The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-05-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
ClncInnat'- Mayor Begins u Campaign
Against sunday Baseball, Ete.

Peace has been restored in Honduras.
The rebellion was ahort-liycd.
President Palmer Of the Worlds Fair,
! II II thought, will be sent as Minister to
China.
large amount Of railroad building In
West Virginia is promised during the
next six months.
movement to establish fund for
disabled or retired government employees
is on foot IN New York city.
II il estimated by the health authori-
ties that 100000 persons in New York
suffered from the grip in April
The Mayor of Cincinnati has begun a
campaign against Sunday hall-playing
and the opening OF saloons and theaters
on Sunday.
The new styles Of postal cards have
been printed at the factory ut Birming-
ham, Conn. They are considered im-
proyements on the old style.
4 federation OF railroad employees has
been formed in 81. Louis, representing
$1,000 men. The body IL opposed 10 the
reelection Of Chief Engineer Arthur.
Though she doesn't say much about il,
Philadelphia has n Grant monument
fund, and will some day erect an appro-
PIRATE statue. The sum il now $22, 900.
At temperance revival which has
just closed at Linncus, Mo-, over $40
persons signed the total abstinence
pledge, and two clubhouses were closed.
There is not n word Of truth in the re-
port that coke operators in Pennsylvania
are keeping some of their new men in
the mines and not letting them come to
the surface.
There IL to be little congress of
Southern writer's the lest week IN July,
which, it il hoped, will do not Il little to
stimulate and help characterize the liter
ature Of the South,
Last October nine women were APP
pointed station agents on the elevated
railways OF Brooklyn. They have been
SO successful that the management will
appoint many more.
4 Toronto tea company sends girls to
establishments where numbers OF persons
are employed TO give them tea at noon;
it also distributes cups Of ten to the au-
dlence at one OF the theaters.
General o. O. Howard is busiy en-
gagged in mission work on the east side
OF New York. He has secured a chapel
on Elizabeth street, and has raised $l6,
600 to $2l 900 needed 10 pay for it.
The twelve-inch gun with a range of
ten miles, which is now being made at
Waterville, n. Y, will be finished this
summer. The weight of the powder
charge for the monster is 400 pounds.
Charles anknsand his father, George
Mankins, have been held at llollister,
Cal, on the charge OF arson. Young
Mankins was recently arrested for set
ting fire to the house OF William Kelly.
Mankins at the time confessed, and said
he was ordered to do the deed by his
father.
The Italian Consul, Corte, at New Or
leans charged that the Cammittee of fifty
appointed by the Mayor Immediately
after the killing OF Hennessy was ZAP
pointed for political purpose, the kill
ing of the prisoners. The committee
will make a report in detail, which will
be the grounds for the demand that the
Italian Consul nj New Orleans be recalled.
The treaty convention with Spain pro-
vides for the free entry into the United
States OF sugar, honey, cocoa, coffee and
skins from the Spanish West Indies, to-
bacco and iron ore paying the duty ex
acted by the United States tariff. In
exchange Spain's colonies in the West
Indies are to receive American coal, ice,
wood, boots, shoes, fresh and salted
meats and fish. either free or under a
small duty, while butter and drippings
are entirely exempt, and the duty on
flour is reduced from $3.50 to 80 cents
per barrel, with the same reduction on
corn.