The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-07-14
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 10 Our
Many Readers.

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Likely to Prove Interesting 10 Our
Many Readers.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, Ohio, is
dead.
The japanese are not likely to ad-
vance on Yinkow until after Ia Tche
Kiao falls.
New York butchers have already ad-
vanced their prices as the result of the
strike of packing house employees.
Not counting the many minor storms
there have been "a cloudbursts in East
ern Oregon since the first Of July.
The object of the last sort.e of III >
Russian feet was to she'll the Japanese
columns advancing on Port Arthur.
The operators of the Chicago packing
plants will try to secure nonunion help;
in most other cities the plants will be
closed.
The rainy season has greatly affected
the Russian army, disease spreading
rapidly. Officers are even more al
ected than the men.
The government has given Malheul
county, Oregon, until October to de-
eide whether they will make it rossi.
BILE for the great irrigation work to
proceed.
Nearly all Of these were attended by
a heavy property loss. The Russians
have been officially warned to be ready
to leave Port Arthur. The Japanese
army is within eight miles of the fort.
Port Arthur officials claim the Jap
anese army is too small to take the
fortress.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, Ohio, is
very low and his death is expected at
any time.
Employees of all the big packing
plants have gone on strike. Forty
thousand men are affected.
Washington officials believe a climax
is approaching at Port Arthur such as
marked the passage of the Yalu.
During heavy wind storm at St.
Louis one man was killed and five
others injured. Many buildings were
unroofed.
A number of Japanese transports
have been sighted off Kinchou. 1t is
believed they intend to make a land
ing at Yinkow.
Sixteen persons were killed and about |
three score injured in rear end col
ison between trains on the Erie rail
road at Midvale, N. ].
After day of hard fighting at Kai-
chou the Japanese were surprised next
morning to find that the Russians had |
evacuated the town during the night.
A number OF foreign attaches and |
newspaper correspondents have been
informed that they can 60 TO the front
July 20. This causes mary to believe
that severe lighting will take place
then.
Kuropatkin may retreat further
north.
The capture of Kaichou will permit
of the Japanese armies combining.
F. 9. Robertson, of Washington,
made the speech placing Ex-senator
Turner in nomination for vice presi-
dent on the Democratic ticket.
Six of the 10 passengers on the i'll
tated steamer Norge, who landed on
the Farce islands, were in such an ex-
hausted condition that they were una
BILE to speak. .-
William Clark .Crittenden, a student
of the University of California, has
been selected as the first Rhodes
scholar at Oxford to represent Califor-
mia. Seven candidates passed a sue
cessful examination. Massachusetts, is
the only state where as many men sue
ceeded in passing the qualifying exam
nation, eight having been successful
there. .....
Topeka believes that the worst Of the
food is over.
After severe fighting General oku
has occupied Kaiping.
The Democratic platform as adopted
contains no financial plank.
The British fleet has left Wei Hal
Wei hurriedly under sealed orders.
The Japanese have captured 10 guns
and 30 prisoners near Kaiachou.
In short but severe engagement at
Hoang the Russians were driven off
with loss OF 800.
Cholera is spreading rapidly in
Northern Persia. There are 500 dying
daily.
Good weather again prevails in
Manchuria and there is probability of
heavy fighting. ....
The Japnaee are advancing along
their entire front between the coast
and the Chinstan valley.
japanese generals are proving them
selves great strategists.
DR.. Swallow, candidate for president
on the Prohibition ticket has invited
Bryan to join that party.
Alaska Indians, jealous of white
mans property, started fire that de-
stroyed the village of Point Gravina.
| A division Of the Baltic squadron
will sail from Cronstadt July % under
sealed orders. Complete mystery sur
rounds her destination.