The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-01-05
LATER NEWS.

At New York Kid Mccoy knocked
out Peter Maher in five rounds.
Idaho produced $1,000, 900 in gold
and $6, l03, 900 in silver last year.
France and England may have
trouble over Newfoundland fisheries.
The United States may buy the
Danish West Indies for 81 100000
Ohio Irishmen offer sympathy,
money, arms and soldiers to the Beers
One child received fatal and several
persons serious burns in a New York
fiat fire.
Several thousand attended a very
brilliant New Years day reception at
the White House.
Nicholas, czar of Russia, has again
issued an appeal for peace to the
powers of the world.
Multnomah's football team defeated
Stanford university's eleven at Port
land; score, II to 6.
Hilliard F. Johnson, water front
reporter in San Francisco, was
drowned in bathtub.
Government officials say the cruiser
Montgomery was sent to Liberia to
give the Black Republic assurance oi
protection.
More miles OF now railroad have
been built during 1899 than in any
previous year since 1890, when 567O
miles OF line were completed. Since
January l, 1899, no less than 4,50O
miles of track have been laid in the
United States on 312 lines in IA states
and territories.
The torpedo-boat destroyer Colds
borough, built by Portland, Or,
firm, on her second contractors trial
covered eight miles in 15 minutes,
which is at the rate of 80 miles an
hour, against q 21a-knot current.
Steam was made without effort, and
not bearing was heated. The run
was made in the Columbia river, near
Kalama.
Boutelle will probably never return
to congress.
The Boer trenches at Colenso are
bomb proof.
Pingree's tax resolution was defeated
in the Michigan senate.
People are tired of Colombian war
and ask for intervention
British Columbia has sent gold dis
play to the Paris exposition.
If Delagoa bay is closed the Beers
will raid Portuguese territory.
The Stahl & Straub failure in Phila-
delphia is clear case of looting.
An important witness against Sena-
tor Clark has confessed to perjury.
Robert Cornelius, aged 20, was
found dead in the woods near Glencoe,
Or.
Fossiliferous remains of gigantic
sea serpent were found on the coast OF
Chill.
At its last meeting the cabinet dis
cussed the agricultural possibilities in
Alaska.
Buffers army on the Tugela has now
reached the enoromus strength of 49,
600 men.
Luzon hemp potts will be opened in
time for supplies to reach this country
by next harvest.
A London dispatch says Russia longs
to seize Herat, and she only waits for
England to occupy Delagoa bay.
G. G. Coad, of Dallas, Or, has been
appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms in
the United States senate.
The Beers have mounted new gun
at Ladysimth in the place of the one
captured by the British cavalry.
The clerk of the court of appeals has
refused to administer the oath of Office
to members of the state election board
in Kentucky.
A Colorado Midland passenger and
Santa Fe freight collided near Palmer
Lake, Colo. One fireman was killed
and two engineers were hurt.
An English military expert asserts
that the time has come for change in
The cabinet He favors either dicta-
borship or an all-powerful military
minister.
Miss Florence Blythe Hinckley,
heiress to the Blythe millions, was
quietly married in San Francisco to A.
A. Moore, jr., deputy attorney general
of California.
Americans have captured another in
surgent stronghold. Many rebels were
killed, wounded end captured and an
amount of ammunition and food taken.
Their supposed impregnable position j
was north of San Mateo.
An Ottawa dispatch says that treason
IS talked openly among the French Ca
and all OF their members have
retired from parliament. All the lat
snt hostility to British rule has been !
aroused by Canada's action in sending /
5roops to the Transvaal.
The Pittsburg baseball club has
bought the pick of the Louisville team
ior sum said to be $25, 1000 cash.
Mrs. @. A. Burling, mother-in-law |
If Rear Admiral William 7. Sampson, I
lied at her home in Rochester, n. z,
lged 76 years. 9
Ex-sherif Weis, of Dayton, o., has
received by mail commission from 9
President Kruger appointing him
in the Boer army. 5
Weis is personal friend Of Kruger's, 6
md once visited him in Africa.