The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-03-15
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From All Parts of the New World
and the Old.
Of INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap
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Minister Conger left Pekin for
home.
England rejects the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty.
A Filipino band was defeated near
Santa Cruz.
Sixteen lives were lost by the storm
in Arkansas.
President Mckinley will start for
the Pacific coast April 80.
Victims of the plague are dying in
the streets of Cape Town.
A secret society buried alive ma.
tiyes friendly to Americans.
The French ex-consul at Manila is
accused of dealing with insurgents.
Eight persons were killed and many
injured by an explosion in a Chicago
laundry.
Carnegie has offered $4,000 for
library to Davenport, Ia, and also to
Springfield, Ill.
Kirby Graves, Bill Johnson and
Henry Brooks, negroes, were hanged
at Richmond, Ark, for murder.
The Pennsylvania house of repre-
sentatives adopted a resolution favor
ing the election of senators by the
people.
Relatives of Oregon school direct
ors cannot be employed as teachers
without unanimous consent of the
board.
A cloudburst in Maricopa county,
Arizona, carried away five miles OF
track of the Maricopa & Phoenix
railroad.
Oregon law which abolishes Office
of fish commissioner, and creates
similar one, involves question of
whether latter repeals former by inn
plication.
Two highwaymen entered the vii
lage of Ilpe, near Emporia, Kan, and
held up a dozen people, the occu-
pants of two stores.
Antonio Leonardodi, Antro Dimet
and Abram Sarturi. miners at the
Nellie mine, in Bear Creek, Colo, /
were caught by a snowslide.
Two men were killed outright and
three injured by a dynamite explosion
at a quarry near FL Paso. All were
Mexicans except the foreman, Chas. I
Shelly.
Navajo Indians, in New Mexico, are
becoming restless because of the abb |
sence of two or Lnree of their num-
ber, who are attending a Chicago I
exhibition.
County Judge Gregory, at Louis
Vile, held that the Pullman Palace
Car Company is not a railroad and /
that its rolling stock cannot be taxed /
as railroad property.
The Colorado Stockgrowers Asso-
citation adopted a resolution request |
ing the department of the interior to |
send an inspector West to inquire |
into local conditions and give settlers,
cattle-owners and others a hearing
relative to forest reserve regulations.
Ii Hung Chang is again seriously
i'll.
Willspoint, Tex, was wrecked by a
cyclone.
Ex-President Harrison is very Sc
riously i'll.
Dewet with 400 Beers, has escaped
to the northward.
Russia assures the powers she will
not annex Chinese territory.
Japan has ordered new battleshlp
from England to Yokohama.
Megler's cannery, at Brookfield,
Wash, was damaged $4,000 by fire.
1t is reported that Kitchener de-
mands unconditional surrender from
Beers.
England declines to modify the
canal treaty without a satisfactory
quid pro quo.
General Chaffee refuses to allow
the decapitation of several Boxer
chiefs condemned by Chinese Judge.
Radical Cubans still hope for abso-
Lutte Independence, and that the
United States will not enforce Platt
amendment.
Lieutenant General Miles, accom-
panied by his staff, will leave for a
trip to Cuba, where he will make an
inspection of the principal military
posts.
The mill plant of the Centralia
Shingle Company, Centralia, Wash,
was destroyed by fire. The fire is
supposed to have originated from the
furnace. The loss is estimated at
about $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
The officials of the foreign office
at Copenhagen deny that the negotia-
tions with the United States for the
sale of the Danish West Indies have
been discontinued, and they confirm
the statements IRON Washington that
no peremptory note has been sent to
Denmark by the United States.
Orders have gone forward from the
navy department for the returR of
the battleship Oregon, which has been
soolong a time on the Asiatic station,
to the United States. She will prob
ably sail for home about May /, to
be replaced by the Wisconsin when
the vessel has finished her official |
trial.
The silk industry of China en-
ploys, it is estimated, from 100000 |
to 6,OO0,O 900 people.
A writer on modern waterways
says that in the near future electric
traction will be universally adopted
on canals.
The great Salt Lake is said to be in
imminent danger of drying up, tbs
drain upon it being due to irrigation