The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-08-04
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Packers claim victory over the Chi
J. cago strikers.
Ell Paso will fight for the American
Mining congress for 1905.
/ The London Times declares the sink
ing Of merchantmen piracy.
Insurance rates have decreased sine,
> the return TO Vladivostok of the Rus
! sian raiding squadron.
The assassin of Won Plehve has beer
identified as student at Kbarkoff uni.
versity. He has died Of his injuries.
A small German vessel loaded with
fish for Yokohama was also sunk by
the Vladivostok squadron on its recent
raid.
An insl eotion OF the excursion steam
er Grand Republic shows conditions
sim lar TO those on the death-ship G IN
Feral Slocum.
Washington Democrats have nomin-
ated Geo &c Turner, of Spokane, for
governor and Steven Judson, of Pierce
county, for lieutenant governor.
Railway telegraphers on Texas roads
are on a strike.
The government statement for July
shows lagre deficit.
Large receipts of livestock are being
received and handled at the Chica 90
stockyards.
Special efforts will be made at San
Francisco by the government in the
land fraud cases.
The battleship Ohio fell below the
required speed in the first trial trip in
Santa Barbara channel.
The New York Building Trades alli-
ance has caused work to cease on
number of large buildings.
The Diamond Special" on the Illi-
nois Central was held up near Chicago
by four maksed men who went through
the coaches and secured $4,000 in
booty and escaped.
Genreal Count Keller was killed by
Japaense shell July 20 while resist
ing the preliminary attack of General
kuToki's army. He is the first high
Russian officer to be killed in the Man
churian campaign.
A cloudburst in Nevdaa flooded sew
eral towns.
The assassin of Won Plehve still re.
fuses to talk.
Packres and strikres both claim VIC
tories at Chicago.
Relations between France and the
vatican have been broken off.
The japanese are said to have made
great gains around Port Arthur.
Count Ignatieff will succeed to the
Russian ministry OF the interior.
The Sntaa Fe tracks were washed out
for IL miles by, food in Arizona can
yon.
Thirteen passengers on a Rochester, !
N. Y, trolley road were injured in a
collision.
Clash between Russians and Japan.
ese armies is soon expected. The Japs
have l20, 900 men and 100 guns and
the Russians 100000 men and 12O
guns.
The steamer Arabia and her cargo
may yet be confscated Much of the
-four aboard was unconsigned. The
Russian government has no official
notice of her release.
Packers say they can now afford to
ignore the strikers.
A rupture between France and the
vatican seems inevitable.
A japanese cruiser and a gunboat
we're lost off Port Arthur by striking
mines.
President Golden, Of the packing
teamsters' union, has been arrested for
picketing.
Russia has filed protest with Great
Britain on shipping Of contraband Of
war to Japan.
Russia will assist the United, States
in the protection of seals at the Kom.
mander islands.
Peace promotes from Iowa failed in
their effort to settle the Chicago strike
and have revurned home.
The Portland & Asiatic steamer Ara
bia has been released at Vladivostok.
All contraband cargo was removed.
The principal in the assassination Of
Won Plehve was Little Russian, but
the instigators of the deed have not yet
been identified.
Leaders in the Benson -Hy yde- -Dimond
land ring will probably escape punish
ment. United States Judge Lacombe
has declared the indictments invalid
as the crimes were against states and
not the government.
A general attack is believed to have
begun on Port Arthur.
A Spanish war veteran drew the first
homestead in the Rosebud agency in
south Dakota.
The question of payment for Port
land -four seized by Russian vessels
will probably go before prize court.
Other attempts at assassination are
expected 10 Russian official circles.
The steamer Korea, frcm San Fran
cisco, has dodged the Russian feet and
arrived safely at Toxic. j