The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-24
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM .'HE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Pres ,lh
In Condensed TClm.

In Condensed ;rC4m-
Fort Sherman, Idaho, is unsuitable
for an Indian school.
Ex-Secretary Boutwell, announces
that he will vote for Bryan.
Seven persons were killed in train
wreck near Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Frink slate went through the
Washington Republican convention.
The war department publishes Fill.
pino correspondence captured by Fun.
ston.
Pritchard Morgan says the powers
have decided on new form of govern
ment for China.
General Chsffee reported the allies
at Ma Tou, 20 miles from Pekin, three
or four days ago.
Preparations to extend the railroad
down the Yukon from White Horse to
Selkirk are in progress.
China will send high official to
Tung Chow to arrange for delivering
the foreigners to the allies.
Foreign and domestic wheat markets
have downward tendency, and the
local situation continues dull.
Oregon supreme court decides that
district attorneys fee must be deposit.
! cd ruyith nlarly u,l,or,
filed.
The transport Thomas, which left
Nagasaki August 10, will bring 216
sick and four insane soldiers from the
Philippines.
Severe floods have occurred in Japan
and it is reported that 2,200 persons
have been drowned. Railway traffic is
interrupted.
Three lives were sacrificed by fire as
the result of an explosion of natural
gas in Thirty. fourth street, Chicago.
Three other persons are supposed to be
in the ruins.
Secretary Gage, of the treasury de-
partment, says that as long as the
United States maintains the gold stand
ard and keeps the public credit good it
can retain for it's own use all the gold
it needs.
A severe hailstorm destroyed 1000
acres of the finest grain IN North Da-
kota, even that cut and in the shock
being destroyed. Many of the hail.
stons we're from three to four inches in
diameter.
Maurice Brennan, who is under ar
rest at St. Louis, charged with being
a dynamiter, was Unidentified as one of
the men connected with the blowing
ND of the street cars in the southern
part of the city several weeks ago.
Theodore Roosevelt will not visit the
Pacific coast.
Shanghai has word that the Pekin lie.
ACTIONS were desperately attacked Aug
ust 8.
In collision near Colorado Springs,
Colo, two passengers were killed and
five injured.
President Kruger has applied for q
temporary asylum in the American
consulate at Lourenco Marques.
G. P. Huntington, president of the
Southern Pacific railroad, died in the
Adirondacks, N. Y, of heart disease.
The army of the Philippines elected
General F. V. Greene president, Gem
eral O. Summers as second vice.
president.
The clothing factory OF K. B. Olson
g Co, of Chicago, was destroyed by
fire, with loss on buildings and goods
of 800, 900.
Contractors are making close exam
nation of the route for the klamath
Falls railway. preparatory to signing
the contract.
Steamer Deutschland made the run
from New York to Plymouth, England,
in 5 days. II hours and 45 minutes.
breaking the record.
Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey
have been matched to fight August 20
before the Coney Island Club for q
purse of $25, 900. Charley White is to
be referee.
The question OF making the perma-
nent repairs on the Oregon at home ln-
stead of in Japan has been discussed by
some of the authorities of the navy de-
partment and may result in her being
hroueht back to the Pacific coast.
The official report OF the Colombian
government commander in the recent
hattie at Panama says the rebel casual
ties were 600 and those of the govern
ment 100. The commander lntlmates
that the consuls favored the rebels and
that their intervention was dangerous
and pernicious.
The detective bureau of New York
CITY. is looking for Antonio Pesce, o
banker, with offices in that city. lie
has mysteriously disappeared. Scores
of excited Italian depositors have
tbronged Pesce's offices, and 1t is re-
norsed to the police that the banker
has gone to Italy, taking with MIN
$4,000.
II Petroleum fields of some Importance
are being opened in Japan.
Belgium is one of the few countries
IN which the death penalty, though
still part of the criminal code, is never
enforced. in Difference to public opin'
ion.
|, Three women. the wives OF famous
husbands, have been accorded the honor
! Of burial in Westminster Abbey. Ihey
are Lady Palmerston, Lady Augusta
STANLEY. wife of Dean Stanley and
Mrs. Gladstone.