The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-03-22
LAT Err NEWS.
The United States is organizing
Chinese squadron.

General Cronje and the remainder of
the Paardeburg prisoners will be taken
to st. Helena.
Rather than have it captured by the
British, the Beers will raze Johannes.
burg to the ground.
The seth anniversary of the birth of
KING Humber l, was appropriately cell
ebrated throughout Italy.
General Kobbe has been appointed
governor of Albay province, Luzon.
Hemp ports have been opened.
Lord Roberts forces have occupied
BlOemfOntein, and Kroonstadt will be
the Free States seat of government.
James G.. Smith, president of the
Telegraphers' Union and an inventor
of telegraphic devices, died at his,
home in New York, aged 50.
The Armstrong Steel Works, at Flint,
Mich, burned with loss estimated
at $130,O00. Goldens' brewery and
cooper shop, adjacent to the steel works,
were also destroyed.
Patrick Egan, ex-minister to Chilli.
and ex-president of the Irish National
Federation, has written letter in
which he says that IS per cent of the
Irish people dislike Queen Victoria.
At Price, Utah, Indian Agent Myton.
leased 700, 900 acres of government land
on the Uintah reservation to Eastern
Utah fockmasters. The leases run five
| years, and the amount involved is $18,.
900, which goes to the Uintah Indians.
Rev. DR.. Isaac Meyer Wise celebrat-
ed his 81st birthday at Cincinnati. He
is the oldest rabbi in active service in
the United States. DR.. Wise was born
in Steingrub, Bohemia, March IL,
1919. Alter more than half century
spent in America he stands today at
the head of the Reform Jews of the
country.
President Wheeler has announced to
the regents of the University of Cali
fornia that experts of acknowledged
repute have been engaged to make ex-
cavations and explorations in parts of
the world rich with relics of ancient
learning. The entire expense of the
work will be borne by Mrs. Phoebe A..
Hearst. In Egypt, DR.. George Reisner
will have charge of the explorations.
The materials collected by these scien.
lists will be placed in the Archaeology.
cal museum to be established at Berke-
ley.
Filipino insurgents are fighting hard
to keep the Americans out of southern
Luzon.
Plague in Honolulu is stamped out,
after a total of 62 cases, So of which
were fatal.
A brother of President Steyn, of the
Orange Free State, has been captured
by the British.
General George White has arrived at
Durham and embarked upon the trans.
port for East London.
England politely declined the proffe1
of the United States to intercede in
the war in South Africa.
Near Baker City, Or, an o. R. & N.
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section hands, two being killed.
Labor troubles are rife in Martinique.
Riots and incendiary fires spread terror
through the island, and ignorant
negroes threatened to behead the
whites.
The United States government has
purchased the steamer Columbia from
the Northern Pacific Steamship Com
pany. She will 60 on the regular
Manila run.
The steamship Armenia, loading al
New York, will carry supplies to Ma
nila for the American troops in the
Philippines, and 1900. tons of rails and
large amount of steel bridge and
structural work for the Siberian rail
way, to be delivered at Vladivostock.
Senator Sewell has introduced bill
changing the name of the Paris, OF the
American line, to the Philadelphia
Three of the ships of the International
Navigation Company constituting the
American Trans Atlantic mail service,
already bear names of American cities
tho St. Paul, the st. Louis and the
New York.
T. X. Sudborough, formerly clerk ir
the auditors office of the Pacific Ex'
press Company, at Omaha, has sued
the express company and Erastui
Young, its auditor, for $50, 900 dam
ages, alleging that by reason of his ar
rest on May 20, 1898. on the charge o.
embezzlement, he has been brought
into public scandal and disgrace.
At Columbus, O., the striking ma
chinists, after conceding the right o.
employers to employ nonunion men or
equal terms with union men, insisted
upon the employers signing contract
with the union. The Columbus Meta
Manufacturer Association conceded
all the demands of the machinists, IN
30 far as wages aud hours of labor arr
concerned, but refused to sign q con
tract with the union, and as an ultima
tum, declared that they would dea
with the machinists only as individuals
During the marriage ceremony o.
John S. Blair and Miss Somerset, neal
Perry, o. T., the bride fell dead. e
In q department store in San Fran
cisco, two clerks stole $1,000 from thu
salary envelopes of the employees.
Near Blue6eld, w. Va, Joseph
Cloar farmer killed his daughter