The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-04-09
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.

Many Readers.
Cold weather has ruined the peach
and strawberry crops of the east and
west shores OF Maryland.
Recent statistics show that that the
rate Of deaths from cancer in Great
Britain has doubled in the last 40
years.
Representative John H. Kettham, Of
New York, who has been i'll in WASH
ington, has returned home GONZALES
cent.
Miss Edna Teltener, niece OF Mrs.
Jonh w. Mackay, is reported to be en-
gagged to Signor Gino de Martino, of
Naples.
The cottage at Tabor, Ia, where John
Brown lived fori several years, and
where he drilled his followers, has been
destroyed by fire.
A large area OF coal and petroleum
land has been located in the Southeast
Kootenay district of British Columbia,
mostly by Americans.
Ex-President Cleveland has asked
William Pickens, the Negro who won
the Ten Eek prize for oratory at Yale,
to send him copy Of the oration.
All four years OF the college course at
Yale will hereafter be optional, making
it possible for freshmen to drop Greek,
Latin and mathematics from the en-
trance examination.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to pay
The bills OF all Cornell students incurred
by sickness in the typhoid fever epi-
demic, where they or their parents will
permit.
Oscar Bar life, engineer of the train
which collided with a trolley car at
Newark, N. j., on January 1, whereby
many school children we're killed or In
iured, is raving maniac in hospital.
he raves about his engine and is con-.
stantly manipulating imaginary throt-
tiee, levers and valves.
The police of New York and neigh
boring cities are trying 10 run down,
whole bands of Italian brigands, who
have recently been driven from italy
and came to the Atlantic coast, where
they are blackmaihng their fellow
countrymen with threats OF murder.
Dunsmuir, CAL, was nearly destroyed
by FIRE.
Sailors from battleships will here
after be given longer shore leave.
Pekin is apparently much surprised
at the increase OF the Asiatic squadron.
President Roosevelt will be escorted
from the depot at Portland by mon
ster parade.
Rebels Of Santo Domingo have re-
pulsed the government troops and still
hold that city.
Jefferson s. Conover, grand secretary
Of the Free and Accepted Masons OF
Michigan, is dead, aged 62 years.
Governor Taft is mentioned for the
presidency in 1904. The New York
Herald figures that Roosevelt will be a
winner with New York state in the
doubtful column.
The Indiana operators will submit a
proposition to the miners agreeing to
have a commission, composed OF an
operator. miner, and an expert min
ing engineer, TO decide what mines in
the Clinton field require shooters.
The Anthracite strike commission
award with reference to the mining
engineers gives the engineers q holiday
on Sundays, which was observed last
Sunday throughout the mining regions
for the first time in the history OF coal
mining.
Not a single disorderly act has oe-
Cured to mar the tranquility OF Mon
terey, Mex, since Thursdays riots.
Governor Reyes, in speaking of the
affair, said that an investigation showed
absolutely that the police first fred in
the air, later firing at their aggressors
only in defense of their lives
Geroge Gillette is dead at the county
hospital of Santa Cruz, CAL, aged so
years. He came to the United States
in 1912 as a member of Lord Ashbur-
ton suite to negotiate the Ashburton-
Webster treaty Tor the northeast boun-
dary of this country. He had been an
inmate Of the county hospital for IL
years.
A new Haytien cabinet has been
formed. The old cabinet resigned
owing to the senate having passed q
vote Of censure against the ministers
Tor their failure to take proceedings
against those who were responsible for
the interruptions ei the sitting OF the
chamber of deputies March 80 by the
firing Of rife shots.
The German Kaiser Is on a visit to
his royal friends In Denmark.
President Roosevelt spoke at MIL
vaukee on trusts, at Waukesha on for
eign relations, at Madison on college
educations.
Snowstorn destroys telegraph lines
and paralyzes railroad tratfic In Moth
ern Mississippi valley.
Thomas Kelgan. who escaped FROM
be Toledo. o.. Jail in 1901. Is behind
he bars again. He is charged with
he robbery OF the Toledo postofiee.
Helgan was caught In Los Angeles
Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, Of the
department of Semitic language and
literature at Cornell university, Itha-
ca. N. Y, has accepted an appoint
nent at director OF the American
School of Archaeology at Jerusalem.