The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-03
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Tramps Make a Descent on a
Pennsylvania Town.
MERCHANT MARINE LOOKED AFTER.
Last Month the Most Prosperous in the
History Of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Receipts.

A new evening paper is 70 be estab-
lished at Washington, d. @.
A Newfoundland company has been
organized TO gather Ice from iCebergs.
Gold has been discovered in Lincoln,
X. l., and small mine Is being worked.
Nineteen babies in New York were
named after Columbus during the week
following the celebration.
The peanut crop in Virginia will only
average one-half, while that OF North
Carolina is also said to be very short.
And now New Orleans is called npon
to face damage suits brought by the
heirs OF the lynched members OF the
Malta.
Large numbers OF Chinese are reported
TO be crossing the Rio Grande into the
United States, owing to the lack OF river
guards.
Thirty-three out OF the iorty-four States
now vote under new laws, all upon the
general Australian plan, but variously
modified.
Plans have been completed by the
Missouri Pacific railroad for fast-train
service between Denver and the Missis-
sippi river, beginning February |.
Congressman Cultivate OF Ohio will
present bill in Congress to have all soied
paper money destroyed in view of dan
ger OF it's spreading and breeding disease.
Last month was the most prosperous
in the history Of the Brooklyn bridge.
There we're 4 1880, ,920 persons carried on
the traine, and the receipts we're $llS,-
625.
Jerome Park, for thirty years one OF
the most famous race tracks in the coun-
try, is about to become the property of a
syndicate and be cut up into building
lots.
Kansas has elected to Congress Charles
Curtis, a quarter-blood Indian, and w.
A. Harris, an ex-Coniederate Colonel.
The latter was elected by the State at
large.
The Commissioners OF the District of
Columbia have issued an order to the ei-
feet that all the theaters in Washington
must be fitted throughout with electric
lights.
Two cotton-spinning firms at Provi-
dence, X. L., and the Lowell, Mass,
cotton mills have notified their employees
of an increase in their wages after De-
cember 5.
The Drexel Hotel Company has been
incorporated with capital stock OF $3,-
000, 900 to lease various apartment and
other buildings for occupancyby Worlds
Fair visitors.
The feeling between the strikers and
non-union men at Homestead, Pa, grows
more bitter daily, and unless the trouble
is quieted soon bloody riot is almost
sure to follow.
The merchant marine is to be diligent-
ly looked after. Senator Hoar has se-
cured much valuable information while
abroad, which he proposes to incorporate
into a shipping bill.
The Reading people are sanguine over
the success of their new steel bearings
for mine cars, which by doing away with
the use of oil will effect the saving OF
several thousands year.
General Sherman'a old home on Gar
rison avenue in st. Louis is to be sold by
auction. 1t is handsome old mansion,
locally historic, and was presented to the
General by his friends and admirers in
1865.
There is large factory at a small
town near Chicago, employing about 100
to l50 workers, which is wholly given
over to the manufacture of useful arti-
cles from waste animal blood.
1t is now proposed by leading bicycle
men to build an asphalt road thirty or
thirty-fve feet wide from Chicago to
New York. If established, there are to
be no tolls for the use of the road.
A few days ago, at depth of nearly
$500 feet, a large vein of water was
struck in the artesian we'll at the State
Orphans Home, near Corsicana, Texas,
that is now flowing 100000 gallons per
day.
The bank clearings of Chicago for the
ten months ending with October foot up
r total of "a, 177,Y01 ,403, and those OF
Boston for the same time &,181 ,065, ,234,
the difference being but about 5000, 900
in favor of the Eastern city.
The New York Herald advocates the
abolition of our foreign Ministries and
the substitution therefor of perfected
service. The Herald attributes
the first utterance on this subject to
James g. Blaine some years ago.
The city of Salzburg, capital of the
Duchy of that name, publicly celebrated
the eighteenth anniversary OF the birth
Of Count Maximlian O'Donnell, a de-
of the Irish Earls OF Tyrcon-
mel, who saved Emperor Francis Joseph's
life in 1854.
In memory OF General Robert E. Lee
two stained glass windows made in Mu-
nich have been put into st. Paul's Epis-
copal Church in Richmond. Between
them on the wall brass tablet is to be
placed in the form of shield, having on
It crusaders cross, the Confederate
flag, the Lee coat-of-arms and an inscrip-