The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-03-14
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and the Old.
of INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hep.
psninS Of the Past Week ha
Condensed Form.

H.
Willspoint, Tex, was wrecked by a
cyclone.
Er.President Harrison is very Sc
riously i'll.
Dewet. with 400 Beers, has escaped
10 the northward.
Russia assures the powers she win
NOT annex Chinese territory.
Japan has ordered new battleship
from England to Yokohama.
Meglers cannery, at Brookfield,
Wash, was damaged $4,000 by fire.
Il is reported that Kitchener de-
mands unconditional surrender from
Beers.
England declines to modify the
canal treaty without satisfactory
Quid pro quo.
General Chaffee refuses to allow
the decapitation of several Boxer
chiefs condemned by Chinese Judge.
Radical Cubans still hope for abso-
lutte Independence, and that the
limited States will not enforce Platt
amendment.
Lieutenant General Miles, accom-
panied by his staff, will leave for a
trip to Cuba, where he will make an
inspection of the principal military
posts.
The mill plant of the Centralia
Single Company, Centralia, Wash,
was destroyed by fire. The fire is
supposed to have originated from the
furnace. The loss is estimated at
about $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
The officials of the foreign Office
at Copenhagen deny that the negotia-
tons with the United States for the
sale of the Danish West Indies have
been discontinued, and they confirm
the statements from Washington that
no peremptory note has been sent to
Denmark by the United States.
Orders have gone forward from the
navy department for the return of
the battleship Oregon, which has been
so long time on the Asiatic station,
to the United States. She will prob
ably sail for home about May l, to
be replaced by the Wisconsin when
the vessel has finished her official
trial.
Peru is threatened with cabinet
crisis.
The members of the cabinet were
sworn in.
The insurgents in Cebu are about to
surrender.
Colonel J. P. Sanger has been or.
dered to Manila.
Thirty-one rebels were captured on
au island on Lake bay.
Botha is arranging peace terms
with Miner and Kitchener.
Sagasta has formed a new Spanish
cabinet, taking the premiership.
William c. Sanger will succeed
Meikeljohn as assistant secretary OF
war.
Ex-senator Chandler is to be pres
ident of the Spanish claims commits
sion.
Portia Knight, Salem, Or, girl
mas sued the Duke of Manchester fol
breach of promise.
bltuminous coal miners at Altoona
ra, will strike April l, unless theil
wage scale is agreed upon.
AT Glasgow there are ~ fresh
smallpox cases, and the total number
OF patients in hospitals is 435.
The New Zealand government has
decided to submit to referendum the
question whether it shall join the com
nonwealth of Australia.
The Italian chamber of commerce
OF New York, has resolved to have 9
strictly impartial analysis of the
lemons of California and Italy.
Relatives of Miss Mary Beach
lousey, of New York, will contest hel
"iii' which bequeathed $1,000,000 tt
religious and charitable institutions.
The Portuguese government hal
sent cruiser to Oporto, and has or
dered other warships to be in readi
ness to go there ON account of thu
'Ati-clerical manifestations.
George CORVALLIS West, whose wife
was Lady Randolph Churchill. is lytn(
III at Troon. near Glasgow, where h
mas been lately residing for the pur
pose OF studying electricity.
over Jealous police officers in Ma
Mia may be removed.
Fort Stevens, Or, well-digger wal
rescued after being entombed sil
hours.
The first annual convention Of tht
.a'ue growers association opened II
Denver.
lhe silk industry of China EN-
pioys' it is estimated. from 1000, ,00'
70 100000 people.
a writer on modern waterway,
says That in the near future electri,
Naction will be universally adoptet
On canals.
'ne great Salt Lake is said to be Il
nent danger of drying up. th'
IAN a upon it being due to irrigatiol
requirements.