The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-04-25
N[W} Of Till w[[k.
From All Parts of the New World
and the Old.
ot INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
.0mO-shensive Review Of the Important Hap
peninss Of the Past Week ina
Condensed Form.

Roar Admiral Schley has arrived at
Rio Ianiero.
Chinese rebels again attacked the
uonchurian railway.
All danger from the recent great
s,orm in the Ohio valley has passed.
United States officers have begun a
.,r on the Chinese slave trade in San
Francisco.
The Philippine tariff is not likely
"a I've promulgated until insular cases
are decided.
Toscph Hume, the pioneer salmon
r,cker of the Pacific coast, is dead at
Berkeley, Cal.
The people of Santo Domingo will
have nothing to do with annexation
TO the United States.
Province of Leyte has been created
in the Philippines and American
officers placed in control.
Leading stove manufacturers will
form A combine for mutual benefit in
the way OF 1relSnt raUeS, etc.
Manufacturers of mining machinery
will combine to protect themselves
against the Westinghouse Company.
The Corean government has decid-
ed to borrow from France 5000, 600
ven for the purpose Of constructing
railway.
Charles Brown, president, and E.
/. Candy, cashier, of the suspended
First National Bank of Vancouver,
committed suicide.
A rock was thrown through the
window of car on the Portland
Astoria train. Several passengers
narrowly escaped injury
The Twenty-sixth regiment, which
arrived in San Francisco on the trans
port Garonne, has landed and gone
into camp at the Presidio.
The German riechstag has passed
abill which prolongs authors rights
on dramatic and musical produc-
tiOns from 30 to 80 years.
An attempt was made to poison
prisoner in the county Jail at Denver,
Col. An apple pie and some cheese
were left at the Jail by an unknown
person for the prisoner. Examina-
tiOn revealed the fact that both con-
tanned great quantity of arsenic and
other poisons.
Another rebel force in Martinique
has surrendered.
Cebu Philippine islands, has not
yet been pacitied.
An English company is building a
railway across Mexico.
Prospectors at Nome were starting
for the hills in January.
The steamer Ramona blew up near
Victoria, B. c., and four people were
killed.
General Miner makes discOurag-
ing report on conditions in South
Africa.
The transport Lawton has reached
San Francisco and the Garonne was
reporte d at Honolulu.
Rockhill's plan for the abolishment
OF the Tsung Ii Yamun was accepted
by the ministers at Pekin.
The treasury department purchased
SSoo, 900 of short term per cent
bonds at the rate of 1885.
A blizzard in southwestern Mis-
sour has done great damage to prop
erty Practically all outside business
has been suspended.
Martin Ritter, who killed Clara
lheek at Nashville, ILL.,, with ham,
mer, because she refused to marry
nm, has been captured.
Or. Rupert Blue, United States
marine surgeon, on duty at Milwau-
Aee' has been ordered to proceed with
ou' delay to San Francisco.
AIonzo J. Whitman, formerly state
senator from Minnesota, convicted Of
passing a bad check, was sentenced
ment.
FIRE at Birmingham, Ala, des-
goyed street car barn, containing
% cars, the Third Presbyterian church
anu the parsonage and half block
cottages adjoining. Loss, SIS, 600.
lhe Union Iron Works of San
Francisco signed contract with the
navy department for the construction
81 S 'ne protected cruiser Milwaukee.
sm; sme is to have % knots speed, to be
90 satsned Sae In three years, and to CT st
sso s"orS oond on a target to cost about
Soo,ooo will be begun at the Brooklyn
;aa.y yard shortly. The target, which
CO 70 test the relative strength of the
Is'nmann I.a aann torpedo gun and the regu-
oay aa army II inch rifle, will duplicate
ee''ion OF the battleship Iowa.
or mere mere are 12O different languages
uiaiects in the Philippines.
inc me @ postofice department is max
r0s plans to obviate the necessity oi
York. 'opean "iaiis - iSo"
will innutosraph letters Of famous men
now oe Tar rarer in the future thar
tber Great men of today content
ofteIves OFF, with signing their names
wri,t. with rubber stamps, to type
barS documents, and 1t will b<
VITO 20 get much sentiment from type
'en manuscripts.