The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-02-21
EASTERN ITEMS.
A Blll introduced In the Indiana LeglS,
lature to Give Wlle.BcatcrS Some
Of Their Own Medicine.

The Portuguese have recently cstab.
liphcd colonies In Connecticut and Mas
sachusetts,
For the first time the United States
last year produced more pig iron than
Great Britain.
The Health Department Of Milwaukee
is about to establish u disiniccting
patrol service"
The Nebraska House has passed Il bill
the operation of bHckct-
shops in Nebraska,
4 new temperance league in Maine IN
"a wage an unrclcnttng war
upon liquor dealers,
The Missouri Senate has passed bill
allowing cities. towns and villages 30
work prisoners who do not pay their
fines.
The impression is growing ut Wash
ington that the present session of Con.
gress will end without any silver legis.
htiun.
4 protractcd fight is expected over
the amendment to the tariff act, which
is intended to preserve the treaty with
Hawaii.
4 machine has been invented aud IL
now IN operation IN Chicago, by which
binding tNinc can be made NJ one-iourth
the present cost.
Senator Stanford has introduced q bill
in the Senate providing fof sale Of por.
tiun of the Lime Point reservation, al
joining Sausaito, Cal,
Negotiations are said to be- pending for
the purchase by the Nandcrhilts Of the
Northern Michigan iron mines now con.
trollcd by the Schlesinger syndicate.
Twcuty.nine states have passed laws
restricting the sale OF cigarettes But
the cigarette business increases every
year in volume and profit,
The shipments OF ore from the Lake
Superior mines in 1890 reached the enor-
nous sum of 00,0SS, $50 tons, an increase
pi Z 81 ,isb gross tons over 1880.
Texas has no laws regulating railroads,
but ii elected last fall Legislature
whose members are instructed to enact
such laws, and that Legislature is now
IN session,
The New York Commercial Adr,uisrr
says that the thrcc-month notes given by
the Union Pacific for part OF the floating
debt are beginning to trouble the com
pany us they mature.
DIR. lgnacio Martinez, at one time
General in the Mexican army, but a
political exile, was waylaid and assnssi-
mated at Laredo Texas, while making
the rounds among his patients.
A mechanics institute is 10 he cstub-
lished at Richmond by q number OF
wealthy citizens OF that city They will
devote $2b 900 for II. site, $50, 900 for n
building and SI5,O 900 for Il library.
As usual, there will be pipeline bill
considered during the present Legisla-
ture at Harrisburg. The bill will be in
the interest Of oil producers, AZ against
the interest Of the Standard Oil Com
pany.
Twelve or fifteen Of the students at
Cornell College, in Mount Vernon, Mich,
have been before the Grand Jury, and
gave testimony concerning the gambling
engaged in ut the college during the last
term.
The Pacific Mail steamship Colon had
a boisterous voyage to Panama on the
last trip from New York. She was bad
ly battered by the heavy seas, and the
passengers were kept below for forty
eight hours.
Governor Jones of Alabama has mr.
ranged with the State Commissioner of
Agriculture to procure for him trees from
all the most noted battle-lields Of Vir-
Jinia, to be transplanted to the capitol
grounds ut Montgomery.
An effort is being made by the Mis-
souri, Legislature to enact Il law requr-
ing foreign corporations doing business
in the State to establish offices in its
and to comply with the
laws rs do the home companies,
A Columbian memorial, designed by'
]. Allen Whyte of Chicago, for the Ex-
position, would have star-shaped build
ing surmounted by dome 400 feet high,
and that in turn surmounted by tower
whose top should be ,492 feet from the
base.
A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of Indiana, providing that
any man who shall be proven guilty Of
his wife shall himself receive
fifty lashes, and that the public shall be
to the jail-yard to see him
whipped.
The announcement is made that the
Soda Lakes Of Natrdna county, at Cas-
per, Wyo., have been sold to an English
syndicate. for the sum of S2,000,000.
These lakes form circular; basins where
9ulphate of soda has filled'in to depth
Of twenty feet of Slid soda
The State Board of Arbitration and
md Mediation of New York has made u
special report on the strike which took
place on the New York Central railroad
in August last. The report recommends
that the relations OF the railroad toward
their employees be regulated by general
law and in a quasi-military fashion,