The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-05-30
The Illinois House Passes
an Anti Trust Bill.
GRAIN CROP IN NORTHWEST
The Melting Shows Put Many Of the
Streams That Flow Into the
Rio Grande Bank Full.
The Illinois House has passed al anti
trust bill.

The Illinois House has passed All anti
trust bill.
In Elgn, ILL.,. saloon licenses have just
been fixed at 81 900, an advance Of $500
over the previous year.
A decision OF the Treasury Department
ia 10 the effect that bees are animals for
the purpose Of levying duty.
Reports from all sections in the North
western States show the grain crop 10 lie
in very ilatterng condition.
Divers are searching for springs in the
bed of the Delaware river in order 10
supply Camden with fresh water.
1t IL reported that there is greater
acreage OF wheat in the Northwest Ter
ritory this season than ever before
\ monument is to be erected TO the
memory of the victims Of the flood at
Johnstown, Pa. 1t will cost $1,000
The May disbursements in New York
for State, county and municipal and gov
erimcnt are estimated at s35 100000.
A safe used in the Castle Garden office
OF the New York immigration authori-
ties was sold at public auction the other
day, and brought 81.
The Secretary of the Interior within a
few days will appoint an agent to super
intend experimental irrigation in Ari-
2ona, Montana and Nevada.
According to charges made against
certain active workers in the Scranton
City Council $500 is the current quota
ton for vote in that body.
The melting SHOWS have put many of
the streams that flow into the Rio
Grande bank full, and the bordering
lowlands are covered with water.
The Journal ot Finance says that the
dividends which the sugar trust is prom
Using for July will be per cent. on the
common and 10 per cent. on the pre-
ferred.
A lighted cigarette carelessly thrown
into pile of hay caused a fire that de-
stroyed the stables OF the Austin Tex J
Street Car Company, together with
twenty-five cars and thirty-four mules.
The United States Marshal has sent
deputies to Coomescowie district, Cher
okea Nation, to make wholesale arrests
of the negroes who Obstructed the In
dian officers. Serious difficulty is antic-
ipated.
A movement in its incipiency in Vir-
ginia has for its object the removal from
Baltimore to Richmond of the body of
the late General Joseph f. Johnston.
The ilustrious Confederate was a Nir-
ginian born.
The Secretary of the Treasury has had
careful examination made of the GUS
tom-houses in the chief seaports, and
thinks that an appreciable saving can be
made by cutting off number of offices
that are not indispensable.
The Prescott National Bank of Lowell,
Mass, has placed an attachment on the
property of General Butler for $4,000.
The money consideration was given
about four years ago on personal note,
which the bank discounted.
Ex-Smgeon-General Hammond has
begun suit against the New York Worlds
Washington correspondent, the said cor
respondent having stated that DR.. Ham
mond had charged Mrs. Stanford $1,000
for removing wen from her head.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in Columbus for a long-distance tel
ephone company for the purpose of con-
structing and operating lines from Gin
cinnati to Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo,
New York and other Eastern cities.
Hon. Thomas L. Waller, Vice-Presi-
dent of the National Worlds Fair Com
mission, has been declared Chief of the
Department of Foreign Affairs, head
quarters to be in London, with branch
bureaus in other European capitals.
The New York Lumber Trade Associa-
ton, representing all the big lumber
dealers in the city, decided not to de-
liver lumber to any building in the city
until the boycott which the lumber han
dlers have put on Charles l.. Bucki &
Co. is raised.
The Financier notes that out of total
of 1867 national banks which reported
to the Controller of the Currency their
condition last October 269 have each q
surplus and undivided profits equal to OF
exceeding its capital. That is about ~
per cent. of the entire number.
The appointment of Walter S. Max
we'll of California Chief of the Horti-
cultural Department of the Worlds Fair
has been referred to special committee
OF the directory to investigate the charges
of incompetency preferred against him
and to report at the next meeting.
At New Orleans the grand jury replied
to the recent letter of the Italian Consul
Corte, saying: "We find the tenor oi
your communication not consistent with
the official dignity of this body, and We
are,therefore constrained to return the
document without further comment"
The suit in the United States Court al
Philadelphia against Patton & Co. to re.
cover additional duties on imported WOO
has ended in verdict in favor of the
government. The jury held that the
wool in question was broken up in Eng
land for the purpose OF evading the
higher duty in this country.