The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-11
NEWS OF THE DAY
Interesting Items from Various Parts OF the
worId-Resume Of the Less important
happeninss Of the Past Week in Coz
fsnsed Form.


ny were reelected at the annual meet
ing of the board of directors at Portland.
William c.. Mcmillan. son of the
late senator from Michigan, announces
that he will not be a candidate for that
office.
Three hundred and seventeen strik-
ing golfers were fined $40 each at Don
caster, England for leaving work with
out notice.
Sir Thomas Upton will be the lib
eral candidate for parliament in Horns
shy, a northern suburb of London, in
the next election.
French duelists will hereafter use
wax instead of lead bullets. Under the
new code the best marksman will be
entitled to an apology.
The French government has stopped
payment of the salaries OF Is priests,
belonging to various parishes in Britta-
nv, who took part in the recent trou-
bles accompanying the closing of unau-
thorized schools.
The most extensive railroad grading
contract in the west since the Santa Fe
was completed to its California termi-
nus will be let by Senator Clark's San
Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt Lake rail-
way in the next two months. 1t will
be 735 miles long. l
Martin Ruiz, of Santa Monica, Cal,
is dead, aged l05 years.
Professor Rudolph Virchow, the en-
inent pathologist, is dead at Berlin.
Major Glenn, found guilty of admin
istering the water cure" to Filipinos,
has been restored to duty in the Philip
pines.
President Roosevelt has received
messages of congratulation from all
over the world on his narrow escape at
Pittsfeld.
Indictments have been returned in
Judge Chetlain's court at Chicago
against four men implicated in the Ma
sonic Fraternity Association tax-fixing
scandal, which has taken up the time
OF special grand jury all the week.
During the South African war Great
Britain placed the grand total of 46O,-
9Sl officers and men in the field. The
final casualty figures are: Killed, 5,774;
wounded, 23,O29; died of wounds or
disease, 10, l6S. The extent of territory
covered in the operations of these troops
exceeded the area of Germany, France
and Austria combined.
President Roosevelt is on a brief
tour of the South.
Wisconsin Democrats ignored the
national platform.
The tugmen's strike at Cleveland,
Ohio, which has been on for five
months. has been settled.
Salem won first prize at the Elks'
carnival parade at Portland. Tacoma
was second and Astoria third.
Explorer Baldwin has sent from
Tromsoe, Norway, his version of the
dispute with Captain 'Johannsen. Ac'
cording to Baldwin the captain was ar
rogant. dicatorial and bull-headed, be-
sides being generally incompetent, and
his demands were outrageous and with
out just cause.
John W. Gates has gone to Europe.
Wisconsin Democrats have nominat-
ed David.S. Rose for governor.
Iowa Democrats have nominated a
state ticket headed by Richard Burke
for secretary OF state.
A member OF the Baldwin Arctic ex-
petition says the failure of the venture
was due to the incompetency of the
leader.
The cruiser Brooklyn ran afoul of a
rock in Buzzard's bay. She was not
seriously damaged but will go TO New
York TO enter the drydock there.
The zone of destruction of Saturday
nights eruption OF Mont Pelee parallel
led that which destroyed the town OF
st. Pierre in May last, b9t spread some
five miles more eastward.
General Miles visit TO the Philip
pines may be delayed.
A new German regulation is that the
origin of all grain from America must
be given.
Conflicts between the police anC
rioters are becoming frequent IN Ang
ram, Hungary.
The report of the special examiner il
the Peter Power suit, filed in Minneap