The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-02-08
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
tho Two Hemispheres Presented
in q Condensed Form.


tho Two Hemispheres Presented
in Condensed Form.
DR.. Leyds is being lionized in Berlin.
People of China are said to take
imperial changes with great equani.
nifty.
William Jennings Bryan will accept
the Populist nomination for the presi.
dency.
Lord Pauncefote will retire as am.
bassador of Great Britain to the United
States, April /.
The interstate commerce commission
has sued the Northern Pacific to en-.
force disregarded laws.
Senator's are said to want no change
in the manner OF their election. The
house favors popular vote.
Dundonald's forces, for whom fears
we're entertained, are safe on the south
bank of the Tugela river.
Five business men of Walla Walk
were victimized by smooth foiger,
who cashed bogus checks.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria has
conferred the Order of St. Michaels,
frst-class, on DR.. Nansen, the explorer.
In Cincinnati, Charles Barlruff, a
tanner. killed his wife, his son and his
<hnp <vfo 20 ho
house on flre.
A funeral train, arranged by the
Southern Pacific, will convey the re.
mains of General Lawton and Majos
Logan to the East.
James II. Britton, ex-mayor of st.
Louis, and for many years one of the
leading bankers of the West, died at
Ardley, N. Y, aged 83.
London papers scathingly criticize
the language of Buller's report, and
accounts of battle from Boer sources
are accepted as correct.
Judge Hanford has discharged Is OF
the % jurors who had been serving on
the regular panel in the federal court
at Tacoma. The remaining members
will report again on March 20.
Captain G. H. Stockton, president
of the naval war college, says: Com.
mand of the sea on our North Pacific
coast and the waters of the western
basin of the North Pacific should be in
our hands in peace and war time.
This can only be effected by readiness
of proper and sufficient naval forcs
either on the spot, or to be furnished
from the Atlantic through an un.
tramelled canal. In addition to this,
and ready for combining, should be the
available forces normally attached to
the Philippines and the waters about
China, Japan and Corea. In other
words, the Pacific ocean, from Samoa
northward. should be within ouz
control"
The plight of Kimberley is urgent.
The kaiser's birthday was celebrated
in the usual way throughout Germany,
Buller's army has retreated to the
south of the Tugela, with heavy losses.
Revolution in Venezuela, under tha
leadership of Hernandez, is spreading.
Fire in Minneapolis destroyed four.
story brick building, causing loss oi
$l20,000.
Edgar Oswalt, q 6-year-old boy ol
Astoria, was run over by q street cal
and fatally injured.
The Bank of Deerfeld, Deerfeld.
Wis, was robbed of about $17, 900.
The vault was blown open by dynamite
Fire destroyed the works of the Elec'
trio Improvement Company at San
Jose, CAL, entailing loss of 500, ,OOO'
Samuel Gompers, in . conference
with President Mckinley, advocated
an eight-hour law for all government
work.
1t is said that Lord Roberts favored
leaving Ladysmith to its fate and
marching on Bloemfontein, capital ol
Orange Free State.
The surgeon-general of the marine
hospital service has shipped to Homo
lulu l 300 doses of halffkine prophy lac
tic, plague serum.
Phil Armour Jr., SON of the Chicago
millionaire, died suddenly near SAINTS
Barbara, Cal. Death was due to con-
gestion of the lungs.
DR.. Leyds, diplomatic agent OF thu
Transvaal, says the Beers do not need
to apply for mediation, as everything
was going splendidly.
Three masked men entered the fac
tory Of DR.. Peter Fahrney q Son, .,
Chicago, blew open the safe and escaped
with ST., 700 in currency.
The senate committee on Puerto
Rico, has decided that the island shall
be known as Porto Rico. and moi
Puerto Rico, as fixed by recent execu'
tive order.
The weather in the vicinity of Mel
bourne, Australia, has broken all 70
cords for heat recently. On New
Years day five deaths occurred nom
prostration. The thermometer stood o
la in the shade, and l56 in the sun.
San Francisco has daily pape1
printed in Chinese.
Joseph L. Mayors, state senator O
Ohio, from Coshocton, walked 70. tht
capitol from his homo, > distance O
100 miles, to show his Independence O
railroads.