The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-03-13
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF 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.


The Pennsylvania railroad has added
$3.50, 900, 900 to its capital stock
The ladrones in Rial province have
been scattered and the leaders captured.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
have celebrated their fortieth wedding
anniversary.
Missouri Pacific passenger train No.
8, the Fast Mail, ran into a landslide
near Gasconds, Mo-, and the engine
was buried in the mud.
A big find Of hemstite iron ore con-
tanning large percentage of metallic
iron and little droes has just been
made in the river hills near Wrights-
vile, Pa.
Henry Roso, the wealthy Cuban
planter, who. it is said, gave the great
er part Of his fortune in aid OF the
Cuban revolution, is confined in the
BIoomingdale aeylum for the insane.
DR.. Dosang, Chinese doctor and ex-
aIted member OF various Chinese secret
societies, reputed to be one OF the
wealthiest men of his race in this coun-
try, is dead at his home in Chicago.
William De La Berre, director Of the
Washburn- Pilsury mills, Minneapolis,
is in Magdeburg, buying machinery for
the Briquette works that W. D. Wash
burn intends to build at Bismarck, N. d.
Ex-senator Jones, of Arkansas, is
confined to his bed in Washington by
an attack Of la grippe.
No more bodies OF those drowned in
the ferryboat accident at Spier Falls,
N. Y, have been recovered.
The department of agriculture has
issued an order quarantining the state
Of New Hampshire because of the pres
ence of the foot and mouth disease.
The Missouri senate has passed the
bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
and cigarette papers to children under
is years of age. The came bill has
passed the house.
The North machinery company has
been incorporated at Trenton, N. j.,
with capital stock of $l5, 900, 900, and
will manufacture seed and agricultural
machinery Of all kinds.
because Of the unprecedented prevail
ence OF CHAMBERS among horses in New
York City, quarantine rules may be SO
rjgidly enforced as to work great incon-
venience to owners, particularly to
those doing heavy trucking business.
Norman Argo, said to have been the
original Uncle Tom, is dead at Faint
Lick, KY, at the reputed age of Ill
years. Argo was born slave, and te-
longed to General Samuel Kennery, a
wealthy planter Of Garrard county and
a former member of the Kentucky leg
islature.
A snow plow on the Old Colony
street railway, at Fall River. Mass,
became unmanageable at the top OF a
steep hill and, dashing down the in
cline, crashed into two cars loaded with
passengers. Five persons sustained
bruises and flesh wounds enough to me-
cessitate their being carried to hos
pital. A dozen others we're bruised
and cut.
The Idaho legislature has adjourned.
Senator Mitchell is not improving
very fast.
Minister Bowen lie again at work
strengthening up the Venezuelan
trouble.
The new steel cruiser Chattanooga
was launched in the presence of over
1000 spectators.
Conductors and brakemen on the
Union Paciflfc have been granted an
increase in wages.
W. R. Merriam, director of the cen
sus. will resign May l5 to go into busi
ness in New York.
The American window glass company
has closed its plant at indianapolis
Four thousand men are affected.
Two trains on the Burlington collideC
near Omaha, fatally iniuring one pas
senger and three others slightly.
The police Of Buffalo are unable t
locate the murderer Of Edward L. Bur
dick. A woman has been arrested, bu
there was no evidence against her an'
she was released.
Two persons were killed and 20 other
injured at Montreal by the collapse Q
building. Several hundred peopl
had gathered on a roof to watch burn
ing steamer and the weight was to
great for the roof.
The new United States monitor Ne
yada has been placed in commission
the navy yard at Portsmouth, n. ii.
A syndicate composed chiefly of Clevt
land capitalists Is securing options o
almost all the coal mines on the Kans
yha and New Rivers, West Virginia.
Vicar General Mooney is i'll wit
grip at his New York residence.
= Illinois ranks first among the state
in the manufacture OF agricultural IN
plements, bicycles, cars, glucose an
distilled liquors. and in slaughterir
and meat packing.
8 By giving to Yale's library an exec
tional collection of Russian and Slav
literature, and more recently a sma
library on music, the late ]. SUNNI
Smith, Yale 1858, so far impoverish'
his fortunes that Yale graduates hA'
taken steps to raise fund for the a
!, Of his widow.