The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-01-25
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in y Condensed Form.

Many Beers are believed to be trek.
king northward from Ladysmith.
The national convention of United
Mine Workers opened at indianapolis.
When Bryan visits New York he will
be entertained exclusively by Tam.
many.
For the first time in history grocery
stores and meat shops closed in Chicago
on Sunday.
General Wood has crossed Orange
river and established the first British
post in the enemy's country.
determined woman and a huge
bread knife kept a mob at bay in Chi.
cago until assistance arrived.
Sir Wilfred Laurier says that Can.
ada will give England both men and
money to help her in the present strife.
summer resorts of Rockaway beach
and Jamaica bay, New York, may have
to move ON account of threatening
waves.
Wheaton and Schwan's troops are
keeping the rebels of Southern Luzop
moving. Americans have few losses,
but the rebel losses are heavy.
The transatlantic steamship lines
have increased their passenger rates be-
tween New York and Europe, owing
to the heavy travel expected to the Paris
exposition.
John p. Reese, under arrest in Fort
Scott, Kan, has been released by
Jugde Thayer's order. Reese was being
held for contempt OF court for address
ing striking miners.
The Servian ministry has resigned,
owing to King Alexander insisting on
granting amnesty to all the political
prisoners convicted of high treason
against his father, King Milan.
A circular appealing for peace and
pledging for the Beers, signed by 400
cergymen of all denominations in the
Netherlands, has just been delivered to
the ministers of all Christian churches
in Great Britain.
The suit for the prize money for the
destruction of Cervera's feet involves
the question of whether or not the
cruiser New York really participated
in the battle. The attorney general
AYERS that as all the Spanish feet and
property were destroyed they were not
prizes.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill, the first of the important bills foI
the government, reported to the house
by Chairman Cannon, carries $56, 127,-
Sal, of which $47, ,6O3, 332 is reappro-
priated for the military and naval es-
adjustments, and $S, ,S25, 500 for dis
trict appropriations.
The Beers have looted all the stores
and mines in Swaziland.
Two cases of bubonic plague are re-
ported from South Australia.
Londoners are still complaining over
the rigid censorship of war pews.
Carter Harrison has refused to accept
the candidacy for governor Of Illinois.
The rodmill workers at Cleveland,
o., will strike, involving 1000 work
men.
General George Sharpe. veteran Of
the civil war, is dead at Kingston,
n. Y.
Dutch colonials taken in arms are
not treated as war prisoners, but are
being prosecuted for treason.
The latest official report upon the
foreign commerce of China shows .
great increase both in its imports and
exports.
The Cree Indians of Canada may
take the warpath and strike a blow al
treat Britain, now that the British
are busy.
Frederick d. Bonfils, one of the pro.
prletors of the Denver Post, was shot
and mortally wounded by lawyer OF
that city.
French warships have taken posses.
sion of Kwong Chau Wan bay, where
a boundary dispute has been pending
ior several months.
The wreck in st. Mary's bay, N. F.,
Is still unidentified. although it is be-
heved to be the Helgoland, which was
under charter by the Standard Oil
Company. Ten bodies have been To-
Gated among the rocks.
A lone robber held up two restau.
rants in the midst of Kansas City at o
In the morning. Both jobs were ac-
complished in less than five minutes,
and the robber escaped, the gaping
people making no resistance.
Mrs. c. M. Foote, of Los Angeles,
Cal, aged 73. died suddenly on the
north-bound Oregon express between
Gazelle and Montague. in the Sish'
yous. She was accompanying the 70
mains of her late husband to Seattle
for burial.
Trees and shrubs are being planned
along the Suez canal to keep the san6
IRON drifting.
James R. Garfield, son of the mur
dered president, announces himself q
a candidate for congress in the Twen'
ueth Ohio district.
Congressman James G. Needham,
IRON the Seventh California district,
was born at Carson City, New, in an
emigrant wagon while his parents wers
pressing across the plains to California,