The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-11-26
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
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Huntington Buys an Iron Mine and
Steel Works in Mexico.
THE MILLER RAINY-DAY DRESS.
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Total Insurance on Milwaukee Properly
Lately Destroyed by Fire
ShOrtRlbs Corner.
THE MILLER RAINY-DAY DRESS.

The Boston Furniture Company has
failed.
Recent storms damaged lake shipping
s4b0,000.
Philadelphia viii organize naval re-
serve battalion.
Quarantine precautions at Boston are
10 continue during the winter.
Heavy shipments OF iron ore continue
10 be the feature In that trade.
Navigation above Cincinnati is practi.
cally suspended, owing 10 low water.
General Miles says the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes are threatened with starva-
ton.
There are only iorty-Rve free patients
at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the
Insane.
A Chicago syndicate has corAered
short ribs, Of which II controls 10000
600 pounds.
The American tin-plate factories
turned out nearly 100000 pounds OF
plate last quarter.
Negotiations are in progress in st.
Louis for the consolidation Of the four
street car factories,
Hereafter any railroad in Massachu-
setts which uses the car stove is liable
TO a penalty OF $500.
Alarmed at the prevalence OF crime,
citizens at Sedalia, Mo-, have organized
a vigilance committee.
The drouth in Maryland compels farm
ers in many sections 10 haul water from
a distance for their stock.
Dun's Rerew notes more active busi-
ness conditions than for any previous
ante-presidential election.
The Supreme Court OF Missouri has
decided that official notices published in
Sunday papers are not legal.
There is a severe drouth in some sec
tions Of New York State. Water is very
scarce in half dozen counties.
The postmaster OF Georgia town has
resigned because there was 30 much
blackmail connected with the business
A bridge that spans Cattaraugus creek
near Springvile, Western New York,
touches four different towns and two
counties.
A negro digging on his farm in Liberty
county, Ca, recently found an iron pot
containing $4,000 in old French and
Spanish silver coins.
Sang Kee, Chinese government Of
ticial, has arrived in Ottawa to make an
investigation into the character and
scope of the Dominion laws regarding
the Chinese.
Complete statistics of the great fire at
st. Johns. N. f., have just been issued.
The number of houses destroyed was
,S74 and the total numbers of persons
burned out 1924.
A company has been incorporated in
Chicago with So, 900, 900 capital to manu-
facture new long-distance telephone,
which, it is claimed, will be effective on
3,O00.mile circuits.
Although the total insurance on Mil
waukee property lately destroyed by fire
was over $4,000, 900, only two companies,
80 far as reported, will have to bear a
loss Of over 100000.
During the past rainy spell at Ann
Arbor, Mich, the girls appeared on the
street in Jenness Miller's "rainy-day"
dress. The skirt reaches halfway from
the knee to the ankle.
The executors of John Roach, the
ship builder, will receive from his as
signees, George w. Quintard and George
K. Weed, about $2,000,000, the surplus
of his assigned estate.
The Plant Improvement Company at
Port Tampa, Fla, has commenced the
gigantic undertaking of dredging large
basin where twenty large ships can be
loaded at once from elevated tracks.
New York will have to raise by taxa
tion for the expenses of the coming year
$33, III ,008. The various departments
asked for total of $50, ,062,517 but this
was cut down by the Board of Estimate.
Whittier's homestead is now owned by
retired merchant of Haverhill, who is
willing to sell the estate on condition
that it shall be properly and perma-
nently cared for as memorial OF the
poet.
The Pennsylvania road will expert
menu Will llRutiHk lIb GIdChS Ny olSC-
tricity from Philadelphia to Bryn Mawr.
If success, the tracks will be lighted to
New York and locomotive headlights
dispensed with.
The suits for 5000 each against Gov
ernor Francis and others, filed by three
of the men arrested at Forsythe, Mo-,
for participation in the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Williams in Taney county, have
been dismissed.
The United States Supreme Court has
advanced to the second Monday in Jan
uary the date for hearing the case of
Prosser vs. the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, involving the title to large
tract of water front in the State of Wash
ington.
The trust" distilleries of Peoria, Ill.,,
have been buying corn in enormous
quantities lately, and many of them
have largely increased their output.
The trust has also started up some of it's
Cincinnati distilleries which have long
been idle.