The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-04-05
LATER NEWS.


proven success.
Ex-United States Senator Gibson, Of
Maryland, died of heart disease at
Washington, D. G.
General Louis Botha has been ap.
pointed to succeed General Joubert in
command OF the Boer army.
The 57th annual boat race between
Cambridge and Oxford resulted in an
easy victory for Cambridge.
Senator Mcbride introduced a bill
creating Crater Lake National park,
at Crater lake, Southern Oregon.
Seattle printers have raised the price
of job work 80 to so per cent, caused
by the increased cost of stock and high
rentals.
Russia is active. Military prepara.
tions in several directions are being
pushed with vigor. War with Japan is
not probable.
John Hayslip, of Kansas City, has
been found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree and sentenced to 90 years in
the penitentiary.
Robert Bradley. alias Barclay, has
been arrested in San Francisco, fol-
counterfeiting silver dollars. An en-.
tire outfit was captured.
Several persons perished by being
burned by the igniting of petroleum
tanks, caused by a collision between
two trains, at Vladivkokos, Caucasus.
All the coal mines in Indiana have
suspended operations, due to the failure
of the operators to sign a wage contract
for the year. About 1900 men are idle
as result.
All the coal miners in the Pittsburg,
Pa, district, celebrated the establish.
ment of an eight-hour working day,
causing complete idleness in the dis.
trict for one day.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. line steam
ship Phoenicia, which arrived at New
York from Hamburg and Boulogne,
brought 2,038 steerage passengers, the
largest number of immigrants arriving
by any steamer in many years.
The Beers are rushing men to the
front.
Latest advices report two new cases
of plague at Honolulu.
| Five men were killed by an explo.
sion in paper mill at Erie, Pa.
President Mckinley has again re-
fused to interfere in the Kentucky
squabble.
Relations between Russia and Tur.
key are badly strained and war prepar.
ations are in progress.
Several men We're seriously hurt al
Laramie, Wy, by an explosion at the
Union Pacific oil house.
| w. H. Cotton, charged with com.
plicity in the murder of Goebel, is said
to have turned states evidence.
Beers are blowing up the coal mines
in Natal. The Dundee colliery, with
its machinery, has been destroyed.
Harvey l.. Goodall. for 80 years the
publisher and proprietor of the Drover's {
Journal, died in Chicago of heart fail.
ure.
The navy department will investi.
gate the value of Crab island, south.
east of Puerto Rico, as q cOaling sta.
tion.
General Joubert, the intrepid leade,
| of the Transvaal forces, is dead. He
had been suffering from stomach com.
plaint.
The coasting steamer Glenelge found
cred during a gale off the Gippsland
coast. Australia. Out of ships com.
pany of 33, only three " ere saved.
Rear-Admiral Benjamin F. Day bas
been retired. Captain Terry, com.
manding the Washington navy yard,
will be promoted to the vacancy.
Prof. Mau, the profound student OF
Pompeiian antiquities, proves conclu-
sively that Pompeii was well-paved
city A years before the birth of Christ.
In Chicago, Albert Stedge. II years
old, avenged the insults cast upon his
mother by William Hobson, a boarder,
by dealing Hobson fatal blow over
the head with barrel stave.
The commercial treaties COMMITTEES
of the Italian chamber of deputies has
discussed and approved in principle the
reciprocity arrangement, under the
third section of the Dingley act, recent
ly signed in Washington BY Baron
Fava, Italian am mbassador to the United
States, and Mr.. Kasson, special pleni.
potentiary for the United States.
A story of suffering and death from
starvation comes from San Nicholas
island, of the California coast. A
party of three Cinnamon had been on
the island for six months gathering
and curing abalones. Three months
ago an unknown sloop from San Pedro,
CAL, called at the island. During the
absence of the Cinnamon, the visitors
stole everything eatable from the camp
and put to sea. One of the Chinese
died about q month ago, and the other
two, when rescued. were too weak to
move.
Santa Clara county's (Cuba) tobacco
crop will be the largest on record.
Gen. Winslow says Cuba's future de-
pends upon agricultural prosperity.
In the Klondike eggs are now selling
for $l2O case and beef at $1.50 a
pound.
Can't. Silas w. Terry, late in COM