The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-08-15

The Philadelphia Times and Public
edger have com bined.
The International Typographical
Union is in session at Cincinnati this
| week.
The Lead and Zinc News of st. Louil
says a merger OF white lead companies
capitalized at $50,O00,00O is being
formed.
After three days of fighting at BARGE
Iona, Venezuela, President Castro's mer
were beaten, losing go men and Gen
eral Bravo, their commander.
Mrs. Elizabeth Young, the oldest
actress on the American stage, died
Sunday at the Actress Fund Home, on
Staten Island, aged 92 years.
King Edwards coronation was cele-
brated by Al American gunboats at
Caveito ON Saturday. They dressed
ship and fired salute,of 81 guns.
The seventeenth annual session Of
the Oregon Press Association convenes
at Newport, Or, Thursday evening,
Aug. IA, and continues until Aug. II.
In the sedition case of the Manila
Freedom, Judge Amber has denied its
editors jury trial, saying that in their
case the Constitution of the United
States does not apply.
The Philippine Catholic church has
been organized in detection from the
Church of Rome. Governor Taft, Ag-
uinaldo and Departo de Taryo, men,
Der OF the Philippine commission, are
honorary presidents.
Irish Lad won the great sporting
sweepstakes at Saratoga.
Senator McMillin of Michigan is
dead. lie had been in congress since
1889.
tornado in Stearns county, Mimi,
Saturday evening did much damage to
farm buildings and crops.
General Corbin is authority for the
statement that Pacific coast army
headquarters will not be moved from
Vancouver, Wash.
The San Francisco police commission
has decided to enforce its order OF July
%, requiring saloonkeepers to remove
their slot machines paying cash prizes.
A syndicate of Americans, led by 7.
B. Hoard, of Nebraska, wealthy cattle
man, will establish the first bonanza
wheat farm in Canada, between Craik
and Davidson. Forty thousand acres
have been purchased.
The house OF commons has adjourned
TO Oct. 16,
The report of the comptroller of the
treasury shows national banks to be in
good condition.
An advance in Erie stocks has been
caused by rumors Of j. j. Hills con.
nection with the road.
N. G. Hopper the Chicago amateur
rider, lowered the worlds half.mile
amateur bicycle record, unpaced, on
the Salt Palace saucer track, covering
the distance in O:53 2-5. The previous
record was 0:5S.
The British premier, A. ]. Balfour,
has announced the appointment of the
following committee of inquiry into the
conduct of the Boer war: The Earl
of Elgin, chairman; Sir Henry Nor
man, Sir John Hopkins, Lord Esher,
and Sir John Edge.
Floods have devastated the low coun-
try on the coast of the Black sea.
Thirteen men were killed by an ex-
plosion in mine at Bowen, Colo.
A Viking ship, 40 feet long, has been
nnearthed on the Island of KarmOe,
Norway.
The expedition which started from
Vancouver, B c., to search for Cocos
Island buried treasure, have returned
without success.
Lucy Hoving, chief organizer Of the
Socialist party in Utah, was run over
by horse and buggy at Ogden and
instantly killed.
The Colorado Republican convention
will be held at Denver Sept. 4. The
Democratic convention will be held in
the same city Sept. 8.
Professor John Jay Watson, we'll
known musical director and author oi
many popular werks, died at Boston
Thursday. He was born in 1880.
The various oyster canning and pack
ing companies in Mississippi, Alabama,
and Louisiana, 10 in number, will, it
is said, combine under one head,
with capital of s2, 100000.
WI Ting Fang, the retiring Chinese
minister at Washington, has accepted
an invitation t. address the local labor
union at Binghampton, N. Y, on
/ LauOf ddgs 1hts - tlo uI6t lHNitdttOn
which has ever been extended to a
Chinaman by labor union in this
country.
William @. Whitney. Of New York,
has given handsome house and lot to
the physician who attended Mrs. Whit
ney in her long illnses.
Turner's In convention at Davenport,
Ia, defeated a proposition to admit
women to membership and urged taxa
tion of church property.
st. Louis and eastern capitalists have
organized to build a bridge over the
Mississippi at st. Louis and > new de-
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