The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-03-09
LATER NEWS.

The machinists of Philadelphia de-
mand a nine-hour day.
Six people were burned to death in q
New York tenement-house fire.
The increase in American imports
has been nearly doubled in three years.
Steamers Victorian and Prosper col
lided in Port Townsend, Wash, har-
Dor.
San Francisco highbinders murdered
two men. both leading merchants OF
the city.
General Woods asserts that trouble
in Cuba is now absolutely out of the
question.
The transport Grant has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila with 2Ol
sick soldiers aboard.
The British second-class cruiser
Hemes is reported off Cat island, in
the Bahamas, in distress.
President David Starr Jordan. of
Stanford University, in a speech at
Chicago, said that England would soon
topple.
Trouble has arisen between the cigar
and box manufacturers of Tampa, Fla.
Advance in the price of boxes is the
cause.
Tom Sharkey and Bob Fitzsimmons
signed articles of agreement for 25-
round bout before the club offering the
largest purse.
The Yaqul Indians are headed for
the United States. General Merriam
has troops in readiness to stop them If
they try to cross the border.
The United States government will
begin the manufacture of smokeless
powder and compete with private man
ufacturers in point of quality.
The American Clay Manufacturing
Company, the $10,0O0,000 consollda-
tion of sewer-pipe manufacturers, will
control So per cent of the industry.
Near Olympia, Wash, three chill
dren, aged 5, and 8 years, were
burned to death while their parents
were absent from home attending a
dance.
At Hanover, Germany, some persons
not vet identified tore British flag and
made an anti British demonstration in
front of the residence of an English
man, who had displayed the Union
Jack in celebration of the successes in
South Africa.
Prospects for the termination of the
Colombian revolution are poorer than
ever.
At Vienna, the Crown Princess Steph-
anie, of Austria, was married to Count
Won Lonray.
The total number of Boer prisoners
captured at Paardeberg by the British
is 1850 men.
A party of six American rubber pros
pectors have been massacred by Indians
in the wilds of Brazil.
The twelfth convention of the Nation
al Republican League has been called
to meet in the city of St. Paul, July
II, 1900.
Frozen meats, supplied to the Ameri-
can army in the Philippines, is reported
by officials in Manila to be highly
satisfactory.
A passenger train on the Canadian
Pacific, near Toronto, Canada, jumped
the track, and several members of par
lament were injured.
The Kentucky legislature has passed
bill appropriating 100000 to carry
on the work of hunting down the as
sassin of William Goebel.
In an engagement between Mexicans
and Maya Indians, near Santa Cruz,
800 Mexicans defeated 5000 Indians.
Indians killed numbered 80.
Filipino insurrection has not yet
been subdued. The rebels are prepar-
ing for the rainy season and will carry
on guerrilla warfare on large scale.
William Henry, half-breed Indian
of Coreto, CAL, shot and killed Nettie
Smith, young Indian woman, ano
then killed himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
Forty three and one-half. inches Of
snow in 63 hours is the new record
established at Rochester, n. Y. The
railroads are recovering from the biggest
fight against the elements they have
had in many years.
The Gainesville, ILL.,, union miners
who have been ON trial for the past AZ
days at Vienna, charged with murder
ing negro miners, were acquitted by
the jury. Four other charges are pend
ing against the miners.
Belief in the efficacy of prayer as &
sure cure for disease was the cause o
/ the divorce granted to George E
! White, ex-congressman and wealthy
! lumber dealer of Chicago, from hi
wife, Minnie A. White.
The Canadian Papermakers' Asso
citation at Montreal, adopted a scale o
prices for carload lots, five-ton lots ant
2O-ream lots of different grades o
paper. The increase in present price
is from 10 to Is per cent.
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Women sailors are employed in Den
mark, Norway and Finland.
Reports from 45 colleges show dis
couraging religious conditions in bu
three.
Booth. Tucker says God uses Americi
as a connecting link between othe
nations.
Thomas Yates, OF Toledo, o., is tn