The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-25
NEWS OF THE UAY
interesting Items from Various Parts Of TIC
World-Resume OF the Less Important
nappeninss OF the Past Week in co..
fensed Form.

Minneapolis millers will strike Sept.
% unless an S-hour day is granted.
With ONLY enough coal to fill out the
month the Brooklyn schools are threat
ened with an enforced recess. New
York has placed orders in Wales for
about 80, 900 tons of anthracite coal.
1t is the purpose of the navy depart
ment to fit up the Relief as naval
hospital ship, to assign the Hancock
and the Grant as training ships at
Puget Sound and at Mare Island, and
to convert the Lawton into naval
transport.
More than 900 of the leading resi-
dents of these islands, including mer-
chants, planters and householders,
have petitioned the Danish ministry to
expedite the transfer of the islands to
the United States, cables the New York
Herald correspondent at st. Thomas,
ID. W.. |. =
DR.. Ramon A. De Toledo has been
appointed Argentine consul at New
York.
Lafayette Gruff, of Gloucester, was
hanged at Camden, n. j., for the muir
der of his wife.
The Rhodes armean Buggy Compa-
nv of Marshalltown, Ia, one of the
largest carriage concerns in the West,
has made an ssignment.
The first industrial art convention
held in the United States will meet in
Chicago Oct. 4. About SO delegates
from all parts of the country will be
present.
The grand jury of Cameron county,
Tex, has returned two indictments
eachssagainst six Mexicans charged with
ambushnig state rangers last week, and
killing Ranger Roebuck.
The cable steamer Colonia has landed
the land end of the Pacific cable at
Bamfield Greek, b. c., and has started
on her trip to Tanning islnad, paying
out the cable as she proceeds.
The home of Richard Parfitt, of Gill
berton, Pa, was wrecked by an explo-
sion of dynamite. His wife and two
children, who were i'll bed, were not
injured. Parfitt is employed as Il fire
man at the Gilberton water shaft and
was at work when the explosion oc-
Cured.
The queen OF Belgium is dead.
Congressman Littlefeld of Maine will
be candidate for speaker of the house
to succeed Henderson.
The president has reappointed John
B. West, of Idaho, register of the land
Office at Lewiston, Idaho.
John d. McAllister, one of the best
kown railroad men on the Coast, died
at Missoula, Mont, Thursday, aged go.
James Roosevelt, cousin OF the
president, aged II, has reached San
Francisco on his return from tour Of
the world. He started from Boston.
At one of the largest gatherings of
East End Jews ever seen in London
there was formed the United Garment
Union OF STedJ bTltdln. oIc Oh Inc
chief objects is to combine against
American competition.
Twenty thousand persons, the biggest
open air gathering that has been seen
in Dublin in years, assembled in Phoe-
nix park Sunday, to protest against
the action of the government in pro
claiming" the Irish capital.
Rev. Daniel 0. O'Mahoney, of Ando-
yer, Mass, and Rev. J. +. McErlaine,
of Villa Nova, have been ordered to the
Philippines as pioneers in the move
nent of American priests to those
islands to succeed the Spaniards.
Three beachcombers stole a schooner
belonging to the United States consul
ate at Shanghai. and ran her ashore at
Woomsay, where they were captured.
1t is believed they intended to start out
as pirates. Two were Britishers, and
the third was an American.