The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-10
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Fnitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
vERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
,,t.resting Collection OF Items From
the Two Henispheres Presented
Condensed Form.

President Mckinley has selected
DoIe to be the first governor of Hawaii.
Fx.Ninister DENLY gives American
Missionaries credit for the open door in
China.
Fire at the town of Gladwin, Mich,
DESTROYED lG buildings, causing a loss
Of $4,000.
The north half of the Colville, Wash,
Indian reservation, has been opened for
settlement.
Chicago landlords have formed q
combination and rents advanced 10 per
cent Immediately.
Charles H. Allen was inaugurated as
governor of Puerto Rico with impress
siye ceremonies.
Fire destroyed the Hasting shingle
mill at Goshen, Wash, together with
1000, 900 shingles.
The transport Sherman arrived at
San Francisco from Manila with % in
sane soldiers on board.
Carpenters of Omaha are out on .
strike. They demand an eight-houI
dav and increase of wages.
Five men were killed and three in.
iured by boiler explosion in the mill
oiJ. V. Bray & Co., Triton, Ohio.
At the Hercules Athletic Club, New
York, Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out Ed.
Dunkhorest, the Syracuse giant, in two
rounds.
Joseph Gurtar Rampon, former
famous bandmaster, leader of the Old
Guard band, is dead at New York,
aged 81 years.
The United States navy will not bs
sent to Turkey. AS the sultan has
made soma concessions, he will be
given more time to study the matter.
As sequel to the Johannesburg ex.
plosion, the Transvaal government has
ordered British subjects, with few
exceptions, to leave the republic with.
in AS hours.
An engine and 70 empty cars of the
Santa Fe were thrown into the bay
from the new Santa Fe wharf at San
Francisco, by the breaking of an apron.
No one was killed so far as known.
Frank H. Peavey, of Minneapolis.
Mimi, has obtained insurance in the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, o.
New York, to the amount of $1,000,'
600, the annual premium on the policy
being $4S,390.
Active preparations are being made
for a worlds fair, to take place in Sal
Francisco in May 1901, which will
continue for six months. 1t is to b
known as the Pacific Ocean and In
ternational Exposition.
The Boer peace commission is coming
to America.
President Mckinley signed th'
Hawaiian bill.
Governor Pingree, of Michigan, hal
turned Democrat.
Four deputy fish commissioners ART
watching the Clackamas river.
1t is now known that Captain Carter
gigantic steal will reach $2.0OO,0 900.
Many thousands of people greeted
Admiral Dewey ON his arrival at Chi
cagO.
Governor Taylor has returned tc
kentucky. No warrant was served OF
him.
Washington courts have declared
$4,000 worth of Olympia warrants t.
be illegal
Nine people were killed by the fall
ns OF condemned bridge at the Paris
exposition.
Roberts must have more horses be-
lore he can advance. London complain
OF his slowness.
BY vote of 20 to 30 the senate re-
fused to consider the resolution ofsym
pathy with the Beers.
Charles Ingersoll, of Ithica, N. Y.
an embezzling county treasurer. wa'
arrested i'll San Francisco.
German officials at Washington thinl
mat Secretary Roots speech on tht
Monroe doctrine was aimed at theil
country.
Forest fires are raging furiously nortt
Vi Fish, Mich, and the property dam
age Will be large. The town of Ame
mas been wiped out.
The Boer forces have moved from
ihsoanchu to stronger position, ant
GENERAL French has abandoned tn,
effort to capture the burghers.
The American chamber of commerce,
al Manila has entered protest against
'he excessive taxation exacted by tn,
military government under Genera
Otis.
William F. Miller, manager of tn,
rankin syndicate, who was recent:y
.onVlcted of grand larceny, was sen
fenced IN Brooklyn TO 10 years i'm
Prlsonment.
Spanish silver mine lost century
ago was rediscovered in Texas.
Lewis Watkins. a native of st. Paul