The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-08-22
EASTERN ITEMS.
Louisiana Has Only no
Paupers.
INDIANS ARE CONVERTED.
A Cleveland Nationalist Club Makes a
Peculiar Demand on Behalf
Of the INDECENT,
INDIANS ARE CONVERTED

Brooklyn Italians want an Italian in
the Board OF Education.
New York brewers are fined 81 for
drinking non-union beer.
The United States census reports only
. 10 paupers in Louisiana.
Boston unions will test their right 10
hold meetings in the park.
over $3.50, 900 have been raised for the
Grant monument in New York.
New York postotlice employees have
been ordered TO seize all German lottery
| tickets.
| Two hundred vessels have already been
engaged TO transport grain from Atlantic
/ ports 10 Europe.
/ ! census bulletin gives the number Of
/ inmates in almshouses in New York at a
little over 10000.
1t il estimated that Philadelphia is de-
populated over one-half on Sundays
during the summer.
During the last fiscal year 5j5 ,49G inn
migrants arrived at our ports, an increase
OF lO4,277 over the preceding year
The Illinois Central has placed orders
for twenty-five locomotives in anticipa-
ton OF increased Worlds Fair traffic.
The Supreme Court OF Minnesota has
decided that the Salvation Army has
right TO make all the noise it wants to.
Laboring men throughout Tennessee
will join with the miners in an effort to
secure the repeal OF the convict lease
law.
Under a new law in Georgia when a
doctor is convicted OF drunkenness he
can no longer practice medicine in that
State.
The great Minnesota trust, formed in
/ 1879 to boom that State, has dissolved
after selling $4,000 acres OF land
and coonizing $4,000 people.
Mrs President Harrison insisted that
the new carpets, tapestries and retittings
OF the White House should be the work
of American manufacturers.
Reports from all the grain country
show that there will shortly be the most
unprecedented demand for cars that has
been experienced for long time.
The Chicago and Grand Trunk rail
way of Canada has lifted the boycott
against the Chicago and Alton road.
This is believed by some to be the begin
ming of the end.
A bill has passed the Legislature in
,Georoia nr0huhuj.Hc. thmGc 'noli,rnSi5OHs
at heartiest good will towards everyee
u. and seeks to antagonize no ON
nd will endeavor to extend the right.
de of fellowship to every law-alhe
be sportsman, and to infractors of til
u :, 1t will send kindly request to Ps-
n should this prove Intellectual,
lit stringent measures will be adopteE"V
lg The streams and forests of Hoodn-
ne valley have already:become celeBre
rs summer resort and sporting grI
ce and the club invites every personhe
: '6iplomatlc correspondence pefUarmng
thereto have been made public, the
President issuing a proclamation an
nouncing the full text of the treaty.
The Franklin Club, n Nationalist con-
cern at Cleveland, demands that the city
shall assume control of all vacant lands
within its limits and cultivate cabbages
and potatoes to be given to the poor.
Oklahoma Territory has not proved to
be land flowing with milk and honey.
The wheat crop was a failure, and the
people are hard up for cash. The corn
crop is looking well, and may help them
out.
Archbishop Ireland, who visited Com
missioner Morgan of Indian Affairs, re-
ceived ample and positive assurance of
his disposition and intention to treat the
Catholic Indian schools with equity and
generosity.
The Secretary of the Treasury declines
to make ruling on the importation of
skilled workmen for tin-plate mills, and
refers st. Louis querist to the fifth Sec
ton of the alien contract labor law as
rule OF guidance.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has au-
thorized the Collector of Customs at AS
toria, Or, to admit free of duty into
Grays Harbor the steel rails recovered
from the British ship Abercorn, which
stranded January, 1888.
About $13,O0n, 900 of the Az per cent.
bonds have been presented to the Treas
ury Department for continuance at per
cent, and about $S,000,000 have already
been examined and the proper measures
taken to issue the new bonds.
Secretary Tracy has finally decided to
award the contract for building cruiser
No. Is to Cramp x Sons of Philadelphia,
although the Bath Iron Works of Maine
were the lowest bidders. The Bath COM
pany could not complete the contract in
time.
The first account OF Lawyer William
M, Smith, assignee of the Bank of Amer
lea of Philadelphia, has been filed, and
possesses the unique feature of showing
yield of 10 per cent. to the depositors
of concern which was believed to be a
total wreck.