The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-10-03
Skeletons Of Prehistoric
People Found.
SUICIDE MANIA OF AGNOSTICS
Chicago will Have to Modify the Plans
Made for the Worlds Fair
Buildings, Etc.

Minneapolis has no desire 10 consoli-
date with ST. Paul.
Carloads OF diseased Chicago cattle
have been seized at Buffalo.
The Grady monument will be unveiled
Mt Atlanta, Ca, October q.
There IL something over 81. 600 natives
OF Switzerland in and around New York.
G. i. Huntington is 10 complete the
Middle and East Tennessee railroad
within sixty days.
A company 10 insure tobacco planters
against loss by hail is one OF the latest
schemes in Connecticut.
The house at Appomattox, Va, in
which General Lee surrendered to Gen
eral Grant has been sold for 10000.
Canada has sent but $4,000 sheep to
Great Britain during the year just ended,
as compared with 5000 for the year be-
fore.
4 landlords association has been
formed in Boston for the purpose of mu-
tual protection against Objectionable ten
ants.
The organ in the music room of the
residence OF the late Mrs. Hopkins
Searle at Great harrington, Mass, cost
10000
So great is the homeward rush of
American tourists that many of them
are unable TO find passage on returning
steamers.
1t is said that the smuggling OF Chi
nese into this country has been recently
accelerated by the price having risen to
800 per head.
Cleveland has passed law reducing
the price of gas TO 30 cents per 900 feet
and giving the city All option on the gas
works at any time.
Judgments aggregating $l4 1926 against
Alexander Hermann, the magician, have
just been entered in the County Clerks
office at New York.
The trade and commerce OF Charles
ton, S. c., last year amounted to $685..
5j4, ,7lS, net increase of $l7, 1885, ,00l over
the preceding year.
Thomas Delany of Albany, aged 10,
thought nothing of smoking five or six
packages of cigarettes day. His funeral
took place the other day.
Judgments aggregating $l50,000 have
been filed against Adam Backer, the
commercial note broker of New York,
who assigned August last.
Counsel for Joseph A. Davidson of
New York has obtained an attachment
against the Mexican National Railway
Company upon a claim for $l05,900.
Oklahoma is hardly year old as a
Territory, and yet we are told that the
question of admitting it to Statehood
will come before Congress this winter.
Chicago Odd Fellows are to erect a
thirty-four-story building. The structure
from ground to dome will be 500 feet,
and it is to be completed by the fall OF
1892.
According to statistics gathered by
charitable organizations throughout the
country there are 100000 people wholly
or partly dependent upon charity every
year in the United States.
Two thousand men, mostly French
Canadians, employed in the saw mills at
Ottawa have struck for a reduction OF
one and half hours work per day and
an increase of so cents in wages per
week.
A mound containing skeletons of pre-
historic people has been discovered on q
farm near Carthage, III. The skeletons
lay in all conceivable positions, and are
supposed to be those of warriors who fell
in battle.
An order has been issued by Secretary
Tracy which forbodes the breaking-up o.
the White squadron. 1t was directed tc
the chiefs of the bureaus, and ordered
them to prepare the Yorktown for serv'
ice on the Pacific station and the Petre
for service on the Asiatic station.
A suicide mania has taken possession
of the aged members of an agnostic cir
Gle in Bradford, Pa, which was founded
by the late DR.. Stuart, who himself lee
the way by taking his own life. Since
then three other members of the circle
have tried to kill themselves, and two
have succeeded.
Chicago will have to modify the plan,
made for the Worlds Fair buildings anC
grounds or face serious financial diff
Guilty. The estimated cost of getting tn,
show ready to open is $1S,000,000. Thi
is too much, even though the govern
ment should be induced to contribute
: $1,000, 900 outright.
Senor Celso Balsar Mareno, well
known Italian American residing a
, Washington and acting as an agent il
this country of the National party of Ha
waii, corresponding to the Chilian Con
gressionalists, has laid before the Presi
' dent letter he recently received from
correspondent in Honolulu, assertin.
) England is now planning to take posses
sion of the kingdom. The writer sale
that some action on the part of th'
t United States is necessary; that tn,
) Queen is favorable to British interest
7 and is ready to countenance the NOV
when made. The President was inter
: ested by the letter, and asked Senior Ma
8 reno to communicate with Secretar,
Blaine.