The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-09-07
LATER NEWS.

Wu Sung.
Several forest fires are raging in Coos
county, Oregon.
An outbreak has occurred in Bohol,
Philippine islands.
The czar is trying to Illustrate EN-
peIor Williams plans.
War on the foreigners was ordered
by the empress dowager.
The entire Democratic state ticket
in Arkansas was elected.
Lord Roberts has issued a proclama.
tion formally annexing the Transvaal.
Labor day celebrations were held in
many cities, Roosevelt and Bryan
speaking in Chicago.
Labor day was celebrated in st.
Louis by labor parade, wherein more
than $4,000 men of all trades partici
pated.
In an alteration near-Walla Walla,
Emanuel Edwards shot and slightly
wounded P. b. Knight in the left leg.
The trouble is said to have started over
a horse.
Labor day was celebrated in Cincin.
natl by parade of workingmen. esti.
mated from $4,000 to $4,000. 1t was
the best-appointed procession ever seen
there on Labor day.
Santiago, Cuba, is experiencing the
severest weather known since 1877.
The lower part of the city is five feet
under water. The firemen and police
are assisting the sufferers.
Having lived 26 years, Miss Emily
II. Trevor, one of the most popular
young womn of Yonkers, N. Y, has
come into a fortune of 81, 158, 795.
This large amount represents Miss Tre-
vors' share left by her father, the late
John B. Trevors, who died December
20. 1890.
At sheep slaughtering and dress.
ing exhibition at Indianapolis, Ind,
Charles j. Gardner, of Indianapolis,
broke the worlds record. In 1898 he
killed and dressed 10 sheep in S2 min.
utes and 8 seconds; this time he killed
and dressed 10 sheep in 80 minutes and
20 seconds.
So much OF the general orders oi
August last as direct Light Batteries
G and NJ. Seventh artillery, for duty
in China have been amended SO as to
direct those batteries to proceed instead
to the Philippine islands for assign
ment to a station. Major George
Greenough, Seventh artillery, has been
ordered to accompany the batteries to
the Philippines.
The public debt increased nearly $3,
900, 1000 in August.
Philippine volunteers will begin re-
turning in November.
There are S3 suspected cases oil
plague in Glasgow, Scotland.
Charles A. Towne opened the cam
paign in Idaho for the Democrats.
General Otis has been assigned tC
command the department of the lakes
The governor of Shan Tung has 20,'
600 men ready to oppose German ex
psnsion.
Lii Hung Chang is intriguing to sci
the foreigners to quarreling among
themselves.
Thirteen persons were killed ant
many injured by railroad collision a
Hatfield, Pa.
The Chinese situation now depends
on the responses OF the powers to thu
Russo American proposals.
w. w. Rockhill, American commits
sioner to China, says now is the tim'
to settle the status OF foreigners IL
China.
The Brallamer copper mines, situated
on Howe Sound, near Vancouver, b
c., have been sold to English capital
lists for $4,000, 900.
A 1s.year-old boy accidentally sho
and killed his 16-year-old brother a
Hutchinson, Kansas, while attempting
TO remove cartridges from revolver.
Secretary Fosters annual report o
The cotton crop of the United State
makes the crop for 1899-1900 9,436.
4l6 bales, against 11.274, $40 last year
About 25, 900 idle tinplate worker
of the American Tinplate Compan.
have resumed work, owing to the tin
pl te makers agreeing to new wag
scale.
Fire destroyed the plant and yard
OF the Otter Creek Lumber Company
at Hambleton, w. Va, with 10000,
900 feet of lumber, causing a loss
$3.50, 900.
Six hundred longshoremen who wen
on a strike recently at the Erie rail
way ore docks, returned to work pend
ing settlement Of their grievances b
arbitration.
A serious confisgration occurred a
Guaymas, Sonora. Mexico, few day
ago, which consumed the general mel
chaidise establishment Of F. A. Aguil
lar. The building covered an entir
block and was the largest OF its kin
ON the west coast of Mexico. In
stock Of goods carried was valued a
ST. ,OOO, 900, on which a loss of $780,
600 was sustained.
English army experiment with a b
cycle corps as defensive force is pre-
nounced a success.
After living with her husband for 4
wears a Topeka woman has discoyere