The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-04-19
LATER NEWS.


Cne man was killed and boy fatal.
ly injured in $4OO, 900 fire which oc.
Cured in Brooklyn.
During fire in q coal mine neal
Pittsburg. Pa, one man perished an6
tU o others in the pit escaped.
During the siege of Ladysmith, Gen.
e. al Whites total losses from al!
Causes were 169 officers mad 8, 1913 men.
British people insist on change in
the army service, owing to the unsatis.
factory conduct of the campaign against
the Beers.
Three men are said to have found
gold in quartz formation within two
miles of Joplin. Mo-, which assays $40
to $50 ton.
Chinaman, possessing documents
bearing the seal of the court of Peking,
identifying him as emperor, was arrest.
ed at WI Chang.
The University of Edinburgh, Scot.
land, conferred the degree of LII D. or
Joseph II. Choate, United States am.
bassador to Great Britain.
At New York, 5000 cigarmakers,
EMPLOYED by six of the largest firms ir
that city, have been locked out. Nc
reason is given for the action.
Rufus Wright, millionaire anc
treasurer of the firm of Morgan 6
Wright, bicycle tire manufacturers
was fatally shot by woman in Chicago.
The cruisers Detroit and Marbleheac
and gunboats Bennington and Concord
have been ordered out of commission,
owing to the lack of suffi cient number
of officers.
The Chinese government has sent
1000 troops to Shan Ting to suppress
the Boxers" However, it is notori
Gus that the majority of the troops are
members of the same society.
The transport Lake Erie. with up
wards of 500 Transvaal prisoners, in
cluding French, German and Russian
members of the foreign legion, captured
at Boshof, sailed from Cape Town fol
St. Helena.
The trial of Perico Pipin, who re
Gently led small uprising against the
government OF Santo Domingo, hat
ended with the conviction of the pris
oner, who was sentenced to 20 years
imprisonment and to pay fine of $780,.
600 in gold.
Mrs. Kruger, wife of Dom Paul, OF
being interviewed, said that she trust
ed God would soon stop the merciles'
bloodshed, but that the republic woul(
be victoriously defended, even if Pre-
toria were finally taken. She added
that she had had in the field 33 grand
sons, two of whom were killed, foul
sons, six sons-in-law, and numerou'
other relatives"
Bloemfontein is badly in need o
water.
The total British losses in the Boel
war are now $4,000.
A Texas town in the flooded distric
was destroyed by tornado.
Fishermen testing the Columbi,
river near Astoria found but few Chi
hooks.
The Puerto Rican bill, as amended
by the senate, passed the house by &
vote of 1853 to l53.
Admiral Dewey denies the story o
his withdrawal as a candidate for presi
Dental nomination.
H. G. Frick will dispose of all his
holdings. something like $4,000. .000
in the Carnegie Company.
An international naval demonstration
will soon take palce at Taku Gin, the
gulf of Pc Chi Lii, China.
During fight with riotous laborer'
in New York, one Italian striker was
killed and several wounded.
At the Georgia Populist convention
Senator Marion Butler, of North Caro-
lima, was denounced as the ''chief o.
all traitors"
George w. Hull, an Arizona million
aire, was arrested in New York on 6
charge of perjury in divorce CASE
against his wife.
Competent authorities estimate that
the wastage of horses monthly by the
British forces in South Africa, must be
calculated at not less than 5000.
b. C. Bergin, an assayer in the Uni
| ted States mint at San Francisco, hat
been arrested for stealing small
amounts of gold daily for months past
Capitalists of Berlin, through a Chi
cago firm, have made an offer to pur
chase the Ferris wheel. The wheel
which weighs 1900 tons, will be ship
ped to Berlin.
In San Francisco, 500 pounds o.
plug cut tobacco have been seized il
various local stores by internal revenue
agents, because the packages were in
sufficiently stamped.
Burglars in Chicago stole diamonds
| jewelry and silverware valued at $40,
| 900 from the home of Orrin w. Potter
| the multi ti-milllonaire and ex-presi
dent of the Illinois Steel Company.
The period of time allowed Spanish
residents in the Philippines to elect
whether they shall remain Spanish sub
jec,s or adopt the nationality of the ter
ritory in which they reside has expired
At meeting OF the De Beers com
pany Cecil Rhodes said annual profits
of diamond mines in Kimberley are
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