The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-03-26
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Total Population of
Brooklyn.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT'S ACTION.
Mayor and City Council Of a Kansas
Town Arrested.-The Harlem
Land Claim.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT'S ACTION

Cincinnati will vote $4,000, 600 bonds
Tor new water works.
Governor Boyd will not call an extra
session OF the Nebraska Legislature.
A third electric railroad between Min
neapolis and st. Paul will be built this
year.
The Central Railroad and Banking
Company of Georgia is in the hands OF
receiver.
The naval bill, as completed, appro-
PIRATES $7S, 800 for improvements at Mare
Island navy yard.
over l50, 900 bushels Of American corn
have been sent into the famine district
OF Durango, Mexico.
A number of Cinnamon are becoming
citizens Of Mexico TO evade the United
States restriction laws.
Jay Gould is said TO be after the Aran-
sas Pass railroad. He is seeking deep
water ports on the Gulf.
The public lands outside the perma-
nent reservation at Hot Springs, Ark,
will be sold at auction April 10.
The estimated cost of the Chicago FL
evated Terminal Company's structure is
$3,500,000 The plans are nearly com
pleted.
The Massachusetts, House has passed
bill absolutely prohibiting the sale Of
cigarettes either TO minors or TO grown
persons.
The jury OF inquiry into the condition
of young Field at New York failed to
agree as to his sanity, and was dis
charged.
The great Harlem land claim, which
involves property valued at more than
100000, 900 in New York city, is to be
pushed to an end.
Heirs of ex Senator Joseph f. Nc
Donald Of Indiana are contesting his will
on the ground that it was made under
undue influence OF his wife,
The Chicago University, which will
not open until October next, has already
received over $4,000 in gifts, and has
a promise of another million.
Nebraska prohibitionists in their plat
form favor woman's suffrage and the
ownership of railroads, telegraphs and
telephones by the government.
A company lately formed in New York
is making money by furnishing sentries,
whose province it is to keep unwelcome
visitors from the portals OF millionaires'
dwellers.
Memphis is going to have big cele.
bration on the occasion of the opening
of the new bridge across the Mississippi,
uyh ,,ix,ao ttt.3 nttt, a oInunr
with the West.
Representatives Cutting and Loud are
urging the establishment of an addi-
tonal life station on the beach at San
Francisco. The proposed location is
three miles south of the present station
The census returns for the city of New
York are all in, with the exception of
two election districts. The total popula-
ton of twenty-four Assembly districts
according TO the enumeration is |, ,795, ,296.
Roughs at Corning, Ia, are determined
to break up revival of Free Methodists
which is in progress in that town. The
minister has asked for the militia, but
the local authorities claim to be able to
keep order.
The forty. fifth annual report of the
Pennsy lvania Railroad Company shows
the total gross earnings on the lines east
and west of Pittsburg for 1891 were $l34,-
254, ,6l2, slight increase over the earn
ings of 1890.
The St. Louis Merchants Exchange
has had a call for $4,000 bushels of corr
for shipment to Mexico This is the first
transaction of the kind known to have
been made, Mexico in former years rails
ing ample crops.
The lynching of Ed Coy, negro, in
the southern part of Arkansas, has in
creased the desire of many negroes in
that section to emigrate, and large bod
les are reported to be organizing to go to
the Cherokee Strip.
In the Cook County (Ill.) Circuit Court
is filed writ against George Jacob
Schweinfurth, the self-styled Christ.
The suit is for $4,000 damages for alien
ating from the complainant, George
Coudrey, the affections of his wife.
The next cruiser to be launched will
be the Raleigh. She is being built by
the government at the Norfolk yard. It
will be fine addition to the navy, hav-
ing a speed of nineteen or twenty knots
and fine battery of rapid-ire guns.
The people of Brooklyn have built
twenty-f five miles of elevated railways
managed by two separate corporations.
The city government has lately author
lied the introduction of the trolley sys-
tenn ON the surface street-car railways.
The Inter Ocean of Chicago reiterates
the charge that the National Union Com
pany of New York is a tool of the Ma
tional Cordage Company, notwithstand-
ing the newspaper has been sued for
100000 damages for the original charge.
1t ia estimated that the fifty long-dis-
tance lines which the American Bell Tel
ephone Company is putting up between
New York and Chicago will consume
8,526 tons of copper, while the total
length of the wire will be $4,000 miles.