The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-07-02
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
The Exports Of Silver This Year
Larger Than Ever Before.
EMIGRATION TO AMERICA THIS YEAR
Carnegie Steel Company Issues a Circular
Calling for Reduction 10 All
the Departments.

Springfield has the largest United
States arsenal.
A congress Of beer brewers will be
held next year.
There are 1908 more women than
men In Maryland.
The Chicago postoffice makes profit
Of ~, ,0O0, 900 yearly.
There are 1925 patients in the insane
asylum at Norristown.
Army worms are doing great damage
TO hay fields in Bartholomew county,
Ind.
The immigration 10 America this year
gives promise OF beating all former rec
ords.
The American dress reformers are pre-
pairing to renew their crusade at Chau-
tauqua this season.
The method OF making tin plate will
soon be taught the colored students OF
Hampton Institute, Va.
The Federal grand jury at Springfield
has been dismissed for lack OF funds
with which 10 pay them.
The wife OF Secretary Elkins has
founded and endowed home for poor
children at Deer Park, Md.
The railroads are fighting the Erie
canal by hauling grain 30 low the foot-
men cannot afford TO handle it.
The dullest times ever known in the
Little Rock (Ark.) country exist now,
aud the direct cause Is the foods.
Bucks county Penn farmers employ
over 200 OF the Indian boys and girls
graduated from the Carlisle school.
Wisconsin Odd Fellows spent $33, 1886
in relief last year. There are 1900
members OF the order in the State.
Despite a rainy May, Lake Ontario is
said 10 be several feet lower now than 1t
ordinarily is at this season OF the year.
The New York grand jury has indicted
a wealthy real-estate owner for renting
house for illegal and immoral purposes.
DR.. Cyrus Edson has reported to the
Board of Health that five of the public
schools in New York are badly venti-
lated.
The Kansas Republicans assert that
the mortgage Indebtedness of their s ate
has been reduced 100000 in twelve
months.
All but one OF the forty-two cities OF
the United States with popu lations OF
from so, 900 TO 100000 have electric rail-
ways in use.
There is bitter fight in the Kansas
Alliance ranks over the Governorship.
Jerry Simpson is mentioned as a possi-
BILE dark horse.
Professor John B. McMaster OF the
University OF Pennsylvania has declined
the offer OF the Presidency Of the Uni
versity OF Illinois.
The Carnegie Steel Company (limited)
has issued circular calling for reduc-
tion of from 10 to so per cent in nearly
all the departments.
When the new United States ironclad
Texas is afloat and ready for business,
1t will represent the biggest State in the
Union and about $3, 100000.
An insurance association is being
formed at Memphis, Tenn, by cotton
merchants to protect themselves from
unjust cotton insurance rates.
Professor Burnham, who has left the
Lick Observatory, Is to assume the Office
OF Clerk OF the Federal Court OF the Chi
cago circuit, position he filed before.
The Grand Trunk will hereafter be
permitted to bond all baggage going
from Toronto to the United States, thus
enabling it to check direct to American
points.
The list of dead so far by fire and
flood at Titusville and Oil City, Penn, is
sixty.fve at the former and fifty-four at
the latter. Several persons are still
missing.
The grand jury OF Chattanooga, Tenn,
has brought true bills against all who
attempted to lynch Frank Weems, the
negro rapist. Some prominent men were
with the mob.
The pound nets are running the shad
fishing in the Connecticut river. The
decrease last year was fully 20 per cent,
as estimated by the catch during 1889,
and this year it is no better.
The rustlers from Wyoming held a
mass meeting at Caspar and denounced
the interference OF the Federal govern
ment with their affairs. They claim the
State is amply able to meet all trouble.
Financlers in New York are calling
the attention of the promoters of rail-
way building to the probability of in
creasing absorption by Europeans Of
American railway securities in the next
year or two.
The latest New York bank statement
shows the surplus reserve is $23, SOC, GOO
--an amount nearly four times as great
as at this time last year. The ease of
money seems to be assured for several
months at least.
| The Mississippi levees, with all the
damage their breaks are alleged to have
done, placed at $32, 900, 900 by Bradstreet's
and $40, 900, 900 by the New Orleans
Times Democrat, have still stood better
than In the past.