The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-12-18
NEWS OF THE DAl
sserestins items from Various Parts OF TIE
Wcrld-Resume OF tNe Less lmportait
Happening, Of the Past Week in Coz
isnsed Form.

The battleship Oregon has arrived at
Yokohama, Japan.
Henrelmuller Won Hengervan, the
Aumstro- Hungarian minister at Wash
ington. it is announced, has been raised
to the rank of an ambassador.
Spike Sullivan of Boston defeated
Bill Chester of London in the l4th
round at London. The fight was for the
lightweight championship of England.
Announcement is made at Chicago of
the organization of .the Lyon Cypress
Lumber Company, with capital stock
of 81, 900, 900, to operate in Louisiana.
A large increase in the Russian navy
has been planned for 1908. The bud
get made public shows an increase of
$4,000 900, all to be expended for new
ships.
The former transport Hancock, under
command of Capt. Frederick w. Coffin,
of the navy, has sailed from San Fran
cisco for Philadelphia to become re-
celvinsg ship at League island navy
yard.
A water train backed into work
train at Bannock station, IA miles west
of Pocatello, Idaho, on the Oregon
Short Line, and five men on the ca
boose of the water train were severely
injured.
Prot. Peduc of the Nantes Faculty of
Medicine has discovered that electricity
can be used as an anaesthetic, cur
rent interrupted 800 times a minute
being applied with gradually increasing
power until the patient goes to sleep.
The president has approved the find
ings and sentence of the court martial
which found Lieutenant Alfred Cowen
guilty of the charges of financial irregu
larities and absence without leave. The
sentence was dismissal from the navy.
The tov manufacturers OF the country
have formed a combine.
Ten million dollars are to be expend-
ed to improve st. Louis terminal facili-
ties.
Burglars blew the safe of the Weeter
and secured about $50.
The late cold wave in the East is re-
ported to have caused intense suffering
on account of lack of coal.
George Gardner, the Pacific Coast
middleweight, defeated Billy Stiff, of
Chicago, in a six round contest at Chi
cage.
Finley Peter Dunno, author of "Mr.
Dooley," and Miss Margaret Abbott,
daughter of Mrs. Mary Abbott. formerly
of Chicago, were married at New York,
Tuesday.
The Georgia state senate has passed
a bill providing for an ad valoreln tax
on franchises of eleven corporations In
the state which exercise the right of
eminent domain.
According to mail advices from the
Orient by the Empress of India, the
high spring tides on the the 4angtse
Kiang caused the sinking of forty junks
on November II, and the loss of over
sixty lives.
William Parr, who is in charge OF tim
boring at STATIONS Independence
mine, has been notified by cable that
he and eight other heirs divide an es-
tate of about $7,5OO,00O left by an
uncle in England.
The extremely cold weather prevail
ing in Germany, in connection with
the hard times, is causing much suf-
fering. Many persons have been frozen
to death in the western industrial pro-
vinces and also in the northeastern pro-
vinces.
John H. Schneider, former member
of the st. Louis house of delegates, has
been convicted of bribery in connection
with the suburban-franchise deal and
given four years in the penitentiary.
This is the ninth of the st. Louis boo
die cases disposed of thus far.
Announcement is made that work
will soon be started on the construction
of q Northern Pacific cutoff through the
bad lands of North Dakota, beginning
at a point one-fourth of a mile east OF
Belfield and running northwest to the
head of Green river, about fonr and a
half miles to Fryberg, thence westerly
across the high plateau half a mile
north of Medora.