The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-03-21
N[Wj Of TILL With
From All Parts of the New World
and the Old.
of INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap
psninss Of the Past Week ha
Condensed Form.

Bids will soon be asked for con-
struction of Skagway-Juneau cable.
There is no change in the Anglo
Russian railway dispute at Tien Tsin.
Seventh infantry, stationed at Van
couver barracks, has been ordered to
Manila.
Two men died and Is were prostrat-
ed as the result OF an explosion on
steamer.
The South and Central American
renublics will enter the conference of
American republics.
AS a result of student demonstra-
tons at several points. Russia has de-
clared a state of siege.
Highwaymen held up a Wichita car
and robbed and shot the motorman.
There were no passengers.
The American consular agent at
Barcelona, Venezuela, has again been
arrested by that government.
Jessie Morrison, who killed Mrs.
Castle at Eldorado, Kan, furnished q
$4,000 bond and will be released.
The employees of the Washington
mine, at Oxford, N. j., have been
fighting fire and black damp in the
mine for several days.
The Cleveland dry goods firm of
Gavin, Parmalee & White was placed
in the hands of receiver. The firms
debts aggregate 100000.
Jim Harris was found guilty of muir
der in the first degree for killing j.
H. allen, a wealthy Ottumwa, Kan,
merchant. This will mean a life
sentence.
Lieutenant August Newkirk Maher
United States navy, died at Vallejo
Cal, from apoplexy. He entered the
naval academy from Kansas, and
graduated in the class of 1880.
Robert Walsh said to be the miss
ing son of prominent lumberman Of
Saginaw, Mich, was murdered in a
garret in st. Louis in the course of a
quarrel over the spoils of a robbery.
John Enoch Pond, a member of the
Berkeley high school, has been ap-
pointed the first naval cadet from the
Hawaiian islands. The appointment
was recommended by Delegate Will
cox Young Pond is the son of Lieu.
tenant Commander Charles F. Pond,
at Honolulu.
Arthur Bronson Townsend, the man
thought to have attempted suicide In
Montreal, is a member of we'll
known New York family, wealthy, and
bachelor He belongs to exclusive
clubs, and for several months lived
in the Brevoort House. His mother
is in Paris.
Storms continue throughout the
Lake region.
Henderson, the negro murderer,
was burned at the stake.
Mgr Chapelle will remain in the
Philippines for the present.
The Twenty seventh volunteers
have returned to San Francisco.
England is sending foodstuffs to
Pretoria to feed the Beers after the
surrender.
Colonel w. ]. Cliff, one of the most
noted criminal lawyers in the South.
Is dead at Chattanooga.
In the opinion of large cattle
dealer prices of stock will never de-
cline to the low level of several years
ago.
The last convention Of Oregon wool.
growers. at The Dalles, was the most
successful the association has ever
held.
Henry l.. Lessler, a lawyer, is dead
at Kansas City, aged II. He was for
i5 years consul to the Falkland
islands.
passenger train was ditched near
Soldier, Kan, in which IL passengers
were injured. The express car
caught fire.
Carnegie announces his retirement
and gives S5,000,000 for the pension.
Ing of old and disabled employees OF
his company.
Alderman James A. Cherry, of Den.
yer, was instantly killed by falling
from the sixth floor of the Arapahoe
ouildlng to the ground floor.
The boiler of an engine pulling .
coal train on the Lehigh Valley rail.
road exploded mead Mud Run, N. J..
and three men were killed.
sherman Harris, negro, was
ynched at Spellman, Ga. Harris
nneu sidney King, young merchanS
ana farmer, in an alteration.
Charles H. Rowan, the ex-matri.
nonial agent, has been found guilty
vi an attempt to bribe United States
omclals at Milwaukee. He offered
s-'oVO to the officials.
Joseph w. Sheldon, of Washington
nas been appointed receiver of the
suspended First National bank al
;nles Mich. Twenty thousand dol
'ars OF forged paper has been found
The 25th annual meeting of the
osttie Raisers' Association in Texas
auopted resolution recommending
uat congress provide an assistant tc
ne secretary Of agriculture to have
'uarge of livestock interests.
holland gave Wilhelmina a new
No"n costing 100000.
.,s IA Chicago cattle company bought
lanS lro,VVo acres of grazing and mineral
'"nu In New Mexico.