The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-10-18
EVENTS OF THE DAY
rnitome Of the Telegraphic
News of the World.

TEESE TICKS FROM IHE WIRES
Interesting Collection OF Items From
he Two Hemispheres Pres t1h
IA IA Corlensed Tczm.
Grvan concluded his tour of Illinois.
Cecil Rhodes will re-enter politics.
The empress dowager is said to be
Ill.
Roberts will name his own success
s0r.
Coiyille Indian reservation is opened
for settlement.
Roosevelt spoke to an immense audi
epce in st. Louis.
Canada will sell crown mining
clans in klondike.
General Brooke urges reorganization
tle army Oh luOutIu llAVo.
Conger has prepared list of Chinese
officials that should be punished.
Idaho soldiers Home was destroyed
bv fire. one inmate was suffocated.
The American Bible Society fur
nshes A list OF missionaries killed by
Boxers.
General Macarthur reported to the
WAR department that the transport
Rosecrans and the transport Argyle
arrived at Manila with Light Batteries
c and NJ, Seventh artillery, Major g.
e.. GreenOugh.
?. II. Gilhooley, counsel for the
Elizabethport, n. j., Banking Com.
mnv, announced that William Schlie-
her. missing clerk of the bank, was a
dpiaulter to the amount of $50, 900,
and that the bank directors had made
good the aomuut of the shortage.
Lord George Hamilton, secretary of
state for India, has received the fol.
lowing from Lord Curzon: "The gen
eml condition of crops is excellent,
and except i'll part of Bombay famine
conditions are disappearing. The to-
tai number on the relief list has fallen
to 2,146, OOO."
The American Bridge Company
closed contract to furnish all of the
structural steel to be used In the erec.
tion OF big arsenal at Kure, Japan.
The money value of the contract is be-
tween $250,000 and $500, 900. 1t
will require six months to furnish the
material, and it must be delivered at
kure within year.
Officials of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company at New York City
have awarded contract for monu-
ment to be erected in plot owned by
the company i'll a cemetery in North
Hudson, in memory of the persons who
lost their lives in the great fire that
destroyed the piers and steamers of the
company at Iloboken. on June 80 last.
Bryan made IA speeches in Southern
Illinois.
The Chinese court refuses to return
to Pekin.
France is anxious to annex Yrnnan
province.
Russian troops may withdraw from
Manchuria.
Chamberlain is mentioned as a pos
nbe successor of Salisbury.
The ministerial majority in the Brit
kh parliament will be from l50 to 100.
Trades Council orders strike on Seat
ties buildings. Over 1000 men are
idle.
The Beers now occupy Wepner, as
well as Rouxville and Ficksburg. in
Orange River colony, and the British
are attempting to surround them.
Five thousand pilgrims assembled at
the st. Nikandel monastery, in the
Iorkhotf district. St. Petersburg, for
"leIlglouS festival. During the night
one OF the upper floors collapsed and
many OF those sleeping there fell upon
tHoSe below. A panic YVES caused by q
false alarm of fire. and four men and 36
women were crushed to death, many
others being seriously injured.
Arrangements for building 5000
TelSht cars for the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad by the Pullman Com pany, ut
muIIman, Ill.,, has been completed.
lhe contract calls for $500 box cars.
each with capacity OF 60. 900 pounds.
ana 900 flat cars. The total cost of the
toIllng stock will be 81. .s65, 900. This
Is the second large order for freight
Equipment given by the Baltimore &
Ohlo management within the last week.
ne hrst order was for 5000 steel cars,
To cost So, ,00O. 900.
Having found the natives OF Tutuila
Ut 10 serve as policemen and maintain
leace and order, Commander b. F.
il'ley believes they would make excel
'en' soldiers to man the notifications
VI range Pango harbor. In private
ie''efs to officers on duty he has indi-
'"'e,l that they would make effective
"ulierymen. To enlist regiment Of
natives 1t would be necessary to OBJ
"a ra'n special authority from congress.
ne natives who are acting as police
men were enlisted by Commander Till
'ey as landsmen. 1t is likely. how
s'er' that force of marines will be
permanently stationed at Pango Pango.
"nite blackberries and green roeee
r" lave oeen propagated in Louisiana this
seVenty-two new coal mines have