The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-11-28
EASTERN ITEMS.
All the Coal Miners in
Indiana Strike.
THE KENTUCKY ALLIANCE.
A New Haven Tobacco Dealer Says the
Sale of Cigarettes to Yale
Boys is Falling or.
THE KENTUCKY ALLIANCE.

The uniform export bill Of lading ia Il
go into effect December /.
Over b2,700 immigrants arrived in
this country during September.
The Baron llirsch trustees have pur
chased 5000 acres at Woodbine, N. j.
Day and night shifts Of men are now
worked on all the exposition building.
The remains Of Jefferson Davis are tc
be placed in Hollywood cemetery, Rich.
mond. Va.
The Baltimore american says: Balti-
more has not had bank failure for fifty
seven years.
Heavy losses are being sustained by
stockmen in Texas, owing TO the the se-
we're drought.
About fifty Of the released Tennessee
convicts have been captured in Kentucky
and returned.
Arrangements are being made 10 lay q
cable from Nassau to Jupiter Inlet on
the coast OF Florida.
Out Of respect to state laws the Fed
eral government will not sell customs
liquors by auction in Maine.
Pennsylvania's loss by the dishonesty
OF Bay dsley * Co. was $6S5,072 instead
OF 81 ,366, ,37S, as first reported.
The earnings OF the Denver and Rio
Grande for October are $S47 900, de-
crease Of $24, ls9 from last year.
The designs for the new fractional cur
rency of the country have been approved
by the Secretary Of the Treasury.
A tobacco dealer in New Haven, whose
trade in the main Is with Yale bows,
says that the sale OF cigarettes is falling
off.
Steps have been taken by the Cham
ber OF Commerce in st. Paul to start an
immigration movement in that city and
State.
Heirs of George w. Morse OF Louisiana
will sue the government for $4,000, 900
for infringing his breech- loading rifle
patents.
A column of masonry in Kansas marks
the exact geographical center of the
United States, evidently without count
ing Alaska.
The success of the Brooklyn bridge
has suggested to capitalists to form a
company with a capital OF $24, ,000, 900
for the purpose OF building two more
bridges across the East river.
The new Hebrew Orphan Asylum in
Brooklyn cost about $l25,0O0. 1t is to
be five stories high and to have 'front.'
age of 1870 feet. 1t will accommodate
several hundred orphans.
The retired commander of the Seven
teenth Infantry, General Miner, has
been placed in private asylum under
treatment for softening of the brain.
The annual report Of the Board of
General Appraisers of New York recon-
mends that the right of appeal be vested
in the Secretary of the Treasury only.
One of the big Florida hotels has the
great orchestrion which was exhibited
at the Paris exhibition. Telephones are
placed in each room, and are connected
with the orchestrlon so that each guest
may hear the music when he wishes.
A New York jury has awarded Thomas
Fortune, the colored editor of the New
York Age, 1926 damages in an action
brought against the proprietor of a
Sixth-avenue hotel for being assaulted
and refused drink because of his color.
w. w. Long, a member of the North
Carolina House of Representatives, and
number of other large planters in the
Roanoke bottoms are completing ar
rangements to bring to their plantations
some 500 of the expatriated Russian
Jewish farmers.
Not for years has the supply of drink
ing water been 80 low at New York, nor
has the danger of genuine water famine
been greater than at the present. Com
missioner Gilroy says unless there is
rain the water will last only fifteen or
twenty days more.
The notorious Bob Musgrave, who in
sured himself for 500, 900 in an accident
insurance company and then procured a
skeleton, placed it in cabin near an
Indian village, burned the cabin and by
means of confederates spread the news
that he was burned up, has been cap
tured in St. Paul by detectives.
OF the Tonkawas only seventy-eight
remain to negotiate with the Cherokee
Commission. They occupy the reserva-
ton set apart for the Nez Perces, having
been moved there when the latter tribe
went to Idaho. 1t embraces 80, 700 acres,
of which about $500 will be required
for allotments. The rest will be avail
able for homesteads.
The Cherokees since Judge Green's
decision that they do not own the Strip
are now ready to renew the negotiations,
which were broken off last year, for the
sale of the land to the government.
Chief Mayes, it is said, favors the dispo-
sition of the outlet.
The miners of bituminous coal in In
diana have decided to strike for advance
of cents per ton. The block-coal min
ers have already struck for 10 cents ad-
vance. The operators refuse to pay the
increase. All the miners in the State of
Indiana are now out, and a long and
desperate battle is looked for.