The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-06-15
LAIER NEWS.

The Republican convention hall at
Philadelphia will seat $4,000 people.
Beers have torn up "a miles of rail-
road between Pretoria and Kroonstad.
Tacoma will have captured Span
ish cannon for use in its Fourth of July
celebration.
Beers captured a British battalion
of 500 men at Roodeval, severing Rob-
erts' line of communication.
Philippine rebels aim to follow the
tactics of the Cuban rebels during the
war of the latter against Spian.
The steamer City of Seattle, which
arrived at Seattle from Alaska, brought
22O Klondlkers and $500, 900 in gold.
Senator Clark was given a great ova.
tion at Butte, Mont. He made a
speech denouncing his enemies as per-
jurers.
Documents slezed in the Philippines
indicate that in rebel plot for an up
rising in Manila, women were to take
important part.
Chinese minister in London says it
is tbsurd that the powers should believe
the empress dowager is aiding the Bo:
ers' movement.
May shipments of coal from Seatt
to San Francisco by water amounted
10000 tons, or half of the total amour
of coal received at that port durii
May.
As result of weeks scouting !!
the Philippines. more than 200 il
surgents were killed and 100 captured
while 140 rifles, with ammunition an
stores were seized.
Two five-story brick buildings, owne
by Geo. Z. Ketcham, on West avenue
New York, containing $4,000 bushel
of grain, were destroyed by fire, caus
ing a loss of $140, 1000.
In the preliminary examination
L. L. Cook, charged with the murder
of James Collins at Arlington, Or, a
physician testified that Collins could
easily have been saved.
1t is estimated that during the past
month various railroad corporations
have placed orders for 20, 900, 900 to 30,-
900, 900 feet OF Washington fir, mainly
in bridge tim mbers, dock stuffs and ties.
The cleanup of gold in the Klon.
dixie this season will be 500, 100000 to
$25, 1000. 900, according to the estimates
of well-known miners arriving from
the Klondike. The Spring work 10
we'll along in the district, the only
drawback being the scarcity of water.
This fact, 1t is said, will result in de-
laying the cleanup until late in the
summer.
Russia and Japan may come to war
as result OF the Boxers movement.
General Pho del Pillar, the Filipino
leader, was captured by Americans six
miles east of Manila.
Two men were instantly killed and
eight seriously injured y the explosion
of boiler at brick Jrks at Annis'
ton, Ala.
The Boxer movement is spreading
throughout China. Russia gives notice
that if the powers do not act she will
go it alone.
An explosion, caused by mining
fuses at the customs department, at
Oporto, Portugal, killed two persons
and injured 13.
Harry Decker, q we'll known pro.
moter of Western railroad properties,
shot and killed himself in his apart
ments at New York City.
One man was killed and four hurt
by the falling of freight elevator in
the Nichols g Shepherd Implement
building at Kansas City.
A fire in the oil refining and salt
peter district of Hamburg, Germany,
destroyed property to the value OF
100000 marks, including many
dwellings.
A tannery owned by Fayette, Shaw
& Co., at Miller, Wis. was destroyed
by fire, causing loss of $500, 900.
Nine hundred men were thrown out OF
employment.
The investigation of the affairs OF
Adolph A. Kuhn, junior member OF the
firm of Kuhn Bros, brokers, of Chi
cago, shows he has left a shortage OF
100000.
THE president has approved the find
ings and sentence in the case of Cap
tain Deming, of Buffalo, assistant COM
missary of subsistence, .. S. ", tried
at San Francisco on charge of forgery
and embezzling public funds.
Alexander Stevenson, line repairer
of the Utah Electric Light & Power
Company, of Salt Lake, was instantly
killed by electricity on Third South
and Main streets. He went up pole
to do some work, and took hold of a
live wire. His body hung suspended
in the network of wires in the presence
of hundreds of people.
In Japan a new law just put into op.
Grafton forbids smoking by persons un
der 20 years old, and also forbids the
selling of tobacco or other smoking
material to youths of this age. Fines
are provided for the smoker and for
whoever sells to him the stuff. The
law provides also for fning the parents
of such youthful smokers, because they
did not teach their offspring bette
habits.