The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-05-23
|EVENTSsOF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS
q OF THE WORLD. {
A Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings Of the Past Week Prese led
in a Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely 70 Prove Of Interest % 0ur Many
Readers. -, :

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King Alexander of Servia will not
abdicate.
The Albany, N. Y, street car strike
has been settled. tsk Wrg
King Edward has ordered many
reforms at Windsor.
I Lawson's yacht Independence is
being hurried to completion. @' $50
I Germany is much afraid of Amer
.ica's commercial supremacy.
Turkey refuses to permit the entry
fof typewriters into that country.
The battle ship Ohio was launched
at San Francisco in the presence Of
President Mckinley.
F A fund is being raised for the de-
tstruction of sea lions at the mouth
of the Columbia river.
The president told Governor Geer
that he might visit Oregon before
the expiration of his term - ~
The Union Pacific now controls
the railroad situation from the Mis-
souri, river to the Pacific coast.
Mrs. McKinley is now able to sit
up. No date has yet been fixed for
the return of the presidential party
to Washington. -
Orders have been issued for strike
of fifty thousand machinists through
out the country. A prolonged strug-
gle is expected in the Pacific coast
shops. ,s !.
The Shamrock II will be partially
remodeled.
:, Peace reigns in the southern. Phil
ippine islands.
Civil officers have been appointed
in Albay province. s-s.-a..
A transport line may be established
via the Suez canal 4
An Ohio river boat was burned.
Two lives were lost.
Three hundred firms have signed
the agreement with machinists.
Ten cars were wrecked ON branch
of the Southern Pacific near Albany,
Or.
l. Nine miners are dead and three
fatally injured from an explosion in a
| West Virginia coal mine
| The Chilean government has waived
its objection to the Pan-American
congress to be held in Mexico.
President Mckinley has given up
his tour to the Northwest on account
of his wifes' illness. Her condition
is considered serious.
| The Alaskan, the largest merchant
steamship ever built on the Pacific
coast; has been launched at the Union
| Works, at San Francisco. -
The governor of New York has
ordered 2, 200 soldiers to Albany. All
efforts to settle trouble between strik-
ers and employers has thus far failed.
Although reports coming from
South Africa are very meager, the in
dications are that the Beers are rapid
ly breaking down, owing to cold and
lack of provisions.
A financial. panic was narrowly
averted in London.
4 ~ ;
The powers have protested against
Turkeys postal measures.
A band of American brigands has
been broken up near Manila.
The new Philippine tariff will
probably go into effect June l..
President Mckinley has made his
official entry into San Francisco. ~.
Mrs. Nations attorneys have; set
up the plea of insanity as a defense
in the trial for joint smashing.
Edward A. Cudahy says he is will
ing to pay $50, 600 reward for the man
who abducted his son, if necessary.
The president of the French COM
pany which owns the right of way for
the Panama canal is in the United
States to make an effort to sell the
company's concessions.
The employees of every machine
shop and factory in Seattle, numbers
lug over $50, haveswalked out. They
demand nine hours instead of 10 and
as13k per cent increase i'm wages.
Riot followed the attempt of the
Union Traction Company, Of Albany,
N. Y, to resume the operation of its
electric street railway system. One
nonunion motorman was fatally in
tjured and a car derailed.
Lacuna has promised. to surrender
his command. 20
A watchman in Utah refinery
stole SIS, 600 in silver bullion.
The Chinese are astonished at the
amount of indemnity demanded.
The congressional appropriation Of
! s., ,OO0, coo for the extension of the
rural delivery postal service becomes
available in three months.
The Roman Catholic archbisIipp y
i Montreal has forbidden the h,embe5l
I.of that church from countenancing
cremation in any way. -
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