The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-08-15
EVENTSOF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
THE WORLD.
a Comprehensive Review of the ImpsrtaM
haPpeniass Of the Past Week Preseated
II Coadeased Form Which Is Most
likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Many
Resdefs.

the steel strike.
Forest fires are beginning in West
ern Washington.
Another Negro was burned at the
stake in the South.
Steel workers in Western mills OF
the trust refused to strike.
Engagements with insurgents were
fought recently near Panama.
Business men of San Francisco are
working hard to end the strike.
Civil government will be established
in northern Philippine provinces.
The funeral service over the late
Empress Frederick occurred at Cron-
breg.
The Phiippine commission granted
$25, 900 to each rinderpest stricken
province.
Shamrock II has arrived at Sandy
Hook, after IA days passage across
the ocean.
John Winters, the man under ar
rest, has confessed to the robbery of
the Selby smelter.
Admiral Evans was censured by the
navy department because OF state
ments in his book.
Governor Taft, of the Philippines,
says tariff legislation is necessary to
deyelop the islands.
An attempt was made by BOer SYM
pathizers to blow up British trans
port at New Orleans.
Tie steel trust is preparing to start
up its idle mills.
Another Negro was burned at the
stake by an Alabama mob.
Thousands were drowned by the
overfiowing of the Yangtse river.
Two hundred sand teamsters at San
Francisco have joined the strikers.
Police working on the Selby smelter
robbery have made one. arrest on sus-
picion.
The gunboat Machias has been or
dered to Colon to protect American
interests.
The German army has been ordered
to go into mourning for six weeks
for the late empress.
France has warned Turkey that the
porte must settle claims or Frances
minister will be recalled.
Foreign men on warships of Colom-
bia quit and have left the country,
being afraid of being murdered.
Patterson, N. j., anarchists will
produce play depicting the tragedy
connected with the assassination of
Humbert I, of Italy.
A bad wreck was caused on the
Great Northern in Washington. A
burnt tree fell across the track, wreck
ing the engine and killing the en-
gineer. Several others were injured.
A general strike has been ordered
in all the mills of the steel trust.
The English minister at Pekin re-
fused to sign the settlement protocol.
Admiral Howison will be the third
member of the Schley court of in
quiry.
Governor Gage will be asked to
mediate between the contestants in
the San Francisco strike.
st. Paul's cathedral, in London, is
settling from the vibrations caused by
passing underground trains.
Thirty Turks were killed in bat
tie between Bulgarian bandits and
Turkish government troops.
The Union Iron Works, of San
Francisco, is trying to engage nom
union workmen in New York.
As result of the recent breaks,
plans have been made to convert the
Brooklyn bridge into double decker.
More raw cotton was exported dur
ing the fiscal year Just closed than
ever before in the history of the coun-
try.
The Washington supreme court re-
fuses to grant . writ OF habeas corpus
for Eben Boyce, the Tacoma MUIR
derer.
Owing to the death of the empress
dowager, the program for the recep-
tion Of Won Waldersee will be very
simple.
The National Wholesale Grocery
Company is the latest trust about to
be formed. It will have q capital Of
500, 000, 900.
Robbers at Vallejo, CAL, entered
the vault of the Selby Smelling
Works through . tunnel and secured
$3.50, 600 in gold bricks. No clew has
been found to the perpetrators.
Rockefeller is going to build . PAL
ace to cost 3, ,O0O. 600.
Colombo leads all the states in the
production Of both gold and silver.
English opponents Of osteutation
At funerals will extend their propa-
ganda to the United States.
The United States will not prevent
Cuba assuming payment Of honda =
sued By the New York junta.
Lord Pauncefote's talk about nsw
canal treaty = taken TO mean that
England will make concessions to ~
Just differences.