The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-07-20
LAIR NEWS.

u0afOr W save tHo IOTolkueIs.
A mountain of gold bearing quartz is
said to have been found in the Blue
river district.
A daughter OF Theodore Havemayer,
the sugar king, shot and accidently
killed herself.
Manila is now the counterfeiter's
paradise. Big snap in making Ameri-
can dollars out of Mexican dollars.
Andy Smith, 10 years old, was struck
with paralysis at Kalsma, WASH, and
when found had been four days without
food or water.
Heavy rain storms are raging in
Northern Wisconsin. All railroads
have suffered from washouts. Hail did
great damage to crops.
1t is reported that 10000 Beers are
preparing to emigrate to America.
President Kruger Will refuse to surren.
der until his supplies are exhausted.
Theodore Greil, aged so, an employe
Of the woolen mills at Oregon City,
Or, was accidentally drowned while
attempting to get into boat to row
home.
The American bark McNear was lost
on reef near Laysan island, near
Japan. The passengers and crew spent
two days ON the water and landed on
Laysan island.
Aumlral Seymour was compelled to
shoot his own wounded during the re-
cent disastrous retreat OF the Pekin re.
lief expedition. They preferred it to
tortue by barbarous Cinnamon.
Judge W. II. Washington, of Phila.
delphia, direct descendant of Angus.
tine Washington, father OF George
Washington. is dead at Castle Greek
Hot Springs, Arizona, of consumption,
He was 40 years old and lawyer Of
recognized ability.
A Holland submarine torpedo boat
may protect the port of Portland, Or
Two of the new ones soon to be con-
structed will be assigned to service on
the Pacific coast, and one may come tc
the Columbia river.
The Washington government will take
every precaution against violence tc
Chinese in the United States, which IL
intimated in some sections. in order
that the force of our demand for salts
faction from China shall not be weak
ened by counter claims.
American athletes were successful al
the Paris tournament.
An all day fight between the Boeri
and British at Platkop resulted indeci
siyely.
The Russian minister at Pekin ii
said to have been boiled to death by
Boxers.
Nine houses were entirely consumed
and many others damaged by fire a
Dunsmuir, Cal.
A German paper says the seizure o
Kiao Chou has caused the present trou
BILE with China.
Fire at Durant, I. T., wiped out TIN
greater portion of the town, causing {
loss of 100000.
All foreigners have been removed
from the town of Wa Chou. China, ant
are safe at Shanghai.
United States Senator John II. Gear
of Iowa, died at Washington City 0
heart disease, aged 70 years.
A large part of the business distric
of Prescott. Arizona, were burned
causing loss of 81 100000.
The steamer City of Topeka arrived
at Seattle fiom Lynn canal with be
tween $3.50, 900 and 81 l,000,0 900 in golt
dust from Klondike.
Twenty square miles of forests wer
blurred by fire started by'a tirecracke
near Grub Gulch, Cal. The loss will
be hundreds of thousands.
General rain has fallen over nearl.
all India during the past few days an
the prospects are that crops have I'm
mense.y improved. The famine are
as generally been benefited.
| Eight hour shifts for all 1ndergroun
men at the United Verde mine and a
increase of Is per cent in wages TO
miners in certain portions of the min
were announced at jerome, Ariz.
Advices were received from Sydne
that tribal wars are raging at the Solo
mon group. There has been a terc
battle between the Marian (Boys) an
Malata tribes. The losses on each sid
were heavy.
DYNAMITE was exploded under
Transit car in North st. Louis, an
four passengers we're injured A su
burban car. the only union line in tn
city. accidently ran into strikers
bus wagon and injured II occupants
two seriously.
Judge Thomas Aver, OF the Unite
States court of appeals at st. Loui'
has handed down an opinion declarin
taat John P. Reese, the Iowa Miners
Union official who was sentenced
Imprisonment in Kansas for yiolatio
of strike injunction, was illegal
restrained OF his liberty, and granted
writ of habeas corpus releasing hin
Judge Aver ruled that the lower coul
erred in incluing Reese under the II
junction.
Robert Fitzsimmons will meet bot
sharkey and Rubin next month.
Gold hunters in Russia are goyernt
by al bitrary laws, one of which con
nals them to turn over all gold tht