The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-10-08
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Compulsory Sobriety Instituted by
a Railroad Company.
TWO LAND GRANTS ON PARCHMENT.
The II use Of MCAlllster Threatened With
Divorce SCandal-Tlust Of
Safe and Lock Mon.

X. q. Dun & Co. report that cholera
has had no effect on trade.
Garbage creamatories will be In opera
ton in Chicago within few days.
A trust Of all the safe and lock men in
the United States, involving 1000, 900,
is on the taps.
Within the next ninety days all the
telephone wires at Cincinnati will be
laid underground.
Fong Hoy, Chinaman, is held in st..
LOUIS Tor manufacturing opium for
smoking purposes.
There is talk OF formal consolidation
OF the Baltimore and Ohio and Ohio and
Mississippi railroads.
The brewers OF Cincinnati will fight in
court an additional tax levy of 5000 900
assessed against them.
Texas has established a quarantine
station on Red river, where the Santa
Fe road enters the State.
General Miles is under orders TO throw
troops into Choctaw nation whenever
Indian Agent Bennett calls for them.
The Chicago Inter Ocean has begun
hot war on the anthracite combine and
demands both civil and criminal prose
cution.
The largest artificial stone in the world
forms the base of the Bartholdi Statue
OF Liberty on Bedloe's Island, New York
Harbor.
The circular OF the Treasury Depart
ment requiring crews of vessels on the
Great Lakes TO be vaccinated has been
revoked.
The late Father Mollinger's assumed
fortune Of 10000, 600 has been dwindled
down to matter-of-f fact valuation of
about 100000.
A train mile and quarter in length
was lately hauled over the Reading rail-
road by single engine. 1t consisted of
25O empty freight cars.
Major Harvey, United States Pension
Agent OF Detroit, paid off the $4,000 pen
slons OF Michigan in six days, thus sur
passing all previous records.
Captain Berckman, of the American
steel Barge Company, is investigating
the Texas coast, looking to securing
harbor for the whaleback ships.
Judge Short, the leader OF a notorious
band OF cattle thieves in the Bad Lands,
n. d., has been captured and lynched,
together with several of his men.
Governor Francis has proclaimed DC.
tober q next as a public Thanksgiy-
ing day and holiday throughout the |
State OF Missouri, calling it Columbus
day.
The people of New York are not afraid |
OF cholera epidemic this fall, and are |
going about their business just as though |
the scourge had not crept past the bar
rlers.
Over hundred houses in different
parts OF Memphis have been condemned |
as unsanitary by the Board OF Health,
and the owners have been notified to
raze and burn them.
The State Legislature of Pennsylvania.
at the session of 1873, appropriated
Wlo,0OO to pay the military and other
ex enses OF the labor riots at Plttsburg
during the preceding year.
A Detroit paper says the confusion in
the administration of the quarantine
regulations in that city has reached such
a pass that the customs officers have
thrown up their hands in despair.
The house of Ward McAllster is men,
aced with divorce scandal. The wife
OF Haywood, the son of Ward McAlhs-
ter, has threatened her husband with
arrest for deserton and non-support.
The New York Central now owns the
biggest engine. 1t is No. 903. Its driv-
ing wheels are seven feet two inches,
and man may walk erect beneath the
boiler. The monster is for fast train
service.
The street pageant which New York
will get up for its Colum bian festivities
will be lighted by 100 candle electric
torches borne alongside the floats, and
receiving electricity from storage bat
teries on the floats.
The proceedings at New York in the
case OF the steamer South Portland,
seized by the United States Government
On the allegation that she was laden with
arms for the revolutionists in Venezuela,
have been dismissed for lack of evidence.
Acting Secretary Chandler has ordered I
,he payment of 100000 authorized by
Congress as an indemnity to the Sioux
indians for 5000 ponies taken by the
Government some years ago, during one
If the Indian outbreaks in the North I
vest.
The East Tennessee Railroad Com !
oany has issued an order requiring alb
Itinence from the use OF Intoxicating !
irinks on the part of its employees; also :
hat they shall, while in the company's :
ervice, keep away from places where in :
oxicants are sold, and lend their infu- /
nee to keep others away. :
In lot of scrap and waste paper re-
emily unloaded at the paper mill in t
'almyra, Mich, were found two land C
rants on parchment, bearing the sigma q
ures of John Adams and Martin Van L
Suren. The first was drawn in 1910 for a
strip of Virginia soil, and the other in k
$40 for section of Mississippi. 'I