The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-05-18
LATER NEWS.

The minority report on the ship sub
sidy bill is strongly against subsidy.
The governor of Missouri has offered
aid to the police in the ST.. Louis strike.
Nationalists won two-thirds Of the
vacant seats in the Paris municipal gov
ernment.
The Chicago & Rock Island railway
will probably build to Portland, Or.
Surveyors are now in the field
Dreyfus is in Paris and France Is
worried. officials will try to hurry
him away, owing to fear of demonstra.
tions.
Landing privileges at Manila are
held by an unscrupulous monopoly that
is accumula.ing fortune and throt-
tling trade.
The number of cases of bubonic
plague at Sydney, N. S. W., oficiall!
reported to this date is 216, of which
76 proved fatal.
Chicago and other Mississippi valley
cities are expecting the hottest May
weather in years. There were four
prostrations in Chicago.
Joe Barker, found guilty of man.
slaughter for the killing of Charles
Johnson, in Seattle, three months ago,
was sentenced to 10 years imprison-
ment.
After writing note of farewell to
his former sweetheart, Harry S. Bar
rett, of Chicago, prosperous in business
and heir to an estate worth $75, 900,
took carbolic acid and died.
Fifteen thousand Mohammedan
weavers met in Benares and indorsed a
memorial to the Indian government
against the plague rules, declaring that
they were contrary to the laws OF Mo-
hammed.
In the United States supreme court
at Boston, Charles H. Cole, former
president of the now detunct Globe
National Bank, who recently pleaded
guilty on an indictment charging him
with misappropriation of funds of the
institution, was sentenced to serve eight
years in Greenfield.
Alec Whitney, aged %, . society
leader, was shot and killed on street
car at Augusta, Ca, by negro in q
quarrel over a seat. The negro, Gus
Wilson, was taken off Georgia rail
road passenger train at Harlem, 25
miles from Augusta, by mob and
lynched. He was being taken tc
Atlanta for safekeeping.
A cheese trust has been formed IN
Chicago.
Arbitration with regard to the St
Louis street car strike has failed.
Lord Roberts entered Kroonstaad
which had been evacuated by the
Transvaal forces.
Honolulu has been officially declared
a clean port, the plague being efficient
ly stamped out.
The senate. by a close vote, rejected
the proposition for an armor-plate plan
operated by the government.
The towns of Hilongos and Maasin
in Leyte, have been captured by the
Americans with few casualties.
The American pavilion at Paris wal
turned over to the exposition authorizes
with impressive ceremonies.
!. A woman and 8-year-old child wer'
burned to death at South Omaha, Neb.
by starting fire with gasoline.
Germany is said to be supplying th'
Filipinos with arms to enable them Il
continue their fight against the United
States.
Charles Panstein, murderous ath
lete of Butte, Mont, shot and killet
butcher, his wife and then committed
suicide.
The Populist national convention al
Sioux Falls nominated W. ]. Bryan fo
president, Charles A Towne for vice
president.
Before leaving Kroonstaad, Presiden
Steyn issued a proclamation maxim
Lindley the seat of government
Orange Free State.
Middle-of- -the-Road Populist conven
tion at Cincinnati, nominated Wharton
P. Barker for president and lgnatiu
Donnelly for vice-president.
The work of the Chicago city di
rectory enumerators for 1900, almos
com pleted, shows that the population
of Chicago is not less than 2,001, 900.
Seven men were killed and 20 o
more firemen hurt by a collision in
tunnel in Philadelphia. The wrecl
caught fire, and the total loss is $140.
600.
Owing to the alarm being taken il
America over the influx of Japanes
and the probability of anti-Japanes
legislation, the japanese government
making efforts to turn the tide of it
surplus population to Formosa.
The cholera continues to rage in tn
famine camps of India. There hay
been 400 deaths in three days at Mar
dive So numerous are the cases q
Godra that it is impossible to collec
the bodies, which lie for days in tn
sHn. The people have fed and canno
be induced to return. A similar stat
of things prevails at Broach.
Louisville, KY, is to have 3 larg
Mormon temple.
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