The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-04-14
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From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review or the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
CuIled From the Telegraph Columns

IHeFe mas Deen neaVy Iail IN tne
price OF wheat In the Chilean market.
Fire at Lead, $. D.. destroyed prop
erty worth 100000. One entire block
OF buildings was consumed.
The keystone Slate Company, OF
Bethlehem, Pa, has increased the
wages OF its employees 10 per cent.
1t is stated that S225.OOO has been
subscribed toward the construction of
the alumni hall at Yale university.
A secret movement is under way in
Hawaii to food the islands with Portu-
guese laborers from the Azores islands.
One hundred and eighty-four Amer
leans have been killed and 976 wound
ed iE the Philippines since hOstilities
opened.
A decision was rendered by Judge
Peabody in the st. Louis city police
court that under certain conditions a
husband has the right to beat his wife.
After attempting to murder his wife
and baby, Walter Miller, foreman in
the Detroit soap works, sent two bullets
into his own brain and died almost in
stantly.
The three largest of 20 pearl button
factories operated at Muscatine, la. i,
have advanced wages l5 and 30 per
cent. Six hundred button workers are
employed in the factories.
The bill providing for the incorpora-
tion Of the St. Louis Worlds Fair. to
celebrate in 1908 the centennial Of the
Louisiana purchase, has passed the
Missouri senate. 1t has already been
passed by the house.
The Kilauea Plantation Company
has been incorporated at San Fran
cisco. The capital stock is 81. 900, 900.
The directors are A. b. Spreckels. J.
D. Spreckels, William Irwin, @. A.
Hugg and w. d. X. Gibson.
A large number of Spanish officers,
who had been prisoners in the hands Of
the Tagals, have entered the service
Of the latter. Among the prisoners were
some Of the chiefs of the Spanish gen.
erals staff and officers OF artillery.
There are persistent rumors in Ma
nila that Aguinaldo has been suppant-
ed in control of Filipino affairs by
General Antonio Luna, commander in
chief of the Filipino forces. Luna is
described as being typical belligerent.
Unless the testimony of several inn
portant witnesses shall be impeached,
something which is very unlikely. the
beef inquiry board will be obliged to
sustain the charges OF General Miles
that the soldiers were fed upon em-
balmed or preserved beef, says WASH
ington correspondent.
At Ishpeming. Mich. 800 strikers
made demonstration by parading the
streets. All the mines are closed.
Three men were killed by an ex-
plosion at the railroad cap factory at
Braddock, Pa. The building was
wrecked.
William A. Phillips, son of an In
diana missionary. has been arrested for
insanity in Oakland, Cal. 0veistudy
is the cause.
A Pennsylvania freight train. near
Greenburg, ran into and killed James
DIistell and John Clark. and injured
John McAllster.
James #. Elwood. Of Brooklyn, fell
dead in the betting.ring at Bennings
after cashing ticket on Tuttut, win
ner OF the third race
The president has signed proola-
nation opening to settlement May 4,
the larger portion OF the Southern Ute
reservation, in Colorado.
The German plan for settling the
Samoan question suits England. AZ
America is also satisfied, joint high
commission will probably be named
The United States transport Ingalls,
arrived at Port Antonio, Jamaica,
with General Aiger on board. She re-
ported all we'll and proceeded TO Porto
Rico.
The law does not prohibit the sale Of
liquor in army canteens. Attorney
Genearl Griggs has rendered decision
to that effect at the request Of the Sec
Ietary of war.
At mass meeting OF miners of the
central district OF Iowa, it was voted
to order a strike. to take effect at once.
The decision involves 1900 miners.
Operators are firm in refusing to raise
the scale.
Carter H. Harrison has been re-
elected mayor of Chicago by total
vote of l46,9l4, against l0S,S for
Zina R. Carter, the Republican candi-
date. and as. 40I for John P. Altgeld,
the Independent Democrat.
A committee, whose members are Of
all the nationalities in Manila, headed
by John Mcleod, an Englishman. has
been organized for the purpose of in
'terviewing the Filipino leaders and Pc
titioning Ter the release of the Spanish
prisoners, In the name of humanity.