The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-04-14
LATER NEWS.

hood will convene for seven days ses-
sion at San Diego.
The San Francisco Examiner states
there is a probability of combine
among the redwood lumbermen Of this
coast.
Wheeling, w. Va, street cars are
still tied up by the strike. Street-car
strikers at Bay City, Mich, drove off
non-union men.
Two cowboys at Alamo Gordo. N. NJ.
held up the Office of the Alamo Gordo
Lumber Company and secured $50, 600
worth OF scrip.
The overflow OF the Yellowstone
river caused by the gorsing of the ice
is practically over. Twelve were
drowned at Glendive.
At North Enid. o. T., Postmaster
W. II. Day was cut with hatchet and
killed and the office robbed. There is
no clew to the murderer.
The Twenty first infantry has left
Plattsburg for Manila. The soldiers
carried silk flag presented by Mrs.
Mckinley two years ago.
Biologists of the university of Chi
cago are planning to spend a part Of
the summer in Arizona, to study the
formation of that territory and New
Mexico.
AT Bridgeton, N. j., 1000 glass
workers struck for union wages and
recognition OF the union. All the en-
ployes Of the Star glass works, at Med
ford, also struck.
Oriental advices state that sensa-
tion has been caused at Peking by an
edict issued by the empress dowager, ac-
cusing LII Hung Chang and Chang
Jumel. governor OF Shang Tung, with
gross extravaganza.
Hon. ii. A. w. Tabor. postmaster Of
Denver, and ex- United States senator,
died at his home in that city of appen-
dicitis, after three days. illness. He
was born in Orleans county, Vermont,
Noyembe 26, 1880.
Advices at Lima in regard to the
revolution in Bolivia say the situation
at OruIo, where President Alonzo has
established base of operations, is des-
perate. The iederalists, or insurgents,
are pushing their operations.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier stated in the
house OF comm ons. at Ottawa. that the
government had received proposition
from the United States respecting the
delimitation of the Alaska boundary,
but he could not give the details.
A. ]. Smith, of Salt Lake City, COM
mitted suicide at the Millard hotel,
Omaha.
The Twenty-frst regiment will
leave Plsttsburg, N. Y, for San Fran
cisco, whence they will proceed to Ma
Mia.
The controller of the currency has
issued call for report of all the ma
tional banks at the close of business
April s.
Major General Shafter has arrived
at Washington. He will testify before
the army court OF inquiry into the beef
charges.
The operators and conductors OF the
Wheeling, w. Va, Railway Company
have struck for an advance in wages,
and the road is tied up.
The London Mining & Manufactur-
ing Companys property, at Ducktown,
Tex. has been sold to the Levisohn
Bros. the copper kings, for $llO, 900.
At the bimonthIy meeting of the
Association of Steel Shafting Manufac-
turers, in Pittsburg. it was decided to
make an advance in prices, averaging
8 per cent.
Public sympathy is with the en-
ployes to such an extent in the street
railway strike at Bay City, Mich, that
the sheriff can secure no men to act as
deputies.
Judge Field, the great American
jurlst is dead at his home In Washing
ton. He had served longer term on
the bench than any judge ever ap-
pointed.
George Reid was killed, Mack Reid
probably fatally wounded, and two
other men hurt in pitched battle be-
tween the Preacher and Reid factions
at Brunson. s. G.
Jack Macmillan, we'll known in
Europe and the United States as
curler, was caught in belt in a -four
mill at Lindsay, OntaiIo. and so badly
mangled that he died.
James Elsey, the English messenger
boy who left London, April 1, for Cali
fornia, to rival the recent trip Of Jag
gers, the messenger boy sent to Chica-
60. has arrived at New York.
Miss Marie Burroughs, of the Stuart
Robson company, accidentally stabbed
Harold Russell, of the same company,
in the face at the Broadway theater,
Denver. Mr.. Russel's injury ia slight.
Topmen in the mines in the South
srn Illinois coal district have decided
to strike as the result Of their employ
ers' refusal to grant raise of % cents
a day. This will tie up at least 1000
men.
HollisteI Mcclure, fish commission
err and State Senator Reed. of Oregon,
were drowned in the North Umpqua
river. Their boat upset in the rapids.
w. f. Hubbard saved himself by
swimming ashore.