The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-12-06
LATER NEWS.

with Nicaragua.
The United States gunboat Monocacy
will wiIter at Taka.
The Chinese court has lost confidence
In Earl LII and Prince Ching.
Twelve hundred boIomen surrender
ed to the Americans at Vigan.
An Austrian field marshal criticixes
the British army organization.
An American warship will make a
demonstration against Morocco.
Six men were drowned in fe1y
boat disaster ON Spokane river.
Texas vote for presidential electors
was: Bryan, 267.432; Mckinley, 1al,-
573.
University of Oregon defeated Uni.
versity of Washington in football by
43 to O.
Fulton, Kentucky. was visited by
fire which destroyd 20 establishments
and cuased loss of $3.50, 600.
A sumpter, Or, miner was badly In
jured by the explosion of giant powder
which he placed on stove to thaw
out.
Fred w. Buhsnell. for several wears
city editor of the Minneapolis Tribune,
lied at that city of cancer of the stom-
ach.
The population of Indian Territory is
B9l, 800. AS against 100, l62 in 1890,
an increase of 2ll,775, or 1875 per
cent.
The population of Wisconsin, as an
nounced by the census bureau. is 2,O69,-
o49, as against 1855, $50 in 1890, an
increase of Sss, 142, or 22.e per cent.
Two steamers collided on the river
about 20 miles above Huntington. w.
Va. sinking 80 coalboats containing
500. 200 bushels of coal, entailing loss
Of $4,000
Advices from Australia state that
the volcano on Beach island, in the
New Britain group, has again become
active, causing great upheaval on
land and sea. Many natives have been
killed.
The award of the Swiss government
in the Franco Brazilian boundary dis
pute gives Brazil 147, 900 square miles
OF the contested territory. France
gets about 5000 square miles north of
the Tumuc Huemac range.
There are 400 cases of smallpox in
the city of Winona, Minn., and to pre-.
vent its spread the public schools have
been closed and street-car companies
compelled to stop their cals at the
boundary of the infected district.
A typhoon swept the Island of Guam,
killing hundreds of natives.
The dowager empress is trying to in
duce the emperor to return to Pekin.
The powers are debating on the wis
dom OF sending an ultimatum to China.
The official vote OF Wisconsin fol-
lows: Republican, 265, 1865; Demo-
cratic. 159.285.
A laborer on bridge near Grants
Pas 8 was instantly killed in the col
lapse of the structure.
General Bates reports the capture of
33 Filipinos, six of whom murdered
several persons last spring.
The Dutch of Cape Colony are be-
coming restless and loyallsts fear there
may soon be an uprising.
The population of Oklahoma is $685.
246. against 81, 1874 in 1890, an increase
of 336, All. or A per cent.
The population of South Dakota is
4OI, $40, as against $685. in 1890, an
increase OF 72, 762, or o.. per cent.
The population of North Dakota is
S19,416, as against 182,7l9 in 1890, an
increase of 1873, APT, or 74.6 per cent.
The population of Tennessee is
1000. .O9S. as against l, 1877. 18 in 1890.
an increase OF 2S,09s, or 14.S per cent.
The population of New Mexico is
1876, ,21O, as against. 1928 in 1890. an
increase of 4l,717. or 27.1 per cent.
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Yosemite sank in a typhoon at Guam.
November 5. drowning five OF the crew.
The population of Idaho, as officially
announced. is 161.772, as against S4,-
385 in 1890. an increase of 1887, or
9l.7 per cent.
Two American privates were killed
and three wounded in an ambush OF
] ladrones near Maloloe, Luzon. The In,
snrgeuts escaped.
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