The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-11-21
River Making Inroads
on New Orleans.
ELECTRICAL PROCESS IN IRON
Black DiPhtheria Spreads at Alarm
ing Rate in an Iowa Nor
wegian Settlement

Iron IL 10 be made at Chattanooga by
an electrical process.
The Supreme Court Of North Dakota
sustains the prohibition law in every
particular
The people Of Brooklyn have sounded
an emphatic call for another bridge
across the East river.
Nicaragua needs water badly, and
American we'll drillers with pumping
outfits are IN demand
Georgia statesmen have resolved 10
return 10 the old custom OF annual. meet
ings Of the Legislature
A rich amber deposit, it is reported,
has been discovered in Ontario, the esti-
mated value of which is $1,000 900.
Louisiana sugar men are objecting
strongly 10 the appointment of negroes
as inspectors under the bounty law.
The inroads OF the river on New
Orleans continue, and may prove a
rather serious matter for part of the
city.
A canal to connect Jamaica Bay with
the Great South Bay, on the south
shore Of long Island, is spoken Of as
probable.
Before the close OF the year four new
cruisers-two at Baltimore, one at Nor
folk and one in Philadelphia-will have
been launched.
The number OF postoifices in the
United States is officially stated TO be
"a 39l, showing an increase OF 1000 over
last year at this time.
BY an order the Secretary of War has
reduced from thirty.hve To thirty years
the maximum age at which army re
cruits will be accepted.
Ignatius Donnelly has begun two
more libel suits against the st. Paul
PiOneer-Prsss. He is not satisfied with
the verdict just given to him.
The Delaware Indians have just re-
ceived s454,00O, being one-hai OF the
sum given them by the government for
lands in the Indian Territory.
An ingenious person in Chicago has
invented an automatic Adelina Patti.
1t is a lite,sized wax figure, which imi.
tates her smiles, gestures and poses.
During the last eight months the
number Of locomotive engines exported
from the United States was 259, against
ninety-three in the corresponding period
OF 1890.
The New York naval reserve artillery
is rapidly filling up its ranks TO the
maximum, and is inaugurating fixed
programme for the winters drill.
All the liquor dealers in Bar Harbor,
Me-, including proprietors of summer
restaurants, have been indicted for al
legged violation of the liquor laws.
The government proposes to build
another timber dock in the navy yard
at Brooklyn, the accommodations of the
other two docks being insufficient. 1t
is. to be about 600 feet in length.
The Commercial Club of Kansas City
has called convention to meet Decem-
Der 10 and l6, to urge upon Congress
systematic improvements of the Mis-
souri, and lower Mississippi rivers.
The Governor Of Tennessee has offered
reward of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of'the leader of the Brice-
vile riot, and reward of $25 each for
the capture of the escaped convicts.
An agreement has been concluded
with the Tonkawa tribe of Indians of
the Indian Territory, by which the
Indians cede to the United States so, 900
acres of land, the consideration being
$780, 900.
Kansas City officials have been
wrought up to high state of excite
ment by the discovery of gold in samples
of strata pierced by drill while drilling
for the water-works tunnel under the
Missouri river.
President Noel of the Olympic Club at
New Orleans has telegraphed Sullivan's g
agents in New York offering $35 900 for
the Slavin-Sullivan contest for March
also solid gold pitcher emblematic OF
the worlds supremacy
Black diphtheria is spreading at an
alarming rate in Norwegian settle,
ment in Soldier Valley, Harrison county
Iowa. Fourteen persons recently died
of the disease. One family of ten lost
six members. The place has just been
quarantined.
Coils P. Huntington, the railroad
king, is defendant in a suit brought by
Perkins, Goodwin & Co., paper dealers,
to recover from him $l5, ,627 40 for paper
furnished in 1888 to the Star Printing
Company. Mr.. Huntington held $780,.
900 Of the $780, 900 of the capital stock
of the company. 1t is now sought tc
hold him as stockholder.
The recent wreck of the FL Dorado or
the Bahama banks has led to the dis.
covery Of an ingenious method OF cheat,
ing the government. Nine cases were
marked linen goods, while only three
contained toweling, the rest having
costly kid gloves. The goods were dam
aged, but being in bond were shipped
to New York, and the government ap
praisers in seeking to ascertain the
loss discovered the cheat. There is {
hint that the San Francisco Custom
! house would be involved.