The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-01-18
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items Frop,
the Two Hemisphsres Presented
so a Condensed Form.


~ a Condensed Form.
Gold imports are helping England's
finances.
Tod Sloan, the great jockey, is COM
ing West.
Money rates have taken a tumble
and may 60 lower.
Affairs of the Globe National bank,
at Boston, will be wound up.
Asa training-ship the Hartford will
sail for South American ports with
400 boys.
Christian science treatment allowed
two children to die of diphtheria al
Pittsburg.
Heavy losses on both sides are the
chief results of recent hard battles at
Ladysmith.
Montana politics are getting much
needed airing by the testimony in the
Clark case.
German vessel-owners regard Eng.
lands recent seizures as scheme to
kill competition.
The released American prisoners
were barefooted and in rags when they
arrived in Manila.
Editor Stead has published a letter
in London in which he gives some in
side facts of the Jameson raid.
A miniature battle of San Juan hill
was fought by Chicago youngsters.
The police intervened, but not before
Ihe Spanish" officers were seriously
wounded.
After a days bombardment, tho
Beers captured the British garrison at
Kuruman, Bechunaland, taking l2O
prisoners, arms, ammunition and pro-
visions.
The Beers whipped Whites forces
out of positions three different times,
but each time the Britishers' gallantry
returned to the fray and recovered all
the lost positions.
Our losses in the Spanish war were
S2,296. The grand total of the volun.
teer force was 223,235. About $4,000
of these were discharged or deserted.
The total deaths were less than 1000.
Friendship between China and the
United States would be complete if the
Chinese were admitted to the Philip
pines. Our trade with China increased
40 per cent last year, all due to friend.
ship.
The shotgun quarantine has been re-
vived in Honolulu. Bubonic plague
has strong hold on the city. Two
more deaths had occurred by December
80 and there were seven new cases OF
plague. The National Guard was
called out and they burned the infected
district.
The United States is ahead of Great
Britain as a coal producer.
The Montpelier tin-plate mill, en-.
ploying 200 men, has closed.
Cubans are we'll pleased with Wood,
and say he is the one man <or the task.
Three persons were killed and seven
injured in tenement-house fire at New
York.
The steamr Gazelle was wrecked of
the Florida coast. A passing steamer
saved the crew.
California capitalists are going into
fruit culture in the states of Vera Cruz
and Oaxaca, Mexico.
Michigan has q sensation and sew
eral state officials have been indicted
for bribery and embezzlement.
Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn is dead
at Newburgh, N. Y. He succumbed
to Bright's disease after seven weeks
There will be a conference of the
governors of the arid states and terri
tories at Salt Lake January IL to con
slider the question of arid lands.
In Clay county, Kentucky, two mer
were shot and killed and four othel
participants seriously wounded In
fight that started at murder trial.
A Pacific Mail steamer arrived ir
San Francisco with q cargo OF S,6l4
tons, nearly twice as much as any shi I
that had ever entered the Golden Gate.
Congressman Hopkins of the house
ways and means committee says there
will be no revision of the war; revenue
tax law at this session of the 56th CON
gress.
Attached to the annual report OF th'
secretary of agriculture is recommen
dation for agricultural experiment. sta
tions in the governments new islans
possessions.
A brother of one of the Boer generals
who is visiting Chicago, says that !
Britain crushes the Transvaal armies
there will be no peaDo, rs the boer'
will fight to the last.
General Greeley, the chief sigma
officer of the army and the well-knowl
Arctic explorer, was assaulted ant
seriously injured by q messenger In MI
own home at Washington.
John Boston, q negro, OF Russei
county, Ala, convicted of CHECKER
setaling has been pardoned by Governo
Johnston on condition that "for twelv'
months he shall not buy. steal or co
another chicken, or any part thereof
A lady in Baltimore was 80 attractet
to pet monkey that whom It shuniet
OF this mortal coil she gave bang-ul
funeral. There were six pall-bearers
four carriages for the mourners, ant
several floral designs, one of them be