The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-12
LATER NEWS.

France is anxious to annex Yunnan
province.
Russian troops may withdraw from
Manchuria..
Chamberlain is mentioned as pos.
sible successor of Salisbury.
The ministerial majority in the Brit.
ish parliament will be from l50 to l60.
Trades Council orders strike on Seat.
ties buildings. Over 1000 men are
idle.
The Beers now occupy Wepner, as
well as Rouxville and Ficksburg, in
Orange River colony, and the British
are attempting to surround them.
Five persons were killed and 75 in.
jured in a railway collision at Karls.
thor, Germany. The accident was due
to an error in signaling. One official
has been arrested.
Andrew G. Armstrong, one of the
founders of Sc1ibner's Magazine, anc
one OF the oldest publishers in New
York city, died at his country home
at Stamford, Conn, aged IL.
Five thousand pilgrims assembled al
the st. Nikandei monastery, in the
Porkhoff district, St. Petersburg, fol
a religious festival. During the night
one OF the upper floors collapsed and
many of those sleeping there fell upon
those below. A panic was caused by q
false alarm OF fire. and four men and 3e
women were crushed to death, many
others being seriously injured.
Arrangements for building 5000
freight cars for the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad by the Pullman Company, al
Pullman, ILL.,, has been completed.
The contract calls for 900 box cars,
each with capacity OF 10000 pounds.
and 500 fiat cars. The total cost OF the
rolling stock will be 1855, 900. This
is the second large order for freight
equipment given by the Baltimore &
Ohio management within the last week.
The first order was for 5000 steel cars,
to cost Sc, 100000
Having found the natives OF Tutuila
fit to serve as policemen and maintain
peace and order, Commander B. F.
Tilley believes they would make excel.
lent soldiers to man the notifications
of Pango Pango harbor. In private
letters to officers on duty he has indi'
Gated that they would make effective
artillerymen. To enlist regiment ol
natives, it would be necessary to OBJ.
tain special authority from congress.
The natives who are acting as police
men were enlisted by Commander Til.
ley AS landsmen. 1t is likely, how.
ever, that force OF marines will be
permanently stationed at Pango Pango.
The Beers are active in Orange River
Colony.
Roosevelt spoke to two big meetings
in Chicago.
japanese troops are withdrawing
from China.
Bourke Cochran discussed the issues
in Topeka, Kansas.
The battleship Texas may be perman.
emily retired from service.
A collision ON the Great Northern
line near Seattle resulted in the death
of an engineer and the serious injury
of another.
A tornado struck the town OF Biwa.
blk, in Northern Minnesota, killing
nine persons, injuring several others
and doing damage to the amount Of
$50O,O00.
The secretary of the interior has de-
cided to dispose OF the Indian lands
ceded to the Chippewas in Minnesota,
amounting to IA, l25 acres. They con
sist OF pine and agricultural lands.
Fire on the docks of the Atlantic
Transport Line, in the North river
New York, destroyed one OF the piers
of the company, with all the merchan.
disc on it, entailing loss OF $4,000.
The population of the city of Taco.
ma. Wash, according to the United
States census for 1900, is officially an.
nounced as 81, ,lO4, against 36,00l in
1890. an increase Of l,708, or 4.84 pei
cent.
1t is officially announced by the cen.
sus bureau that the population OF the
state of New Hampshire is All, 1888.
In 1890, the population was 376,5SO,
the increase being 35,058, or $50 pei
cent.
Lii Hung Chang has ordered the re.
lease and safe escort to Pekin OF i've
Belgian engineers and Is missionaries.
who have been kept prisoners many
weeks at Pao Ting Fu. Lii Hung
Chang is apparently doing his utmost
to please the powers.
At Trenton, N. j., Eddie Mcbride,
10 years old, died from burns received
while playing Indian" with compan-
ions. Mcbride was tied to a stake and
his clothing saturated with gasoline
and then ignited. The boy broke loose
and ran screaming to his home, where
he died.
The war department has approved
an exhaustive opinion by Judge Advo-
cate-General Lieber to the effect that
absentees from a volunteer regiment.
save prisoners Of war, are discharged
from the service on the same date upon
which their organization is mustered
ont. The decision was important as
affecting the pay and status of many
officers serving ON detached duty.
Pearls arc 5eing found in great guam.
titles in the Black and st. Francis riy'
ers. in southwest Missouri.
General Richard O'Grady Haly, the
rew commapder-in-chief OF the British