The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-07-11
EVENTSOF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
THE woRLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of he lmpostaal
happsainss Of the Past Week PrsssnAed
In Coadensed Form Which Is Mese
likely 10 Prove Of Interest to Our Maas
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likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Maas
Pierre Lorillard, the tobacco king,
is dead.
The hot wave in the east has been
broken.
The pope condemns the French law
Of associations.
Prince Won Hohenlohe died at Rag
atz Switzerland.
Kruger has abandoned his contem-
plated trip to America.
President opens large tract of land
in Oklahoma for settlement.
The navy department has re-estab-
lished the European station.
Crazy man shot and killed the Judge
who once declared him insane.
The miners strike at Telluride,
Colo, has been satisfactorily settled.
The Standard Oil company is send
ing vessels to the Pacific coast for
wheat.
C. N. Gordon, inder five years sem
tence, escaped from the Jail at Van
cOuver.
Actual business on London stock
exchange last week was worse than
ever before.
DR.. J. w. Watts, whose vote made
Rutherford B. Hayes president in
1875, is dead.
| Montana train robbers have out
witted the officers, and their capture
is not probable.
Robert Knapp drowned himself in
the Willamette at Portland to end his
sufferings from asthma.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
long-talked-of salmon Gamers COM
bine has at last been formed.
In the last race at Newport the
yacht Constitution beat the Columbia
nine minutes and the Independence
seven minutes.
| Head-end collision of trains on
the Southern Pacific near Dunsmuir,
CAL, resulted in the death of a hobo
and serious injuries to two other men.
Fire in Williams, Ariz., destroyed
nealry $500, 600 worth of property.
A new town, called Sullivan City,
has sprung up at the mouth of Alder
creek, Alaska.
Albert L. Johnson, prominent
trolley line promoter, is dead at his
home in Brooklyn.
An American has been awarded the
South African war medal for service
rendered the English.
England gives instructions that
raising of flag at Skagway, Alaska,
is not to be insisted upon.
The president has issued a pro-
clamation adding 142, 900 acres to the
Cascade reserve in Oregon.
The hot wave in the East continues
and the deaths and prostrations are
more numerous than ever before.
An immense lead combine has been
formed to control the lead fields in
Missouri. Capitalization, $50, 900, :
600.
A Chicago man was shot and fatal
ly wounded while attempting to re-
cover a lady's purse from the man
who did the shooting.
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| A circular dead line with a radius
of ], 600 feet has been drawn around
the naval observatory at Washington,
to protect the instruments.
A statement prepared at, the PEN
sion Office shows that for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1901, 1861
names were added to the pension rolls.
| Fighting has been renewed in Man
churia.
Huntington, w. Va, had $780,
600 fire.
There is no change in the STEEL
workers strike.
The cabinet has raised the age limit
for postmasters from 40 to As years.
A Chinese imperial edict orders
that lives of missionaries and con-
verts be respected.
| The British flag has again been
lowered from the pole on which it
foaeed in Skagway.
/ A Philadelphia bank clerk has dis
appeared, taking with him $13, 900
of the firms money.
The total government receipts for
the fscal year just ended were 1856,
846, 500 and the disbursements 500, !.
so, $40, leaving = surplus for the year
Of SIS. 884, 800.
The Reading. Pa, strike has been
declared of. The men are to return
to work and appoint q committee to
meet . committee representing the
employers, the joint committee to
arbitrate the differences.
The public debt increased 81, 737,-
/ 347 in june.
Last year a, ,619 names were added
TO the pension rolls.
Six former governors OF Tennessee
are among the citizens of that state.
one being United States senator Will
liam b. Bate.
Twenty torpedo boat Destroyer and
TORPEDO boats viii d yurnedS over to
the government BY contractdxs within
| the next lew months.