The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-06-25
NEWS OF THE DAY



strike.
Chicago will spend $4,000, 900 for
the erection and equipment OF second
airy schools.
Afritander. toll, won the Suburban
Handicap at Sheepshead bay. The race
was worth 600.
Charles Harris, correspondent OF the
London Times in Algeria, has been
captured by mountaineers.
Major General Frank Wheaton, re-
tired, is dead, aged 20. A widow and
two daughters survive him.
The San Francisco Union announces
that U. s. Grant, Jr., is candidate
for the Republican nomination Tor vice
president next year.
Postmaster General Payne is said to
have undergone severe strain during
the postoffice Investigations and it ls
feared he may break down.
Charles s. Titus, champion amateur
oarsman of America, has sailed Tor En-
gland. where he will compete in the
Henley races next month for the Dla-
mond Sculls.
Major James b. Pond, the manager
of lecturers and singers, has undergone
an operation of the right leg to save his
life. The physicians believe the out
come will be favorable.
After twenty-seven years behind the
prison bars, Mrs. Emma Wimple is tree
through pardon granted by Governor
Odell. Mrs. Wimple was sentenced to
life Imprisonment for poisoning her
husband.
An attachment for $50, 100000 has
been filed in the United States circuit
court at Boston against the General
Electric Company by counsel for f. A.
Van Choate, of that city, who alleges
infringement of a number OF inventions
A courtmartial has been ordered at
Manila for the trial of First Lieutenant
Hamilton Foley, of the Fifth cavalry
on the charge of embezzling pay, irreg-
ularities in the pay accounts, improp-
erlv contracting debts and deceiving his
superiors.
The Italian cabinet has resigned.
Lipton's two Shamrocks have reached
New York harbor.
The army transport Buford is to be
overhauled and repaired at San Fran
cisco.
The international convention of Print
ing Freshmen and Assistants is in ses-
sion at Cincinnati.
Nearly million dollars worth of
property was destroyed by fire in the
business part of Rochester,, n. \.
William Miller, of st. Louis, has
been elected supreme master workman
by the national convention Of the A. o.
U. W.
Notwithstanding the rumor published
Saturday evening that the pope was
dead, he is said to be in a fair state Of
health.
John NJ. Roes, aged 90. past grand
master of the Odd Fellows, at Wyom-
ing, Del, shot himself, dying instantly.
The cause Is unknown.
n. W. T., has been abandoned, and re-
building of the town is in progress de.
spite warnings OF danger.
One of the features of the st Louis
exposition is to be mammoth rose
garden covering four acres and contain
ing so ,0C0 rose bushes.
Gen. Kuropatkin, the Russian minis
ter of war, has arrived at Tokyo, and is
the guest of the emperor. The press
augurs we'll of his visit.
General Alexander NJ. McCook, U.
S. A, retired, is dead. He suffered a
stroke OF paralysis some time ago, and
later second and third, the last just
preceding his death.
The Novoe Nremya reports that two
hundred lives were lost at Azoff, Rus
STA, June g., as ;esult of the collapse
of a gangway there while a pleasure
party was landing from the steamer
Mskva.
The war department is informed that
the China-A mericsn Development Com
pany will apply to the Philippine COM
mission for franchise for an extensive
railway system in the islands. 1t will
ask for land grant concessions.
Isabelle Healy, of Chicago, has been
granted divorce from Captain John ].
healy, widely known as an Alaskan
promoter and millionaire. She gets