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

treachery at Colesburg.
Tasals are not friendly to Archbishop
Chapelle, now at Manila
The Stanford football team defeated
the all-Seattle players by q score of %
to O.
The treasurer of Shelby county, In.
diana, Is short $4,000. His books
are missing.
The Paris high court has found M.
De Roulede of guilty conspiracy under
extenuating circumstances.
Hanna will be chairman of the NEXT
Republican national committee, be-
cause the president wishes it.
Because he rode on q railway pass,
suit has been filed against a member
OF the Kentucky election board.
President Cole, of the Globe National
bank, OF Boston. which recently failed
has returned and will stand trial.
Peter s. Wilkes died at Stockton,
Cal. He was confederate congress-
man during the last year of the war.
The president has nominated General
Bates, Young and Macarthur for pro-.
motion. Bates is to succeed Lawton.
A native was found with all the
symptoms Of bubonic plague in Manila.
Two deaths occurred in the house
where he was sick.
AS result of campaigning in the
Philippines IA soldiers are insane at
the Presidio in San Francisco. They
will be sent to Washington.
The situation at Ladysmith is be-
coming horrible. Twenty deaths in
one day were reported by General
White. Entric fever and dysentery
are prevalent.
The recent California earthquake
caused inactive volcanoes in the desert
to become active; made old gas wells
at Yuma flow again and caused assures
In the ground.
Trunk lines have all advanced freight
rates. Merchants have filed protests
saying that the new tariff will drive
business away from New York, ship
pers taking advantage of shorter hauls
to New Orleans and other ports.
Both houses of congress are after Sec-
retary Gage The Legislators desire to
know by what right the treasurer in
creased deposits of governments funds
in New York banks during the recent
financial furry there and correspond
ence in the matter is asked.
On her recent trip the steamer Aus
tralia would not accept steerage pas
sengers at Honolulu on account of the
plague scare. One death occurred on
December %, and two Chinese were
found dead on Christmas day. These
fatalities started the plague scare
again.
Colonel Pitcher won in q skirmish
with the Beers near the scene of Me-
thuen's defeat.
The gold yield for 1899 in New South
Wales was 500, 418 ounces, an increase
of 1913, ,926 ounces over 1898.
The battleship Wisconsin will have
the heaviest battery in the navy. The
boat will have her trial trip soon.
South Dakota Christian Scientists
are opposed to vaccination and will
take the question into the courts.
Twenty-Five thousand Pittsburg La.
borers were advanced from to 10 per
cent and in some cases even q greater
percentage. s.
In st. Louis the electric lights in
parks, public buildings and alleys are
turned of because contract has not
been renewed.
A German steamship company re-
fused to take back contract.labor emil
grants and the captain was arrested at
q Texas port.
Booker T. Washington, the promi'
nent colored man, says the Negro's
only salvation Is to make himself USE
full and keep pace with the times.
At Colesburg General French was
opposed by from 5000 to 1000 Beers.
The British losses were slight, while
Boers are said to have lost heavily.
A horrible murder occurred near
Rosser. Ala. A woman was cut to
nieces and the remsins were partially
burned. An old negress Is suspected.
Secretary Hay announces that favor
able replies have been received nom
England, Germany, France, Russia
and Japan to an open door policy In
China. -
Secretary Root has taken measures
IN break the corner in hemp. He has
had many complaints and has instructed
Otis to open Southern Luzon ports
soon.
Senator Harrell, of Kentucky, says
whallen tried to buy his vote against
Goabel.s Harrell wanted s., 900. but re-
ceived only $4,000 and now charges
bribery.
Secretary Root has directed the es.
tablishment of q government line OF
steamships connecting San Francisco,
Honolulu and Manila, similar to tnat
runnina between New York, CUBA ana
Porto Rico points.
The last link in the great waterway
connecting tho great lakes with the
onH has been completed. Water has
ben turned into Chicago's big canal
which took seven years TO builo, as =
cost Of Sss, 600, 900. The primery pur-:
rcs. 49, "a - drain Chicago, but its posi-
bilities are great.
According TO the Montreal Herald
Canada never before was % proepeloos
M,s. A. B. Mulroney. of Phiiadel-