The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-07-19
LATER NEWS.
American athletes were successful :
the Paris tournament.

American athletes were successful n
tne Paris tournament.
An all day fight between the Boers
and British at Platkop resulted indeci.
sively.
The Russian minister at Pekin ia
said to have been boiled to death by
Boxers. :
Nine houses were entirely consumed
and many others damaged by fire at
Dunsmuir. Cal.
"A German paper says the seizure of
kiao Chou has caused the present trou.
BILE with China.
Fire at Durant, +. T., wiped out the
greater portion of the town, causing a
loss of $lOO. 900.
All foreigners have been removed
from the town of Wa Chou, China, and
are safe at Shanghai.
United States Senator John Fl. Gear.
OF Iowa, died at Washington City Of
heart disease, aged IS years.
A large part of the bu siness district
OF Prescott. Arizona, were burned,
causing loss of 81, 1000, 900.
The steamer City of Topeka al rived
at Seattle flom Lynn canal with be.
tween $75O,OOO and 81, 900, 900 in gold
dust from Klondike.
Twenty square miles of forests were
blurred by fire started by firecracker
near Grub Gulch, Cal. The loss will
be hundreds of thousands.
General rain has fallen over / nearly
all India during the. past few days and
the prospects are that crops have i'm
mense.y improved. The famine area
has generally been benefited.
Eight-hour shifts for all underground
men at the United Verde mine and an
increase of 15 per cent in wages for
miners in certain portions of the mine
were announced at Jerome, Ariz.
Advices were received from Sydney
that tribal wars are raging at the Solo
mon group. There has, been q fierce
battle between the Marian (Boys) and
Malata tribes. The losses on each side
were heavy.
Dynamite was exploded under a
Transit car in North st. Louis, and
four passengers we're injured. A SUI
burban car. the only union line in the
city. accidently. ran into strikers
'bus wagon and injured IL occupants,
two seriously.
Judge Thomas Aver. of the United
States court of appeals at st. Louis,
has handed down an opinion declaring
that John p. Reese, the Iowa Miners
Union official who was sentenced to
imprisonment in Kansas for violation
of strike injunction, was illegally
restrained of his liberty, and granted q
writ of habeas corpus releasing him.
Judge Aver ruled that the lower court
erred in incluing Reese under the in
junction,
William Ahles, an old resident of
Tacoma, committed suicide.
Rich gold strikes have been made on
the Koyukuk, some claims staked out
yielding 81 to the pan.
Robbers held up an Illinois Central
train near Paducah, KY, blew up the
express car and secured $4,000.
The empress dowager has ordered
the suppression of the Boxers and the
protection of the legations at Pekin.
A Pullman car was turned upside
down near Redding. CAL, the nine oc.
cupants were all more or less injured.
but none fatally.
Thirty.six bodies, horribly disfig
ured, have been recovered from the
hull of the steamship Saale, recently
burned at Hoboken, N. ].
County Commissioner Campbell, OF
Spokane county, Wash., was killed by
an o. r. & N. passenger train near
Latah, Idaho. He WAS crossing the
track in buggy.
A food of gold is pouring in from
Alaska. The receipts of the govern
ment assay Office at Seattle in the fis-
cal year were $l3.630, 326. This
months receipts may exceed $6.OOO,'
900.
The Chinese government is sorry for
the recent outbreaks, but holds the
powers blamable. The empress dow
ager says the attacks on Tien Tsin We
the result of the bombardment OF Tien
| Tsin.
Savages of the Caroline islands at
tackled ehipwrecked British crew,
seriously wounding two of the British,
and were only driven OF when m
American cattle dealer came to the
rescue Of the British.
Or the Baltimore 3 Ohio railroad.
| a deliberate attempt to wreck the
Washington express. bearing 5000,
| 600 in gold to the subtresaury In New
York, came very near being successful
| as Folsom, short distance outside oi
Philadelphia.
The general freight agents Of leading
| Western roads have formed an arrange'
ment for the pooling of business. Joint
agencies are to be established at Kan
sas City, Omaha and St. Paul. A
| Joint agent will be placed in charge OF
the traffic at each of these cities.
Colombian Ieyolutionists, under Cen
eral Juan b. Gonzales and Simon
Chaux, have captured tine city OF Pepa-
1 van. q capital of the department. OF
Cauca. On the march TO Popayan the
reyolutionists took all the cities pear
the Ecuadorian frontier, including the
| Paport Tunico.
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