The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-12-20
EVENlTSOF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
The WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings Of the Past Week Presented
In a Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove Of interest to Our Many
Readers.

Likely to Prove oi interest to our many
Readers.
Fire in Bloomington, ILL.,, destroyed
property valued at $50, 900.
Schley will file objections to the
findings OF the court of inquiry.
By the explosion of gasoline stove
in st. Louis, two women were fatal
ly burned.
Emperor William has decorated
Marquis Ito, Of Japan, with the Order
of the Red Eagle.
According to London correspond
ent, the Northeastern Railway has
given an order for 20 American loco.
motives.
Telegraph company ordered Marconi
to cease his experiments in Newfound-
land, as they owned exclusive control
in that country.
A Vienna paper publishes semi
official statement that the interna-
tional anti-anarchist negotiations are
likely to be without result.
Burglars entered the Rhinebeck, n.
", postoffice and bank and got stamps
and money to the value of $500, hut
in the bank they secured nothing.
A Paris paper states that Com
mandant General Botha has reported
to Mr.. Kruger that he has 1000
armed men, 10000 being Cape Col
ony recruits.
General Botha, the Boer leader, was
wounded in recent engagement.
Whatcom, Wash, is flooded with
counterfeit money.
Emperor William complains that
German workmen drink too much
beer.
The house will take up the matter
Of war tax reduction after the holi-
days.
Marconi received wireless message
at St. Johns, N. F., from Cornwall,
England.
An insurgent major and AZ men
have been captured by the Americans
in the Philippines.
General Bell has adopted concen-
tration policy in Batangas province,
Philippine islands.
A negro has been captured who
confesses to have wrecked the train
near The Dalles, Or, recently.
The backbone OF the cold wave,
which has prevailed throughout the
east and middle west for the past
week, has been broken.
Murderer Dalton was found guilty of
murder in the first degree at Port
land.
Mormons have made 5000 converts
in the mountain counties of West
Virginia.
A block OF II business houses was
burned at Sweetwater, Tex; loss,
$l50.00
South Manchester, Conn, elk
weavers struck to have. their machin-
cry changed.
Burglars robbed bank at Shreve,
O., but were unsuccessful at Felicity,
in the same state.
Goldsmith & Co. IS housefuInishing
establishment in Milwaukee was dam
aged $50, 900 by fire.
Major General Macarthur has been
ordered to assume command OF the
department of the Colorado.
The Democratic senatorial caucus
considered the canal treaty, but could
reach no decision, being divided.
The eighty-third anniversary of the
admission OF Illinois into the Union
as state was celeb, ated at Spring
eld.
Prince Tuan is planning a rebellion
in Mongolia,
Every roailroad entering Salt Lake
has Joined in a rate war.
The date OF King Edward S coro-
nation is fixed at June 26, 1902.
Yukon miners are unknowingly
throwing away thousands OF dollars
worth of platinum.
A French aeronaut, who has already
crossed the Mediterranean, will try
to cross the Atlantic.
The Scranton, Pa, labor oonven-
tion was unanimous for Chinese ex-
clusion, but not for Japanse exclusion.
Speaker Henderson has announced
the new house committees. This is
not usually done until after the holi-
day recess.
Wayne, W. Va, was almost wiped
out by fire. Eight business build
ings and three dwellings we're de-
stroyed; loss $4,000.
The Texas Railway commission and
the railroad are at outs. The COM
mission is trying to compel all trains
to be run on schedule time.
No president was ever elected by
direct vote Of the people Of the United
States.
Wheat, rye, turnips and flax are
decreasing crops in Great Britain.
Barley. oats potatoes and small fruits
are on the increase.