The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-02-21
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
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.

A mob lynched negro in small
town near st. Louis.
An Iowa gambling house was held up
and robbed of $4,000.
A crusade is on in New York against
automobile scorchers.
New York has just experienced the
worst blizzard in IA years.
Death list from Shamaka, Russia,
earthquake numbers 1000.
The senate has ratified the treaty for
the purchase of the Danish West In
dies.
By the confession of another prison
er, man in the Colorado penitentiary
for murder has been set free.
Admiral Dewey was asked to dine
with Prince Henry, but had to decline,
owing to the illness OF Mrs. Dewey.
The bill to repeal the war taxes was
unanimously passed by the house, every
member voting in favor of it. 1t may,
however, be amended in the senate.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate for the retirement of Naval Con-
structor Hobson. His eyesight has
been very poor for the past two years.
Portland chamber of commerce trus-
tees we're severely criticised for their
recent action favoring admission of Chi
nese by a mass meeting of 1900 citi-
zens.
Prince Henry is on his way to the
United States.
Fire at Wisdom, Mont, destroyed
$20, 900 worth of property.
Martial law has been declared at
Trieste, Austria, on account of riots.
General Bell has stamped out the re-
belllion in Batangas province, Luzon.
The treaty for the Danish West In
dies will come up in the senate this
week.
Because they could not get whiskey,
three Usage Indians in Oklahoma drank
a concoction of wood alcohol, vanilla,
cologne and Florida water.
A British force was caught in Boer
trap on the Kip river and two officers
and 10 men killed and large number
wounded before they gained shelter.
Lewis and Clark exposition stock has
been increased to $500, 900.
The president will announce his de-
eision in the Schley case in few days.
Representative Tongue has intro
duced uew irrigation bill in the
house.
A company has been incorporated in
California to develop the island OF
Mindanao, P. |.
Troops have had to be called out in
France to preserve order among striking
leather workers.
Santos Dumont's airship burst while
he was making a trial, and the inventor
had narrow escape from drowning.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has passed
the danger point in his sickness. The
president has returned to Washington.
Russia expresses herself we'll pleased
at the Anglo-Japanese alliance, but
hopes the United States is not q party
to it.
Commander Booth-Tucker, of the Sal
vation Army, has taken the oath of al
legiance as a citizen of the United
States.
Lord Kitchener made a concentrated
movement of all available troops against
Dewet's forces, but the Boer leader
managed to slip through the lines.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is nearly out
of danger.
The senate will construct new war
tax reduction bill.
The oleomargarine bill has been
passed by the house.
The Anglo-Jspanese alliance was the
work of Marquis Ito.
The dowager queen of Italy will make
a tour of the United States.
Six men we're killed and six fatally
injured in a battle in Kentucky.
The work of developing the Philip
pine islands will consume years.
The rebel gunboat Libertador cap
tured and sank Colombian gunboat.
Renewed riots in Spain have resulted
in the death of number of people and
the injury of scores.
The imperial German yacht Hohen-
zollern has arrived at New York, one
day earlier than was expected.
Northern Pacific switchmen at Mis-
soula, Mont, are on strike.
Young Teddy Roosevelt is slightly
better, although the crisis has not yet
passed.