The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-17
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TEESE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

An Interesting Collection Of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in u Condensed Form.
Painters and paperhangers of Tacoma
have won their strike for a shorter day.
Russians and Chinese clash in Man
churia many being killed on both
sides.
Admiral Dewey attended reception
hy the colored people at Memphis.
Tenn.
Astoria will offer bounty for seal
scalps in order to protect the salmon
industry.
The steamer Tosa Maru has arrived
at Seattle from Yokohama with 700
more Japs.
The bill for Alaskan lighthouses prob
ably cannot be passed at this session of
congress.
President Mckinley sent birthday
congratulations to the crown prince of
Germany.
Two persons were burned to death by
the destruction OF the American hotel
at tennessee, n. Y.
New York's naval reserve refused to
accept the navy departments offer fol
cruise and practice.
Charles f. Neely has been arrested
for embezzilng $4,000 in the Cuban
postotlice department.
Three Forest Grove people are thought
to have perished in the sinking of the
Dora B. in Alaskan waters.
Three Americans were killed and
seven wounded in an engagement with
rebels on the island of Panay.
Middle.of-the-road Populists at Sioux
Falls will hold their convention in q
hig tent. Ignatius Donnelly is talked
OF ior~the presidency.
Martin Sievert, who killed one
Christensen at Latuya Bay, Alaska,
asked the miners there to hang him
and was accommodated.
The chiefs of Tutuila, of the Sa.
moan group, have formally ceded the
island to the United States, and the
American flag has been hoisted.
Representatives of the Field museum
in Chicago will soon be in the North.
west for three months tour for the
purpose of seeking curios among Ore
gon Indians.
Twenty-six hundred street-car men
are on a strike in St. Louis, and every
line in the city is compelled to sus
pend operation. The police are power
less
War preparations by the reformeri
in China are proceeding vigorously
large quantities of arms being taker
into the country. The imperial gov
enment sees no cause for alarm.
Ex-Congressman David B. Culbert
son, of Texas, is dead.
General Hamilton has captured Win
burg, the Boer stronghold.
l.. Marquis, farmer residing sever
miles northwest of Eugene, committed
suicide.
Heavy rains in Iowa did much dam
age to property and caused large losse'
III livestock.
Lord Roberts has crossed the Ve
river and the Beers are still in full re-
treat northward.
San Antonio. Texas, was struck by {
terrific wind storm, doing damage *
the amount of $4,000.
W. G. Endicott, secretary of war in
Cleveland's first administration, dice
at Boston, aged 70 years.
Scientists hope to make many new
discoveries ON the event Of the sum-
total eclipse on May 90.
General Harrison Gray Otis is boom
ing Congressman Hepburn, of Iowa, fo
Mckinley's running mate.
Aguinaldo has joined his forces il
North Luzon and has assembled con
Siderable force in the mountains; Gen
eral Young asks for reinforcements.
Senor Albert, prominent in; Cubar
politics and editor of newspaper, wa'
shot and instantly killed by an un
known assassin at Gibara, province o
Santiago de Cuba,
Pope Leo will make amends for hi
deposition OF Archbishop Keane, wht
may be appointed to the position helt
ny the late Archbishop Hennessy, o
Dubuque, Iowa.
lhe output of oil in California ha
Increased from l,245,l23 barrels il
aSS5' to 2,292, 1913 barrels in 1899
Inc state now ranks fourth among th'
states OF the union in petroleum pro
duction.
kev. Charles S. Morris. coloret
haptlst missionary, recently returned
from South Africa, was vigOrousl,
missed when he champicned the caus'
VI England in lecture before the Wes
~ mioe Y. NJ. G. A. of New York City
me counter-demonstrations became s,
Pronounced that the lecturer abandoned
uhe discussion of the merits of the con
lending nations.
ureece has forbidden the expectation
OF antiquities.
railroad across Greece. to cos
sSooO,OO0, will be finished in fou
Years.
9. nurlng the present decade the Unitet
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