The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-03-15
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection OF Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In q Condensed Form.

lana,
Princeton college wants million
dollars for law library.
Cronies men are now prisoners on
hoard British warships.
Germany will admit American meat
for fear OF a tariff war.
The machinists of Philadelphia de-
maud nine-hour day.
Six people were burned to death in .
New York tenement-house fire.
The increase in American imports
has been nearly doubled in three years.
san Francisco highbinders murdered
,wo men. both leading merchants of
the city.
General Woods asserts that trouble
in Cuba is now absolutely out of the
question.
The transport Grant has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila with 20l
sick soldiers aboard.
The British second-class cruiser
litllltS Is OA Sde AoAdAu, -
the Bahamas, in distress.
President David Starr Jordan. of
Stanford University, in a speech at
Chicago, said that England would soon
topple.
Trouble has arisen between the cigar
and box manufacturers of Tampa, Fla.
Advance in the price of boxes is the
cause.
Tom Sharkey and Bob Fitzsimmons
signed articles of agreement for 25-
round bout before the club Offering the
largest purse.
The United States government will
begin the manufacture of smokeless
powder and compete with private man
uiacturero in point of quality.
The American Clay Manufacturing
Company, the $40, O,00O consollda.
tion OF sewer-pipe manufacturers, will
control So per cent of the industry:
Near Olympia, WASH, three chill.
dren, aged 5, and 9 years. were
burned TO death while their parents
were absent from home attending q
dance.
At Hanover, Germany, some persons
not vet identified tore British flag and
made an anti-British demonstration in
front of the residence of an English
man, who had displayed the Unior
Jack in celebration of the successes in
South Africa.
Prospects for the termination of ths
Colombian revolution are poorer thar
ever.
At Vienna, the Crown Princess Steph.
anie, of Austria, was married to Count
Won Lonray.
The total number of Boer prisoner,
captured at Paardeberg by the British
is 4,660 men.
A party of six American rubber pros.
pectors have been massacred by indiana
in the wilds of Brazil.
The twelfth convention of the Nation.
al Republican League has been called
to meet in the city of st. Paul, July
II, 1900
Frozen meats, supplied to the Ameri'
can army in the Philippines, is reported
by officials in Manila to be highly
satisfactory.
passenger train on the Canadian
Pacific, near Toronto, Canada, jumped
the track, and several members of par
lament were injured.
The Kentucky legislature has passed
bill appropriating 100000 to carry
On the work of hunting down the as.
Assin OF William Goebel.
In an engagement between Mexicani
and Maya Indians, near Santa Cruz,
600 Mexicans defeated 5000 Indiana
Indians killed number 80.
Filipino insurrection has not YET
been subdued. The rebels are prepar.
Ing Tor the rainy season and will carry
Oh guerrilla warfare OH large scale.
William Henry, a half-breed Indian
oi CoretO, Cal, shot and killed Nettis
smith young Indian woman, and
'neh Killed himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
forty-three and one-half inches ol
show In 63 hours is the new record
established at Rochester, n. Y. The
railroads are recovering from the biggest
Ignt against the elements they have
nao IN many years.
Ihe Cartersville, H., union miners
VINO have been on trial for the past 4(
oays at Vienna, charged with murder
ing negro miners. were acquitted BY
.ne Jury. Four other charges are pend
'ns against the miners.
belief In the efficacy of prayer AZ 4
sure cure for disease was the cause o
,ne divorce granted to George E.
"hlte, ex-congressman and q wealthy
lumber dealer of Chicago, from hi
wife, Minnie A. White.
IN the United States there are 8, ,427,.
'O' bachelors and 1924, 494 spinsters
The first woman's clup of Puerto
hlco has been organized by some Amer
"aD women living in Ponce.
Inc longest span of telegraph wire il
.ne world is that over the river Kistns
III india. 1t is over 6, 200 feet long.
Inc usual output from 100 gold
uines In the immediate vicinity o.
~ ~DOnannesburg is 10 tons of gold Z