The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-05-16
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS
OF THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings Of the Past Week Prese ted
in Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Many
Readers.

Likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Nan,
Readers.
A new Russian loan of 424, 600, 600
francs is authorized.
Fire in suburb of Detroit, Mich,
did $500, 600 damage.
General Dewet, the Boer leader,
has resumed operations.
Pennsylvania beat Annapolis in the
intercollegiate boat race.
National organization of machinists
has ordered a general strike.
Yale beat Harvard 81 to Al in the
annual track and field contest.
The Porte has ordered all foreign
postoffices removed from Turkey.
The steamer Princess Louise was
wrecked in British Columbia waters.
An attempt was made to sell con-
fdential documents in the Neely case.
Seattle men have bonded 1000
acres near Willapa bay and will bore
for oil.
Esterhazy has made an affidavit
that he was the author of the Dreyfus
borderau.
Embezzlement charged against ex-
School Land Clerk Davis, of Oregon,
may be outlawed.
Trouble between the managers OF
the Buffalo exposition and union
workmen for time threatened com
plete tie-up of work, but the difficulty
has been settled.
A grip containing dynamite was in
process of -fumigation at Port Town.
send, Wash, when owner told con-
tents, causing panic among the
steamer passengers.
Mrs. Mckinley is i'll, and has been
taken to San Farncisco for rest.
Her illness, while not serious, may
cause curtailment of programme fol
the remainder of presidents tour.
Two lives were lost in New York
fire.
The presidential party is now in
California.
Eastern wool market shows no i'm
provement.
Martinelli has received the red be.
retta at Baltimore.
The steel trust will close down the
Everett nail works.
English coal miners have decided
not to strike at present.
Fire in Augusta, Ga, destroyed
$3.50, 600 worth of cotton.
A fire in Seattle destroyed property
to the amount of $2OO,OOO
A naval war college is to be estab.
lished for the naval officers.
The Industrial commission is in.
vestigating rate determinations.
The steamer Tantillion Castle,
wrecked near Cape Town, is total
loss.
The contract plans for the cruiser
St. Louis have mysterioulsy disap.
peared.
Forest fires in Pennsylvania are
destroying immense quantities of val
liable timber.
Much disturbance continues among
the educated classes i'm Russia, and
the police are kept busy.
A woman of Baker City defended
herself successfully with pitchfork
when attacked by tramp.
Union Pacific has gained control ol
the Northern Pacific and will prevent
the proposed Burlington deal.
The sultan of Turkey has gotten
himself in trouble with the ambassa
dors to Constantinople by interfering
with their mails.
The United States Weather Service
will be equipped at several points
with wireless telegraphy outfits, in
the hope of rendering aid to shipping
Those Porto Ricans who have i'm.
migrated from their native country
to Hawaii are we'll pleased with the
prospects and say they are doing bet.
ter there than in Porto Rico.
A new gun now nearing completion
at the Watervliet arsenal is expected
to throw projectile weighing 2,37(
poundes distance of 81 miles. II
will be on exhibition at the coming
fair in Buffalo, N. Y.
News has just arrived of $75, ,OOC
fire at Dawson.
The allies defeated the Chinese
west of Kalgan.
Secret societies at Nankin, China,
have joined the reformers.
A we'll of boiling hot water has
been discovered at Vale, Or.
China will ask powers to obtain fol
her loan to.pay the indemnity.
The Cuban constitutional conven.
tion adopted the Platt amendment.
It is said that 1000 pounds ol
poultry will cost less to raise than
900 pounds of beef,~ and will sell
for almost twice as much.
While finding that the seed trade