The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-07-18
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS or
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings Of the Past Week, Presented
In q Condensed Form. Which Is Most
Likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Many
Readers

Two hundred miners at Leavenworth,
KAN, have gone on strike.
The Peary relief ship has started on
her trip to the Arctic regions.
The president has appointed Director
Merriam as permanent director Of the
census.
The emperor of Corea has accepted
an invitation for that country to partisl
cipate in the st. Louis exposition.
Blanks for Indian war veterans have
been issued and applications will soon
be going in to the pension department
at Washington.
The posse in pursuit of Tracy has re-
turned to Seattle for rest. The force
will'be reorganized and more deter
mined campaign inaugurated.
General Chaffee has been relieved OF
command in the Philippines and will
be assigned to duty in the United
States. He will be succeeded by Gem
eral Davis.
Masked men held up Denver & Rio
Grande passenger train in Colorado.
It is not known how much they Sc
cured, but the train usually carries a
large amount OF money.
BY the finding of Merrill's body, the
story told by Tracy has proven to be
true. The body has been found few
miles from Chehalis, at the place Tracy
declared he fought with his partner.
A boy passing through the canyon dis.
overed it lying in the brush.
Fixing OF coronation date has upset
London .society's plans.
The flood situation at Topeka, Kan,
is becoming more serious.
Chicago as threatened with a food
famine because # the strike.
A number OF violent earthquake
shocks have been reported from Vene-
zuela.
The Vatican is anxious to establish
diplomatic relations with the United
States.
Two men we're killed and another
fatally injured in a train wreck at
Peoria, Ill.
David P. Kronacher, assistant pay
master United States navy, was
drowned off Ocean View, Va.
Lord Kitchener has returned to Eng
land from South Africa and was well
coined by the Prince of Wales.
i grand nephew OF the great German
Bismark is confined in the Tombs, New
York, charged with burglary in the
third degree.
A hot wave in France is resulting in
many deaths.
Rain has checked the spread of chol-
era in the Philippines.
Bear Creek, Wisconsin village, has
been almost entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
The death list in the Johnstown
mine horror continues to grow. There
we're 600 men in the mine at the time
Of the explosion. On, hundred and
forty-three bodies have been recovered.
A Portland bartender shot and killed
his wife, mother -in-lsw, and another
man, and seriously wounded his father
in-law, and then gave himself up tc
the police and told them of his crime.
His only regret was that he did moi
kill the rest Of the family.
Tracy and the pursuing posse engaged
in another bloodless battle in which IL
shots we're fred by the officers and tive
by the outlaw. 1t is thought probable
that Tracy was wounded, although i
was SO dark at the time that it wai
impossible to see the fleeing man.
The Panama canal treaty may b.
signed within week.
Secretary Hay has induced the pow
ers to vacate Tien Tsin.
The East is suffering from extreme
heat. One days record at Philadel
phia and New York shows six DEATH
at each place.
Tracy continues to give the off ers II
pursuit of him the slip. Every tim,
the posse gets him about surrounded
he shows up in new location.
Members of the posse ind the people
in general in the section where Trac!
has been the past week, express th'
opinion that the outlaw is insane.
The special board Of engineers TO in
vestigate the Harts project at Tn
Dalles will probably not meet unit
September, which is much later tnal
at first proposed.
According to reports from variou
sections of the country surrounding
Seattle, Merrill, the escaped convic
has been seen in several places at tn
same time, besides being at presen