The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-07
LATER NEWS,

Washington diplomats say England
is the cause of the Chinese trouble.
S. H. Clark. formerly receiver of the
Union Pacific railway, is dead at st.
Louis, aged 6S.
The constitutional amendment en-
powerlng congress to regulate trusts
was voted down in the house.
Eight men were killed and several
severely wounded by an explosion of
nitro-glycerine at Marietta, Ohio.
Russia has II 900 troops at Taku ana
ID, ZOO at Port Arthur, ready to take
part in the disintegration of China.
A general strike by all the building
trades at Kansas City has been ordered
and 5000 workmen will be involved.
One man was killed and several
severely injured by an explosion in the
Eastman Kodak works in Rochester,
N. Y.
Robbers blew up the safe of the Bank
of Sheldahl. at Des Moines, Iowa, Sc
cured 81 600 and escaped, after holding
30 citizens at bay with rifles.
Jose P. Ruiz, who shot into a group
of small children and killed Patricio
Channon at Albuquerque, N. NJ, May
%, 1898, was hanged at that place.
An epidemic of black cancer prevails
at West Derby, VT, three deaths hav-
ing occurred within week. About so
houses have been quarantined, schools
| closed, and everything possible is be-
ing done to prevent further spread of
the plague.
Ell Correo Espanol, the organ of the
| Spanish colony at the City of Mexico,
says regarding Enlgand's policy of an
nexing the Boer republics: "Poor
Beers. The world has applauded your
heroism. but has not moved finger to
prevent the spoilation of which you are
the victims. The 10th century goes
out dishonorably."
News has reached San Francisco
from Lapaz that Colonel Rafael Garcia
Martinez, governor of the of the south
ern district of Lower California, will
be recalled by President Diaz on ac-
count of complaints made against him
by Robert F. Grigsby. superintendent
of the Triunfo silver mine, 35 miles
from Lapaz. The Triunfo is the larg-
est producer in Lower California. The
nature of the trouble is not made pub
lie, but it is asserted that the operation
of the mine was in some way hampered
by the governor, and complaint was
made to President Diaz.
Pretoria and johannesburg have been
abandoned by the Beers.
Fire destroyed the Palisade paper
mills in Hoboken, N. j., causing a loss
of 100000.
Filipinos surprised an American gar
rison at Bulucan, killing five and
wounded seven.
Decoration day was fittingly obsel we'd
in the house by the passage of nearly
200 pension bills.
Boer Envoy Fisher, in an address at
Boston, says the war will not stop until
the last man is killed.
One thousand citizens will be sworn
in to assist the sheriff of St. Louis in
putting down the street car riots.
Cholera is spreading rapidly in
Indian famine districts, and the death
rate has increased 40 per cent in three
days.
Boxers have attacked and burned a
mission station at Lau Tson, China. 40
miles southwest of Peking, and have
murdered the missionary in charge.
Ahmed Pasha. the Turkish vice.
admiral, now in Washington, is we'll
pleased with American shipbuilding
and may give an order for cruiser for
Tul key.
Samuel w. Walker, an inventor OF
Omaha. after working 25 years to COM
plete a gold-refniDg machine was
struck with heart disease in Brooklyn
and died, aged 4S years.
Hon. James A. Head, Democratic
committeeman from Tennessee, wants
some place other than Kansas City for
the national convention of 1900. and
the reason is the exorbitant rates quot
ed by hotels of Kansas City.
A huge military scandal has been re-
vealed at Belgrade, Servia, by the issu-
ance of an order for the mobilization of
the Serivan reserves. Scarcely uni
form was found in the magazines. The
accounts of the war office, however,
show a large expenditure.
James Finnegan, reculse, living in
the northern part of Perry county,
Ohio, was fatally tortured by masked
robbers. The old man could not be
made to tell where his money was hid
den, and the robbers beat and burned
him with a red hot shovel until he was
unconscious, then they gagged him,
covered him with feather bed and
left him to die.
The Naval Annual, published at
Portsmouth, England, in comparing
the naveis of the world, estimates that
at the close of the year the strength in
completed battleships will probably be-:
Great Britain, AZ; France. "a; Russia,
II. But it is added. Great Britain's
preponderance in modern powerful ves-
sells will probably make her navy more
than equal to the combined French and
Russian navies.
The Seaman's Friend Society has
placed LOGS libraries on American
naval vessels.
Judpe Simon F.. Baldwin, of the Con-