The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-08-23
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings Of the Past Week Presented
in Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Many
Readers.

Chinese officials are much dissatis-
fed with terms OF the treaty.
Ohio river steamer overturned in q
squall and rs passengers were
drowned.
Rebels in Colombia and Venezuela
continue operations in hopes of get
ting help.
Latest passengers from Nome bring
stories of threatened destitution there
this winter.
Constitutions Columbia race was de-
clared off temporarily on account OF
heavy winds.
Latest estimate Of visible wheat in
the United States shows a decrease OF
|, 449, 600 bushels.
Steel trust has started up several
plants, but strikers contend that they
have lost no ground.
Colombian minister assures Secre-
tary Hay that traffic is entirely un-
disturbed in that country.
British surprised two Boer laagers
and killed % men, but were unable
to follow up their success.
England demands prompt punish
ment OF authors of Chinese massacre
or she will not withdraw her troops.
Cervera, the Spanish admiral, is to
be presented with a loving cup for
kindness shown American prisoners
during the Spanish h-American war.
Germany will soon establish a col
onial army.
The United States may send more
warships to Colon.
An Ecuadorean force is preparing
to invade Colombia,
Won Waldersee hopes to become
chancellor of Germany.
General Macarthur has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila.
The results of the gulf storm were
not so bad as at first reported.
Hayden, the embezzling treasurer
OF Swift & Co., cannot be found.
A force of Colombians invaded
Venezuela, but were driven back.
San Francisco retailers have made
a move towards ending the strike.
Kruger urges the British National
lists to continue their efforts to secure
peace.
Venezuelan officials blame the CO.
lombian government for the present
trouble.
The steel trust is landing nom
union men at Monessen and will start
up the mills there.
A Chicago trolley car colided with
a passenger train, killing four and
injuring II people.
Explosion OF two cars OF powder
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Southern Pacific near Glendale, Or.
The Alaska steamer Islander struck
an iceberg and sank Immediately,
carrying down about 60 of the passen-
gers and crew and $3.50, 600 in gold.
Both sides are making gains in the
steel strike.
The Shamrock II is being put in
order for racing.
There is little change in the San
Francisco strike situation.
Crispi's remains were taken by
warship from Naples to Palermo.
A. j. Montague was nominated for
governor by Virginia Democrats.
The gunboat Machias has been
ordered to Panama Immediately.
The German Crown Prince may be
engaged to the Princess of Batten-
berg.
The fishing season on the Columbia
has closed and the pack will be about
337, 900 cases
Over a dozen lives we're lost by the
burning of the waterworks crib in
the lake at Cleveland, Ohio.
Chicago steelworkers who would
not obey the strike order were put
out of the Amalgamated Association.
River and harbor recommends
tions for the coming year are about
the same as in the bill that failed to
pass last winter.
Burglars who attempted to rob an
Ohio bank were frightened away be-
fore they secured anything and are
now surrounded in the woods near
the town.
The Union Pacific Railroad has
notified its empoyes that habitual
drinking or even the mere frequent
ing of saloons will in future be consid-
cred cause for discharge.
A coal famine in San Francisco is
imminent because OF the strike.
Two men were asphyxiated and
others nearly so in Montana mine.
An advance of from one to two dol
lars a ton has been made in all fin
ished steel products.
Krupp, the German gun maker,
has fortune of nearly $50, 600, 900,
an income of nearly $l4, 600, 600 and a
pay roll of so, 600 persons.
Mrs. William f. English presented
to the state museum a dead Jersey
pig with one head and two bodies
Joined at the shoulders.