The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-12-28
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From All Parts Of the New World
and the Old.
Of INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap
peninss Of the Past Week ina
Condensed Form.

signed the joint note.
England is alarmed over the Boer
Invasion OF Cape Colony.
The senate committee made many
changes in the army bill.
The Morans, of Seattle, will not get
the contract for new warship.
Speaker Henderson is opposed to en-
argement of the Portland postoffice.
The river and harbor bill will not be
lade public until after the holidays.
Martin Stickel, the self.confessed
Castle Rock assassin, will be hanged.
A company has been organized in
Iowa to build fish cannery in Alaska.
Anna E. Smith, was appointed post
minstress at Camas valley. Or. vice
II. Allison, resigned.
Thomas Parker, a native of England,
was frozen to death near the molth OF
White river. Klondike.
Samples of two dangerous counter felt
silver coins have been obtained flom
Portland and Sopkane.
A collision occurred on the Sumpter-
Baker City road in which two locomo-
tives were slightly damaged.
Memorial services were held at the
Oregon university in honor OF Henry
Willard, one Of the colleges greatest
benefactors.
It is announced that the total tax
able property in the city OF Salem,
Or, will be approximately $3.50, OoO
less than last year.
A pitched battle is imminent be-
tween the British under General Cle-
ments, who has been reinforced, and
the Beers under General Deiarey.
The clearing house banks at Tacoma,
We decided that after January i,
they will accept Canadian silver at par.
Heretofore it has been taken at per
cent discount.
All attempts to float the British
steamer Laura, Captain Yule. from sa.
vannah via Norfolk for Bremen, ashore
ON the coast of Holland, near Petton,
have been unsuccessful.
The steamer Sarah Dixon collided
with the breakwater near Mount Cofiln'
on the Lower Columbia. and now rests
in Is feet of water. This is the steam
ar's second experience under water
In Panay, 21,Ooo persons have sworn
allegance.
Morocco pays the American indem
nifty claim.
Ashland, Or, voted against licens'
ing saloons.
The Beers raided Cape Colony at two
separate points.
The misunderstanding at Pekin was
due to cable error.
| Only So lives were lost in the found
ering Of the Gneisenau.
The French chamber OF deputies
adopted the amensty bill.
The return OF volunteers vii caus'
renewed insurgent activity.
Colorado capitalists have bonded tn
old Gem mine, in Eastern Oregon.
Reapportionment bill reported give
Washington no extra congressman.
Railway brotherhoods will ask tn
/ Santa Fe to re-employ its operators.
| The naval construction board recon
mends four awards for warship con
| struction.
/ Superintendent Calbreth, of OregoI
insane asylum, has submitted his an
nual report.
Farmers institute was held at stai
ford under auspices of the Oregon agri
cultural college.
Washington county, Oregon, ha
offered $500 reward for the arrest
the murderer of Andrew Dahlberg.
The schooner Pioneer, lumber-iade
for San Francisco, went ashore on th
Nestucca beach during the recei
storm.
Associate Supreme Court Justit
George 9. Ludlow, ex-governor OF Ne
Jersey, died at his residence In Ne
Brunswick. N. j.
Two transports will start in ie
days from Manila for San Franeis'
with 1000 sick and wounded soldier
The stranded bark Poltalloeh,
Willipa harbor. wlthstood the recel
gale good. In fact she is in better p
sition than before.
Fire in East Providence, r. l., q
stroyed wharf on which there W
1000 tons OF coal. The loss is es'
mated at $500. 600.
Two highwaymen who stopped
buggy near Portland, upon discovs
ing that II contained two ladies. apo
eized and allowed them to drive on
twenty-five terra Gotta statues
the Boston museum Of fine arts pro
to be bogus.
To the naked eye not more th
5000 stars are ordinarily Visible.
2 owerful telescope will reveal 5000.
tars at once.
In China anyone who writes an |
: : moral book is punished with 100 bio
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