The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-08-15
The Boston NationaIists
Issue an Address.
A BIG SURPLUS OF WHISKY.
Census Office Report Shows the Unitet
States is the Largest Producer
Of Copper in the World

Chicago will erect twenty-five. story
building.
Texas negroes will exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
Denver capitalists have secured the
principal tin mines in Colorado.
The Customs Collector at New York
has been ordered to cut down expenses
$S6, ,450.
There were $4,000 watermelons re-
ceiyed in Chicago from Georgia one day
last week.
Boston Nationalists have issued an
address calling oil the city to run the
street cars.
The President has nominated Henry
f.. Nichols 10 be a Commander in the
United States navy.
Prominent IIaytians at New York say
a revolution against ilyppolite is bound
10 come AZ an early day.
The official investigation at Ottawa is
bringing 10 light an astounding amount
OF rascalty in the public Offices.
Chicago's postal receiptsast year were
81, ,504 ,73O. G6 and expenses ~ ,2S5 OPS. "a,
leaving an income Of 81, 2,2l9, 1922.
Mrs. Samuel Mather Of Cleveland has
given $75, 900 TO the Woman's College OF
Western Reserve University at that city.
Cleveland says he has not the slightest
intention TO take the stump in Ohio this
fall, and he has never intimated he
would do so.
Princeton College intends sending an
expedition this month TO "a region in
Montana never before explored" TO
search for fossil remains,
BY a decision in the United States Cir
cult Court at New York the Brush Elec-
trio Company has secured monopoly OF
the storage battery industry.
The testimony before the Privileges
and Elections Committee at Ottawa con-
tinues TO show fraud and bribery in Sc
curing government contracts.
1t is gravely declared at Buzzard's Bay,
Mass, whore Edwin Booth has been
lately, that the great actor is dying from
the effects of too much smoking.
Kentucky whiskymen are again wor-
ried over the big surplus of their COM
modify now on hand, on which $1,000
900 taxes will come due next fall.
The striking plush weavers at Dob
sons mills in Philadelphia after ten
weeks of idleness have agreed TO return
to work. There are about 400 OF them.
Bank Examiner Drew is endeavoring
to convince the Secretary of the Treas
ury that he did not neglect his duty in
the case of the Keystone bank Mt Phila-
delphia.
Senator Chandler of New Hampshire
in six-column article in Concord
journal makes bitter attack upon Sem
ator Gallinger, whom he charges with
having sold himself to the railroads.
DR.. Henry T. Hembold, the famous
buchu man, who was credited with hav-
ing piled up a fortune of $lO,000,0O0 by
the sale OF his patent medicines, is once
more in q madhouse, chained at the
wrists and with shackles on his ankles.
There has just been cast at the armor
plate mill of Carnegie, Phillips q Co, at
Homestead, Pa, an armor ingot eighty
inches wide and twenty-three inches
thick, weighing 81, 900 pounds-the larg-
est armor-plate ingot rolled in this
country.
According to a new law in Texas for
eigners are not permitted to own land in
fee simple; but it has been estimated
that the Texas farmers have borrowed
in foreign countries not less than S45,-
000, 900, which is represented in mort
,vo ouaS ,,nop tbnir lands
Of the SO negroes lynched in the South
thus far this year 20 were killed for rape,
Is for murder, 10 for stealing, s for be-
ing troublesome, 3 for incendiarism, 2
for alleged murder and 2 as accessories
in murder cases. The last four were
lynched upon suspicion.
John Winder (colored) is under arrest
at Atlantic City, N. j., for committing
murderous assault upon Joseph McRea.
McRea was talking with Winder's wife
in the mansion alley, when Winder sud-
denly appeared and struck him on the
head with blunt instrument, knocking
him senseless.
The Forest heavy ordnance twelve
inch rifle gun, designed for coast defense
and made in New York, was fired for the
first time the other day at Sandy Hook
with satisfactory results. With 250
pounds of powder it hurled 1000
pound shot five miles. The gun will luse
440 pounds of powder and throw 1000
pound shot twelve miles.
The census-ofiice report shows the
United States to be the largest producer
of copper in the world, its product for
the year 1889 being 226, 6,055,962 pounds,
or 113, ,02S short tons. The total expend-
itures involved in this production were
$4,000, ,lS0; total capital invested, $62,-
623 ,22S, and employees, S,72l: The five
leading States in the production of cop
per are: Montana, 9S, ,222 444 pounds;
Michigan, S,455,675 pounds; Arizona,
81 $50, 1876 pounds; New Mexico, 1885,
l37 pounds; Colorado, l,l7O,O53 pounds.