The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-11-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
,poM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
THE WORLD.
Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings Of the Past Week Presented
in Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Many
Readers

The Ban of Scotland, s. D., has been
hnrplarizcd to the extent of IS 900.
The scarcity of money in Russian
Transcaucasia is so serious that most
naphtha firms have been obliged to cur.
tail operations.
The steamer Hongkong Maru brought
$1,000 600 in gold from Japan, consigned
70 the San Francisco mint, and Chinese
silk valued at 81 100000.
First Lieut.. Robert T. Crawford of the
First infantry, sergeant and five men,
while attempting to cross the Babylon
river in Samar province, were drowned.
The Berlin correspondent of the Daily
Mail gives currency to the report that
Albert Balin, of the Hamburg American
line is in London negotiating for the sale
Of eighteen steamers to j. p. Morgan. !
An order calling a strike at the eight
collieries of the Temple Iron Company,
near Scranton, has been issued by the
United Mine Workers of America.
The Standard Oil Company has de-
clared dividend of $8 per share, paya-
bic December 16, making $l4 per share
for the calendar year, which is the same
amount as last year.
The whalers Norwhal and Bowhead
have arrived at San Francisco from the
Arctic. The former took seven whales,
but scarcely made expenses. The Bow
head brought in "a, 900 pounds of whale
bone and 200 barrels of oil.
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President Butin, of the Panama Canal
Company, has finally submitted to Ad-
mirai Walker, the head of the Isthmian
canal commission, proposition on be-
half of his company for the acquisition
Of all its rights by the United States gov
ernment. b
The Fargo Packing Company's Plant
and the Great Northern freight sheds at
Fargo, n. d., were destroyed by fire.
Loss 500, 900, fully insured.
Visitors to the shoe and leather fair at
London are impressed by the fact that
the British boot and shoe trade is largely
dependent upon American machinery.
The United States transport Hancock,
owing to an accident in the island sea,
will be docked at Nagasaki, Japan, where
the United States transport Sheridan is
being repaired.
Emperor William has issued an army
order expressing the warmest apprecia-
ton of the work of the troops in China,
who have "added fresh laurels to the
ancient glory of the German arms"
Rev. Edwin C. Edsall, for the past
three years missionary bishop of North
Dakota, has been formally insts led as
the head of the Protestant Episcopal
bishOpric of Minnesota, succeeding Bishss
op Whipple deceased.
According to the New York Tribune's
London correspondent the return OF No
vember fogs in their blsckest and most
impenetrable forms helps to increase
public impatience over the delays in
working out system Of electric transit
underground. 4
Lord Roberts is credited with desire
to retire to private life.
1t is announced that the Duke of Corn
wall and York will shortly receive the
title of Prince of Wales.
Fourteen Ft. Wrangel Chinese cannery
employees have been convicted of moon
shining'-illicitly distilling whiskey,
which they were selling to the Indians.
At San Francisco, late Sunday night,
Leong Kee, the 18-year-old wife OF Ching
kee, prominent Chinese merchant,
was stabbed by masked highbinders,. as
she was entering her home, upon her
return from social call on the wife OF
Chinese minister WI Ting and the
family of Consul General Ho Vow, at
the consulate. >