The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-10-25
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Enitome Of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
rrRSE TICKS FROM ,cHE WIRES
,oteresting Collection Of Items From
ths Two Hemispheres Pres t1o 4
I'm Cor1ensed Tcrm.

yhe Two Hemispheres fres f1u
I'm Cor1ensed Tcrm.
SIGNAL corps men were surprised by
Tocals in Neuva EciJa province.
Treasury Department may station
Chinese interpreter OH Puget sound.
pryan spoke to packed house in
uad;sou SouMe garden, New York.
Oueen Wilhelmina announces her
h.tnrotbal 10 Duke Henry of Mecklen-
burg.Schwern.
Andrew Carnegie has presented GlO,.
ooo 10 the town of Hawick, Roxbury,
conntv. Scotland, for public library.
CAPTAIN Z. L. Ewing, o! San Fran
cisco, manager OF the Welchbact
Lamp Company, committed suicide by
inhaling gas.
In the province OF Smolensk, Russia,
there is held every three months a lot.
terry in husbands and wives, who are
chosen by the chance drawing OF lot.
tery ticket.
Two men were killed and one fatally
ipiured by the derailment Of q freigh
train on the Chicago & Alton. at Lawn
dale. III. Tho week was caused by
the removal of a rail by O section gang
making repairs.
Fire in the lumber district of Osli-
kosh, Wis, destroyed 100000 feet
of lumber and part of the Hollistei-
Anne. Company's mills and the piani
OF Challoner's Sons Company. The to-
tai loss amounts to 100000.
The United States transport Grant
has sailed from San Francisco for Ma.
Mia. On the vessel ar, o07 casuals and
recruits representing every regiment
Of the regular service in China and the
Philippines. A large number OF hos
pital corps men accompanied the sol
diers.
An explosion of rubber cement in the
basement of four-story building in
Detroit, Mich, resulted in a fire which
cost the lives of two men and injured
eight persons, four of whom were
girls. The fire spread with such ra.
pidity that the employees were compell-
ed to jump from the upper stories.
The Oregon Short Lines fast mai:
was wrecked at Topaz, 80 miles east OF
POcatellO, Idaho, 10y running into the
rear end OF a freight train standing OF
the main line. The engine of the pas
senger train rolled down the embank.
ment, and Engineer Beckman and Fire.
man George were badly injured. An
unknown tramp was killed and another
had his leg crushed.
Butler will return to England.
Germany accepts Frances proposal.
Immense field of coal has been dis
covered in Alaska.
Reformers defeated the imperial
army on East river.
The Beers are very active in the
kloOnstadt district.
Russians take the first step on the
night bank of the Amur.
Lord Alvsrstone will he the new lord
chief justice of England.
Mexican troops are having hard
campaign against Indians.
Captain Shields and his 81 men were
rpSpnpI ha
A milk mbine has been formed by
mllkmen of Vancouver, b. G..
Roosevelt concluded his Kentucky
Tour with speech in Covington.
The rebellion in Southern China is
sntl'dynastic rather than anti. foreign,
Yellow fever is expected to increase
IN Havana while sewers are being dug.
Fire at Herrick, ILL.,. destroyed lC
business houses, causing loss of $780,.
600.
John F. Adams, a patient at the
oregon insane asylum, hanged him.
self.
III Hung Chang expresses regret fol
recent occurrences and thanks Ameri.
cans.
Dewet proclaims that burghers wht
refuse to fight will be made prisoner.
Of war.
A case OF illness, suspected to be bu
ionic plague. is reported at Stepney
parish suburb of London.
Records that fell into the hands O
correspondents show that Chinese an.
uorities supported the Boxer move
ment.
A dispatch from Port Limon, Colon
ola' says that serious fire broke ou
ana that several prominent commercia
buildings were destroyed.
Inc sultan of Turkey has leased :,
Uermany for 30 years the island o
Iroan' In the Red sea. 40 miles nortl
Vi hamaran, for coaling station.
full returns as to the wine harves
nfoughout Germany for the year show
'nat IL Is more abundant and of NOR,
rAeeilent quality than for several year
previous.
IN Jeresy City. N. j.. q daughtel
was BORN to the wife OF Bresci, the %
'assin OF King Humbert.
=, rive Minneapolis churches have pai,
.u .ue aeots hanging over them durinI
e year, the total incumberance
raised amounting to $sS, SIS.