The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-08-20
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
No Overhead Wires at the Chicago
Worlds Fair Grounds.
APPLE CROP LIGHT EVERYWHERE.
Kansas Corn Crop Failure-Fleld Of
Wheat Floats Down a River
Rev. Sam Small

There are 900 letter carriers In Chi
cago.
Cyrus W. Field's life was insured for
1886, 900.
Thirty sardine canning factories In
Maine are closed.
Rainmaker Melbourne will soon begin
work in Western Nebraska.
Army worms are causing trouble In
De Witt and Mclean counties, III.
The New York Central has secured a
through line OF its own to Montreal.
Rumors are current that another war
on the sugar trust will shortly begin.
A company has been formed at Dick
inson, n. d., to establish stock ranches.
The corn crop in Kansas Is almost a
total failure, owing to the burning heat.
A waste OF public money is reported at
the immigrant station on Ellis Island,
N. Y.
A large colony OF disappointed Okla
homa homeseekers have left for Central
America.
A new insurance schedule Is under
consideration by the underwriters Of the
United States.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Holland,
Tex, are complaining OF an insect which
destroys cotton.
The Union Pacific road Is preparing
new sidetracks for the expected rush OF
grain nj KanaaR Civ
A field OF wheat is reported to have
floated down the Missouri river past
Atchison, Kan, lately.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has pur-
chased new terminal property in Buf.
falo, n. Y, worth 81 ,000,0O0
Twenty counties in the western half
Of Kansas report an increase OF AZ per
cent. in the acreage Of wheat over last
year.
Colonel James II. Rice OF Indiana has
y plan for revolut onizing naval warfare
by building India'rubber ships.
Milwaukee feels easy over the Illinois
Steel Company signing the scale OF
wages for the works at Bay View for the
ensuing year.
Ten acres in the heart OF Buiialo's
railroad district have been secured by
the Philadelphia and Reading railroad
for freight storage.
Just 81, 1922 tons OF granite have been
placed in the Delaware breakwater gap
the past year. The sum required to
complete the work is $S20,0OO
A petition has been in circulation at
New Bedford calling for mass meeting
10 formulate plans which will compel the
authorities to enforce the liquor law.
The revolution that electric traction is
working is shown by the advertised sale
OF $500, 900 worth OF stables by the West
End Street Railway Company of Boston.
Many prominent clergymen protest
against the proposition to bring the
Oberammergau players to Chicago next
year to reproduce the Passion Play. "
Sealskin dealers of the United States
have formed q trust at Newark, N. j.,
with $10,000,000 capital. 1t will be
known as the George @. Treadwell Com
pany.
A man in Dakota was lately sentenced
to prison for half lifetime, and the Su-
preme Court has decided that the time
means nineteen years, seven months and
four days.
The apple crop this year promises to
be light everywhere outside of Califor.
mia, Maine and Nova Scotia. A good
deal of green fruit has been knocked off
the trees by the storms.
1t Is believed there will be an exodus
of non-union men from the C9ur d d'Alene
country II the troops are withdrawn.
Efforts are being made to have one or
two companies of United States troops
remain.
The veto put upon the trolley system
of electric traction in both New York
and Philadelphia has turned the atten-
tion OF inventors more than ever to the
long. hoped-for perfection of either the
storage battery or the conduit system.
The annual report of the State aims
house at Tewksbury, Mass, for 1891
shows that there were 2.9l5 persons ad-
mitted, of whom only 81 were born in
Massachusetts,, while l ,024 were born in
Ireland.
Nine. Patti has at last decided on her
final, absolute farewell tour in America.
She has signed a contract with Marcus
Mayer for tour of forty operate con-
certs, beginning in New York on No
vember III, next year.
Walter D. Stinson, who has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Augusta, Me-, to
flll the vacancy caused by the resigna.
tion of Hon. J. II. Manley, is nephew
of Mrs. Blaine. He has been in the
postoffice service for years.
There is quite little stew in Indian
apolis over the scope which shall be al.
lowed its great soldiers monument in
commemoration OF Indiana's war serv-
ices. The point OF contest is In the Wig
orous objection by the veterans of the
civil war against sharing the immortal
with the veterans of the Mexieane war.