The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-06-08
LATER NEWS.

Beers are making strenuous efforts to
cut Roberts communications.
Three men were killed as a result OF
q feud at San Augustine, Texas.
Twenty-Five armed insurgents sur.
rendered at Calere, island of Panay
Charles Farrell, of Albany, Or, fell
from an excursion train and was in
stantly killed.
Wirless telegraphy will be estab-
lished in San Francisco, Puerto Rico
and the Philippines.
Boxers have DESTROYED 900 mission
houses throughout China. Eight
Americans are missing from one mis-
sion.
Mrs. Alseina Parsons Stevens. one OF
the best.known woman socialologists
in Chicago. died suddenly at the Hull
house.
President Mckinley has cabled con-
gratulations to Prince Albert, of Bel.
gium, on his engagement to the daught.
er of the Duke of Bavaria.
Robbers attempted to hold up a
train 60 miles from st. Louis, but the
plucky fight OF the express messenger
and baggage master prevented their
work from being successful.
DR.. Reitz, the Boer state secretary,
says that England will require perm
anent garrison OF so, 900 soldiers in the
Transvaal, and that the rebellion may
be expected to continue for centuries.
He believes that many Beers will trek
to German South Africa.
Louis Klopsch, of New York, pub
Usher of the Christian Herald, who is
at Bombay, writes of the famine
stricken districts in India in the fol-
lowing terms: Everywhere I met the
most shocking and revolving scenes.
The famine camps have been swept by
cholera and smallpox. Fugitives, scat
tering in all directions and stricken in
fight, were found dying in the fields
and roadside bitches. The numbers at
one relief station we're increasing at the
rate of 10, 900 per day."
The Russian minister of marine has
taken measures to increase the elficien-
cy of the Baltic, Black sea, Mediter-
ranean and Asiatic fleets. Under the
instructions given, three battleships,
three coast defense ships, one cruiser
and the imperial yacht are to be held
in reserve in the Baltic; five battle
ships, three torpedo gunboats, one
transport, one third-class cruiser and
one training ship in the Black sea, and
in the Mediterranean, the Russian
squadron will comprise one battleship,
three gunboats and one torpedo gun
boat.
Strikers of st. Louis are quieting
down.
The plague situation at San Francisco
Ia unchanged.
Washington diplomats say England
10 the cause of the Chinese trouble.
S. H. Clark, formerly receiver Of the
Union Pacific railway, is dead at st.
Louis, aged 68.
The constitutional amendment en-
powering congress to regulate trusts
was voted down in the house.
Eight men were killed and several
severely wounded by an explosion of
nitro-glycerine at Marietta, Ohio.
Russia has II 900 troops at Taku and
IA, 600 at Port Arthur, ready to take
part in the disintegration of China.
A general strike by all the building
trades at Kansas City has been ordered
and 5000 workmen will BIZ involved.
One man was killed and several
severely injured by an explosion in the
Eastman Kodak works in Rochester,
NY.
Robbers blew up the safe of the Bank
of Sheldahl, at Des Moines, Iowa, se-
cured 81, 800 and escaped, after holding
so citizens at bay with rifles.
Jose P. Ruiz, who shot into group
of small children and killed Patricio
Channon at Albuquerque, N. NJ, May
%, 1898, was hanged at that place.
An epidemic of black cancer prevails
at West Derby, VT, three deaths hav-
ing occurred within week. About 30
houses have been quarantined, schools
closed, and everything possible is be-
ing done to prevent a further spread of
the plague.
Ell Correo Espanol, the organ of the
Spanish colony at the City of Mexico,
says regarding Enlgand's policy of an.
nexing the Boer republics: "Poor
Beers. The world has applauded your
heroism, but has not moved a finger to
prevent the spoilation of which you are
the victims. The 10th century goes
cut dishonorably."
News has reached San Francisco
from Lapaz that Colonel Rafael Garcia
Martinez, governor of the OF the south
ern district of Lower California, will
be recalled by President Diaz ON &C.
count of complaints made against him
by Robert F. Grigsby. superintendent
of the Triunfo silver mine, S5 miles
from Lapaz. The Triunfo is the larg'
est producer in Lower California. The
nature Of the trouble is not made pub
lie, but it is asserted that the operation
of the mine was in some way hampered
by the governor, and complaint was
made to President Diaz.
The Seaman's Friend Society hal
placed 1,O68 libraries on American
naval vessels.
Judge Simon E. Baldwin, of the Con
necticut supreme court, publicly advo