The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-06-18
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Remarkable Growth Of the City Of
Roanoke, Virginia.
THE INCREASE OF NATIONAL BANKS.
American Dress RelOrmers Preparing to
Renew Their Crusade-FlO0d
L0sses-0ther News.

The corn and cotton crops OF Tennes.
see are In fine condition.
The food losses between Memphis and
Cairo are estimated as high as 81, 600, 900.
Only $40, 900 OF the $3.50, 900 needed 10
build Grants tomb remain yet 10 be
raised.
The town OF Roanoke, Va, has grown
In ten years from population Of 600 TO
one Of $4,000.
The American dress reformers are pre-
pairing 10 renew their crusade at Chau.
tauqua this year.
Within the past few weeks seals and
Arctic looms have been caught off the
Connecticut coast.
ProspectOrs for oil in the petroleum
district OF Tennessee and Kentucky are
getting to be numerous,
Within year Southern mobs have
lynched $50 negroes by hanging, burned
7, 1ayed and disjointed /.
William Lewis Corrigan, brother OF
Archbishop Corrigan, is a prisoner in
the insane pavilion at Bellevue Hospital.
Governor Flower has signed New
York's new factory law, limiting the
work Of factory girls to ten hours day.
The New York City Water Commits
sion will build an SS,000,OO0 dam. 1t
will hold 10000, ,0O0, 900 gallons OF water.
The probable shortage of the Western
wheat crop is averaged by various est
mates at 40, ,000. 900 to 81, 900 900 bushels.
The silver service subscribed for the
cruiser Baltimore by the citizens OF Bal
timore has been dispatched to Mare
Island.
SO much grain has recently been COM
ing down for export from Montreal that
the transportation companies are unable
to handle il.
Maine Is favorile State for meetings.
During eighty days this summer it is TO
have nearly seventy important conven-
tions OF various kinds.
Kansas City is to have another man.
moth packing house, built by the Ar
mours, that will make it the largest
meat-packing city in the world.
France and Germany have notified the
government at Washington tina. they
will Join the international silver confer
ence. This assures the assembling.
Suit has been brought at st. Paul for
city property worth nearly $4,0OJ,00J.
The action is instituted in behalf of the
children of soldier named Heinert.
Governor Hogg OF Texas called Charles
T. Bonner, lawyer, in campaign
speech professional lawyer" and now
Bonner wants 200 for defamation OF
character.
The weather philosopher of the New
York Herald figures out great summer
and autumn tropical storms, with un-
usual warmth meanwhile over the north
ern continents.
Congressman Dockery estimates that
the receipts OF the Columbian Exposi-
tion will be $36,000,0OO. That means
Il, ,000, 900 admissions and not less than
100000 visitors.
During the twelve months ending with
last April 176 new national banks were
added to the number previously in ex-
istence, and they increased the total
capital by $l7, 10000.
A colored paper in Boston says ne
groes are being taught the art of making
dynamite bombs to be used in the South
unless the outrages against their race in
that section come to an end.
A special meeting OF the stockholders
of the Edison Electric Illuminating Com
pany of New York was held May 81 to
take action on a proposition to increase
the capital stock OF the company from
a, 800, 900 to $6,500,000.
Bob Floyd, one OF the four train rob
bers who killed Messenger Saunders at
Jennings station, Fla., is in Jail at
Gainesville, and has confessed his crime
and given all the facts in the case.
The Mayor of Jackson, Mich, pre-
vented bodies of railroad men from tear
ing up walk in order to lay track by
calling out the fire department and
drenching the workmen with water.
A large white circle around the sun
frightened the negroes of Jackson, Miss,
so badly one day week before last that
they rushed from their houses and de-
clared that the judgment day was COM
ing.
Senator Rutan of Pittsburgh, Pa, pro-
poses to institute legal proceedings
against Senator Quay, ex-State Treasurer
Boyer and Treasurer Morrison for viola
tion OF the law and illegal use of State
funds.
Cigarette slot machines are being in
troduced in Ontario in order to evade the
law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to
boys under ID. A card above the ma
chine warns boys not to drop their
money in.
Memorial-day celebration at New Or
leans was in the hands OF the colored
posts of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. White people held services at the
churches ON Sunday, but refused to 60
to the National cemetery; and Confed-
crate Veterans, who have presented floral
offerings in the past, refused to do so
this year, declining to have anything to
do with negroes, who in consequence
monOn0lizad the celebration