The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-01-08
NEWS OF 'IHEpAY
Rrtef Summary of Less Important,
Though not the Less Interesting,
happenings of the Week, From
MI Parts of the World.

The cup challenger, shamrock Ill,
will be ready for launching April l.
Portland iron workers have been con-
ceded a nine-hour day, without reduc-
tion of wages.
The fine barracks at Fort Brady,
Mich, which were built in 1892, have
been completely destroyed by fire. The
loss is $50, 900.
The combine of malleable iron con-
Germs of the country has been postponed
because, it is said, the time for launch
ing il is inopportune.
Fire in the warehouse of Franklin
MacVeagh g. Co., wholesale grocers, at
Sixteenth street and Newberry avenue,
Chicago, caused loss of $4,000.
Bishop Wells of the East Side diocese
at Walla Walla has left for the east for
the purpose of securing an endowment
for st. Paul's school at that place.
Letters of administration of the es-
tate of the late Bret Harte have been
granted at London. The total value
of the estate is placed at 81, 800.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is so far on the
road to recovery from his recent attack
of typhoid fever that he is making plans
for cruise in foreign waters next
month.
A Paris dispatch says the famous
Montmarte astrologer, DIR. Starr, among
his predictions for 1903, say that Sc
rious accident will fall to President
Roosevelt.
General Robert A. Friedrich. United
States district attorney for Alaska, is
dead at Juneau. He succumbed to pto-
maine poisoning Dec. 81, afetr an ILL
ness of less than 48 hours.
The pope is about to issue an encyc-
lical against the practice of dueling.
He will appeal to all Christian govern
ments to suppress the practice, which
is described as survival of the middle
ages.
The senior of German sharpshooters,
Gottlieb Schneider, celebrated his Tooth
birthday in good health. His hearing,
sight and appetite are excellent. He
was "king' of the scheutzen over fifty
times.
Five masked men dynamited the safe
of the First National bank at Abingdon,
Ills, and stole $4,000. Two of the
robbers were arrested at Quincy on the
arrival of the Burlington fast mail from
Galesburg.
In recent fight between Bulgarians
and Turkish troops at the village of
Drenovo, in the Monasitr district. fif-
teen of the latter were killed or wound
ed. The Turkish commander was among
those killed.
News has been received at Seattle
that Rev. ID. G. Garrett, for many years
pastor of st. Marks church in that city,
and one of it's best known clergymen,
has accepted call to the passionate OF
the Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut
Hill, Boston i
Burglars blew open bank safe at
Union, Mo-, and secured about SIS, 900
The output of the Cripple Creek
mines for the past year is estimated at
$24, 500, 900.
1t is stated that the merger of the
large packing plants of the country is
to be again attempted.
Governor Odell was inangurated for
the second term as governor OF New
York on New Years day.
The directors of the new Rock Island
company have declared dividends OF l
per cent on preferred stock.
The leaking OF a naptha pipe at the
gas plant, with an accompanying heavy
atmosphere. came near sitting hun
dreds of people in Pottssville, Pa.
Geneva newspapers allege that the
SWISS government has refused the re-
quest of the German government to ex'
pei the crown princess of Saxony from
Switzerland.
The annual statement of the London
clearing house shows that the clearance
of 1902 again reached the record The
total aggregate amounted to $50, l43,.
10000, or over $2,335 ,000, 900 above
the amount in 1901.
Morris X. Jessup, of New York. has
given $25, 900 to the trustees of the
Hampton Normal and Agricultural In.
stitute, and the like amount to the Tus-
kegee Normal and Industrial institute
for the endowment funds of those two
institutions.
G. Fl. Elder has been remanded tc
the Guild Hall police court, London
charged on his own confession with