The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-22
LATER NEWS.

VINO jumped INTO the Day near San
Francisco.
Malcolm Glenn, newspaper man
known all over thre north coast region,
attempted to cut his throat with razor
at Ontario, Or.
Yamhilll county hopgrowers have
decided 10 go into the pool and have
sent delegates to the Oregon Hopgrow-
ers'' Association.
The La Marie Optical Company, of
France, with capital of 81 900, 900,
will establish branch factories in Illi-
nois and Connecticut.
The executive committee of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
have decided to build $500, 900 build
ing in Cleveland. o.
A South Pacific naval station will
be established as soon as conditions in
the Philippines admit of the with
drawal of some of the ships there.
The German navy may be used in
conjunction with those of France and
Russia to exert pressure to prevent re-
Inducements reaching South Africa.
The president of the Brown univers-
ity asserts that If England whips the
Beers it will bring on a war of nations
In which the United States must par
ticipate.
In the steer-tying contest at Denver,
Col, Ed. Harrell defeated doc"
Goodin, tying five steers in minutes
29 seconds. Goodin claimed the
worlds championship.
1t is probable that the distressed
bark reported ashore near Point Bonilla
on November IS, is the long-missing
Colusa, which sailed from Honolulu on
October for Esquimault.
The Boer republics have not yet used
third of the military resources at
their command. They have been quiet
ly preparing for years. Forts of the
Transvaal are now impregnable.
Lieutenant Thomas NJ. Brumby, flag
lieutenant to Admiral Dewey during
the Manila campaign, who has been
i'll with typhoid fever for several weeks,
died at Garfield hospital, Washington,
d. @.
General Methuen is preparing foI
another advance.
The German press and people are
jubilant over Buffers defeat.
Major-General Wood anticipates hay.
ing pleasant time in Havana.
Agitators are alarming the peaceable
natives Of the island of Negros.
Three Mexicans were killed as re-
suit of fight near Florence, Ariz.
New York is working hard to secure
the next national Democratic conven-
tion.
The Broadway National Bank, of Bos-
ton, has failed, with liabilities of $3,-
100000.
William H. Carpenter, poet and edi-
tor, died at his home in Baltimore,
aged S6.
The usual large number of British
officers were killed in the engagement
at Tugela.
Aguinaldo has retreated into the
mountains and Major Marsh has given
up the chase.
The Beers captured a great quantity
Of British supplies and ammunition at
Magersfontein.
The Forty-eighth United States in
fantry has been released from quaran-
tine at Angel island.
Buffers casualties in the battle at
Tugela river, in killed, wounded and
missing number LOO.
The American Federation OF Labor
has registered an emphatic disapproval
Of government subsidies
The Stanford University football team
will play the Multnomah club on New
Years day at Portland.
Baron Roberts has been appointed to
supersede General Butler ia command
Of the South African forces.
Four persons were burned to death
in Alliance KY, as a result Of child
throwing some powder in fire.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians
will donate 81 900, 900 to aid the Beers
in their fight against the English.
The Spanish government has formal
ly recognized General Castro as presi-
dent of the republic of Venezuela.
A farewell banquet at Carleton,
England, in aid of the fund of the
American hospital-ship Maine, realized
e2, 900.
Fire completely destroyed the school
annex building of st. Michaels orphan
asylum, of Pittsburg Pa, with loss
of So, 1000.
A Cleveland, Akron & Columbus pas
senger train collided with a switch
engine near Cleveland, killing the en-
gineer, fireman and conductor.
The Illinois Central railroad has
practically secured control of the Min
neapolis & st. Louis line, giving it an
independent line to St. Paul.
Patrick Furey, who died in Philadel-
phia at the age of 100, had as his am
bition the desire to live in three GEN.
turies and nearly accomplished it.
The queen of Portugal, who is said
to have taken up medicine as fad, be-
came so interested in it that she COM
pleted the course and took the degree
of NJ. ID.