The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-11-01
LA,En NEWS.

New York Democrats gave W. ].
Bryan another reception.
A plot to assassinate President Lon.
bet. OF France, has been discovered.
George w. Shaver, pioneer steam.
boat man, of Portland. Or, is dead.
Roosevelt concluded his tour in New
York state with u speech in Binghamp
ton.
All but one colliery in the Hazleson
mining region have granted the miners
demands.
Four hundred native Christians were
massacred at Mukden before the Rus
sian occupation.
Near Frederickstad, the Beers under
Dewet. were scattered in all directions
by British force.
A Republican parade lasting six
hours was the elimination of the cam
paign in Chicago.
The evacuation of Cuba will not be
ordered till the character of the new
government is tested.
Edward Dewey, brother of Admiral
Dewey, died at his home in Montpe.
lier, VT, aged II years.
An Everett, WASH. saw mill has re.
ceived and order for 100000 feet OF
lumber from South America.
A man who had been arrested at
Spangle, WASH. for being drunk and
disorderly, committed suicide by hang.
ing himself in Jail.
The 150-ton schooner Fischer Bros,
of Seattle. is reported to have been
wrecked on the beach of Behring sea
in storm near Port Clarence. No
lives were lost.
w. s. Robson, one OF the most ex.
tensive cotton planters of Texas. has
gathered statistics from the Brazos and
Colorado valleys and declares that the
ball weavil has destroyed $4,000, 600
worth of this years crop.
A sheriff's posse in pursuit of five
prisoners who escaped from the Doni.
phan, KAN, Jail, overlook the men
near Dalton, Ark, and battle ensued
in which two members of the posse
were dangerously wounded. Three o
the prisoners were wounded and recap.
tured.
The war department has made public
an order issued by General Macarthur,
looking to the protection Of the health
rs <hn sv~ hA
This recites that 80 per cent of the
sickness in the army is avoidable by
sanitary precautions. the most import
ant of which are the boiling of all
drinking water for not less than &c
minutes, and the adoption OF the strict
est cleanliness as to camps. quarters,
kitchens and cooking utensils.
American troops have withdra wn
| from Pekin.
Roosevelt was met by big crowds in
the state of New York.
The business portion of the town oil
Dunavant. Kansas. was destroyed BY
| fire.
The United States is holding back
it's answer to the Anglo. German agree.
ment.
Bryan says, If elected, he will i'm.
mediately withdraw the army from
the Philippines.
Thomas Walsh, the Colorado mil.
lionaire, forms a partnership in COM
mercial enterprises with King Leopold,
of Belgium.
Great uneasiness was created in pal.
ace circles, says the Constantinople'
correspondent of the London Daily Mail
by a reprt that an American squadron
was approaching and the censor was
instructed to prohibit the press from
mentioning the subject.
Another fend has broken out in Clay
county, Kentucky. between the Phil
pots and Davidsons. Recently David
Davidson, father OF Felix Davidson,
the deputy who was killed by Phil
pot few weesk ago, was killed and
several others wounded in fight. On
the other side, David Philpot was
killed and two others badly wounded.
Skirimshes continue between the
Russians and the Chinese at various
points along the Manchurian railway.
The Amur Gazette. at Blagoyest
schensk, asserts that the Chinese bank
of the Amur river will be offered te
Russian settlers. It is reported that
the construction of railway between
Blagoyestchensk and Tsilsikar has been
decided upon.
Colonel Picquart's suit for libel
against LIE Journal of Paris, arising
from the Dreyfus polemics. was de-
cided in his favor. The court com.
manded the manager Of the paper. M.
Pouch, to pay fine Of 1000 francs,
and M. Possiden and CALI, the writ
ers of the articIrs, were sentenced to six
months and one months imprisop.
ment, respectively. and all three were
sentenced to pay $4,000 francs dam
ages.
William Hammer Piper, Of Chicago,
on behalf of the Zion church has sent
kilograms to President Mckinley and
Governor Nash, Of Ohio. protesting
against the treatment of the represen.
i tatives OF the denomination at Mans.
field, O., and appealing for their pro-
lection. Mr.. Piper sassy these p'inis.
ters have not broken single statute o.
the state, and tia right to preach the
gospel of Jesus Christ Is v0uchsafed g
them by the laws Of Ohio and tho con,