The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-06
NEWS OF THE DAY
1rtef Summary OF Less Important
Though not tho Less Interesting,
Happenings Of the Week, Prom
All Parts Of the World.

The town of Hobart, Oklahoma, has
been practically destroyed by fire.
Denver is 20 have grand jurv inves-
tigation of the conduct of it's municipal
officers.
Booker T. Washington was Kissed
while addressing a colored congregation
at Boston.
A London court has announced that
Dakota divorces will not be recognized
in England.
Lightning struck and killed six per-
sons during the progress OF storm at
Alpena, Mich.
The four men who tried to start an
insurrection in Cuba a few days ago
have been shot.
The agricultural department will test
all food products brought to this .cOun-
try from abroad.
The challenge committee of the New
York Yacht Club has formally selected
the Reliance as the defender of the
Americas cup.
Five former members of the Missouri
house of delegates were last week sent
to the penitentiary, having been found
guilty of bribery.
George Brown, the negro who caused
the race riot at Evansville, Ind, died
at the state reformatory from wounds
received when he fought with Police
man Massey.
Former Treasurer Murphy, of the
New York Stcnecutters' union was sem
fenced to five years and six months inn
prisonment for appropriating $4,000 of
the unions funds.
Fourteen union men, suspected of
having blown up mine buildings at
Idaho Springs, Colo, were escorted to
the city limits by indignant citizens
and told never to return, on pain OF
death.
Commercial Agert of the United
States Greener, at Nladivostock, writes
to the state department that the de-
mand in Siberia for American agricul-
tural implements and machinery is so
great that private firms cannot fill the
orders.
j. r. Keene is said to have lost a
million and half in the late Wall
street slump.
Another mountain, almost as high
as Mount Mckinley, has been discover
ed in Alaska.
The old wooden castle surrounding
Telegraph hill, San Francisco, has been
destroyed by fire.
At Baker City, Or, while digging
sewer trenches, workmen cut into a
strata of gold bearing gravel.
A broken fange casned about 25
freight cars to be piled up on the Nor
thern Pacific track near Noxon, Mont.
Four persons were killed and more
than score seriously injured in train
wreck on the Chicago Great Western
between st. Paul and Chicago.
Ellis Landau, of Hawaii, has success
fully passed an examination for mid
shipman and has been ordered to report
at the naval academy at Annapolis.
An extraordinary rainfall has mum
dated Che Foo, resulting in enormous
loss oil life and property in the native
city and heavy damage to the foreign
settlement.
Executors of the estate of the late
Henry W. Corbett, of Portland, have
filed with the probate court the inven-
tory of the appraisers. The total es-
tate amounts to 81, 62l ,53S.
The Evening Wisconsin prints an in
terview with Bishop Messmer. of Green
Bay, Wis, in which that prelate says
he does not want to be archbishop suc-
ceeding the late archbishop Katzer.
The Birmingham Post asserts that
President Roosevelt is making a close
study and exhaustive inquiry into Brit
ish laws relating to corporations with a
view tn solving the trust problem in
America.
letter from the Acre territory saws
that the Brazilian army is perishine
and made unfit by fever attacks, Six
hundred men are dead and 400 are i'll.
Some detachments of troops are withuot
medicine.
Bookbinders in the government print.
ing office have decided not to strike be.
cause the assistant foreman has beer
reinstated by President Roosevelt. They
VIII endeavor to prove sufficient charge,
o get him fired
Articles of Incorporation of the West
ern Pacific Railway company, with 8
capitalization of fifty millions, hav,
Deen Med at Salt axe Citu IT, e..