The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-02-07
From All Parts of the New World
and the Old.
Of INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap
pcninss Of the Past Week Ina
Condensed Form.

are not beaten.
Governor Nash says he will prevent
the Jeffries- Rubin fight.
Euogies to the late Senator Davis
were delivered in the house.
State Of Washington cannot have one
of the new battle-ships named for it.
Edwin Markham read poem in
Philadelphia dedicated to Queen Vic.
tOra.
Ex-senator Hill declares that he is
not candidate tor the presidency in
1904.
Iron Dyke copper mine in Eastern
Oregon changes hands; consideration
$780, 900.
A plot was discovered to tar and
feather Mrs. Nation, the saloon
wrecker.
Fire in the trimming department of
the Krug Packing Company's plant,
St. Joseph, Mo-, did $780, 900 damgaes.
Fire from an unknown cause de-
stroyed the large plant of the National
Wire Company. at Fairhaven, Conn,
entailing property loss estimated at
$325, 200.
Fire at the w. B. Earthman Lum.
Der Company's plant, Nashville, Tenn,
destroyed lumber, warehouses, IL tene.
ment houses, and nine freight cars.
Loss. 100000.
The worst storm of the winter pre-
walls throughout Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Colorado, Michigan and Wis.
consin. Railway traffic is somewhat
interfered with.
Mrs. Thomas Green, an aged woman,
wife of an old-time mine prospector,
was burned to death in her home in
the suburbs of Aspen, Colo. 1t is sup
posed the fire was of accidental origin.
The Union Pacific Railway Com
pany, by purchasing the entire hold.
ings of the Huntington estate and STAN
ford Crocker estates, has secured con-
troll OF two-ffths of the Southern Pa.
cifc railway stock.
The president has issued new cre-
dentials to Mr.. Choate as ambassador
Of the United States to Great Britain.
They are similar in form to those held
by Mr.. Choate, with the exception that
they accredit him to King Edward
VII instead of Queen Victoria.
The Duke of York is sick.
The senate passed the Indian appro-
priation bill.
Bethuen will try to drive the Beers
out of Cape Colony.
President Mckinley may visit Port.
land, Or, this spring.
A revolutionary plot has been dis
covered in Prussian Poland.
A prisoner escaped from the Grants
Pass Jail and is still at liberty.
Generals Wade and Ludlow have
been ordered to the Philippines.
New York men sue A. B. Hammond
for part OF Astoria railroad bonus.
Minister Loomis has postpond the
presentation of his ultimatum to Nen-
ezuels.
The president recommends that ad.
ditional copies of the consul reports be
printed.
The citizens Of Skagwsy are greatly
agltated over the decision of the secre.
tary OF the interior granting the greater
part of the townsite to b. Moore.
The body of Judge N. Pearl, of Port
Gibson, was found in the Mississippi
river near that place with heavy
weights tied around the hands and
ankles. He had been missing about
two weeks.
Major General Arthur Macarthur
Will be relieved from duty as the com.
wandering general of the division ol
the Philippines in April next, and will
be succeeded by Brigadier q eneral
James +. Wade.
The dead body of Jacob Kuntz her
nit, was found in miserable cabin
near Peoria, Ill. The body was clad
IN rags. On his person was $458 in
money and deed to 80 acres OF valu.
soie land. He had literally starved
himself to death.
The president has sent message Ia
congress recommending the appropria.
'ion OF 100000 for the payment of the
eialm OF Spain for Sibutu and Cagayau
islands, in the Philippine archipelago.
In accordance with the terms of the
treaty recently ratified by the senate.
Some troops escorting laborers en-
gagged In opening roads in the southern
part OF the peninsula of Yucatan were
desperately attacked by 1000 rebel In.
uiSns' who were only driven off by the
employment OF machine guns. The
engagement took place near Santa Cr91
Columbia university has appealed tc
It's friends for 100000.
lhe school children of Mississippi
nave voted in favor OF the magnolia al
'he states flower.
american, Canadian and English
ion interests have practically united
!" push trade in Europe.
consular reports say British mer.
snants and manufacturers continue Il
"orry over commercial invasions By
Americans.