The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-15
LATER NEWS.

Pacific have asked for more pay.
The Pacific Express office at Omaha
was robbed of from SIS, 900 to $50,
The British ship Glenholm will be
fumigated at Astoria for fear Of yellow
fever.
A prominent Frenchman says that
England is ready for war with the
whole world.
A negro was shot at Lewiston, Id.
The bullet flattened ON his skull and
he was comparatively uniniured.
Washington officials are anxious over
the possible fate OF the American pris'
oners in the hands Of Aguinaldo.
The debate on the finance bill has
commenced in the house. Representa-.
tive Overstreet made the opening ad.
dress.
The football team OF the University
of California will play the Carlisle In
dians on Christmas day, in San Fran
cisco.
Commander E. P. Wood, U. s. N,
is dead Of typhoid fever at Washington.
He commanded the Petrol in the battle
of Manila bay.
To increase Admiral Dewey's
troubles Minnesota people will present
him with large black bear recently
captured.
General Gatacre lost nearly six hun.
dred men near Stormberg. The Brit.
ish forces were led into the trap by
treacherous guides.
The supreme court Of Oregon has
finally passed upon the case of the
state vs.. Magers, the petition for q re.
hearing being denied.
Congressman Bailey will protest
against the entrance of General Joe
Wheeler into congress on his return
from the Philippines.
Governor of Cuba" will be the off.
cial designation Of the Office to which
Major-General Leonard Wood will be
assigned early in the new year.
The North Atlantic squadron com.
mander, Admiral Farquhar, will leave
New York Saturday on his annual
cruise. The feet will be met in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Colonel James Graham and William
P. Cunneen, prominent politicians OF
st. Marys, Kan, drank from a disin.
fectant bottle which they supposed to
contain whiskey, and are not expected
to live.
The president will soon send spec.
ial message to congress regarding re-
wards for officers and men from the At.
lantic squadron who distinguished
themselves during the war with Spain,
and whose gallantry has not yet been
recognized.
The controller Of the currency has
declared the fifth dividend of 10 per
cent in favor of the creditors of The
Dalles National bank, making 95 pea
cent paid on the claims proved,
amounting to $26,318.2O.
Englishmen are depressed by the sit.
uation in Africa.
Arizona will apply for statehood to
the present congress.
The Americans have occupied Bang.
ued, province of Abra.
Steamers will leave Portland every
10 days for Cape Nome.
The Kentucky election commission
gives Taylor's plurality as 1883.
The Filipinos' treasury was captured
by the Americans at Mangatarem.
The governments herd of reindeer in
Alaska is rapidly increasing and now
numbers 1900.
Bishop Henry Potter, Of New York.
has arrived in Manila on q brief visit
to study the Philippines.
A gas explosion killed many coal
miners at Carbonado, Wash. Cause
of the accident is mystery.
The British artillery arm in South
Africa has been materially strength
ened by the arrival of six big guns.
Commander Charles 1. Howell is
dead at New York city. He was chiel
engineer of the Maine when she was
blown up.
Lady Francis Cook, formerly Tennie
Claffiin, announces her intention to
forsake England and take up her resi-
dence in New York.
Two hundred miners are on strike
at the Tesla coal mines, California,
because Of dispute with the superin-
tendent over the wage schedule.
The horticultural commissioners OF
Southern California propose to estab-
lish quarantine against infected nur-
sery stock imported from foreign coun-
tries.
General Gregorio del Pillar was
killed in fight with the Thirty-third
infantry, l 8 miles northwest of Ger
wants. The insurgents lost 10 men in
the engagement.
The Vananda group of mines near
Baker City was sold for 1900, 900.
The property is to be extensively devel-
oped by the new owners, who are Brit
ish Columbia capitalists.
Genral Grants expedition in Luzon
has visited Orani and several western
towns, meeting small bands. He
killed several of the rebels and cap.
tured quantity of munitions of war.
Erastus Lathrop, of Westfeld, Mass,
in his will left $15, 900 to D. L. Moody.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was fined $1I0
for failure to act as juror in New York.
The commissioner of education urges
the American system of schools for col