The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-09-26
EVENTS OF THE DAY.
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS or THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week.
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove interesting to Our
Many Readers.

Two tramps were killed in freight
wreck on the Northwestern in Iowa.
Another call has been made on the
governor Of Pennsylvania for troops in
the strike district.
J. P. Morgan Is opposed to the 70.
nomination OF Roosevelt, and is work.
ing hard 10 defeat him.
hair and feather factory in Chicago
was destroyed by fire. Several persons
we're overcome by smoke. Loss, 81 ,O0O.
Hail in New Mexico stripped trees Of
fruit and lightning set fire to the capi-
tol, which was saved after bard fight.
The Colombian revolution has broken
out in new place. Conditions are
much disturbed on the north coast,
near the mouth Of the Magdalens river.
A Sacramento liver steamer burned
at her dock in San Francisco. Several
passengers were more or less severely
injured.
A New York man is suing a street
car company for $4,000 on account Of
an accident which compelled him to
shave off his whiskers.
All is in readiness at Fort Riley,
Kan, for the war maneuvers.
A balloon explosion at Vienna re-
suited in the death of 80 persons.
Fire at Birmingham, Ala, destroyed
property to the value Of 1920, 900.
Roosevelt is being urged to announce
an extra session Of congress in 1908.
Postal receipts of Oregon and Wash.
ington for the past year show good
increase.
Cholera has broken ont again in
Egypt and many cases are being re-
ported daily.
Three men were badly injured by an
explosion at the Willamette Iron
Works in Portland.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck the czar's train while he was on
his way to st. Petersburg.
An electric car at Akron, Ohio,
jumped the track, iniuring dozen
passengers more or less severely.
A French aeronaut with 8 new flying
machine has made two unsuccessful
attempts to cross the Mediterranean.
The Lime Branch, the largest vessel
ever entering the Columbia river, 10
now loading at Portland. The steamer
has carrying capacity of over 5000
tons of cargo.
By cave-in at West Virginia coal
mine four miners lost their lives.
Hayti is taking active steps to end
the civil war, fearing American inter-
vention.
General Miles considers the coast
Notifications of the Northwest 70 be in
excellent condition.
The cable steamer laying the trans
Atlantic cable from Victoria, B. c.,
covered 164 miles the first day.
The death list OF the Alabama
church disaster Is growing. One
hundred and ten dead are reported.
Explorer Baldwin, who has just re-
turned from an Arctic expedition,
holds the old idea of an open polar SEA
as baseless.
An Ohio school teacher has lost bis
position because he made white girls
and colored girls who had been quar-
reling kiss.
Ten thousand people attended an
open air mass meeting in New York
organized in sympathy with the strik-
ing cJal miners.
The American Line steamship st.
Paul, which arrived at New York .
few days ago, had marrow escape
from destruction by fire on her way
across the ocean.
England has sent a cruiser to Colon
to protect British interests.
A barbed wire plant at Pittsburg
was burned, destroying property worth
$3.50. 900,
The next meeting Of the IRterna-
tional Sunday School convention will
be held in Jerusalem in 1904.
The United States will station war
vessel in the tropics and be prepared
for emergencies at ell times.
The sovereign grand lodge OF the Odd
Fellows has made national oFganisa.
tion of the Patriarchs Militant.
A panic in Birmingham, Al4..
Negro church cost rs lives, and as
many more we're seriously injured.
Two wrecks occurred on the Northern
Pacific in Washington, in which an
engineer was killed and segersl pas.
sengers injured.
Russia has set October 8 - the date
for the withdrawal of her troops from
ManehuriI.
A mob attacked q Pittston, Pa, col.
liery, and after driving the nonunion
men from the mine, set fire to the
breaker. Considerable damage was
done before the flames were controlled.
Stanley Spencer, an English aero
naut, made a successful fight Of so
miles over London in an airship Of bic
own Invention. The craft vas CON-
pletely under bis control during the