The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-06-08
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 Hemisphercs Presented
in Condensed Form.

Pretoria and Johannesburg have been
abandoned BY the Beers.
Fire destroyed the Palisade paper
mills in Hoboken, N. j., causing loss
of 500, 900.
Filipinos surprised an American gar
rison at Bulucan, killing five and
wounded seven.
Decoration day was fittingly obsel we'd
in the house by the passage of nearly
200 pension bills.
Boer Envoy Fisher, in an address at
Boston, says the war will not stop until
the last man is killed.
One thousand citizens will be sworn
in to assist the sheriff of st. Louis in
putting down the street car riots.
Cholera is spreading rapidly in
indian famine districts, and the death
rate has increased 40 per cent in three
days.
Boxers have attacked and burned
mission station at Lau Tson. China, 40
miles southwest of Peking, and have
murdered the missionary in charge.
Ahmed Pasha, the Turkish vice.
admiral, now in Washington, is well
pleased with American shipbuilding
and may give an order for cruiser for
Turkey.
Samuel w. Walker, an inventor OF
Omaha, after working % years to COM
plete a gold-refnipg machine was
struck with heart disease in Brooklyn
and died, aged 48 years.
Hon. James A. Head, Democratic
committeeman from Tennessee, wants
some place other than Kansas City for
the national convention of 1900, and
the reason is the exorbitant rates quot
ed by hotels of Kansas City.
A huge military scandal has been re-
vealed at Belgrade, Servia, by the issu-
ance of an order for, the mobilization of
the Serivan reserves. Scarcely uni
form was found in the magazines. The
accounts of the war Office, however,
show large expenditure.
James Finnegan, a reculse, living in
the northern part of Perry county,
Ohio, was fatally tortured by masked
robbers. The old man could not be
made to tell where his money was hid
den, and the robbers beat and burned
him with red hot shovel until he was
unconscious, then they gagged him,
covered him with q feather bed and
left him to die.
Many Chinese are said to be coming
north from San Francisco.
Panic and confusion are said to pre-
vail everywhere in the Transvaal.
The Northern Pacific Railway has
asked for franchise into Bellingham
bay.
Dolliver, of Iowa, may loom up
prominently for McKinley's running
mate.
The supreme court has decided
against Dewey in the Manila bounty
case.
Fifty Japanese have been denied
landing at Tacoma, the result of a rigid
inquiry.
The steamship Breconshire arrived
at Tacoma from Yokohoma with lob
japanese.
Republican congressman are said to
be fearful of losing the house in the
coming election.
Rev. William Beecher, Mormon
preacher, blew out the gas in Los An
geles and is dead.
Rear Admiral Kempff, commanding
the Asiatic squadron, is at Taku, ready
to protect American interests.
The steamer San Bias sailed from
Seattle for Cape Nome with $40 pas
sengers and 300 tons Of freight.
One man was killed and several seri-
ously injured by the collapse of cold
storage building at Southampton, Eng
land.
San Francisco's Chinatown will be
rigidly quarantined and no one Will be
allowed to pass without proper certi'
fcates.
Puerto Rico asks for tariff change.
She wants duties on rice and olive OIL
reduced for period of year and a
half.
Count de Castellane, husband OF Con-
suelo Vanderbilt, caused great tumult
in the French chamber of deputies by
attacking the government.
Clouds of war are lowering over
China. Russia has ordered all availa.
BILE gun boats to Tkau and it is believed
the czar will soon land 10000 troops
there.
Several Belgians and their families
were cut off by Boxers" at Chang
Hsin Tien, 10 kilometers from Feng
Tai. They are now defending them
selves on a hill. The safety of the Bel
gian engineers is doubtful. several
missionaries have been cut of at Pos
Ting Flu.
Gov. Allen, OF Puerto Rico, possesses
a thorough knowledge OF Spanish
which ne is said to speak like native
Japanese promoters plan to push the
sale Of tea by establishing tea saioonl
in all the big cities in the United
States.
Alta recent election of the schoo
hoard in Dundee, Scotland, Mrs. Corn
law Martin, an independent candidate
poIled the largest number OF Vote'
among 10 candidates.