The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-09-14
LATER NEWS.
General Joseph Wheeler has retired.

hepuDucans carried Malne Dy OIL
900 to 33, 900 majority.
An appeal is issued by Texans in be-
half of the Galveston sufferers.
Germany and England are said to
have agreed to remain in Pekiu.
Rumor is denied that stock grazing
on forest reserves is to be restricted.
Galveston's death list numbers fully |
1000. Some estimates place it higher.
Texas City and many smaller towns
near the gulf were partially wercked.
Oregon has been asked to erect
building at the Buffalo Pan-American
exposition.
Oregon prune prices have been
doomed by action of the California
Fruit Association.
Ninety-three missionaries are known
to have been killed and ITO are missing
from the recent uprising in China.
Henry Watson died at his home near
Albany, Or, aged 70 years. He was
pioneer of lS47, and an Indian war
veteran.
The Eureka shingle mill at Harrison,
Idaho, was burned recently. The loss
will amount to about $4,000, Of
which only $4,000 is covered by insur-
Rnce.
Chung Lii, military commandant OF
Pekin, who is responsible for the MUIR
del of the German minister, has been
arrested and is confined under Ger
man jurisdiction.
At Rock Creek, in Park county.
Mont, Frank Forrest, a ranch hand,
aged 20, shot and killed Willis Hoard,
well-to-do rancher, aged 30; fatally
wounded Miss Laura Linn, aged l6.
and then committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the heart.
Henry A. Chittenden, journalist OF
note and the man who secured for Oak
land, CAL, the $250,00 Carnegie free
public library, is dead at that city OF
throat afflistion, aged 81 years. He
served as reporter and editor ON
Eastern papers. For 10 years he was
employed by James Gordon Bennett
working on the Herald and Telegram.
At Seattle, the large steamer lnver-
ness. 3,313 tons, was formally turned
over to the United States officials tol
use for transport service in the Philip
pines. The vessel is large and com
modious, and will at once be placed IL
commission. Two other ships have
been secured by the government iron
the British American line for a like
service. They will all be used for car
rying army and other supplies.
The American troops have orders t.
get ready to leave Pekin.
Lii Hung Chang will be permitted t.
90 to Pekin ior conference.
France agrees unwillingly to Rus
sias proposal to eyacuate the impera
city.
Seven vessels were wrecked Q
stranded on the Florida coast by tn
recent hurricane.
Two persons were killed and one SCI
iously wounded in row in a restauran
; at Reno, Nevada
Commandant Theron, a noted Doe
: scout. has been found dead on the flel
near Krugersport. small town abou
Q % miles northeast of Lydenburg.
The census bureau announces thu
It the population OF Portland, Or, is 80
a 426. as against 46, 1856 in 1890, an IL
crease of A, ,O41, or 94.95 per cent.
Germanys reason for rejecting Il
= Russo. American proposals OF witt
drawal from Pekin is that the time
a inupportune and calculated to proiol
y the war.
y The American ship May Flint &C
!. lided with bark in the bay OF u
y Francisco. then drifted onto the battl
= shin Iowa. where she was split OPP
. and sank to the bottom.
II Ex.President Cleveland has DECLINE
the presidents appointment as mel
bar nf the international Board OF Art
!. tration. under The Hague treaty. u
- President Harrison has accepted t.
~ appointment.
IN The staff surgeon of the German leg
as tion at Pekjn announces that an
il animation shows the cause OF Bar
CO Won Kettelers death to have been
t. bnllet through the neck, which mi
have been instantaneously fafal.
OF Francis Edward Hinckley, one
90 the incorporators of the Chicsgo VI
cd versity, and prominently ldentifl
re with many important railroad and co
k mercial enterprises, is dead at
it, home at West New Brighton, Stat
'st Island, aged Sc.
lol The weather in India is now prom
le' ~ ing for crops. Excellent rain
~. fallen in all the famine districts
go the winter sowings are practically
CuT1I. 06 uuuluCA nv" Q
W. lief is something under 4,00o,Uoo'
OF encouraging reduction.
10 ULYSSES kellogg, aged IL years,
~ George Oglesby were killed by hreda
~ ~ in an abandoned shaft at Newcas
~ Wash. The former descended into
10 10 hole to look for chicken which
ao ' had thrown therein, and was iollo'
Ao ot by oglesby. Both were overcome
On " the vapor and fell to the bottom OF
shaft.
New York man who was knoc
oor insensible by brick during par
g0 wears ago has just received an ap
the uv from the man who threw 1t.
." To relieve the poor OF Dublin Ba
Iveaeh will build artisan dwelling
hn 1 Il 1fafT M