The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-28
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items Froua
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in u Condensed Form.

An Interesting Collection Of Items Fro..
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in "a Condensed Form.
T,ro thousand stand of arms have
bocn piyen up by the Beers at Pretoria.
The battle.ship Oregon and 5000
American troops will 60 to Taku at
once.
Ameri can ships took no part in the
bombardment and seizure of the Chi.
nese forts at Taku.
A special session of congress may be
called The situation in the far East
seems to demand it.
Three of the forts at Taku were com.
rletely destroyed by the bonn bardment
from foreign ships, and the British yes.
selscaptured four Chinese torpedo boats.
Mrs. Beveridge, wife of United States
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, died in
a sanitarium at Dansville. N. Y, OF
heart failure. She had been ill several
months.
Half of the business portion of the
city of Bloomington, ILL.,, including
five squares of the finest business blocks
Of the city and the court house, were
destroyed by fire, with losses estimated
at $1,000, 900.
Negotiations for commercial treaty
with France have been satisfactorily
concluded by the Brazilian minister ot
foreign affairs at Rio Janeiro. France
will grant a reduction of 20 per cent
on the duty on Brazilian coffee.
The Pacific Oil Works Company was
Incorporated at Tacoma, Wash, with
a capital of $3.50, 600, to bore for oil in
gulch, almost in the heart of the
city. Sample oil from outcropping in
dicate rich deposit. Work will bs
prosecuted at once.
dispatch from Lord Roberts sent
from Pretoria, June 16, gives an off cial
version of an attack on British post
at Zand river, June 16, by 500 Beers,
with three guns. 1t says that General
Knox, with a mixed force. drove off the
Beers, who left four dead and four pris.
oners Oh the field. The British loss
was Major Seymour and two men killed
and nine wounded.
The French government will havl
1900 troops at Taku when the rein.
fOrcements just ordered have arrived
there. They will reach Taku before
June 80. The dispatch of cruiser
division, which was decided upon,
will give France strong naval force.
consisting of seven modern cruisers
three of the first-class and four of thu
second class-four gunboats and q dis
patch boat.
Chinese forts at Taku fired on foreign
vessels. but were soon forced to sur
render.
Russia has demanded of China an in
demnity of 5O,O0O.OOO taels for tn.
damage done to the railroad from Tier
Tsin to Pekin.
John Vass, one of the best.knowz
mining experts on the Pacific Coast,
died of consumption at Baker City.
Or, aged as years.
Trouble is rife in the northern part
Of the Republic of San Domingo. Many
arrests have been made, including lead
ers of the former government party.
In consequence of the gravity of the
situation in China, England has order.
ed the Seventh Bengal infantry al
Simla, India, to proceed to Hong Kong.
]. C. Pardee, aged SO years, brake.
man on the Southern Pacific train. who
lives in Ashland, Or, was killed al
Dunsmuir, Cal, by bein run over by q
train.
Information from Pekin. brought ia
Shanghai by refugees, says that the
city is in a state of panic. Incendiary
fires are of nightly occurrence, and
scores OF outrages are reported. Wo.
men and children from Tien Tsin are
pouring into Shanghai. The chiei
danger there is the fact that the native
town, behind the European settlement.
Is full of bad characters, whose atti'
tude is becoming every day more inso.
lent and menacing.
AT Needles, CAL, the federal quaran.
tine inspector has been prevented from
molesting passengers on Santa Fe trains
at the state line and his authority Il
lgnorned by the railroad officials. Or.
ders have been issued to all conductors
70 take up the pass of the inspector,
Mr. Jenkins, if presented, and collect
MS fare. Jenkins has wired to Surgeon
henyoun for instructions. The con.
auctors have also been ordered to give
The Inspector no information.
5. j. MCGOWAN, superintendent OF
the Phoenix, Ariz., Indian Industrial
nchool, having been directed to inves-
ugate the condition of the Pima In
uisns on their reservation on the Gila
river, 30 miles from Phoenix, who
We're reported to be suffering from
famine, states that 5000 Pimas and
an equal NUMBER of Papagoes are in
great distress. Congress has appropri-
ated $4,000 for the relief of the In.
aians and rations will soon be distri.
buted.
Inc tobacco trust has established q
virtual boycott on independent dealers
uoing business in New England.
Statistics of the criminal nonnlatior