The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-02-16
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection OF Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In a Condensed Form.

nave started f0r the front.
The insurgents have been driven ou
of Legaspi, province of Albay.
Thousands viewed the remains O
Senator Goebel at Covington, Ken.
Affairs in Santo Domingo are in ,
turbulent condition. Insurrection Il
breeding.
1t is said the dowager empress o.
China is afraid to depose the emperor
at present.
On account OF the serious roadbet
washout on its Lewiston division, the
Northern Pacific will lose $100, 900.
The transports Pathan and Sherman
arrived at San Francisco from Manila
On board the Sherman are IS invalid
soldiers.
Fire at Little Rock, Ark, destroyed
property to the value of $265, 900. The
]. P. Quinn Dry Goods Company will
lose $l50,OO0.
British troops crossed the Upper
Tugela river at Kolendrift with the OBJ.
ject of storming the Boer positions, but
were driven back.
Three hundred Spanish prisoners re.
volted at the treatment they received
at the hands OF Filipinos, dispersed
their captors and hold the fort.
The largest office building in the
world is to be erected in New York
City, by the Alliance Realty Company.
1t will be 20 stories high and will cost
81, 100000.
President Havemeyer, of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company denies
that the leading refineries of the COM
pany were closed down as result Of
the loss OF business.
Fish commissioners of Oregon and
Washington have issued statement
that only citizens were granted licenses
and that false claims may have been
made in some instances.
The mortality in the city of Bonn.
bay, India, in one day was unprece.
dented. There was total of 408
deaths. The situation is aggravated by
the advent of famine refugees.
Word has been received by the de-
partment of Indian affairs and by the
police authorities OF fresh troubles
among the Indians of Upper Laird, B.
G. Seven members of Scotch family
are said to have been murdered.
The Sunset Telephone Company OF
Oakland, CAL, has mortgaged to the
Old Colony Trust Company of Boston,
its entire possessions in California, Ne.
vada, Arizona and New Mexico, as Sc.
curity for the payment of gold interest
bearing bonds to the amount of So, 50O,-
900.
The Nicaragua canal bill will be
pushed through both houses this
month.
Mexican liberals favor the candi.
dacy of President Diaz for reelection
by vote of three to one.
The league of Republican clubs of
Oregon convened at the armory in Port
land, with 800 delegates present.
Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake has
announced her candidacy for the presi-
dency of the National Women Suffragist
Association.
Members of the Algonquin Club, q
leading social organization of Bridge
port, Conn.,, have declined to entertain
w. j. Bryan.
The plague in Honolulu has broken
out in several isolated places outside of
the originally infected district, and its
progress is regarded as serious.
John D. Rockefeller is no longer
president of the Standard Oil Company.
He resigned last December, but the
facts were kept secret until now.
Fifty-seven paintings, the property
If Austin H. King. of Providence, r.
l., were sold at auction in New York
for $77,375, an average of $1,356 per
picture.
Adelbert S. Hay, the new United
States consul at Pretoria, was received
by the Transvaal government, and pre-
sented his credentials. He created an
excellent impression.
Astoria, Or, now has the right of
transportation. A dispatch
rom Washington states that Senator
George W. McBride's bill providing for
Juch has passed the senate. This
means bonded warehouse at Astoria
md the unloading OF Oriental freight
1t that place.
By way Of preparation for the great
struggle now in progress, the Beers in
he year 1898 bought from France
alone, guns, swords, carbines, pistols.
cartridges. lead, zinc, powder caps,
uses, etc., to the invoiced value Of
1886, 900, according to report of the
'tate department from United States
Consul Covert at Lyons.
Henry Hughes. a hero OF the old navy,
1as been admitted into the county
at Chester, Pa, at the age
If 95 years.
Cannonading does not interfere with
he sending of wireless telegraph mes
ages. This has been tested in South
Africa.
During the last year 25, 202, ,90l BUSH
lis of grain and 2.lss.513 gallons of
nolasses we're used for the manufacturs
If liquor in this country.