The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-03
NEWS OF THE DAY
Brief Summary of Less Important
Though not the Less Interesting
Happenings of the Week, From
All Parts of the World.

The greater portion OF the soutH siue
of Hill City, Kansas, has been destroy
ed by fire. The damage exceeds $780,
600.
Captain Oberlin NJ Carter was re-
leased from the Fort Lravenworth pris-
on Saturday, when his five year term
of imprisonment expired.
The czarina's condition causes some
alarm, as the Inflammation in her ear
does not yield to treatment and it is
feared an operation may be necessary.
The Princess Mathilde Bonaparte,
the only surviving daughter of King
Jerome Bonaparte, and niece of Napo-
leon, is critically i'll at Paris. She is
advanced in years.
Representative Patterson of Tennes-
see has introduced a bill to abolish
slavery in the Philippines and to abro-
gate the treaty between the United
States and the sultan OF Sulu.
1t is announced at Cape Town that
the Germans have formally annexed
the territory of the Bondelswarts tribes
men in German Southwest Africa. The
surrender of the Bondelswarts is ex
pected.
The German foreign Office budget
provides for the establishment of Ger
man consulates at Seattle, WASH, st.
Paul, MINI, New Orleans and Attain
ia, Ga.
Representative Hepburn has intro
duced a bill known as the pure food
bill, the same measure that was re-
ported to the last congress by the COM
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
merce.
King Edward has decided that he is
unable to accept the invitation to send
some of his horses to the st Louis ex-
position. The declination is accompa-
MED by an expression of much regret,
but it is explained that the king has
made it an invariable rule not to enter
horses in handicap race.
At the meeting of the International
Socialist congress at Brussels petit
ton was circulated and received nu-
merous signatures, protesting against
the lynching of negroes in the United
States. The petition, according to
those in charge of it, will be forwarded
to President Roosevelt.
The Vienna Zeitung, in an article
believed to have originated in govern
ment circles, states that the slow re-
covery OF the kaiser is causing the
greatest anxiety throughout Europe.
The paper considers it strange that the
doctors capnot say whether or not his
majesty can take q southern trip.
Yale defeated Harvard In the annual
football game by score of 16 to O.
The treaty settling the Acre dispute
has been signed by the representa-
tives of Brazil and Bolivia.
Major-General Sumner has assumed
command of the Department of the
Missouri, succeeding General Bates.
Henry Seton Merryman (Hugh
Stowell Scott, the novelist, is dead.
He has been suffering from append
citis for week.
The Victoria Board of Trade has
passed resolutions endorsing Hon. Jo-
seph Chamberlain's fiscal policy for
the British Empire.
Echo, Oregon, has a factory for the
canning of jack rabbits. 1t is called
The American Hare Packing and Cold
Storage Company. The plant is ca
pable of turning out ton of canned
product day.
A combination of the most important
cereal breakfast food interests of the
Coast has been formed at San Fran
cisco. The capital stock ia $750,000
The new White Star liner Baltic,
the largest liner in the world, was
launched Saturday at Belfast. The
vessel is 720 feet long and has $4,000
gross tonnage.
1t has been finally decided that the
Prussian ministers of commerce and
agriculture will send delegates to the
st. Louis exposition to investigate and
report on new ideas
Pietro Siccardo, the architect who
restored st. Marks at Venice, is dead.
His death is said to be due to the
shock caused by the collapse of the
campanile of st. Marks on June IA,
1902.
The steel mast of the America IS
cup challenger, Shamrock III, has
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