The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-10-17
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Coal Product OF the
United States.
GEORGIA TO TAX BACHELORS
Arrangements Complete for the Poly
technic Excursion 10 the
Worlds Fair
GEORGIA TO TAX BACHELORS

The Twin City CMinneapolis) Athletic
Club has assigned.
1t is said Canada intends 10 reimpose
an export duty on logs.
Ohio this year produces the largest to.
bacco crop in her history.
A cooking school IL part Of the pub
lic-school system OF Milwaukee.
The validity OF the convict lease sys-
TEN In Tennessee il 10 be decided by the
courts.
Turkeys flag has been the first 10 be
uniurled on the Chicago Worlds Fair
grounds.
The waters of Lake Erie are 10 be
piped 10 Cincinnati, taking in many
other cities en- route.
Most Of the fires in Wisconsin were
confined TO districts burned over last
spring. The rains have checked them.
A factory is 10 be built at Minneapolis
by parties who claim to be able to tenn
per copper 70 that il can be made hard
as steel.
The Millionaires' Club OF New. York
will erect $3.50, 900 house. The proposed
site is on the corner OF Fifth avenue and
Sixtieth street.
The people in Emmons county, n. d.
who lost their property by prairie fires
are said TO be in deplorable condition
without food or shelter.
Since the passage of the American
copyright law it is said that one New
York song publisher has paid $1,000 in
London for manuscripts.
France, it is believed, will next month
rescind the pork prohibition laws. Italy
promises to rescind her prohibitory reg
ulations after France acts.
1t is stated that the government has
realized S6 ,00O, 900 from the sale OF lands
in that part Of Kansas which is beyond
the line OF certain rainfall.
In the Red River Valley, N. D., farm
labor is very scarce, and the railroads in
that section carry men free to various
points where they are needed.
The large yield and high price of wheat
will, it is estimated and expected, make
this seasons Dakota crop equal in value
to those of the five preceding years.
A railroad surveying party that went
up the Big Horn Canyon in Colorado
nearly two months ago has not been
heard from, and there are fears that the
members have been lost.
Vessel agents and mariners on the
Great Lakes are urging the establish
ment of branch photographic office on
the lakes to look out for the vast mari
time interests centered there.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, |. o. O.
f., has voted down the proposition that
members could become eligible to the
degree of Patriarchs Militant without
going through the encampment.
Georgia is going to tax bachelors. A
bill for that purpose has been brought
into the Georgia Legislature, and the
House Committee on Hygiene and Sani-
tation has reported it favorably.
An extra session of the Pennsylvania
Legislature has been called with view
to remove the Auditor General and State
Treasurer, whose connection with the
financial scandals has been charged
openly.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows has voted against the eighteen
year limit to eligibility to join the order
The vote was 107 to 5S. The question
regarding liquor sellers was postponed
until next year.
In a drunken fight on train from
Mount Vernon to Carmi, ILL.,, William
Robertson stabbed Sheriff William;
slightly, and a man named Stanley, who
went to Williams assistance, was badly
cut and will die.
The conductors, switchmen and brake.
men on the Southern Pacific Atlantic
system have demanded an increase ir
wages, and strike at an early day i:
possible, as the company refuses to ac-
cede to the demands.
Florida's Secretary of State, Mr.. Craw
ford, refuses to attest the commission o.
eX-Congressman Davidson, appointed by
Ex-Governor Fleming to succeed Senator
Call. Mandamus proceedings will be
taken by the Governor.
A committee of physicians at Louis
vile is examining the case of Mrs. Stuck
enburg, who, it has been widely pub
lished, on Fridays goes into trance
when the stigmata or bleeding wounds
similar to those of the Savior when or
the cross are said to appear.
A secret organization is terrorizing the
people in the neighborhood of Tellville
Ark. 1t is composed of "moral regu
lators," but they are brutal in theil
treatment of those who come under the
ban of their displeasure.
At the Gravesend race track at New
York an ingenious trick, by means O
which the bookmakers got news of the
races, was discovered. A coachman ;
with a big hat was arrested in the tielC
for carriages, and it was found batter,
was in the hat and small wires aroun(
the mans body, while in the rear of tn,
carriage was an operator who sent mes
ssges dictated by the supposed coach
man.