The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-06-27
EASTERN ITEMS.
DR.. Brooks Appointment
as Bishop Confirmed.
CALL IS ELECTED SENATOR.
Tho Govornmont win Cooperate With
the British Authorities IN The
Bohring Sea Matter.
CALL IS ELECTED SENATOR.

The Worlds Fair will have nm electric
house.
Fifty Tennessee farmers will settle in
Nevada.
ST. Paul women have begun nm anti.
Sunday thcatcr crusade.
4 new tunnel between Detroit and
Canada will bee 3, s,l3a feet long
The Commercial Cable Company has
declared II dividend ot "a per cent.
The Councils OF Kansas City say the
companies must reduce the price Of light,
The election ri Senator Call is consid-
cred defeat of the Alliance men in
Florida
A New York Judge has decided In an
interesting mit ut utica that "truth IL
not libel.
The penny.n.thc.slo weighing ma.
chimes have been removed from Central
Park, New York.
Wouli-be settlers are picking out
choice spots in the Sac and Fox lands
soon to be opened.
The students Of Harvard and Yale
were recently relieved of $4,000 by II
pair OF card sharks.
I The New York Continent il 10 become
the Morning ldger,issr, and will be is-
sued az q onc-ccnt paper.
The Massachusetts, House has rejected
/ the hll making eight hours day work
+ for State and city employees.
The Illinois Senate hns voted - to u
/ 10 lay on the table the bill 10 extend
municipal suffrage TO women.
/ 4 granite sarcuphagus for the remains
OF the late =. T. Burnum is approaching
completion at West Concord, \. II.
/ 4 corps OF wheemcn is to be organ
lied mt Brook lyn, n. y, rs II part OF the
Thirteenth Regiment OF State troops.
T The strike on the Midland Ind. rail
way Is nt an end, and the company has
paid all its back debts 10 the strikers.
The effort 10 make tobacco staple
crop in Florida is being continued on Il
/ large acreage and with apparent sue
cess.
The late John T. Farish of New York
city left the liberal sum OF $2SO,0O0 TO
various religious and charitable organi-
cations.
Acting Secretary OF the Interior Chan.
dlcr says, il the kaweah coIonists are TO
be reimbursed, it must be bya special
net OF Congress,
Mad dogs are 50 numerous in Georgia
/ that the Legislature will he urgently
pressed to legislate concerning dogs at
the next session.
The American Nurserymen' Associa-
ton Mt Minneapolis has strongly pro-
tested against MaxwelPs confirmation
az chief of the horticultural exhibits ut
the Worlds Fair.
The Directors of the Union Theolog-
ical Seminary have declined TO accede to
the veto OF the Presbyterian General
Assembly, and DR. Briggs will continue
his work at the seminary.
A trade organization has been effected
among the Southern plaid mills to obtain
II uniform standard of production and n
better representation Of the Southern
plads in the markets Of the world.
Governor Pattison OF Pennsylvania has
to consider 263 bills passed by the re-
Gently adjourned Legislature, which he
must approve, veto or allow to become
laws by failure either to approve or veto.
Augustus 81. Gaudcus of New York
Henry Mitchell OF Boston and Charles
Il. Barber Of Philadelphia have been APP
pointed by the Secretary Of the Treas
ury to select the designs for the new sill
yer coins.
The whisky trust has at last acquired
outright the only remaining important
antitrust establishment in The West
the great Chicago distileries owned by
Shufeldt & Co. and the Calumet DistiIl-
ing Company.
The new postal cards will be along
soon. There will be a size for ladies'
use and one for business men, the former
smaller and the latter larger than the
card now in vogue. Grants portrait
constitutes the stamp.
The Treasury Department has under a
recent decision of the Attorney-General
converted the seignorage accruing from
the coinage of silver dollars into stand
ard dollars, and is now issuing silver
certificates against them.
The President has appointed Edward
=. Thompson postmaster at indianapolis,
Ind, vice Wallace deceased, and ex-Con-
gresham Owen of Indiana Superntend-
ent of Emigration, an Office created at
the last session of Congress.
Major General John M. Schofeld, sem
ior officer of the United States army, it
is stated, is soon to be married to Miss
Georgia N. Kilbourne of Keokuk, la.
The young lady was a schoolmate of
General Schofeld's daughter.
DR.. Phillips Brooks has had his ap-
pointment as Bishop of Massachusetts,
confirmed by a majority of the dioceses.
All that now remains to be done is for
the Bishops, sixty-seven in number, to
vote on DR.. Brooks acceptance within
their ranks. The voting is don" by mail
Each Bishop is allowed one vote.