The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-12-28
LATER NEWS.

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In scalp bounties during 1899.
Public attention in Germany is oc'
cupied with crime in high circles.
Kitchener reports that Boer invasion
into Cape Colony has been checked.
Germany wants the sultan to pay Its
bill before buying an American war
ship.
Rebels are scattered in the pro-
vinces of Panay and Cebu, Philippine
islands.
England will buy $4,000 horses and
mules in the United States for army in
South Africa.
Delay in negotiations has caused
great change of sentiments as regards
China in Japan.
A tornado did great damage in Ala
bama. News is meager, owing to all
wires being down.
III. Phelps Whitmarsh has been APP
poin6ed governor of the province OF
Benguet, Philippine islands.
Forty-fve insurgents were killed and
one American wounded in an encounter
near Gunobatan, Philippine islands.
e. H. Southern, the we'll known &C.
tor, who ha been laid up for some time
by an accident. is entirely recovered.
A large portion of the Philippines
must be abandoned unless the relief OF
the army is immediate, says Secretary
Root.
The police are working on the case
of Long, the Portland burglar recently
arrested. 1t is thought that charge
of murder will be laid at his door.
Fire which started in a Pennsylvania
coal mine AZ years ago is under control.
and 1t is said that the next two years
will see it extinguished. The fire has
consumed about 35 acres of the finest
coal land in the anthracite region.
Frank Fl. Morris. auditor of the war
department, was shot and killed by
Samuel MacDora.d, a postofiee depart
ment clerk. Fancied grievances and
liquor we're the causes that led up TO
the shooting. Macdonald atterward
shot himself and will not recover.
There is another hitch in the Chinese
negotiations.
Troops are being concentrated II
Northern Cape Colony.
The English war office has arranged
to reinforce Kitchener at once.
Nicholas Darnell, a pioneer of East
ern Oregon, is dead, aged 6S years.
Senator Mcbride has asked for large
appropriation for customs service
launch at Astoria.
The Booth Kelly Lumber Company
will change its headquarters from sag
inaw to Eugene. Or.
Governor Geer asks Pacific Northwest
states to join Oregon in celebration Q
Lewis and Clarke centennial.
A mob at Gulf Port, Miss, lynchet
a negro. 1t now appears that ne Wa'
the wrong man.
The supreme court of Ohio has dis
missed five cases brought under tn
J trust laws of that state.
IT is probable that the president viii
8 visit Portland and the Puget SCUM
cities on his trip in May.
8 state Of Washington pays Sll,50
sugar bounty to local sugar beet fac
tory for Spokane county crop.
The striking telegraph operators O
q the Santa Fe have given up the fight
Their places have been filled By me-
men.
I Over 1000 Christians are reported :
have been massacred by Turks. LII
Turkish authorities show the utmo'
! indifference.
The controller of the currency hs
i appointed q receiver fol- the America
i National Bank of Baltimore. 1t
thought that depositors will be paid J
/. full.
il A dispatch from Tien Tsin say
.sPrince Ching asserts that Emper'
!, Kwang Hsu, unaccompanied by u
= Empress Dowager, left Sinan Flu d
4 cember 10, bound for Pekin."
\ !
The dead body of Peter F. Johns
e was found in water ditch on Pa'
W avenue, Puyallup. The presumpti'
W il that johnson fell into the ditch al
was unable to rescue himself.
- Conger was instructed to sign t
70 note.
: A coal mine under the city of Pit
burg, Pennsylvania, has partial
- - cayed in, allowing part of the princiT
~ y street OF the town to fall into the mil
= It is feared other sections will q
sink.
e. Following the break of the Lulu
as a land dyke, floods have caused furti
IL damage TO the seawalls protecting
farmers of the Fraser river vall'
q Owing to high tides, strong winds
sr- heavy rains, the lands have been ba'
To- flooded, and the village OF Stevens
is three feet under water.
in The agricultural Department.
ive established at Washington laborat'
for testing all torts of road materis
an The immigration bureau has
A lowed contract lahorers from 20
90 Rico to lan6 in the United States
citizens.
M The cost OF the public schools
WIS Greater New York for the year l