The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-12-11
NEWS OF THE DAY
interesting Items from Various Parts of tie
World-Resume Of tHe Less lmportsn.
iiappenfnss OF the Past Week in Coz
dsnsed Form.

Seventy thousand people attended the
International Livestock Exposition at
Chicago Thursday.
William Henry WEIGH, travelling
passenger agent of the New York Cen
trail railroad, is dead.
Charles B. .Harton, a well-known
Coast newspaper man, died at San
Francisco, Thursday, of consumption.
DR.. Harrison Conklin, a recent ar
rival from the East, died at the home
of his son, Lester Conklin, near Ewarts-
vile.
Dickinson hall, the big recitation
building of the Princeton university,
narrowly escaped being burned to the
ground.
Fire that broke out under the stage in
the Grand Opera House, at Saltwater,
Mimi, from an unknown cause, caused
loss of $l75, 900.
The Wisconsin football team has
abandoned its plan to visit the coast
this winter for games with California
and Stanford universities.
A Manila dispatch says The price of
rice has been broken, and the native
operators have insured the supply of
this foodstuff at reasonable rates.
The president has decided to appoint
A. B. Anderson, of Charlottesville,
Indiana, United States district judge to
succeed John Baker, who recently re-
signed.
The British steamer Silvertown,
which il to lay the cable between San
Francisco and Honolulu has arrived at
San Francisco from London, after a
voyage of so days.
Julian Ralph, the we!l-known news
paper man, war correspondent and
author, is critically i'll at the Southern
hotel, at St. Louis, from the effects OF
sudden and violent hemorrhage.
In the office of J. W. Mcmillan, at
Detroit, II of the leading malleable
iron concerns in the United States
signed an agreement to form one big
company with a capital of $4,000, 900
to 500, 100000
The French chamber of deputies has
ratified an additional monetary conven-
ton between France, Italy, Belgium
and Switzerland, authorizing each conn
try to issue additional silver coins to
the value of 81, 10000
An order in council has been passed
at Ottawa extending the provisions Of
the embargo against United States cat
tie 70 hides and hoofs. The importa-
ton of hides and hoofs from New Eng
land states is to be prohibited.
Frank N. Little, a member of the
board of public works and superintend-
ent of streets, sewers and parks of Seat
tie, died Tuesday afternoon at his old
home in North Sutton, n. H., where he
went few weeks ago in the hope OF
lettering his health, which has for
more than year been declining.
Shamrock ILL.,, Sir Thomas Upton
new challenger tor the Americas cup,
had a narrow escape from being burned
in fire which did great damage to the
DENIM shipbuilding yards, at Dunn
barton. Only strenuous efforts saved
the challenger, now we'll advanced In
her construction.
Secretary of State Hay is building a
million dollar apartment house IN
Washington. According to the pros
pectus it is to be model of its kind,
and money will not be considered in
making it such. The foundations are
already in-the work on them alone
having taken four months-and the
steel work is being pushed.
Senator Lodge has introduced bill
amending the Philippine civil govern
ment SO as to admit Philippine goods
into the United States at one-fourth the
tariff rate imposed by the Dingley law,
and Senator Gallinger a joint resolu-
ton for the amendment of the constitu-
ton so as to make state of the Dis
trict of Columbia to the extent of
allowing it representation in congress
and in the electoral college.
To Exploit Coal Lands.