The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-11-03
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphit
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection OF Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In - Condensed Form.

A national billiard association may
soon be in the field.
Washington is said to be the mos,
productive of the Tanning group OF
islands.
1t is rumored that A. d. Clarke, an
Englishnan, may try for the cup to get
even with Lord Dunraven.
Colonel Frost says the stories OF
American soldiers looting churches lie
absolutely false. He praises Otis.
The university of Oregon will play
football against the university of Cali
fornia at Berkeley campus November lS,
ST. Louis worlds fair is to be a
great one. The fund has already
reached $4,000, 900. The total amount
aimed at is So, 10000.
The White Star steamer Germanic
collided with a barge near Liverpool
and was seriously injured. She will!
not sail for New York this trip.
Reverend McKinnon asserts that
General Luna, the rebel chief killed by
Aguinaldo's orderly, had killed HE
wife and mother-in-law in Paris and
fed.
A Paris dispatch says Russia has no
interest in Kruger's people or their lit.
tie republic, and will not interfere
Germany is said to be friendly to the
English.
A giant brass combine is being
formed which it is stated will comprise
all the plants in the Naugatuck valley,
Connecticut. The main Office will be
in New York city.
At Paris, Mo-, the grand jury re
turned an indictment for murder in the
first degree against Alexander Jester,
ON the charge of numbering Gilbert
Gates, son of Chicago millionaire, 2s
years ago.
The 10 Russian men-of-war in the
Pacific will shortly be reinforced by
six ships from the Eastern squadron
The Berlin Tageblatt sees in this con
nection with the rumors of the Chino
Japanese alliance.
Secretary Long will make a recon-
mendation for but limited increase o.
the new navy in his forthcoming annua.
report. He will devote most of his
energies to urging abolition of limit O.
cost in the construction of battleships
Herr Hopeff, ex-treasurer of the AL
bert Verein, charitable organization
under the patronage of the king and
queen of Saxony, was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for four years and nine
months for misappropriating $4,000
marks OF the society's funds.
The Burghers are said to have secured
the services of $4,000 natives.
PIolongation of war beyond British
expectations is now said to be certain.
The navy department is to give Mar
coni's wireless telegraphy a practical
test.
England will expect the Beers to
pay the cost of war when the end
comes.
The government of Venezuela has
been turned over to Castro, who seems
to be very popular.
United States army officers have
been sent to South Africa to watch the
progress of the war.
Fifteen sick men Of the Iowa regi-
ment are now in the general hospital
at the Preside, San Francisco.
Russia has at last agreed that the
claim resulting from the seizure of
seals in Behring sea shall be arbitrated.
Ilo Ilo is stirred by the expectation
of important fighting. Volleys are be-
ing fired at the American outposts
nightly.
Colonel John B. Yates, one of Gen.
eral Sherman's main supports in the
famous march to the sea, is dead at
Amesburg, Ont.
The battleships Texas and Indiana
are to go out of commission, as the
officers and men are needed in the
Philippines. Others may follow.
A Berlin dispatch says kilograms
from Brussels announce that in the
Transvaal legation circles it is stated
that France and Russia will not per-
NIT the annexation of the Transvaal
and Orange Free State to England.
At Atchison, Kan, two robbers shot
and killed one man and wounded an
other in store, which they later rob-
bed. They were pursued by posse
and they shot and killed a policeman
and another man, both members of the
pursuers.
Canada has made new proposition
for permanent settlement of the Alaska
dispute. She again asks for arbitra.
ton on terms similar to those imposed
by the United States and Great Britain
over Venezuela. Fifty years of occu-
pancy is considered conclusive evi.
dence of title. She is willing to give
up Skagway and Dyea, but wants Pyra-
mid Harbor.
One hundred years ago it was consid.
cred wonderful achievement for ten
men 20 manufacture $4,000 pins day.
Now three make 1900, 600 pins in the
same time.
1t is complained that the blacksmiths
of Minneapolis, st. Paul and Duluth
show lack of interest in the operation
of the horseshoers' license law. The
members of the craft in Duluth were so
disinterested that they conceded their
vacancy to the board of examiners to
Minneapolis.