The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-07-09
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The Gambling Spirit Pervades
New Orleans, La.
NUMBER OF DIVORCES GRANTED.
The international Typographical Union II
Session at Philadelphia Repeats
the SO.lIOur Law.

J Mississippi is threatened with plague
OF grasshoppers.
The negro population OF the South Il
increasing rapidly.
A mountain Of red paint has been die.
covered near Denver.
Michigan crop reports indicate big
yield 0f grain and fruits.
Judge Tourgee predicts massacre by
negroes in the next ten years.
Newfoundland is rejoicing over the
catching Of 400, ,0J0 seals by her fleet this
season.
Arrangements have been made for the
electrical illumination OF Niagara Falls
at night.
One hundred bodies are now known TO
have been stolen from the cemetery at
Hamburg, la.
The general deficiency bill provides no
money for the payment Of bond-aided
Pacific railroads.
II is said that there are really ,000,-
600 more acres planted in corn in Kansas
this year than last.
A Michigan woman who was cured OF
the morphine habit at Keeley institute
became violently insane.
Suit is to be instituted for the land
upon which the cities OF Dallas and Fort
Worth, Tex, are located.
The census returns show that in the
entire State Of Virginia the surplus OF
women is but thirty-nine.
The Cape Cod ship canal bill was de-
iested in the Massachusetts, House last
week by vote OF 80 to 80.
Governor Fier's appeal for aid from
the citizens of Illinois for food sufferers
has resulted in raising $ll 900.
The International Typographical
Union repealed the 59-hour law by a
majority OF one in forty-eight votes.
l.. w. Habercorm has resigned as Fifth
Auditor OF the Treasury. lie will prac-
tice law and write for the German papers.
OF the 42S,000 divorces granted in the
United States during the last twenty
years 100000 were granted at the re-
quest of wives.
In consequence OF the Mckinley bill
Johann Hoff, the famous malt-extract
manufactures at Berlin, is about to open
a factory in New York.
Within three years 5000 people have
lost their lives in Western Pennsylvania
because of weak dams originally con-
structed in a slovenly manner.
During May the exports OF breadstuffs
from the United States we're $40, ,4l0,349,
against $l2, $50, 23l in May, 1891; OF pro
visions, $40, ,5Ol ,592, against $7,06S, ,OC6 in
1891.
The lady landlord OF Cincinnati ho-
tel has demanded 800 damages on ac-
count of Texas banker committing
suicide in one of the rooms of her
house.
The gambling spirit so thoroughly per-
vades New Orleans that even the grand
jury is found recommending the passage
of law under which gambling shall be
licensed.
A. Nelson and James Taylor, Greek
Indians, have been sentenced to death
for stealing, the statutory laws making
conviction for theft the third time pun
ishable with death.
Edward s. Dunn, Secretary and Treas
urer of the National Savings Bank of
Buffalo, is defaulter for heavy amount.
He was trusted officer and leading
tnancier OF the city.
The New York Board OF Health re-
ports that there are FIVE schoohouses in
that city in which the only method OF
ventilating the rooms is the primitive
one of opening the windows.
The total number of regular trains OF
all classes in and out of Chicago daily
via all railroad lines is 1850. Twenty
eight railroad companies operate nearly
10000 miles of railroad lines that center
there.
A statement is being circulated that
the vast lead and zinc industries of Mis-
souri,, including several smelters at St.
Louis and in Southwestern Missouri, are
about to pass under control of foreign |
capital.
The good people of Philadelphia are
disturbed. The use OF soft coal |
by the locomotives of the Pennsylvania |
railroad is filling the air with SCOT and
the famous purity of the town
Lolita Crabtree was defeated in suit |
in the Superior Court at Boston recently |
by May Robinson, who obtained YER
dict for 500. The suit was for $4,000
for injuries sustained while passing the
PARK Theater, which Lolita owns.
Considerable excitement was occa-
stoned at Homestead, Pittsburg, by the
that Manager Potter of
Jarnegie's plant had signed three
years. agreement with all skilled labor
except members of the Amalgamated
Association at the present wages.
The run of shad in the Hudson river
mas been growing less and less for sew
sral years. The United States Fish Com
fearing an eventful famine, has
lust placed 100000 two-day-old shad fry
n the river at Kingston. 1t usually
axes three years to develop them. !