The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-07-05
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitomc of til Telegraphic
News of thu. World.
TEESE TICKS FROM .'nE WIRES
the Two Ifemispheres Pres 'nt I
in Condensed Form.

III "a rOrms
Russians are moving 10000 men to
ward New Chwang.
Democrats of Arkansas nominated
left Davis for governor.
s., Louis strikers now believe their
only hope lies in boycott.
An attempt was made to assassinate
Emperor William of Germany.
DR.. Jameson has been elected men,
her OF the Cape parliament.
Two deaths and many prostrations
from heat in Pittsburg, Pa.
Hot weather and no rain is disas-
rous to crops in North Dakota.
Storms played havoc with the crops
at The Dalles, Or, and in the vicinity.
Steamer Cleveland arrived at Seattle
from Nome. She reports five wrecks.
Heavy rain and subsequent foods are
doing great damage in British Colum-
bia.
Director of Posts in Cuba Rathbont
has now been permanently suspended
and may be prosecuted.
Chinese minister in Berlin says the
empress cannot be deposed, but might
be coaxed off the throne.
Ex-Governor Talyor, of Kentucky,
logged by detectives and broken in
health, is at Niagara Falls.
President Mckinley wants to know
why the Monocacy did not fire on the
Iaku forts when fired upon.
Beers in small bands are harassing
large columns of the British. Dewet
leads the guerrilla operations.
At the Seaside Athletic Club, noCey
Island, n. Y, Gus Rubin knocked
out Tom Sharkey in the 18th round.
The force under Admiral Seymour
has been located. Admiral Kempff re-
ports it is ten miles from Tien Tsin.
Roosevelt is going to Oklahoma to
attend the Rough Riders convention,
but will not make political speeches.
Chinese difficulties affect Kentucky's
ginseng trade, by which hundreds have
made their living. Prices have gone
down.
Illinois Democrats indorsed Bryan
and the Chicago platform, and nomi-
mated Samuel Alschuler. of Aurora, for
governor.
7. B. Fargo, brother of j. G. Fargo.
president OF the American Express
Company, and of William G. Fargo,
founder of the Wells Fargo Express
Company, is dead at his home in New
York, aged 81.
The Chinese restriction bill, increas.
ing the tax on Chinese immigrants
from $50 to 800, has been adopted by
the house of commons at Ottawa,
Canada. The measure also restricts
the immigration of Japanese to IL per
month.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, will not
run for governor of Illinois.
Prohlbitionists, in national conven.
tion assembled at Chicago, say they
will poll 800. 900 votes.
W. II. Wade, an expert billiard
player, and by many considered the
best bank shot in America, is dead at
Chicago.
Martin J. Russell, one of the proprie-
tors of the Chicago Chronicle, died at
Mackinac Island from complication
OF diseases.
There were 1887 deaths from chol-
era ont OF ,479 cases during the week
ending June Is. in the province OF
Bombay, India.
Oregon's vote, officially canvassed,
on the equal suffrage amendment was
as follows: for equal suffrage, 26,265;
against 2S, 402.
The United States district Judge at
81. Louis has issued a restraining order
10 prevent interference with the rum
Ming OF street-cars.
General Wheeler says the war in tho
philippines is practically ended. A
,0ice can easily be spared from the is-
land for work in China.
A hot wave is prevalent in North
DAKOTA. Crops are in a parched con.
ultlon The thermometer at Grand
Forks registered l04 in the shade.
Affairs in Cuba are now SO tranquil
% nna' soldiers are no longer needed.
Inc troops will be withdrawn aud sent
" Manila to relieve the volunteers.
The Yaqui Indians have nearly all
abandoned the warpath. Several hum
ufed are still hidden in the mountains
Nnd make an occasional descent on iso-
lated ranches.
strike has occurredaamong the Ia
oofers employed by the Havana Elec-
ic Company, Cubans and Spanish, on
'ne ground that they do not receive the
same wages as Americans who do sim
i'ar work. The contractors reply that
an rnerlcans are worth far more than
Cubans.
Amerlcan women, it is estimated.
nolI $l2O,000,OO0 of national bank
s.ock and $4,000. 900 of private and
state bank stock.
IN Germany one man in 2l3 goes to
ITniiege' In Scotland one in $50, in the