The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-10-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
interesting Items from Various Parts of tx
worId-Rssume Of the Less lmportAn
happeninss Of the Past Week in Coz
iensed Form.

Two OF the largest schools IN Paw
tucket, r. l., have been closed on ac-
count of the scarcity of coal.
Fred Atkinson, Superintendent of the
Philippine schools, has resigned. The
resignation takes effect Jan. l next.
Giving as an excuse that they could
not work without meat, twenty in
mates of the state prison at Trenton,
n. J.. have struck work in the brush
shop and most of them are now in
chains in the dungeon.
Fire at Stockton, Cal, did damage to
the value OF half million dollars
An official telegram to the Korean
legation at Berlin says the emperor of
Korea is alive and in the best health.
ID. NJ. Ferry has withdrawn from the
senatorial race in Michigan, leaving
Alger the only Republican candidate.
The old directors and officials of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul road
were reelected at the annual meeting
Saturday.
DR.. Silviane Brandao, vice president
elect of Brazil, is dead.
Mrs. C. A. Pillsbury, widow of the
great -four miller who died few years
ago, died Friday at Minneapolis of
pneumonia, aged 81.
1t is expected that the cable to Hon
olulu will be working within so days.
A Bilbao court has condemned Senior
Arana, the cnief of the National party
of Spain, to eight years imprisonment
for cabling congratulations to President
Roosevelt on the independence of Cuba.
Three hundred cavalrymen are to be
stationed AT Fort Walla Wa la within a
month, according co bulletin from de-
partment headquarters. They will
come from the Philippines.
John Arthur, grand master of the
Masons of the state of Washington,
was given banquet at Walla Walla.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Thompson cele-
brated their 5Oth wedding anniversary
at the home of DR.. and Mrs. j. A. Dix
at garfield.
Spokanes city council is taking steps
to drive out slot machines, and Mayor
Byrnes of that town says the theaters
must stop Sunday performances. 6
Secretary Hay has sent urgent in
structions to the United States dlpio-
matte officers abroad to do everything
within their power to socure displays
for the Worlds Exposition at St. Louis
from countries in which they are &C.
credited.
At Kansas City an elevator in large
dry goods store fell three stories.
There were % girls in the elevator at
the time and dozen were more or less
injured, but none will die.
At Pretoria, Max Ernest Henschell,
a German subject, has been convicted
of treachery and sentenced by mill
tary court to 10 years imprisonment at
hard labor.
The commissioner of internal revenue
calls attention TO the opinion of the at
torney general that no internal revenue
tax can be collected on cigars shipped
from the Philippines.
Fcrederick Wellington Ruckstuhl has
been appointed chief of sculpture at the
ST. Louis worlds fair.
The battleship Iowa has sailed from
Montevideo to Bahia Blanca, where she
will go into drydock.
The whaling bark Platina, New Bed
ford reports the capture, near Barba-
does, of pure white whale, which
made 100 barrels of oil.
severe earthquake shock was felt
Tuesday at Quito, capital of Ecquador,
No particular damage was done.
Mr.. Phipps, Carnegie's former part
ner, has given $1,000 to the Boer re-
lief fund.
King Oscars yacht, with the Crown
Princess Victoria on board, ran onto
the rocks near Kalmar, on the Baltic.
Peary says the pole can be reached,
but that it will take 5000, 900 outfit
10 do it. D
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