The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-12-12
EASTERN ITEMS.
La Grippe in the New
England States.
KANSAS FARMERS ALLIANCE
The Amount Of Silver Held on Storage
by the Goyernment-Pugil-
istic Women.

Omaha IL 10 have system OF parks
and bouleyards.
Rainmaker Ellis is writing his report
10 Secretary Rusk.
The grip is making great headway in
New England, especially In Connecticut
Colored men are excluded from the
Choctaw nation by Legislative enactment.
] The Economic Gas Company has been
enioined from piping gas into Chicago.
A solid vestibule train will shortly be
put on between Cincinnati and Jackson
vile, Fla.
The initiation fee OF the New York
Musical Progressive Union has been
raised to $40.
The Vanderbilt lines are arranging for
through excursions from New York 10
San Francisco.
a Florida paper says that the State is
filling up with winter visitors At the rate
OF 1000 II week.
John d. Rockefeller has virtually re-
tired from the Presidency OF the Stand
ard Oil Company.
Chicago is going 10 try the experiment
OF hauling some Of its street cars with
steam locomotives.
The estimated value OF church prop.
erty in Philadelphia exempted from tax
alton is S20,000,OOO.
The Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia has decided that the civil
service act is constitutional.
Washington negroes are no even safe
in their graves. Ghouls tried to steal
Julia Scotts remains for a college.
The cordage trust hopes to secure a
complete monopoly by buying the pat
ents upon all rope making machinery.
The membership OF the Farmers' All
ance in Kansas is said to have declined
from 10000 last year TO 81, 900 this year.
Wolves are rapidly increasing in the
sparsely-settled portions OF Kansas, and
threaten the lives OF the isolated farm
ers.
4 remnant OF Big Foots band Of In
dians under Red Cloud is in revolt
against the authority of the agent at
Cheyenne.
United States Treasurer Nebecker re-
ports that the total debt OF the District
Of Columbia on September 80 last was
$40, 1873, 400.
The Dubuque Street Railway Company
declares after a test of the storage bat
terry electrician equipment that the
scheme is failure.
Secretary Tracy is expected to advo.
cate change in our treaty with Great
Britain, so that naval vessels may be
built at yards on the lakes.
They are agitating the question of re-
moving the capital of Minnesota from
st. Paul. The western part of the State
is ambitious for the honor.
The amount OF silver now held on
storage by the government would make
a column one foot in diameter and six
and one-half miles in height.
The drop-letter service on the electric
road between st. Paul and Minneapolis
is very popular. The boxes are placed
within easy reach on the side of the car.
Great opposition is manifested by ad-
mirers of the late Oliver =. Morton of
Indiana to the proposed removal OF his
statue in Indianapolis from Circle park
to the State House grounds.
The government proposes to build an
other timber dock in the navy yard at
Brooklyn, the Accommodations of the
other two docks being insufficient. 1t is
to be about 800 feet in length.
1t is proposed by number of citizens
of Maine to establish an asylum in North |
Conway, N. H., at which drunkards and
opium fiends will be treated with the |
Kelley bichloride of gold system.
The four churches at Chatham, N. j.,
the Parochial School connected with the |
Church and the one public
school in the town are closed Indefinitely |
because of the prevalence of diphtheria.,
Hattie Leslie, the champion female
pugilist of the world" and GNssie Free
man fought four rounds in theater at |
Williamsburg, N. Y. The fight was Sc
we're. Miss Freeman was frightfully bat
tered
In Arkansas it has been shown during
an investigation that penitentiary pris-
oners were frequently branded with
red hot iron. All the Federal prisoners
have been ordered to the Columbus (O.) |
penitentiary because of this treatment OF
convicts.
Heavy losses were occasioned on the
the Chicago Board of Trade by an al
eged dispatch from United States Min
ster Smith in Russia, saying that
lkase had been signed referring to the
of wheat exports. The losses
we're made in the rush to cover.
Ernest Fielding, a stranger in Council
Bluffs, became an attendant at the Sal
5ation Army recently, and the other
night in telling of his experiences in
,rime confessed to committing burglaries
1t Sioux City and other places. This
was reported to the police, and Fielding