The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS.


Nova scotia hnd newfoundland,
The Pennsylvania railroad pays $780,
600 taxes in ohio.
The floating population OF Chicago is
estimated at fully 10000.
An English syndicate has purchased
the South Boston iron works.
The Missouri exhibit at the World
Fair has been favorably located.
Buffalo IN. V schools are closed on
account of malignant diphtheria.
The supposed coal fields Of Iowa are
found to be only collection OF pockets.
A syndicate OF New Workers are nego-
tiating for the purchase OF the Boston
Journal
Ex-Governor Foraker OF Ohio has just
realized $4,000 rom Il sale OF lands in
Arkansas.
Women crusaders at Mendoza, Mo-,
destroyed all the liquors in the village
drug store.
Kansas millers are seeking foreign
markets which are furnished them under
the reciprocity act.
Farmers in Maine and Vermont are
planting their potatoes and corn over
again, the cold, damp weather having
killed the first crop.
After many years OF envious rivalry
movement has been started to unite
Minneapolis and st, Paul as one munc-
ipality under the name OF Federal City.
Davenport, Ia, claims to be the
healthiest place in the world to live in.
During the last year the proportion of
deaths to the population was only 1907
to every 900.
An air-ship. company has been char
tered in Burlington, Ia, with capital
of $4,000, 900, to build mir ships and
wait passengers in them between that
city and New York.
Canada is arranging to secure an indie
pendent determination of her latitude
and longitude. Wishes to find out per-
haps how far she has slipped away from
the mother country.
The grip is raging with great fatality
along the coast of Nova Scotia and New
foundland. Whole families and whole
crews OF vessels have been attacked. A
famine is imminent.
A fatal disease is destroying the peach
trees OF Georgia, and the only means
known of staying its progress is the
burning of the affected trees, which is
recommended by DR.. Irwin Smith of the
Bureau of Agriculture at Washington.
The Secretary of the Interior has APP
proved the contract for repairing the
great Casa Grande prehistoric ruin near
l., INl, ,,,,nr ;,, A riuDno Fnhn Nf
$4,000 was appropriated by the last Con
gress.
The total capital invested in timbered
lands and standing timber according to
the reports of the timber establishments
in the respective States is as follows:
Michigan, $45, ,5S6,478; Wisconsin, 1884,
O03,044; Minnesota, $5,79l,9 4.
President Untermeyer of New York
and the Directors OF the Honey Peak
Consolidated Tin Company have decided
Immediately to commence the erection
of q tin-concentrating plant of $500 in
gots daily capacity at Hill City, S. D.
The balot-reform passed by the Hi
nois Legislature, as signed by the Gov
ernor, shows Section 2S, which provides
that no ticket peddler shall be allowed
within 100 feet of the polls on election
day, is missing entirely from the BILL
The Federal expenditures so far dur
ing the pre4ent month have exceeded
the receipts by about $4,000, 900, CORE
spending to the sum paid for pensions;
but the balance will now be rapidly
turned the other way, insuring reason
able surplus at the end of the month.
George Bidwell, the famous Bank of
England forger, lectured in Portland,
Me-, the other evening. 1t will be re-
membered that he was released from
Chatham prison, England, about six
years ago through the efforts of num-
ber of prominent men, who believed
that he had thoroughly repented.