The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-08-16
LATER NEWS.

ooVeral persons were killed by q
storm in New York.
Governor Roosevelt will speak in
Oregon in September.
Seattle inaugurates move for an
International fair in 1904.
There is great demand for timber
and farm lands in Oregon.
Hot weather killed 80 persons in
New York and Philadelphia.
Bryan has decided to make general
campaign tour of the country.
Sealing schooner Minnie, of Victoria,
was wrecked in Northern waters.
King Victor took the constitutional
oath before the Italian parliament.
General Randall is given authority to
send destitute persons out from Nome.
The ringleaders in the Pretoria plot
to capture Lord Roberts have been ar.
rested.
General Macarthur sends news OF
the surrender of Filipino command
of l72.
Jefferles is anxious to meet Fitzsim-
mons and Sharkey in the last week OF
August.
In the French naval maneuvers tor.
pedo boat destroyer was sunk and AZ
lives lost.
Many American soldiers were pros.
trated by the heat in the advance on
Yang Tsun.
Chinese viceroys want the United
States to prevent the landing of troops
at Shanghai.
Fifteen persons were killed by rail.
road train striking an omnibus in
Pennsylvania.
Congressman Overstreet says the
Republicans must work hard to control
the next house.
Encouraging developments are re-
ported from the Sumpter district of
Eastern Oregon.
Six persons were killed in an Italian
railroad wreck. The king and queen
went to the scene.
An advance guard of the information
al column has pushed on from Yang
Tsun to occupy Tsai Tsun.
A London newspaper correspondent
writes bitter complaint of the con-
duct of affairs in South Africa.
The French press and people are not
pleased with tho appointment of Won
Waldersee as commander-in.ch chief.
The Russians lost 500 killed at Peit
Sang.
Democrats opened their national
campaign.
Fire in Butte, Mont, mine caused
$100. 900 damage.
There will be no yellow peril, SO far
as Japan is concerned.
Wisconsin Republicans nominated
Robert M. La Toilette for governor.
The postoffice at Colfax WASH. was
burglarixed and $40 in stamps secured.
A telegraph line from Valdes to Cape
Nome, Alaska, is under construction.
Lieutenant Colonel Hoare's garrison
at Glands river has surrendered to the
Beers.
Bryan and Stevenson were formally
notified of their nomination at Indian
apolis.
General Miles says the situation in
China is serious. He says the move
ment of troops is difficult.
Heavy rains in the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park completely extinguished
the forest fires which had burned for
some time.
River improvement will precede and
a naval station accompany the location
of government drydock on the Column
bia river, Or.
One man was killed and four SER
,ously injured in collision on the
Spokane Falls and Northern, near
Spokane. Wash.
General MacArthur's official report
of the sickness in his army on July 81
is as follows: Sick in hospitals, 3,755;
sick in quarters, l.O8l.
The third battalion of the Fifth in.
tantry, stationed at Fort Sheridan, llli'
uois, has been ordered to China to join
General Chaffee's command.
The Columbia Southern railway is
extending its telegraph line through
Harney county, Oregon. which Is
thought to bs good indication that
the railroad will shortly follow.
The wife of DR.. A. Mcdonald West
water, of Liaoysng, Manchuira, COM
mitted suicide at Arma in consequence
of mental depression caused by her ex-
citing experiences at New Chwang
just before her departure from China.
When bids were opened at army
headquarters at Chicago for the trans
portation of troops from Fort Sheridan
to San Franciasco, the Chicago q
Northwestern was found to be the low
est bidder at 81 per capita from Fort
sheridan to Ogden. From Ogden to
the coast the troops are carried by the
Southern Pacific. This is the lowest
bid ever made for the transportation OF
| troops.
II there enters your soul q sense OF
peace which makes you forget all that
is behind you, all that is mournful and
confused in your past, that is God.
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