The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-10-24
EASTERN ITEMS.
Electrocution Reported
TO Be a Success.
NEGRO STRIKE EXTENDING.
Minnesota's Supreme Court Declares
Wheat Futures Are Illegal
and Contracts Void

Real estate IN Oklahoma IL booming.
The grip is making its appearance in
New York again.
Neither st. Paul nor Minneapolis has
Il single horse-car line.
There Is a fine Of 5000 for practicing
hypnotism In Cincinnati.
The Arctic Ice Machine Company at
Cleveland, Ohio has assigned.
A 100000 union railway station has
just been opened in Louisville.
A syndicate has offered TO buy the
Washington monument for shot tower.
Pennsylvania farmers, irrespective Of
Alliance orders, are holding wheat for
81 80 Il bushel
Beacon Hill in Boston IL to be ex-
pored by diamond drills in the interest
Of rapid transit
England and Germany have each ap.
piled for 20O, 900 square feet OF space at
the Columbian Fair.
Strong resolutions were adopted at
public meeting at Windsor, Canada. iay-
oring commercial union with the United
States.
Cadets Griffith of Maryland and Kav-
anaugh OF Nebraska at the Annapolis
Academy are to be court-martialed for
hazing.
Thomas Edison, the electric wizard,
has new system of applying electricity
to cars that does away with the trolly or
the slot.
The Minnesota supreme court declares
wheat futures are illegal and operators
on the wrong side can repudiate their
contracts.
The Odd Fellows in the United States
can boast OF a membership OF nearly
70O, 600 and an annual revenue of more
than $7,O00,0O0.
The official report on the executions
by electricity at New York show them
20 have teen complete success, as was
designed by the law.
The Boston Herald has a dispatch say
ing that ex-Speaker Reed will give up
politics and enter large business cor
poration at New York.
1t is probable that the scheme OF
transmitting mail in large cities by pneu-
matte tubes will be abandoned on ac-
count OF the great expense.
1t is estimated that the Western rail-
roads have earned 5000 the past year
from the transportation OF Mormon mis-
sionaries and their proselytes.
New York will soon have a score or
more of practically free public baths,
unless the plans OF the trustees of the
Baron de Hirsch fund miscarry.
| Thn x,yntau &, an INu, ;n tba Er;n an~o
that boats are grounded all along the
line. The creeks and feeders have not
been go low as now i'll some years.
There will be more than an average
yield of corn and buckwheat in New
York A large tobacco crop has nearly
been secured in excellent condition.
The excitement at Clearfield, Penn,
over the suspension of the Cleartield
and Houtzdale bank still continues, and
the mobbing of the bank was feared.
The Mexican government is preparing
to meet all revolutionary forces that
cross the Rio Grand, and the prepara-
tions indicate that the government is
much alarmed.
All the Northwest railroad companies
are calling attention to the critical situa-
ton in the North Dakota wheat fields,
where the wheat is lying in stacks for
want of threshers.
No rain worth mentioning has fallen
in Norwalk, Conn.,, since early in the
spring. AS a consequence her reservoirs
are empty, and arrangements are being
made to tap the mains of neighboring
town.
Developments in the Christman bank
failure at Paris, ILL.,, make the situation
more serious than at first supposed. II
is stated that the loss will not be less
than $l50,000, and the assets may not
, exceed 10000.
Chairman Coppel of the board oI
directors of the Denver X Rio Grandt
railroad has issued circular announ
/, cling the appointment of K. J. Jetfery
formerly general manager of the Illinois
Central, as president and general man
ager.
The Lee county, Ark, troubles arr
, probably at an end unless a mob at
tempts to hang the negroes now in tn,
Mariana Jail. 1t appears that no les
, than fifteen negroes were killed out o
RdHS vi IllIlCVCCl WIZ
\ trouble.
s The wharf strike at Savannah, Ca, i
, gradually extending to all branches o
e colored labor. The business of the cit,
: is at standstill. Money is tied up il
+ cotton, which is piled up in the yard
/ and sidetracked along the lines of tn
: railroads. The banks are unable to &C
e commodate their patrons. The striker
r are quiet and orderly.
e The distillers at Peoria, ILL.,, the great
e est whisky producing city in the world
: have decided to use the Takamine Japan
B ese) process of making whisky. Th
d new plan greatly reduces the cost c
= manufacture. A queer feature is that
s species of bugs found on the rice is use
n instead of yeast for the fermentin
process.