The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-09-27
LATER NEWS.

o0Aooo' Vasn.s IL visited by tel.
rible wind storm.
Anglo-American troops defeated the
Boxers at Pei Ia Chu.
The British troops occupy Koomati.
poolt without opposition.
Boxers and other anti i-foreiRn Chi.
nese are in imperial favor.
English and Germans express dissat.
lsfaction at American attitude.
Further violence in the Shenandoah.
Pa, coal district prevented by the ar.
rival of troops
The Astoria, Or, coal bunkers. val.
ued at $4,000. were completely de.
stroyed by fire.
A stevedole in Portland, Or, drowned
from falling scaffold. Ten others
narrowly escaped.
BY settlement of the wage scale.
$4,000 iron and steel workers will re-
sumo work in Ohio.
Four masked men held up an express
car on the Burlington route, near Lin
coin. Neb., and very large sum was
secured.
E. j. Clough, of Arlington, Or, esti-
mates the wheat crop of Gillian coun.
ty at 1,000,O 900 bushels. Some think
the output will reach 1900, 900 bush.
els.
The United States transport Port
Albert sailed from Seattle for the Phil.
ippines with 500 calvary horses and a
cargo of forage and commissary sup.
plies.
Fire destroyed the large grainhouse
and elevators on the Atlantic dock,
Brooklyn, causing a loss Of 500, 900 to
buildings and contents. Forty-five
thousand bushels of oats were de-
stroyed.
The United States transport Grant
arrived at San Francisco from the
Philippines and China, bringing home
over 500 discharged soldiers, including
200 sick and wounded and 80 dead
bodies. There were IL deaths during
the voyage.
Methuen completely routed Boer
convoy at Hart river, west of Klerks.
dorp. and recaptured l5-pounder lost
at Colenso. He also captured rs wag.
ons, 8, 200 cattle, 1000 sheep, 10000
rounds of ammunition and 30 prison
ers.
A special dispatch from Lo lrenco
Marques says that Beers arriving there
report that collisions are occurring on
the frontier between POI tuguese troops
and bufghers, whom the former wish
to disarm on entering Portuguese ter
ritory. Several have been wounded
and further fighting is feared.
The state of Oregon has contl ibuted
more than $4,000 to the Galveston re-
lief fund.
Belle Archer, the actress. died at the
Emergency hospital at Warren, Pa. of
apoplexy.
Three men robbed the First National
bank at Winnemucca, Nevada, and Sc
cured about $4,000.
General John A. McClernand died as
result of old age at his home in
Springfield, Ill.,, aged SO years.
In an engagement with Filipinos
near Solonan, near the end of Laguna
de Bay, the Americans lost IL killed
and 26 wounded.
At Iona, I. T., Postmaster Dismuke
was shot and instantly killed by Sam
Ashton, a well-to-do stOckman. Dis
muke's son rushed to his fathers as
sistance, and was also shot.
Thirty thousand dollars was for.
warded to the governor of Texas by the
citizens permanent relief committee
of Philadelphia, Pa, making the grand
total of cash forwarded to date by this
committee $4,000.
At meeting at Lebanon, Pa, of
about three-quarters of the 1900 men
employed by the American Iron q
Steel Company, who struck August
against reduction of wages from $4
to So tom for puddlers, it was agreed
to 20 back to work at the rate offered,
$3 q ton.
General Vilioen. who succeeded
Louis Botha In the supreme command
of the Transvaal forces, is reported to
be moving northward in the direction
of Hectorspruit, with 5000 men and
80 guns. He is known as ''the fire.
brand" and will endeavor to protract
the war.
In the North China Daily News. Ii
Hung Chang is reported as having said
that as China could not possibly pay
indemnity which will be demanded
from her, there will be no alternative
but 70 give territory instead OF money,
in which case Japan would get Shin
King, Russia would be given Shin
Kiang, and Thibet would 60 to Eng
land.
Llyod Griscom. United States
charge d'affaires. at Constantinople,
Turkey, has made verbal representa-
tions to the porte, demanding the re-
lease Of an Armenian. who, it is claim
ed. is naturalized American citizen.
and who was arrested upon the charge
| of belonging to the Armenian revolu-
tionary committee. An investigation
has been ordered and If the prisoner is
found to be an American citizen he
will be released.
Mayor, James G. Woodward, Of At
lanta, Ca, was impeached for intoxi-
cation.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has abol-
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