The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-10-31
NEWS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
THE WORLD.
Comprehensive Review Of the important
Happenings of the Past Week preseated
in Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Man
Readers

Sir John Rigsby, British lord justice OF
appeals, has resigned his office.
President Roosevelt celebrated his
iortv.fourth birthday Sunday.
Judge Raleigh Scott, prominent
Portland attorney, died suddenly Satur-
day morning,
plot to assassinate the Shah of Per.
sia has been unearthed. 1t includes the
shah's two brothers, son-in-law and
grand vizier.
Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley
has accepted the invitation of the Ham
ton Club, of Chicago, to be present at q
reception and banquet to be given in his
honor at date to be decided later.
The First National Bank of New York
has remitted to Philadelphia S., 1000, ,OOC
in currency to pay for the purchase oi
the Flat Top Coal Association, part OF
Pocahontas coal purchase.
The navy department has received a
mail report from Captain Parry, COM
mander of the battleship Iowa, which is
now watching over American interests
at Panama, stating that effairs on the
sthmus continue quiet, and that there
have been no material changes in the
situation.
According to reliable reports received
bv British Consul General Warren al
Shanghi, 100000 persons in the province
Of Anhui and 300, 900 in the province OF
Kiangsu are on the verge of starvation,
and the famine is spreading.
Sir Thomas Upton has decided to sell
Shamrock III.
Denmark is coming to the front as an
exporter Of hogs and hog products.
Count Won Moltke has started for the
United States to study the transporta-
ton system.
Cresceus broke the worlds record for
a half mile track at Kansas City, trotting
the half mile in 2:09H.
A combination of British iron and steel
interests is in progress of organization.
The proposed capital is $4,000, 900.
The worlds trotting record for hall
mile race with other horses was broken
at Billings park, Memphis, where Audu.
bon Boy went half mile in in 1:OOL.
About $4,000 bags of flour have been
shipped to South Africa by New York
produce exchange brokers, for the British
army. 1t is also said that about / ,OO0, ,0OC
bushels of oats, half of which have al.
ready beeu cleared, have been ordered
for consumption in South Africa.
Rear Admiral Bunce, retired, is dead,
Hall Caine the novelist, is candidate
for parliament from the Manx district
The town of Sidney, N. S., has
suffered damage by fire to the extent Of
half million.
The Ohio Republican campaign was
opened Saturday at Delaware, o., by
Mark Hanna and Senator Foraker.
The duke and duchess of York have
completed their tour of the British pos.
sessions in America and have sailed fol
home.
The triennial convention of the Epis.
copal Church of America has adjourned
sine die. The next convention is to be
held in Boston in 1904.
The British government has purchased
$1,000 horses in South Russia, at l2s
roubles per head. Several thousand
horses have already arrived at Odessa.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers of America, Il
planning a general reorganization, tend
ing to strengthen itself after the losses
sustained in membership due to the
settlement. The policy will be to take
IN all the men in the mills.