The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-08-30
LATER NEWS.

Large masses of Boxers are still In
Pekin.
Chinese rally their forces and pre.
pare to attack the allies in Pekin.
The Russian commander in Pekin
forbids communication with Chinese
1t was Prince Tum and not Prince
Tuan who was captured by the Japan.
nese.
Three young women were drowned
while bathing at Findlay Lake, New
York.
Beers laid trap for General Buller's
cavalry and succeeded in capturing q
Eumber.
The United States will not sacrifice
Its guaranteed rights and privileges in
China.
Food supply at Tien Tsin is insult i.
cient for refugees and famine il i'm
minent.
Japan has notified Ii Hung CHANG
that negotiations will be impossible
until plenipotentiaries acceptable to
the powers are appointed.
The population of New Orleans as
announced by the census bureau is
2S7. lO4, aaginst 242, ,OS9 in 1890, an
increase of 45,065. or 1892 per cent.
Fire destroyed the top floor of a
building in New York City occupied
by observation-disclosures Company, manu-.
facturers of ladies' underwear, causing
q loss of $500, 900.
Five overturned fishing smacks were
found with all their sails fiat on the
water in the Gulf of Georgia. 15 miles
from Vancouver. b. c., after q gale.
and as result several fishermen were
drowned.
The Yaqui Indians, who have been
fighting the Mexican troops in Sonora,
have sued for peace. Two thousand of
the bucks yet under arms refuse to
join the tribal negotiations. fearing
that it means annihilation.
Twenty thousand packing house en-
ployes in the big cities of the country
may be thrown out of employment Sep.
tember l5. on account of being unable
to secure what they consider an equita.
BILE adjustment of the wage scale.
Joseph Kronke, butcher in the Po.
lish district of Detroit. Mich, known
as "King of Poles," power in poll.
tics, was accidentally killed in his own
ice house by being pinioned between
| two chunks of ice and frozen to death.
At Helnea, Mont, thieves stole
| 5000 worth of gold from the assay
office of the Jay Gould cyanide plant.
| The gold was in retort and represent.
ed a two-weeks' cleanup of r A.
Harsh's cyanide mill. The amalgam
was red hot when taken from the Office.
having just come from the furnace.
Borala won the $4,000 trotting
stakes at Readville, Mass.
The Russian expedition to China
consists OF 80, 900 troops.
Wisconsin Democrats and Populists
fused on presidential electors.
Eight thousand Beers, with artillery,
are assembled at Machadodorp.
|
Cables are received announcing the
safety of missionaries at Pekin.
Carl Smith, the well-known Ameri.
can sculptor, died at Copenhagen.
Two persons were killed and many
wounded by mob at Akron, Ohio.
Anne, leans attacked the imperial pal,
ace in Pekin and captured four courts.
The United States reply. rejecting
the Chinese offer, was sent to Lii Hung
Chang.
| Louis G. Bohmrich was nominated
for governor of Wisconsin by the DEM
ocrats.
The population of Philadelphia. &C.
cording to the United States census. is
1,293,697.
Three persons we've burned to death
at Denver from efforts to kindle fire
with coal oil.
An anarchist meeting he'd in Berlin
was dispersed by the police, who ar
rested the speakers.
Captain H. j. Reilly, of the Fifth
United States artillery, was killed IL
the assault on Pekin.
United States Consul Fee, at Bonn
bay. India, reports to the state depart
ment that cholera is raging there.
United States Marshal Hasey. OF
Ketchikan, Alaska. shot and killed
Dan Robinson. q cannery boss, while
4 the latter was resisting arrest.
The vest makers of New York city
have won their strike 70, the union
scale of wages and the lO-hour work.
ing day. The strike affected 1000
men, women and girls.
Fire in the immense elevator OF the
American Cereal Company at Akron,
Ohio, damaged the plant $75. A
hundred and fifty thousand bushels OF
grain were ruined. ~
King Oscar, of Sweden. has formally
agreed to act as arbitrator of the claims
for compensation for losses sustained
by British and German subjects and
American citizens in Samoa.
During the last few weeks duels
have caused perfect slaughter in Italy.
As many as foul duelists were killed
in one day. During the last year z, 400
duels have been fought in Italy, and
48O deaths have resulted. Most OF
these combats were between army
officers and based on the most trivial
pretexts.