The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-17
LAT eR NEWS.

Lord Roberts entered Kroonstaad,
which had been evacuated by the
Transvaal forces.
Honolulu has been officially declared
a clean port, the plague being Efficient
ly stamped out.
The senate. by close vote, rejected
the proposition for an armor-plate plant
operated by the government.
The towns of Hilongos and Maasin,
in Leyte, have been captured by the
Americans with few casualties.
The American pavilion at Paris was
turned over to the exposition authorities
with impressive ceremonies.
A woman and 8-year-old child were
burned to death at South Omaha, Neb.,
by starting fire with gasoline.
Germany is said to be supplying the
Filipinos with arms to enable them to
continue their fight against the United
States.
Charles Panstein, q murderous ath-
lete of Butte, Mont, shot and killed
a butcher, his wife and then committed
suicide.
The Populist national convention at
Sioux Falls nominated w. ]. Bryan for
president, Charles A Towne for vice.
president.
Before leaving Kroonstaad, President
Steyn issued a proclamation making
Iii 10 Of nf
Orange Free State.
Middle-of-the-Koad Populist conven.
tiOn at Cincinnati, nominated Wharton
P. Barker for president and Ignatius
Donnelly for vice-president.
The work of the Chicago city di.
rectory enumerators for 1900, almost
completed, shows that the population
of Chicago is not less than 2,0Ol 900.
Seven men were killed and 20 or
more firemen hurt by a collision in a
tunnel in Philadelphia. The wreck
caught fire, and the total loss is $14O..
OO0.
Owing to the alarm being taken in
America over the influx of Japanese
and the probability of anti-Japanese
legislation, the japanese government is
making efforts to turn the til of its
surplus population to Formosa.
The cholera continues to rage in the
famine camps of India. There have
been 400 deaths in three days at Man.
dive So numerous are the cases at
Cobra that it is impossible to collect
the bodies, which lie for days In the
sun. The people have fed and cannot
be induced to return. A similar state
of things prevails at Broach.
Plague has broken out at Hong Kong.
Ira Williams. logger, was drowned
in the Necanicum river, near Astoria.
The government OF the Orange Free
State has been moved from Kronstadt
to Heilbron.
| Republicans of Illinois in convention
assem- bled, indorsed the Mckinley ad-
ministration.
Two men and two boys we're killed
by the wrecking of fruit train, near
Rawlins, Wyo.
Excessive customs duties imposed by
the military government are fast kill
ing American trade in the Philippines.
The First and Second Irish Fusiliers
sailed from Cape Town for Athlone,
Ireland, to recuperate from their try
ing experiences in the field.
Captain Cushing, of the revenue cut
ter Rush, which has sailed for the Arc
tic, will take q census of the inhabit-
ants of the Aleutian islands.
President Powell, of the Order Of
Railway Telegraphers. issued an order
formally disseminating the strike Of
the Southern railway telegraphers.
During riot between strikers and
workmen at the ButtonwoOd mine of
the Parish Coal Company at Wilkes
barre, Pa, about 20 men were badly
injured, the strikers dispersing the
| workmen.
The British iron ship Sierra Nevada,
Captain Scott, from Liverpool, Janu-
ary l6, for Melbourne, Aus, was total
| ly wrecked outside the harbOr OF the
latter place. Five of her crew were
saved, but % others, including the cap
tain, perished.
One hundred and fifty-seven japanese
immigrants have landed in San Fran
cisco, of which number 75 were admit
ted by certificates of landing signed by
the United States immigration COM
missioner at Vancouver, B. c., and 81
on certificates from the commissioner
at Seattle.
Franklin W. Fisk, D. D., whose res
ignation after Al years incumbency OF
the Office of president of the Chicago
Theological seminary, takes effect at
the close of the current year, has been
' elected professor enleritus of the chair
of sacred rhetoric of the institution.
The election is for life.
The secretary of the treasury has d.
rected Collector jackson, at San Fran
cisco, to detail an inspector from the
Chinese bureau to attend to the making
out of papers for Chinese merchants
! doimciled in this country who are on
the eve of departing for China with the
intention of returning. They will have
these papers on their return to this
country to facilitate their landing.
Louisville, KY, is to have large
Mormon temple.
There are 1921 officials on the New
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