The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-12-19
EASTERN ITEMS.
Diphtheria Rages in an
Illinois City.
JACK DEMPSEY, THE SL0GGER
The Amount Of Wheat America Has
Shipped 70 Europe in the
Last Two Months.
JACK DEMPSEY, THE SLOGGER

There are 1900 women school teachers
Of Philadelphia.
An epidemic Of diphtheria is raging
in Belleville, Ill.
Illinois offers bounty OF cents for
each English sparrow head.
The First National Bank of Damaris-
Gotta, Me-, has resumed business.
4 girl at Brennan, Tex, was found to
be alive after having been placed in a
coffin.
1t is reported that the old town Of
Alexandria, Va, has boom and is
growing.
A new herring fishing bank has been
discovered off the west coast OF New
found and.
Two large freight houses are 10 be
erected at So. Louis, with capacity of
100 cars at 4 time.
Minneapolis is already estimating the
work necessary to take care OF next
June's convention.
Iowa farmers who experimental with
sugar beets the past season are enthusi-
astic over the results.
The Vanderbilt lines propose TO run
tourist sleeping cars through from New
York to San Francisco.
The Island OF Nassau will be connected
with the coast of Florida by cable about
the middle of January.
At least sixteen men have been killed
thus far in the work OF drilling the new
tunnel at Niagara Falls.
Evidence is accumulating that New
York has been heavily swindled in the
erection Of school buildings.
The sufferers by the great Boston fire
nineteen years ago who still survive
were paid $2,360 during the past year.
The next Republican National Con-
vention will be composed of S9S dele
gates, or 800 in case Alaska is repre-
sented.
w. X. Sullivan, who recently resigned
the editorship of the Chicago Egeniag
Journal on account of i'll health, has
been appointed United States Consul at
Bermuda.
David I. Beals, the Kansas iCity
bapker, has recovered his child, which
was stolen, on paying $1,000 reward for
its recovery.
In Kansas during the past five months
and half there has been net reduc-
tion in the farm-mortgage Indebtedness
of ~, 900, ,000.
The survey of the United States au-
thorities from Atlantic City to Cape May
has established an inland channel for
torpedo boats.
Commodore Melville of the steam en-
gineering bureau recommends that the
number of engineer officers should be
increased to 800.
Reciprocity with the United States is
growing so strongly in public favor in
Canada that many of the Tory papers
now advocate it.
The State of Massachusetts has de-
cided to give financial and other aid tC
l03 of its towns that they may secure
free public libraries.
America has shipped S7,000,000 bush.
els OF wheat TO Europe in the last two
months, and has received about $50, 900,
600 in gold in return.
Jack Dempsey, the slogger, is bein.
treated by physicians for incipient con
sumption. He is in New York, and hi
condition is quite serious.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
| tional Conference OF Charities and Cor
rections decided to hold the next annua
meeting in Denver on June n.
Bv the decision of the Supreme Cour
of New York in the Ogden will case tn
4 University oil Chicago loses 100000
The decision may be reversed by th,
Court of Appeals
The beet sugar industry in Nebrask
has proven so successful and proftabl
that Omaha is preparing to put up
large sugar factory and have it ready 70
operation next season.
The blue book of New York show
more bachelors than married men in th
ranks OF blue blood and money. Maj
riage is decried as too expensive by til
members of fashionable clubs.
lie OTueT vi OOlleueTdt0 SOlui6i
known as the United Confederate We
erans, General John B. Gordon con
manding, with headquarters at New o.
leans, is to extend its organization.
General J. H. Rice, the father OF th
Alliance party in Kansas, has grow
:, very tired OF the practices OF that organ
. ization, ,'and is writing letters denoun
ing the recklessness of its managers.
Benjamin Berensen, a dry-goods jol
her at Boston and one of the best know
! and most-trusted members OF the JEWS
colony, has disappeared, taking wit
, him, it is alleged, between $4,000 an
SIS, 900 in cash and valuables belongiI
to other Hebrews.
II Inspector Byrnes' detectives at Ne
) York have again arrested Louis Arman,
: the crazy Frenchman who has been a
) moving Mrs. Alexander. the daughter
} millionaire Crocker. He was vecent
E released from the asylum, and had b
gun his prosecutions.