The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-03-29
LATER NEWS.


was signed by President Mckinley.
Several Cleveland, O., concerns have
granted the demands of the striking
machinists.
Rear-Admiral A. H. Mccormick re.
tired as commandant of the Washington
navy yard.
The Norwegian schooner Triton has
been wrecked at Dunkirk, Ireland, and
10 of her crew drowned.
Bob Fitzsimmons and Kid Mccoy
have been matched to fight July A, 25
rounds at catch weights.
Two murderers at Emporia, Va,
were lynched after the militia that had
protected them were withdrawn.
Fifty thousand labo, ers on the island
of Puerto Rico are without work, and
whole families have died from starva-
tion.
The Philippine commission will be
taken to Manila on the transport Han.
cock. and will sail from San Francisco
on April Is.
One man was killed and five injured
by a cave-in at Whitehall, on the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad, 10 miles south
of Pittsburg, Pa.
The Alaska mail service is meeting
with great success. Mail was recently
transmitted from Circle City to WASH
ington in 80 days.
Work has begun on New York city's
underground railway, which will in
volve the expenditure of $50, 900, 600,
and will give employment to 10000
men.
Wharton Golden. in his testimony at
the trial of Secretary of State Caleb
Powers, of Kentucky, said, "John Pow
ers told me they had two negroes to
kill Goebel."
Eben s. Boyce, of Tacoma, was
found guilty of murder in the first De.
gree. He brutally shot his wife Feb
ruary 10, while she was acting as CASH
ier in q restaula ant.
The government of Austria Hungary
has replied to the South African ap-
peal for mediation in the war that it
was only possible to take such step
when both beligerants desired it.
Through the breaking down of the
first floor in a factory building in New
York city, which was totally destroyed
by fire, three firemen were killed and
two injured. Property loss $50, 1000.
The court of inquiry convened by
Rear-Admiral Watson, at Manila, to
investigate the loss of the cruiser
Charleston, exonerated the officers and
men from responsibility for the loss of
the ship.
Machinists of Cleveland, O., have
been ordered out.
Bonneville, Iowa, is being terrorized
by striking miners.
General Kitchener has occupied
Prieska, in Cape Colony.
The crown princess of Austria and
Count Lonyay were married at Vienna.
Cubans are clamoring against the
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the bishoprie.
The Beers at Aliwal North are still
holding a position in the big hills on
the Free State side.
j. F. Allen, of New Orleans, has
bought ], ZOO, 900 Paris exposition tick
cts as a speculation.
The will of Philip D. Armour, Jr..
was proved and admitted to probate
The estate is valued at So, 900, 900.
John F. Norton, Northern Pacific
switchman, was run over in the yards
at Tacoma, WASH, and died q few
hours later.
The slayer of Goebel is said to be q
mulatto. who is now supposed to be in
hiding in the wilds of one of the noun
tain counties.
At Buda Pest, Hungary, "a peasants
were drowned by the capsizing of q
boat, in which they were crossing the
Danube during gale.
Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder, pres
ent secretary of the naval inspection
board, has been selected to succeed
Captain Leary as governor of Guam.
Osman Pasha, the hero of Plerna, is
dead. In 1875 he defeated the finest
troops of the czar in three pitched bat
ties, which cost Russia over $4,000
men.
Eight ladies of the sultan's palace at
Constantinople have been sent into ex-
lie for Vaccinations in connection
with the sultan's fugitive brother in
law, MANNED Pasha.
The city council of Astoria. Or,
passed an ordinance authorizing the
chief of police to pay bounty OF 8
| cents each for all rats caught or killed
within the city limits within the next
80 days.
The house committee on foreign af-
fairs has decided to investigate the al
legation made by Charles E. Macrum,
ex.consui to Pretoria, relative to the
opening of his official mail by the
British authorities.
Sir william Van Horne, former pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific railway,
is interested in project for the con-
solidation of all the railways in Cuba.
For the development of this project Sir
William has $25. 900, 900 at his dis
posal.
An Iowa concern is making fasm
wagons wholly of steel.
Electrical power can be transmitted
with profit 80 miles and used as steam