The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-07-12
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
A Comparative Review Of the Important
Happenings Of the Past Week Presented
In a Condensed Form Which Is Most
Lksly to Prove Of Interest 10 Our Many
Readers.

rhpldity AT Annoy
Sixteen German soldiers we're
drowned in the Rhine
Friars we're mobbed in Pangasinan
province, Philippine islands.
Cattlemen have protested against
the opening Of Oklahoma lands
Municipalities will he organized in
Iaguna province, Philippine islands.
The Abyssinians pursuing Mad
Mullah are on the verge OF starvation.
4 landslide at Lung Keng, China,
caused the loss Of 300 lives and much
valuable property.
4 cloudburst in San Andreas can
yon. near Albuquerque, n. NJ, did
considerable damage.
The secretary OF the treasury has
been authorized to refund duties paid
on goods from Porto Rico
A switch engine at Columbus, o.,
crashed into a passenger train and
about 20 passengers were hurt
Militia may be called ont to quell
trouble between union and Japanese
fishermen on Fraser river, B. c.
Governor Whitmarsh, of Benguet
province, Philippine islands, is ac-
cuscd OF violating his instructions.
The war department has finished
the new Philippine tariff and the
schedules will be mailed to Governor
Taft at once.
The United States training ship
Alert, with l24 apprentice boys ON
board has sailed from San Francisco
for Yokohama, Japan.
The freight handlers strike at
Reading, Pa, is still on, with no
prospect for an early settlement.
More than 100 cars block all traffic.
Pierre Lorillard, the tobacco king,
is dead.
The hot wave in the east has been
broken.
The pope condemns the French law
of associations.
Prince Won Hohenlohe died at Rag
atz Switzerland
Kruger has abandoned his contem-
plated trip to America.
President opens a large tract of land
in Oklahoma for settlement.
The navy department has re-estab-
lished the European station.
Crazy man shot and killed the Judge
who once declared him insane.
The miners strike at Telluride,
Colo, has been satisfactorily settled.
The Standard Oil company is send
ing vessels to the Pacific coast for
wheat.
G. n. Gordon, inder five years SEN
tence, escaped from the Jail at Van
cOuyer.
Actual business on London stock
exchange last week was worse than
ever before.
DR.. J. w Watts, whose vote made
Rutherford b. Hayes president in
1876 is dead.
Montana train robbers have out
witted the officers, and their capture
is not probable.
Robert Knapp drowned himself in
the Willamette at Portland to end his
sufferings from asthma.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
long-talked-of salmon Gamers COM
bine has at last been formed.
In the last race at Newport the
yacht Constitution beat the Columbia
nine minutes and the Independence
seven minutes.
Head-end collision OF trains on
the Southern Pacific near Dunsmuir,
Cal, resulted in the death of hobo
and serious injuries to two other men.
Fire in Williams, Ariz., destroyed
nealry 5000, 900 worth of property.
Albert l.. Johnson, a prominent
trolley line promoter, is dead at his
home in Brooklyn.
An American has been awarded the
South African war medal for service
rendered the English.
England gives instructions that
raising of flag at Skagway, Alaska,
is not to be insisted upon.
The president has issued pro-
clamation adding l42, 900 acres to the
Cascade reserve in Oregon.
The hot wave in the East continues
and the deaths and prostrations are
more numerous than ever before.
An immense lead combine has been
formed to control the lead fields in
Missouri. Capitalization, $50, 0O0,-
600.
A Chicago man was shot and fatal
" wounded while attempting to re-
cover a lady's purse from the man
who did the shooting.
Six former governors of Tennessee
are among the citizens of that state.
one being United States senator Viii
liam h. Bate.
Twenty torpedo boat destroyers and
torpedo boats will oe turned over to
the government by contractors within
the next few months.
The earl Of Stamford, addressing
the National Vigilance Society, in
London, says American womensare