The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-07-26
EVENTS OF 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.

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The southwest was again scorched
by hot wave.
The steel trust has made no effort
to start up idle plants.
The rivers and haEbors committee
has returned from Alaska.
The international mining congress
has opened at Boise, Idaho.
Whitmarsh has been exonerated OF
the charges brought against him.
The ministers at Pekin have agreed
upon the question OF indemnity pay
mants.
San Francisco teamsters have quit
work and the wholesale trade is about
tied up.
Colonel Albert jerks, a we'll known
artist, dropped dead in Los Angeles of
heart disease, aged Is years.
A Pittsburg woman started the fire
with kerosene and, with her three
children, was burned to death.
The mayor OF Santa Paula, CAL,
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed by tough character OF that place.
Corbin and Chaffee have decided on
radical changes in the army in the
Philippines. The military force will
be reduced to 20, 600 or 30, 1000
A movement has been started by
the labor unions of San Francisco to
shut out Japanese, placing them on
the same footing with the Chinese.
At Chicago race track four horses
became frightened, threw their riders
and bolted from the track into the
spectators and several persons were
severely injured.
1t is estimated that $2,000,0 900 in
bank notes is in circulation which
have been printed from the plates OF
q defunct bank The pates were sup
posed to have been destroyed so years
ago.
The Havana drydock may be towed
to Subig bay, Luzon.
Aguinaldo is irritated by his con-
tinued Imprisonment.
The steel trust will attempt to open
several plants'this week.
Friendly relations between Russia
and Thibet have been opened.
Hot weather continues in the Brit
ish Isles, but relief is predicted.
Another heat wave has visited the
corn belt of Kansas and Nebraska.
Peasants of the Volga, Russia, pro-
vinces are on the verge of starvation.
General Davis has relieved General
Kobbe in the southern Philippine
islands.
Mrs. Kruger, wife of ex-President
Kruger. of the Transvaal republic,
is dead.
International Epworth League con-
vention at San Francisco has ad-
journed.
1t is almost certain that the sta
tionary fremen's strike will soon be
at an end,
Major O'Neill, the third mayor of
the city of Portland, is dead at his
home in Spokane
1t is feared that disorder and dis
tress will follow opening of govern
ment lands in Oklahoma.
The next official map Of the United
States will show the Lewis and Clark
route and incidentally advertise the
1905 fair.
No move has been made to settle
the steel strike.
General Daniel Butterfield died at
his home at Craigside, N. Y.
Ear Russell will enter the plea OF
guilty to the charge of bigamy.
One man was killed and so wound
ed in religious riots at Saragossa.
L. S. ]. Hunt has abandoned pro-
ject to establish newspaper at Sc
attic.
International convention of Ep-
worth League has opened in San
Francisco.
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany has reduced the price on all
grades of sugar.
Italy is investigating representa-
tions made regarding alleged lynching
of two Italians in Mississippi.
The British and French navies will
unite in series of maneuvers in
order to see which can out general
the other.
The tinworkers union has refused
to handle non union plates, thus COM
ing to the support OF the striking tin
plate makers.
The relief from drought in Kansas
was only temporary. The weather
has again turned warm and all crops
are witnering.
William G.. Whitney, of New York,
paid $50 900 for the two-year-old colt
Nasturtium.
1t is reported that company at St.
Cloud, Fla, has succeeded in making
excellent paper from the leaves OF
the palmetto.
Andrew Allan, the only surviving
founder of the Allan Line Ocean
Steamship Co. and president of the
line, died at Montreal, Can, at the
age of so years.