The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-21
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TrESE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in "a Condensed Form.

Fifteen hundred Beers surrendered TO
General Brabant.
Half the town of Frances. Wash.
was destroyed by fire.
San Eranciscos Chinatown will be
released from quarantine June %.
France talks of joining Russia and
Germany TO restore order in China.
Roprs have evacuated Laing's Mex,
and BuIler is encamped on Joubert's
farm.
San Francisco Chinese have won an.
other case against the board of health
Of that city.
The steamer China arrived at San
Francisco from the Orient with 556
Chinese merchants.
Mrs. George II. Baker, widow of the
poet and ex-minister to Russia, is dead
at her home in Philadelphia.
Postmaster Graham, of Salt Lake
CITY. Utah, was convicted of unlawful
COhaOltatlOn ana Iueu FSOU.
Americans at Chin Kiang are in
need of protection, as large number
Of Boxers have halted at that place.
Russian authority says the present
trouble i'll China will be put down, but
terrible upheaval will come later.
Nine. Augusta Lehman, once a
singer of international reputation, Is
dead at Santa Cruz, CAL, aged 80
years.
The president has issued proclama-
ton formally announcing the establish
ment of reciprocity agreement with
Portugal.
4 score OF passengers were injured,
some severely, by the derailing of q
train on the Great Northern, near Sum.
nit, Mont.
General Otis says the Filipinos are
quick and anxious to learn and suggests
that an educational system be adopted
in the islands.
General Macarthur reports the cap
ture of Rhizon, near Mexico, and Ca
restany at Aicala, both important, the
latter very important leader of the
guerrillas in Pingasinan provincee, Lu.
zOn.
The Yaqui Indians are causing trouble
for the Mexicans. They occupy the
impassable Bacatete mountains, a range
50 miles in length, and it requires the
iev,l ha nf
eral Torres 5000 troops to mold them
in check.
The United States navy will build
warships aggregating over 500. .OOO.'
600 in cost as soon as the builders are
prepared to undertake the great pro.
gramme, which calls for IL armored
ships and three highly improved Olym.
pla type of cruisers.
Four persons were killed in a troll.
ley-car accident at Providence, +. /.
The Republican convention hall at
Philadelphia will seat 1000 people.
Beers have torn up "a miles of rail.
road between Pretoria and Kroonstad.
Beers captured British battalion
Of 500 men at Roodeval, severing Rob.
erts' line of communication.
Philippine rebels aim to follow the
tactics of the Cuban rebels during the
war OF the latter against Spian.
The steamer City of Seattle, which
arrived at Seattle from Alaska, brought
22O Klondlkers and $500, 600 in gold.
Senator Clark was given great ova.
tion at Butte, Mont. He made a
speech denouncing his enemies as per.
Jurers.
Documents slezed in the Philippines
indicate that in rebel plot for an up.
rising in Manila, women were to take
important part.
Chinese minister in London says il
Is s'osurd that the powers should believe
the empress dowager is aiding the Box.
ers' movement.
May shipments of coal from Seattle
TO San Francisco by water amounted to
$4,000 tons, or half of the total amount
OF coal received at that port during
May.
As result of weeks scouting in
the Philippines. more than 200 in.
surgents were killed and 160 captured,
while lao rifles, with ammunition and
stores were seized.
Two tive-story brick buildings, owned
eoy Geo. f. Ketcham. ON West avenue,
new York, containing 1885, 900 bushels
OF grain, were destroyed by fire, caus.
Ing loss of $4,000.
In the preliminary examination ol
L. L. Cook, charged with the murder
Vi James Collins at Arlington, Or, 9
physllcian testified that Collins could
easily have been saved.
IL Is estimated that during the past
month various railroad corporations
nave placed orders for 90, 600, 900 to 80,
ooO'OOO feet of Washington fir, mainly
Al bridge timbers, dock stuffs and ties.
The bubonic plague has entirely dis
appeared from Honolulu.
Harry Kimball Shaw, of Pittsburg,
Ia'' gave dinner at Paris to 25 per,
sons that cost $4,000.
Ex-senator Quay, of Pennsylvania.
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