The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-04-26
LATER NEWS.

benjamin NOrthrup, well.known
newspaper man, of New York city, is
dead, aged A.
The plant of the St. Louis Chronicle,
st. Louis, Mo-, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $50, 1000.
The loss to railroads by the recent
flood in Mississippi will amount to
more than 81 100000.
Plague is still rife in Manila, a foul
breeding place having been discovered
in the heart of the city.
Rev. Charles Beecher, brother of the
late Henry Ward Beecher, died at
Georgetown, Mas, aged "a year.
Efforts to stamp out the plague IN
Sydney, Autralia, have not been sue
cessful. The epidemic is spreading.
Bush fires are raging in Manitoba
and advices from Winnepeg state that
500 persons are in danger of losing
their lives.
Five men were killed at Balmain,
Australia, by being precipitateu to the
bottom of an l,SO0-foot perpendicular
shaft of a mine.
A strange tale of crime has come to
| light in the case of rich Colorado
miner, who is charged with the MUIR
der of four persons.
Ex-Congressman David G. Colson,
on trial at Frankfort, Ky for the MUIR
| der of Lieutenant Scott and Luther
Demaree last January l6, has been ac-
quilted.
The total receipts of the Cuban treas.
ury for the month of March, 1900, were
81, ,678,68 The receipts for the cor
responding month of 1899 amounted to
| $963, ,O33.
Queen Victoria reviewed the naval
and infantry brigades and the boys Of
the Royal Hibernian military school at
Dublin. Two hundred thousand people
witnessed the review.
At Atchison, Kan, a reader of cheap
novels was given 18 years in the peni-
tentiary for arson. He set fire to a
house in order to play the part of a hero
by rescuing the family.
Adelbert Woiceth Bogdamowski and
Anton Rody, alias Anton Koschinowski,
who arrived in New York recently on
the steamship Palatia, will be sent
back to their native country. The men
admit they were implicated in the
burglary of a store in Lemberg,
Galicia, in which they got about 10,-
| 900 f1orins and seriously wounded the
proprietor Two of the men have been
arrested on the other side. The special
board of inquiry investigated the mat.
ter, and, upon the confession of the
men, it was decided to deport them.
Civil government for Puerto Rico
will be inaugurated May /.
The election in Louisiana resulted in
sweeping victory tor the Democrats.
The Ameer of Afghanistan warns
England of Russian aggression on In
dia.
Harry F. Allen, defaulting clerk of
Denver county treasurer's Office, was
arrested in San Francisco.
Canada will repeal the alien labor
law which was aimed at American
miners in the Atlin district.
Great battles. have taken place be-
tween government troops and rebels in
the United States of COLOMBIA.
Thirteen persons were drowned by
the capsizing of boat while crossing
the Rhine, near Bingen, Germany.
Work on the dam at Croton Land.
ing, N. Y, has been resumed, under
the protection of the state troops.
Lord Roberts sharply criticises the
ability of Generals Butler and Warren.
London papers maintain there is moth
ing left for Butler but to resign.
Orders have been given to turn the
transports Tartar and Westminster
over to their owners. The government
has no longer any need for their serv-
ices.
The will of a woman who died in
Topeka, Kas., recently. bequeaths the
greater part of fortune of $3.50, 600
for the founding of the University of
Topeka.
Harry B. Wandell, city editor OF the
| st. Louis Globe-Democrat, and his
sister, have fallen heir to an estate in
the Canary islands, valued at from
$40, 900, 900 to $40, 100000.
The Sultan of Turkey for the third
time announces his intention to in
crease duties per cent. The powers
| will address another note to the porte
stating their objections to such an in
crease.
A party of three scientists have
sailed from San Francisco to explore
the unknown portion of Northeastern
Siberia. One object of their trip will
be to determine whether or not the
| American Indian is descended from
| Asiatic stock.
The mountain which overlooks the
town of Klappi, in Bohemia. where
| landslide recently occurred, has under.
gone a seismic disturbance which Is
spreading throughout the entire prov
ince. The heights of the Bohemia
middle range are moving and houses
and churches have collapsed in some
80 villages. Railway embankments
have been moved, streams diverted and
roads sunk.
| Mrs. James G.. Blaine is collecting
her husbands letters for publication in
biography.