The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-10-15
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Letter.Box Robbers Decoyed Into
Prison and Captured.
MAINE HAS A CHINESE CITIZEN.
New York State Factory Inspectors Pre-.
pairing for Roundup Of the
Law TransgressOrs.
INC pamblera d Chattanooga, Tenn.,

The gamblers oi Chattanooga, Tenn,
are being run out of the city by law.
The corn crop Ia pronounced free from
frost by the Agricultural Department.
Stations at which boiled water is dis
pensed have been established In New
York.
A test case OF the Chinese exclusion
act is being prepared by Texas Federal
authorities.
An attack on the Cordage Trust has
been made before Chancellor McGill of
New jersey.
Report OF mortality in Boston for Au-
gust shows death rate Of 25.9 per ,0OO
inhabitants.
An attempt will be made TO establish
a distillery in Chicago that is not in the
Whisky Trust.
The watch OF the blind poet, Milton,
is said 10 have driIted TO Chicago from q
81. Louis pawnshop.
Subterranean floods and eruptions OF
gas are reported to be frightening the
people of Jerome, Ind.
The officers OF the Salvation Army at
Macomb, ILL.,, are in limbo for failing 10
pay fine for parading.
Uncle Sam pays as high as $500 per
annum for the rental Of his sub-postal
stations in Philadelphia.
On account OF cholera the Mayor Of
Clarksburg, Tenn, has forbidden the
people to eat watermelons.
The city liquor agency of Portland,
Me-, last year sold 100000 worth of liq-
uor for medicinal purposes.
In the course of couple OF months
the last vestige OF the horse.car lines
will have disappeared from st. Louis.
The lower part OF the Hudson river is
Swallowing because OF brick dust and
broken brick thrown from canal boats.
Maine lays claims to Chinese citizen,
His name is Wah Ngock Lee, who mar
ried a Maine school teacher come time
ago.
Mrs. Mary McGrath OF Louisville, KY.
has brought suit against saloonkeepel
for selling whisky to her husband against
her wishes.
The projected oil pipe line from the
Pennsylvania oil fields to the Atlantic
Coast will become an active competition
o! the Standard.
The "Judge" Short gang Of cattle
thieves in North Dakota is reported
cleaned out by the settlers and the
Judge" lynched.
The fisheries on the st. Lawrence have
been failures this season, and many o
the people have sold out and are coming
to the United States.
The Olympic Club at New OrleanI
cleared 100000 by the prize fighting
carnival" and when all expenses were
paid $4S, 900 remained.
The type founders in the East have
formed a trust. The fierce competition
of the last ten years is to end, the rateI
of discount will be reduced and priceI
go up.
United States Marshal Joe Rankin o
Wyoming, who has a national reputa
tion for bravery, has bsen removed fo
not making arrests of desperadoes whel
ordered.
The jury in the case of Burton G
Webster, charged with numbering Book
maker Charles Goodwin at New York
brought in verdict of manslaughter il
the first degree.
The crop report for Missouri show
that there was general but light fros
on two nights and numerous grasshop
pers, the latter necessitating the lat
sowing of wheat.
Governor Boyd OF Nebraska has un
conditionally pardoned ex-Treasure
Charles H. Paul of Adams county, Neb
convicted of having embezzled $500
of county money.
w. r. Crosett, cashier and proprieto
of the Peoples Bank of Hope, Ark, ha
decamped with the deposits and schoo
funds to the amount of a number G
thousands of dollars.
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard
the literary executor of Emerson, Low
ell and Carlyle, is said to be constitute
literary executor of John Ruskin by
clause in the latter's will.
The corn cutters in the vicinity {
Springfield, o., have formed an associs
tion to fight the patent corn-cuttin
sleds, and refuse to work for farmer
using the obnoxious sleds.
In st. Louis all granite, wood and al
phaltum streets have been cleaned. Th
work of polishing up the macadamize
streets is to begin at once, and it is est
mated that it will cost 100000.
A bottle was picked up on Scorto
Beach, Mass, the other day, inclosing
paper on which was written: sc. I
Reed, L. A. Reed, L. B. Reed, W.
Giliing, lost August IA, 1892, at sea-"
Two members of the Stratton gang {
letter box robbers went to the Colorad
State penitentiary to effect the escape
their leader, Stratton, but instead wei
decoyed into the prison and captured.
The Department of Agriculture, it
expected, will issue proclamation raj
ing the quarantine which had been e
tablished against cattle afflicted wit
pneumonia in New York and New Je
sey.