The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-09-06
LATER NEWS.

NfPAAo 'oAuuSo0Ts Will D0gl0 re-
turning in November.
There are 83 suspected cases OF
plague in Glasgow. Scotland.
Charles A. Towne opened the cam
paign in Idaho for the Democrats.
General Otis has been assigned to
command the department of the lakes.
The governor of Shan Tung has 20..
ooo men ready to oppose Germ I'm ex.
pansion.
Ii Hung Chang is intriguing to set
the foreigners to quarreling among
themselves.
Thirteen persons were killed and
many injured by railroad collision at
Hatfield, Pa.
The Chinese situation now depends
on the responses of the powers to the
Russo-American proposals.
WV. Rockhill, American commits.
sioner to China, says now is the time
to settle the status OF foreigners in
China.
The Brallamer copper mines, situated
on Howe Sound, near Vancouver, B.
g.. have been sold to English capital.
lists for $2.O00,OOO.
A l8-year-old boy accidentally shot
and killed his l8-year.old brother at
Hutchinson, Kansas, while attempting
to remove cartridges from a revolver.
Secretary Fosters annual report of
the cotton crop of the United States
makes the crop for 1899.l9OO 9,4S6..
4l6 bales. against ll.274, $40 last year.
About $4,000 idle tinplate workers
of the American Tinplate Company
have resumed work, owing to the tin
pl te makers agreeing to new wage
scale.
Fire destroyed the plant and yards
of the Otter Greek Lumber Company,
at Hambleton, w. Va, with 10000.
900 feet of lumber, causing loss of
$3.50, 900.
Six hundred longshoremen who went
on strike recently at the Erie rail-
way ore docks, returned to work pend
ing settlement of their grievances by
arbitration.
A serious confagration occurred at
Guaymas, Sonora. Mexico, a few days
ago, which consumed the general mer-
chaidise establishment of F. A. Aguil-
lar. The building covered an entire
block and was the largest of its kind
on the west coast of Mexico. The
stock of goods carried was valued at
81 200, 900, on " hich a. loss Of $500.
900 was sustained.
A German gunboat has been ordered
to Annoy. -
A plot to burn Shanghai has been
discovered.
Bryan has decided on an Eastern
stump tour.
Seventy missionaries from China
reached Vancouver, B. G.
Washington fusionists renominated
John R. Rogers for governor.
Nancy G. EoR, great aunt of Gov
ernor Geer, died at Macleay, Or.
Bressi, the assassin Of King Hum
bert, was sentenced to life imprison-
mept.
1t is reported that Prince Tuan and
500 Boxers were killed in great
battle.
Earl Ii asks the appointment of sew.
Solc icf nf v,ou 1o
makers.
Yu. the governor of the province OF
Shen 81, is reported to have invited the
foreigners in his province to come to
his protection. About August 2l, 50
accepted the invitation and all were
massacred.
It is said that the Standard Oil Com.
pany will soon be purchasing the pro-
duct of California wells, now having
obtained in the East q number OF tanks
for the storage, which will be located
at Bakersfield. where ground has been
secured for them.
The United States transport Thomas
arrived at San Francisco, 20 days from
Manila, via Yokohama. She has on
board 26l sick and wounded soldiers.
81 military prisoners, 81 cabin passen-
gers, l73 in the steerage. and seven
stowaways. Seven deaths occurred
during the VOYAGE.
Iu London, the Duke of Manchester
was adjudicated bankrupt. entailing
his resignation from all his clubs. The
petitions to the bankruptcy court in.
cluded one from the young nobleman
himself. whose acceptances are SO
widely distributed in unknown lands
that his friends for some time have
strongly urged this radical course.
DR.. P. S. kellogg, who has just re-
turned from two years. service a. . sur
geon in the Philippines, denies the
charges of neglect on the transport
sherman, made by Captain Crenshaw.
| of Atlanta, in his ante-mOrtem state
ment. DIR. Kellogg, who came home
on the sherman with Clenshaw, aays
the captain was badly wounded; that
| it was only . question Of time when
he should die, and it was at his own
request that the captain was allowed
to come home. DR.. Kellogg AYERS that
Crenshaw had every possible attention,
including the best physicians and
nurses.
English army experiment with . bi-
cycle corps ~ defensive force Is pro-
nounced . success.
After living with her husband for Al