The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS.


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people.
A new grain-eleyat0r law has gone
I into effect in Nebraska.
The anti-cigarette law has become in.
operative in New York city.
The hay crop Of New England il one
third less than that Of last year, it il
thought.
The colored people Of Georgia are
forming law and order leagues TO control
their own race.
Much TO the regret Of graduates, the
old academic buildings at West Point are
TO be torn down at once.
Separate. street cars for whites and
blacks will be recommended by the Gov
ernor OF Virginia TO the Legislature.
The hay crop alone OF Kansas this
season, if all cut, cured and marketed
would pay off the entire indebtedness of
the State.
Petroleum has been found at Gaspe,
Quebec, at a depth Of 1900 feet. slt is
said TO be equal in quality 10 the best
Pennsylvania oil.
Reports from all parts OF Kansas prove
that the infected chinch bugs have ex-
terminated the other bugs wherever the
former were planted.
Applications for licenses TO produce
maple sugar under the bounty act are
now pouring in upon the revenue Offices
in Vermont at lively rate.
Minister Robert T. Lincoln has in
formed the Knights Templsr at Albany,
n. Y. that they may wear their side
arms during their European tour.
Florida is to have new capital,
Ocala, in the center Of the orange belt,
being the fortunate city. Tallahassee
will become town Of "reminiscences.
As a result of the recent examinations
at West Point ninety-nine out of total
of I46 applicants have been admitted to
the United States Military Academy to
form new class.
~ e report as TO crop conditions of the
two Dakotas show that the yield for all
products will be much larger than for
the last five years. Wheat and corn are
in especially good condition.
The reconstruction of the East Boston
dry dock has just been completed at a
cost of $200,0 900. 1t is stated that it is
now as long and perfect in equipment as
any dock in the United States.
Workingmen in Springfield, Mass,
have formed cooperative plan to Sc.
cure the best medical attendance and
sanitary inspection. Chicago has such
an association, which, it is said. works
we'll.
All those who have passed the civil
service examination for clerks for the
Chicago postoffice now have places in
that office. This is something that has
not occurred before in the history OF the
civil service.
The famous old frigate Brooklyn,
known as Constitution No. 2, made his
toric by Admiral Farragut, whose flag
ship she was in the stormy days before
New Orleans and Mobile, has been sold
to Boston junk firm, and will be
burned at once.
1t appears from the report showing
the exports of American manufactures
for the ten months ending April so last
that during that period there was sent
abroad $9,74l 900 worth of colored and
uncolored cotton cloths, as against $6,-
765, 900 for the ten months ending April
80 1890
1t is said that several of the lake and
rail lines have announced rate of 10
cents to New York and 20 cents to Bos-
ton on sixth-class freight, which in
cludes grain and other Western prod
ucts. This is reduction of cents per
100 pounds from the previous lake and
rail rates, and is 10 cents below the all
rail rate.
A storage battery for the running of
street cars is being experimental with
in Sioux City, and if successful, COM
pany with $l,000,000 capital will be
formed. The storage battery system is
said to be saving one to the street-car
companies, and besides in the use of
this system the network of wires is done
away with.
Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore has re-
futed the statements made to the Holy
See that the spiritual condition and
needs of the foreign-speaking Catholics
in the United States were not properly
provided FOR. He stated that the hier-
archy of no country in the world are
paying more attention to the spiritual
wants of foreign-born Catholic people
than are the prelates OF the United
States.