
was destroyed, many lives lost, many
persons injured and at least ] 1900 live
mperiled by fire on dock at Ho
boken, N. j.
Inc transport Sumner arrived a
ean Francisco from Manila with 4:
SICK soldiers, 20 discharged men, /:
insane patients and 10 members o
the hospital corps.
A special dispatch from Shanghai
uated June 80, says that all ON boart
me United States battleship Oregon
winch went ashore in the Calf of P'
ohi LII, have been saved. There i
some chance that the ''essel may b.
foated.
Germans naturalized in America a.,
al olsiavor in the fatherland.
The wall paper trust, one of tn
earliest and best known uf the com
o'hations, has asked for a receiver.