The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-01-11
EVENTS OF THE DAY.
Epitome of the Telegraphie
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
a, Interesting Collection OF Items Fror,
the Two Hemispheres Presented
~ u Condensed Form.

A railroad boom has struck Hawaii
Six inches of snow fell at Macon,
Ga.
Bechuanaland farmers are helpinp
the Beers.
Beers fired plum pudding at Lady.
smith garrison.
Oregon woolgrowers expect to get &C
cents for their 1900 crop.
Vigilance of Americans prevented q
projected uprising in Manila.
At New York Kid Mccoy knocked
mt Peter Maher in five rounds.
Idaho produced $4,000, 900 in gold
and So, 1903, 900 in silver last year.
France and England may have
trouble over Newfoundland fisheries.
The United States may buy the
Danish West Indies for 81 200, 900.
Ohio Irishmen offer sympathy,
money, arms and soldiers to the Beers.
One child received fatal and several
persons serious burns in a New York
fat fire.
Nicholas, car of Russia, has again
issued an appeal for peace to the
powers of the world.
Multnomah's football team defeated
Stanford universities eleven at Port.
land; score, ii to 6.
billiard F. Johnson, a waterfront
reporter in San Francisco, was
drowned in bathtub.
Government officials say the cruiser
Montgomery was sent to Liberia to
give the Black Republic assurance oil
protection.
More miles of new railroad have
been built during 1899 than in any
previous year since 1890, when 567O
miles OF line were completed. Since
January /, 1899, no less than 4,5OC
miles of track have been laid in the
United States on 3l2 lines in a. states
and territories.
The torpedo-boat destroyer Colds.
borough, built by a Portland, Or.
firm, on her second contractors trial
covered eight miles in 10 minutes,
which is at the rate of 80 miles an
hour against 216-knot current
Steam was made without effort, and
not bearing was heated. The rur
was made in the Columbia river, nea.
Kalama.
Boutelle will probably never return
to congress.
The Boer trenches at Colenso are
bomb proof.
Pingree's tax resolution was defeated
in the Michigan senate.
People are tired of Colombian wal
and ask for Intervention.
British Columbia has sent gold dis
play to the Paris exposition.
II Delagoa bay is closed the Boerl
will raid Portuguese territory.
The Stahl & Straub failure in Phila
delphia is clear case of looting.
An important witness against Sena'
tor Clark has confessed to perjury.
Robert Cornelius, aged 20, wal
found dead in the woods near Glencoe.
Or
Fossiliferous remains of gigantic
sea serpent were found on the coast Of
Chill.
AT its last meeting the cabinet dis
cussed the agricultural possibilities IN
Alaska.
Buffers army on the Tugela has now
reached the enoromus strength OF as
900 men.
A London dispatch says Russia long.
to seize Herat, and she only waits fol
England to occupy Delagoa bay.
c. G. Coad, of Dallas. Or, has beer
appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms u
the United States senate.
A Colorado Midland passenger and
Santa Fe freight collided near Palmer
Lake, Colo. One fireman WAS killed
and two engineers were hurt.
An English military expert assert'
that the time has come for q change II
the cabinet. He favors either dicta'
torship or an all.powerful military
minister.
Miss Florence Blythe Hinckley,
heiress to the Blythe millions, was
quietly married in San Francisco to A
A. Moore, IT,, deputy attorney genera
OF California.
Americans have captured another in
surgent stronghold. Many rebels wer'
killed, wounded and captured and Al
amount of ammunition and food taken
Their supposed impregnable position
was north of San Mateo.
An Ottawa dispatch says that treasoi
Is talked openly among the French Ca
nadians, and all of their members hav'
retired from parliament. All the las
ent hostility to British rule has beer
aroused by Canada's action in sending
troops to the Transyaal.
Mrs. Ezra Shoupe, near Ssltillo, Pa.
mad lively fight with Q big buck
which she first wounded with q rih'
and then dispatched with knife.
The Russian government has ordered
all the rivers of the empire surveyed
with a view to connecting all the I'm
portant streams with canals.
The Noah Webster association
which has been formed at Hartford
Conn.,, will raise funds for . hbrar.
building in memory of the lexicogra