The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-08-22
reoM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of the important
Happenings Of the Past Week Presented
in a Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Many
Readers.

An Ecuadorean force is preparing
20 invade Colombia.
Won WaIdersee hopes to become
chancellor OF Germany.
General Macarthur has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila.
The results of the gulf storm were
NOT so bad as at first reported.
HAYDEN, the embezzling treasurer
oi Swift & Co., cannot be found.
A force of Colombians invaded
Venezuela, but were driven back.
San Francisco retailers have made
smove towards ending the strike.
Kruger urges the British National
sts to continue their efforts to secure
peace.
Venezuelan officials blame the Co.
omban government for the present
trouble.
The steel trust is landing nom
union men at Monessen and will start
up the mills there.
A Chicago trolley car colided with
a passenger train, killing four and
njuring IL people.
Explosion of two cars of powder
wrecked an entire train on the
Southern Pacific near Glendale, Or.
The Alaska steamer Islander struck
an iceberg and sank Immediately,
carrying down about 60 of the passen-
gers and crew and $3.50, 600 in gold.
Both sides are making gains in the
steel strike.
The Shamrock II is being put in
order for racing
There is little change in the San
Francisco strike situation.
Crispi's remains were taken by q
warship from Naples to Palermo.
A. J. Montague was nominated for
governor by Virginia Democrats.
The gunboat Machias has been
ordered to Panama Immediately.
The German Crown Prince may be
engaged to the Princess of Batten-
berg
The fishing season on the Columbia
has closed and the pack will be about
337, 900 cases
Over dozen lives were lost by the
burning of the waterworks crib in
the lake at Cleveland, Ohio.
Chicago steelworkers who would
not obey the strike order were put
out OF the Amalgamated Association.
River and harbor recommends
tlons for the coming year are about
the same as in the bill that failed to
pass last winter.
Burglars who attempted to rob an
Ohio bank were frightened away be-
fore they secured anything and are
now surrounded in the woods near
the town.
The Union Pacific Railroad has
notified its empoyes that habitual
drinking or even the mere frequent
Ing OF saloons will in future be consid-
cred cause for discharge.
A coal famine in San Francisco is
imminent because of the strike.
Two men were asphyxiated and
Others nearly SO in a Montana mine.
Colombian insurgents are operating
along the line of the Panama railroad.
The remains of Dowager Empress
frederick were inferred at Potsdam.
"A passenger train was robbed on the
NJ, h. & I. road in Indian Territory.
American looters in China were
sentenced to four years imprison-
ment.
Heavy rains in Arizona are doing
much damage to railway and other
property.
Efforts for the settlement of the
San Francisco strike are making
good progress.
President Mellen, of the Northern
raclhc, defines that his company
VIII build to the Clearwater country.
An effort will be made to induce
western members Of the Amalgamat.
tu Association to reconsider their re-
lusal to 90 on strike.
=, Revenue officers have discovered
.la' large numbers of Chinese have
peen smuggled into San Francisco on
lumber schooners from British Co.
lumbia.
highwaymen in Texas held up
passenger train, going through the
tT"cheS ,IeS and relieving passengers ol
;ner cash and other valuables. Meth.
I was secured from the express car.
la, .-Stef seven men were arrested for the
ooy 1oooery and part of the plunder re
covered.
An advance of from one to two dol.
;aLs ;at ton has been made in all I'm
'Sned steel products.
bon nnrupp, the German gun maker
90 % fortune of nearly $50, 600, COO
NJ M income of nearly $l4, 600, 600 and I
Pay roll OF 80, 600 persons.
10 Mfs' M William E. English presented
n;a 'he state museum dead Jersey
s with one head and two bodies
'0'ned at the shoulders.