The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-07-23
EVENTSOF THEDAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review Of the Import.
ant Happenings Of tEp Past Week,
Presented In Condensed Form. Most
Likely to Prove interesting to Our
Many Readers.

Cattlemen and sheepmen Of Wyom-
ing are engaged in fierce war.
Arcadia, small Ohio town, has been
almost entirely wiped out by fire.
Russia has withdrawn her demands
on China, but lie preparing for war.
Turkey has mad to send more troops
to Macedonia to cope with the rebels.
A plot has been discovered in Chica-
go to sssassinate the German emperor.
Venezuelan rebels have been driven
to their last retreat after desperate
battle at Soledad.
A band of rebels operating in Albay
province. Philippine islands, has been
routed. A large number we're captured
or killed.
A hailstorm which visited Chicago
did great damage to property and was
the indirect cause OF five people being
seriously injured.
Colombia finds herself in financial
straits. Expenditures largely exceed
receipts 6nd necessaries OF life have
reached an almost prohibitory price.
Archbishop Katzer, Of Milwaukee, is
dead.
King Edward has started on tour
of Ireland.
The war feeling against Russia is
growing in Japan.
In the destruction of a Nome hotel
three people lost their lives.
A street car collided with wagon at
Kansas City, seriously injuring six
people.
A Conner creek mine, near Hunting
ton, has been robbed of large amount
Of money and dust.
The heir to the British throne is to
visit the United States and will be the
guest of President Roosevelt.
In an explosion at the Minnequa
steel works, Pueblo, five men we're
burned by hot metal, two fatally.
A bloody battle occurred at Cindad
in Venezuela, when that place
was captured by government forces.
A severe wind, hail and rain storm
swept over part OF Southeastern Iowa,
destroying all croPa in its path and lev
cling many buildings and trees.
Governor Yates, of Illinois, has re-
turned from trip to Europe.
TAe next annual convention Of
Knights of st. John will be held at
Peoria, ILL.,, on June %, 1904.
John Lanbershim, of Los Angeles,
the Harvard student who stole an auto.
mobile as Clark" has compensated
the owner and been released.
A dog which bit a number OF chill
dren in Milwaukee proves TO have had
rabies and the health board is trying to
Hnd the children in order to apply an.
tidotes.
The death by APPENDICITIS of Mrs. F.
o. Matthiesen, widow of the former
president of the American sugar refining
company, leaves her nephew, Conrad
H. Matthiesen, heir to SIS, 100000.
Axel simonson, a sea captain, has
sued for libel a magazine publishing
for publishing story repre-
senting him as having been the first to
leave his wrecked ship. He says the
story is false and by depicting him as a
coward damages his reputation.
Notice to vacate has been served on
So squatters on a tract in the SUBURBS
Of New York city. which is to be con-
verted into lakes for additional water
supply, but some of them will resist.
Included are four churches, four schools,
six hotels, ten summer residences and
about 40 farms.
A package containing six yards Of
lace said to be valued at $500 has been
since April 8, when it was
by express from New York to
The lace is a part of
set valued at 10000 belonging to the
wife of General A. E. Bates, of WASH
ington, D G. 1t was a family heir
loom.
A conspiracy has been discovered
among army officers of Portugal TO over
throw the king.
Japan has now a gold reserve of l73,-
600, 900.
The battleship Kearsarge has started
on her race across the ocaen.
United States authorities have cap
tured seven Italian counterfeiters in
Brooklyn.
Fire destroyed the sabin hotel and
at Port Arthur, Tex. Loss
800, 900, bsrtly insured.
A report is in circulation in London
that France intends to transfer its pos
sessions in the eastern Pacific to the
United States.
Twelve Chinese were killed in an ex-
plosion in a Nansimo, B. c., mine.
The Russian war minister says Port
Arthur is a fortress inaccessible to all
enemies no matter how great their num-
bers or whence they come.
The prohibition of the importation OF
arms and ammunition into China ex.
pires in August. The minister's have
decided that the prohibition is useless
and ineffective and that the Chinese are
capable OF regulating the importation
Of war munitions.