The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
Brief Summary of Less Ln ,ortans
Though not the Less Inter esting
Happenings of the Week, Eron
All Parts of the World


All Parts of the World
Herr Won Delbrueck, honorary Prus-
sian minister of state, is dead.
NJ. Jusserand, the French ambassa-
dor, has arrived at Washington.
The house of representatives held a
session Sunday for the purpose of pay
ing tribute to the memory of Senator
Mcmillan.
Mgr. Denecere, secretary of St. re-
ter's at Rome, fell down the stairs of
his residence, fracturing his skull, and
died Instantly.
President Diaz of Mexico, Saturday
received the Boer generals cordially.
He told them that Mexico would wei
come the Boer colonists.
The sale of the art collection of Hen
nv G. Marquard, which has been in
progress at New York for over week,
closed with a total of $706,Ol9.
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, master of
Pembroke college, Cambridge, and for
merly president of the Royal Society
and of the British Association, is dead.
There were eight deaths from the
plague at Mazatlan Saturday. There
are "A patients in the lazaretto. The
number of houses burned to date is 1913.
The owners have been Unidentified in
cash.
Captain Henry f. Allen, Sixth cav
airy, has been detailed as chief of the
Philippine constabulary, with the rank
of brigadier general. He has been the
head of the present force since its or
ganization in July, 1901.
The corner stone of the Army War
college, on the Washington barracks
reservation, will be laid with military
and Masonic ceremonies on Feb. II.
General Gillespie, chief of engineers,
will be the master of ceremonies, and
addresses will be made by President
Roosevelt, Secretary Root, and Major
General Young. l
The Middle and Eastern states are
suffering from another cold snap.
Abraham J. Gompers, son of the
president of the Federation of Labor,
is dead.
Patrick Diver, formerly a police
Justice of New York, and for years a
Tammany hall leader. is dead.
Two French warships collided during
maneuvers in the Mediterranean. The
damage done was not serious.
Representative Bristow OF New York,
has introduced bill increasing the sal
airy of the president of the United
States to 800, 900 q year.
DR.. David j. Hill, who resigned the
Office of assistant secretary of state to
accept the office OF minister to Switzer-
land, sailed for his post Saturday.
The California assembly, by vote
of "a to 8, passed resolutions instructing
Senators Perkins and Bard to vote
against the Cuban reciprocity treaty.
The chairman of the house judiciary
cOmmlttee mas dskeu LOT u Tule lot the
consideration of the antitrust bill, and
also for the bill to expedite hearings
brought under the Sherman antitrust
law.
Kansas will use voting machines.
Both houses of the legislature have ia
vorably reported bills authorizing the
executive council to contract for ina
chine that will fill all the requirements
of the state elections.
Lawrence Sluter Benson, author of
Benson's geometry and we'll known for
years as novelist, philosopher and
mathematician died Friday at the New
ark, n. j., city hospital, penniless.
Death was due to paralysis.
Major Edwin +. Glenn, of the Fifth
Infantry. who was tried by court mar
tial on the charge of unlawfully killing
prisoners of war. has been acquitted
Major Glenn has been ordered to return
to duty. The verdict was popular.
Rush Order for Krags.
Springfield. Mass, Feb. 2.-Orders
have been received at the United States