The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-03-29
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
vERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection OF Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
Z" Condensed Form.


President Kruger does not expect
any aid from the powers.
The Beers have blown up the bridges
north Of Bloemfoptein and are retreat.
ing to the north.
Central American governments are
opposed to the Davis amendment to the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
Senator Davis, chairman of the sem
ote committee on foreign relations and
in charge of the French reciprocity
treaty. said that Notwithstanding the
rurpose to extend the time for the ex-
change of ratificatiOns, he proposes to
10 all he can to obtain ratification dur.
inp the present session.
Elizabeth Z. Struble, editor OF the
Nautilus, Christian science news
paper, at Sioux Falls. S. d.. pleaded
guiltv in the federal court to sending
obscene literature through the mails,
and was fined 5000. Mrs. Struble re.
fused to pay the fine and was taken te
Jail.
The differential freight rate of 10 pen
cent on the Canadian Pacific between
the East and San Francisco is abolished.
This is the outcome of meeting held
in Chicago, at which agents OF the
American lines threatened to secure
legislation debarring the Canadian Pa.
cifc from participating in traffic orig.
mating in the United States ii the dif.
erential were continued.
Much concern is being shown by the
German government in the threat made
bv Montague White that the Beers will
destroy Johannesburg to prevent 1t be.
ing made the base of the British opera.
tions against Pretoria. The Berlin au.
thorities will strongly oppose such &C.
ton, because of the damage which will
done to the property owned by Ger.
mans.
Great excitement prevails in San
Jacinto, as it has been discovered that
part of the San Jacinto mountain has
slipped into a subterranean cavern. "A
territory covering 60 acres, at an eleva.
tion of 4 200 feet, was dislodged by the
recent earthquake and has slipped $50
feet lower than it had previously stood
for centuries. The face of the new val.
ley is thickly traversed with fissurei
and cracks.
The German government contem.
plates another expeditionary force to
the interior of Shan Tung, where most
Of the American missions are located
The German governor at KiaO Chou hat
standing instructions to take such
measures for the protection, not only
Of German missionaries and other in
terests in Shan Tung province as may
seem necessary, but of American mis-
sionaries as we'll.
Julia Arthur has retired from the
stage.
st. Patrick's day was enthusiastically
celebrated throughout Cape Town.
Hetty Green's daughter is said to b
engaged to poor Spanish nobleman
The Kansas City, Pittsburg g Gull
railway system has been sold at auc.
ton.
Andrew Bolter, one of the noted
entomoogists in America, is dead in
Chicago.
Two boys, aged 9 and years, were
burned to death in their own house
near Alfred. N. Y.
British industries are badly in need
OF cash. The money market is head
over ears in debt.
Nine persons were injured in New
York by the dropping of coal chute
upon an elevated train.
General Hernandez, leader of thu
venezuela revolution, is making pro
gress against the government.
Two thousand Boer women in Pre-
torla have been armed to aid In the de.
tense OF the Transvaal capital.
United States supreme court rendered
decision upholding the Texas courts
III their war against the trusts.
During row in a saloon at Coeul
Alene, Idaho, two negroes were shot
one fatally and the other seriously.
Puerto Rico's distress is growing
worse. Governor General Davis cabled
lnat 300 tons of provisions will b<
Needed weekly.
The French line freighter Pauillat
Is missing. She carried cargo valued
S0,OOO,0 900 and has not been heard
Hom Tor over month.
10 prevent friction with the sultar
VI the Sulu archipelago, measures have
oeen taken by the American authori
'es IN the Philippines for the adjudi
sS'!on OF any questions that may arise
snich cannot be disposed of by provis
.Ons OF the treaty which he and Gen
'tai Bates entered into several months
ago.
diplomats in Constantinople believ,
russia aims at commercial protectorat,
VI northern Asia Minor.
Ihe American Political league, new
aganlzation, will hold national con
'en'ion In Boston July 4.
congressman and senators have 15,
OOo'ooo packages of seeds to distribut,
nons their rural constituents.
Nearly all the progressive railroad