The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-01-11
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphie
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection OF Items Fror,
the Two Hemispheres Presented
IVA Condensed Form.

railroad boom has struck Hawaii
Six inches of snow fell at Macon,
Ga.
Bechuanaland farmers are helpinp
the Beers.
Beers fired plum pudding at Lady.
smith garrison.
Oregon woolgrowers expect to get &c
cents for their 1900 crop.
Vigilance of Americans prevented a
projected uprising in Manila.
At New York Kid Mccoy knocked
out Peter Maher in five rounds.
Idaho produced $4,000 in gold
and Sc, 1913, 900 in silver last year.
France and England may have
trouble over Newfoundland fisheries.
The United States may buy the
Danish West Indies for 81, 100000
Ohio Irishmen offer sympathy,
money, arms and soldiers to the Beers.
One child received fatal and several
persons serious burns in New York
fat fire.
Nicholas, czar of Russia, has again
issued an appeal for peace to the
powers of the world.
Multnomah's football team defeated
Stanford university's eleven at Port.
land; score, IL to 6.
Hilliard F. johnson, a waterfront
reporter in San Francisco, was
drowned in bathtub.
Government officials say the cruiser
Montgomery was sent to Liberia to
give the Black Republic assurance Of
protection.
More miles of new railroad have
been built during 1899 than in any
previous year since 1890, when 5670
miles OF line were completed. Since
January /, 1899, no less than 4,5OC
miles of track have been laid in the
United States on 3l2 lines in Al states
and territories.
The torpedo-boat destroyer Colds.
borough, built by a Portland, Or,
firm, on her second contractors trial
covered eight miles in 10 minutes,
which is at the rate of 80 miles an
hour, against 2H-knot current.
Steam was made without effort, and
not bearing was heated. The rur
was made in the Columbia river, neas
Kalama.
Boutelle will probably never return
to congress.
The Boer trenches at Colenso are
bomb proof.
Pingree's tax resolution was defeated
in the Michigan senate.
People are tired of Colombian war
and ask for Intervention.
British Columbia has sent a gold dis
play to the Paris exposition.
II Delagoa bay is closed the Boen
will raid Portuguese territory.
The Stahl & Straub failure in Phila
delphia is clear case of looting.
An important witness against Sens
tor Clark has confessed to perjury.
Robert Cornelius, aged 20, wai
found dead in the woods near Glencoe:
Or.
Fossiliferous remains of a gigantic
sea serpent were found on the coast Of
Chill.
AT its last meeting the cabinet dis
cussed the agricultural possibilities in
Alaska.
Buller's army on the Tugela has now
nsS reached the enoromus strength OF 49,,
600 men.
A London dispatch says Russia long,
TO seize Herat, and she only waits ion
England to occupy Delagoa bay.
c. G. Coad, of Dallas. Or, has been
appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms in
the United States senate.
A Colorado Midland passenger and Z
Santa Fe freight collided near Palmer
Lake, Colo. One fireman Was killed
and two engineers were hurt.
An English military expert assertt
mat the time has come for change 10
the cabinet. He favors either dicta-
orship or an all.powerful military
minister.
Miss Florence Blythe Hinckley,
heiress to the Blythe millions, was
quietly married in San Francisco to A.
a: Moore, jr., deputy attorney-generai
OF California.
Americans have captured another in
surgent stronghold. Many rebels were
Killed, wounded and captured and an
amount of ammunition and food taken.
Iheir supposed impregnable position
was north of San Mateo.
An Ottawa dispatch says that treason
is talked openly among the French Ca
naoians, and all of their members have
retired from parliament. All the lat
eht hostility to British rule has been
aroused by Canada's action in sending
troops to the Transvaal.
Mrs. Ezra Shoupe, near Saltillo, Pa.
mao lively fight with a big buck,
which she first wounded with q rifle
and then dispatched with a knife.
lhe Russian government has ordered
OIL the rivers of the empire surveyed
WIN a view to connecting all the Inn
p0rtant streams with canals.
ihe Noah Webster association
which has been formed at Hartford
Sonn.' will raise funds for q library
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