The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-28
LA1ER NEWS.
Americans and Russians fought side
by side at Tien Tsln.

Men from the U. s. s. Monocacy
have been sent from Chez Foo to Tien
Tsin.
Brigham H. Roberts, found guilty
OF unlawful cohabitation at Salt Lake,
was fined $3.50.
Charles Mefford. q maniac, of Cedar
Rapids. Iowa. slew whole family,
then killed himself.
Four miners lost their lives by an
explosion in the Champion mine,
Champion, Mich.
Cologne. Germany, was visited BY a
cyclone, which demolished many build.
ings and threw down q number of
factory buildings.
Eight people were killed outright
and "a severely injured by collision
between freight and excursion train
near Green Bay, Wis.
Frank Gilomre. a white man, of
New Orleans, was lynched by a mob
for the criminal assault and brutal
murder of 60year-old woman.
A detachment of 40 Americas were
caught in ambush by Filipinos on the
island of Minuanao, with tho result
that nine were killed and IL wounded.
Five men were killed by a cyclone
which visited No Mans Land, Okla
homa. The storm swept the country
for 60 miles. Thousands of cattle
were stampeded and many killed and
injured.
Joseph Mullet and James Fitzharris,
the lrishmen, who served sentences in
an English prison for completely in the
Phoenix park murders, and who ar.
rived at New York, May "a last, have
been deported.
The great forest fires in the Huachuca
mountains, in Cochise county. Ari-
zona, have burned themselves out.
Many thousand arces are denuded and
$500, 600 worth of fine lumber has been
destroyed. A .prospector named Ned
Noyes is believed to have lost his life.
Settlements in Ecuador, near the
Colombian frontier. have been sacked
by Colombia irregular soldiers and
great cruelties were inflicted upon the
inhabitants, says a GuayaQuil, Ecua-
dor, dispatch. 1t is expected that
another invasion will occur and that
the Colombian regulars will participate.
The situation is grave. A conflict be-
tween Colombia and Ecuador 10 i'm
minent.
Ninety persons were killed and 372
wounded in the recent conflict between
the troops and tenants in the Varna
district, Bulgaria. A state of siege has
been proclaimed in the districts of
Varna, Shmala. Tirnova, Rasgrand,
Rustchuk and RistOvats. The govern.
ment is anxious to limit the number
of newspapers, and has issued string.
ent regulations as to the qualifications
which must be possessed by the editors.
Hunters advance column occupied
Krugersdorp without opposition on
June 18.
Admiral Schley's squadron. which
has been in quarantine at Montsvideo,
has been released.
A Russian admiral was in com.
mand Of the feet that bonn mbarded and
destroyed the forts at Taku.
Railway and telegraphic communi
cation between Cape Town and Pre-
toira is now completely restored.
Thieves cracked the safe of the Gam.
brinus brewery, in Portland, Or, and
escaped with between $500 and $7OO in
cash.
A young man named Robert Jackson,
of Riddle, Or, accidentally shot him.
self while deer hunting. He was in.
stantly killed.
By the death of David D. Wells, son
of the late David A. Wells, of Norwich,
Conn.,. Harvard University is richer
by about $S7, 900.
After July the Office of Indian
agent at Warm Springs, Or, will be
dispensed with, at which time Agent
James L. Cowan will be dropped.
Hawaiians have met in convention
at Honolulu and have formed an inde-
pendent political party. They have
already begun the fight for statehood.
The statue OF Washington presented
to the city of Paris by the Daughters
of the Americen Revolution has arrived
in Paris. The pedestal has already
been prepared, and the unveiling will
take place July 8.
Uniform wages of 81 for nine hours
work day is demanded by the line
men working for the Canadian Pacific
Telegraph Company, the Great North
west Telegraph Company. the Canada
Atlantic, the Bell Telephone Company.
Over 200 men have quit work owing
to the refusal of the companies to ac-
cede to their demands.
Assistant Secretary Taylor has rem.
dered decision adverse to the appeal
of James Fitzharris and Joseph Mullet.
from the decision of the immigration
officials at New York. who held them
for deportation on the ground that,
having been convicted of felony in con-
nection with the murder of Lord Cav
endish and Thomas Henry Brice, in
Phoenix Park. Dublin, in 1882. they
cannot be permitted to land in this
country under our immigration laws.
BY the death of Thomas E. MiacO
In New York six theaters and . large
fortune are left to his 15-ycar-old
daughter Edna, his sole heir.
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