The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-10-18
LATER NEWS.
Ii Hung Chang is in Pekin.

Ii Hung Chang is in Pekin.
Southern rebels defeated General
Hos army near San Chun.
The submarine boat Holland ba,
been placed in commission.
Russia urges that the Chinese IN.
demnity question be arbitrated.
Coal miners in the state of Kansas
have won strike and gone to work.
The members of the Chilean cabinet
nave resigned, owing to political
cause.
The National League baseball season
came to close with Brooklyn the pen.
nant winner.
Charles Fargo, second vlce-president
OF the American Express Company, is
dead at Chicago.
The Lorraine. O., plant of the Federal
Steel Company has been closed, shut.
ting out 5000 men.
The queen regent of Spain will ar.
bitrate the differences at present exist.
ing between Peru and Chilli.
clergyman of Blair. Neb., convict.
ed of bigamy, was sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary.
Dysentery is raging among the troops
at Tien Tsin and the German contihp.
ent will transfer its headquarters to
Pekin.
The steel plants of the Illinois Steel
Works, at South Chicago, were closed
down, $500 men being thrown out OF
employment.
A minor official of the Vatican at
Rome has been arrested on the charge
of giving the thieves access TO the
room from which the sum of about
$4,000 lire was recently stolen.
Striking coal miners will accept the
10 per cent increase in wages offered
by the operators if it lasts all winter.
However, the men will not resume
work until officially ordered by union
officers.
In northern Panay, October IL, Com.
pany D. Twenty-sixth United States
volunteer infantry, was attacked by a
force Of Tagals. The enemy lost 20
men killed and 40 wounded, while the
Americans had two men wounded.
Twenty-Five prisoners and l2 rifles and
a quantity of ammunition were cap.
tured.
A colony of 500 Sicilians from New
Orleans is to leave for Hawaii early in
January, under the leadership OF Father
Nasca, an Italian priest. The colony
will be in the employ of an American
company, which has large sugar inter-
ests in the Hawaiian islands. The
company will build church, school
and homes for the Sicilians.
The United States has answered the
French note.
Roosevelt denounced the Deomcratic
issue OF militarism.
British ministerialists hold 357 seats
and the opposition 205.
Horse buyers for German govern.
ment are in Eastern Oregon.
A general uprising is expected in
the southern provinces of China.
Mgr. Chapelle argues for retention OF
church property in the Philippines.
An eight-year-old boy CT Roseburg.
Or, was killed accidentally while play.
ing with q rifle.
One man was killed and IL injured
in riot in the anthracite region at
Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. Ann Jane Darrah. of Liberty,
Or, an aged and blind woman, was
burned to death.
An aeronaut fell from balloon at
Gays Mills, Wis.,, and was instantly
killed. 1t was his 32lst ascension.
Thomas Sheridan, so years old, la
borer employed in a shingle mill at
Fairhaven, WASH, was run over by
train and killed.
The American marines from Pekin
have arrived at Taku, where they will
be Joined by the Tien Tsin battalion.
and sail on the Indiana for Cavite.
The wife of a minister at Atchison,
Kan, jumped into cistern with her
3-year- child and both were
drowned. The woman was insane.
The result of the first day Of regis.
tration in Chicago for the presidential
election, which occurs next month,
shows that 285, ,36l voters entered their
names on the registration books. The
first day four years ago 293, 507 voters
registered.
A,ca blegram received from Commis.
sioner-G General Peck, at Paris, contains
an announcement of final results oh.
tanned at the exposition by the coun.
tries in the way of awards. The Omit.
ed States received 2,475 awards; Ger
many, 1926; Great Britain. 1.1l7i
Russia, l.4lS. The United States
leads not only in the grand total. but
also in ali grades of awards. from
grand prizes to merely honorable men-
tion.
Referring to the mooted purchase Of
the Danish West Indies by the United
States, the Copenhagen correspondent
OF the Daily Telegraph says: ''The IA
newed negotiations will result. be-
lieye. in the purchase. The opposition
party in the Danish parliament favors
the transaction. but urges the govern
ment 10 obtain larger price than the
United States has previously offered.
Ii is understood that America wishes
to use st. Croix a. = naval coaiing
station"