The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-06-20
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS
or THE WORLD.

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In Csadeased Perm Which Is Most
likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Maay
Readers.
Philippine. customs revenues are
increasing. -s-s-s4
Six frame buildings were burned at
Monmouth.
Cailles will surrender his entire
force at Santa Cruz.
Incoming ships report passing
quantities of wreckage on the ocean.
Beers surprised force of Victoria
mounted rifles near Middlesburg and
captured two pompons.
1t is exepcted that negotiations at
Pekin will be settled this month.
Ten persons were injured by tor
nadO in South Dakota.
Two Indians tried to murder the
Umatilla chief of police.
Won Waldersee will be created q
prince on his return to Germany.
Only one body has been recovered
from the wreck Of the ferry boat North
field.
The Hartman interests have Sc
cured control of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul road.
Lulu Rrince- Kennedy was convict
ed of murder in the second degree and
punishment was fixed at ten yeras'
imprisonment.
An extensive syndicate is buying
up eastern street car lines with the
intention of forming complete mon
opoly.
The Chief of the forestry bureau Of
the Philippines has issued circular
in which it is stated that the timber
supply in the Philippines is almost
unlimited.
Negroes about Leavenworth, Kan
sas, are arming themselves with re-
volvers purchased from the troops at
Fort Leavenworth. and it is thought
they intended to avenge the recent
burning of Negro.
Eleven hundred butchers are on a
strike in San Francisco.
The Cuban convention has accepted
the original Platt amendment.
| The new battle ship Illinois is the
fastest vessel of her class afloat.
Americans were again successful
in the international trap shoot.
Extensive commissary frauds have
been dicovered at San Francico.
Another name has been added to the
Port Royal, Pa, coal mine horror.
Thirty-four students graduated
from the Oregon Agricultural college.
Insurgent general Cailles refuses to
surrender, except on his own terms.
Extensive German influence in the
Yangtse district alarms the British
press.
Donald McPhial, prominent
Eastern Oregon sheepman, was found
dead by the roadside.
The Washington legislature has ad-
journed after amending the capital
punishment law and passing three
vetoed bills.
The government is preparing to
| fire three and one half tons of dyna-
mite under the Narorws between Forts
Hamilton and Wadsworth.
The war department has issued a
set of regulations clearly defining
hazing and strictly prohibiting the
same. Any cadet found guilty oil
infraction will be dismissed from the
academy.
Many Filipinos have applied for
civil service positions.
Kruger claims to know nothing OF
the peace negotiations.
Washington senate has repealed the
Rands capital punishment law.
A rich ledge of gold has been dis
covered near La Grande, Oregon.
A small town in Minnesota was
almost entirely destroyed by a tor,
nado.
Officers Of the Forty-third regiment,
in the Philippines, are accused oi
bribery.
The battle ship Oregon has arrived
at Honolulu on her way home from
the Orient.
Zurbano has proclaimed himself
governor of the Philippines as success
sor to Aguinaldo.
President Mckinley has stated that
it is his intention to visit Hawaii in
the near future.
Three women were injured in Chi
cago, two probably fatally, by the col
lapsing Of stairway.
Owing to fear of fresh trouble in
Corea for Americans, the cruiser New
Orleans has been ordered there.
Mckinley announces that he would
refuse to accept the nomination for q
third term if it were offered him.
The date of the Rough Riders
Association convention has been
changed from August 1 to August 8.
There arc IA. 600 oysters to ton.
River Jordan watse Is now exported
regularly for baptisyasl purposes.
In Georgia it ie estimated that So
600 Negroes have been graduated at q