The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-08-23
LATER NEWS.

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The Typographical Union has refused
to enter the political field.
Two persons were killed in an acci.
dent at the Paris exposition.
The population of Greater New York
Is shown by the census to be 3,437, ,2O2.
Four deaths and l5 prostrations as a
result of another hot wave in Chicago.
Steel mills at Wilmington, Della.
ware, shut down, affecting 1900 men.
The Shanghai muddle is beginning to
assume serious aspect, international
troops being landed.
Puget sound salmon pack for this
season is about 199. 900 cases, compared
with 528. 900 for 1899.
Philip Koenigberger, New York
tobacco dealer, cut his throat in bar.
Der shop in San Francisco.
Caleb Powers was convicted of COM
plicity of in the Goebel murder and
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Lord Roberts will be recalled from
Africa in October and appointed com.
mander.in-chief of the British army.
War in China caused the closing of
a large mill in Riddeford. Me-, throw.
ling 5000 hands out of employment.
Shipments Of lumber from the state
of Washington for the year just ended
amount, approximately. to s., 800. 900.
Foreign anarchists. said to have
come to this country to assassinate
President Mckinley, are under arrest
at New York.
Ex.President Ignacio Andrade, who
was deposed from the presidency of
Venezuela and succeeded by Cipriano
Castro, the present incumbent. is dead.
A forest fire near Encampment'
Wyoming, has burned over territory
eight by 10 miles in extent and now
threatens two towns. Two thousand
sheep and one man have perished in the
flames.
The general attack on Pekin began
August l5, in the morning, when the
Japanese demolished the Cham Chang
Lang and Tong Chi gates and entered
the capital. The other armies entered
by the Tong Quien gate, and sent de.
tachments at once to the legations,
where the ministers were found safe.
Fort Sherman, Idaho, is unsuitable
for an Indian school.
Ex-Secretary Boutwell, announces
that he will vote for Bryan.
Seven persons were killed in train
wreck near Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Frink slate went through the
Washington Republican convention.
The war department publishes Fill
pino correspondence captured by Fun
ston.
Pritchard Morgan says the powers
have decided on new form of govern
ment for China.
General Chaffee reported the allies
at Ma Tou. 30 miles from Pekin, three
or four days ago.
+, Preparations to extend the railroad
Selkirk are in progress.
China will send high official to
Tung Chow to arrange for delivering
the foreigners to the allies.
Foreign and domestic wheat markets
have a downward tendency, and the
local situation continues dull.
Oregon supreme court decides that
district attorneys fee must be deposit
ed with clerk when divorce suits are
filed.
The transport Thomas, which left
Nagasaki August 10, will bring ZIG
sick and four insane soldiers from the
Philippines.
Severe floods have occurred in Japan
and it is reported that 2,2OO persons
have been drowned. Railway traffic is
interrupted.
Three lives were sacrificed by fire as
the result of an explosion of natural
gas in Thirty. fourth street. Chicago.
Three other persons are supposed to be
in the ruins.
Secretary Gage, of the treasury de-
partment, says that as long as the
United States maintains the gold stand
ard and keeps the public credit good it
can retain for its own use all the gold
it needs.
A severe hailstorm destroyed 10000
acres of the finest grain In North Da'
kota, even that cut and in the shock
being destroyed. Many of the hail
stons were from three TO four inches in
diameter.
Maurice Brennan, who is under ar
rest at st. Louis, charged with being
a dynamiter, was Unidentified as one OF
the men connected with the blowing
mn of the street cars in the southern
part of the city several weeks ago.
Eli Frank. formerly merchant OF
Victoria, B. c., is missing with $500,
which he collected in Dawson for Lenz
& Leiser, of that city. He failed to
visit Victoria on his return from Daw-
son. The police traced him to Port
land. Or, and lost the trail there.
An Atlanta jury decided that's wife
is responsible for the burial expenses
of her husband.
Cheap lands in Nebraska have been
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