The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-03-07
EASTERN ITEMS.
Chicago'S Mayor Points Out a Law
TO President Gage.
New York City Troubled With Highway
RObbCrs-St Louis Capitalists
oppose Free Coinage,

Illinois railway employees will organize
against Granger legislation.
Real estate nine miles from the center
Of Chicago sells for $4,000 IN acre.
Highway robbery IL quite common in
| ircqucntcd streets Of New York OF late
Minneapolis has received 1000 900
bushels OF wheat from Washington this
year
The deposits IN the savings bank Of
the Dominion declined $500, 900 last
year.
The Alabama State Senate has appro-
printcd $50, 600 "a represent Alabama at
the Worlds Fair.
Out Of forty-three roads reporting Jan.
uary earnings thirty.oight show substan-
tial gains over last year.
II X stated that the Nandcrbilts have
given S5,OO0,0o0 for iron mines in the
Marquette (Mich.l region.
The Chamber Of Commerce Of Atlanta,
Ga, has unanimously y indorsed Secretary
Blane's reciprocity with Brazil
The Texas Senate has under coiNidcr-
alton bill to teach history in the scM Mools
from the Confederate standpoint.
Generals Meade and Hancock will
have monuments on the Gettysburg bat
tie field, To be erected by the State.
Merchants aud other business men Of
st. Louis, representing tl00,0 900 cap
ital, have protested against free coinage.
The appeal Of Cardinal Gibbons for
funds to relieve distress in the famine
stricken district Of Ireland has brought
to him $1,000.
Albuquerque, n. NJ, has large sur
plus Of unmarried young men, and an
influx OF New England girls would be
gladly welcomed.
During the month Of January the poll
tax on Chinese arriving at Victoria, Il.
G., was $3,sl7, an increase Of $S0l over
January last year.
Buffalo IL threatened with water
famine because "porridgc' Ice in the
Niagara river has nearly stopped the
watcr-works pumps.
All the saloons in Bismarck, n. D., are
closed on an account of nm original-pack
age decision by the State Supreme Court,
aud not drink OF liquor is said to be
obtainable
Chicago will soon have the largest 10
cent ludging-house in the world. The
building will be seven stories high, will
cost $50 900 and be heated by steam and
lighted by electricity.
The revised estimates show that the
deficiency for the pension office is $685.
67S, ,332 The estimate first presented to
Congress was for Si0,000,0O0. The pres
ent estimate is reduction OF S5,32l ,66S.
Bowdoin College will send scientific
and collecting expedition to Labrador
and Iceland next summer. IL will be in
charge OF Prof. l.. A. Lee, and about fif-
teen students will make up the party.
The Georgia Legislature il considering
bill to punish doctors and druggists
who become drunk. For first conviction
Il fine Of $500 is proposed, and for the
second the license to practice IL revoked.
1t is reported to the Land Department
at Washington that some of the timber
lands in the Coast States are being in
vaded by lumbermen, and the depart
ment has decided to investigate the mat
ter.
An Alliance Representative has intro
duced bill in the Kansas House which
provides that any person who will file Il
petition in the District Court stating that
he or she is of good moral character shall
be permitted to practice law.
There is Il strong belief that Brazil will
not ratiiy the agreement that Blaine has
made with representatives Of that Coun-
try English commercial representatives
in Brazil are doing Their utmost to pre-
vent the agreement holding good.
The Connecticut Railroad Commits
sioners pronounce the embarrassing law
in that State virtual failure. At the
close of the last year there were ,l93
grade crossings in the State, and of these
only twenty-nine were abolished during
the year.
The South Dakota House has passed
the Senate bill for a fence law to the eff
leCJ Inat SIOCR may range III all ullOTpaH-
lied counties. 1t also passed a bill that
no counties are to be organized in the
future until majority of voters decide
otherwise.
The will of the late J. N. Mccullough,
Vice-President ot the Pennsylvania, has
been filed for probate. The estate is
valued from $7,000,0OO to $l0,000,0O0.
The will gives his wife and daNghter
each one-fourth of the estate, the re-
mainder being left in trust.
Mayor Creiger of Chicago in his reply
to letter from President Gage of the
Worlds Fair asking for police protection
for the men at work at Jackson Park
makes the following point among others
while declining to comply with the re-
quest: If the report is true that the
Italians employed are aliens, they are
not entitled to protection, as under an
act passed by the State Legislature in
1889 it is made unlawful for any board,
commission, officer or contractor, acting
for or under any municipality, to employ
aliens,