The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-09-03
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
An Actor Leaves the Stage and
Becomes a Monk.
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MISSOURI WHEAT FALLS BELOW.
The Assessed Value Of Illinois Property
for I8O2-COrn Crop In Iowa
and Illinois.
MISSOURI WHEAT FALLS BELOW.

Jake Kilrain thinks Sullivan will whip
Corbett with ease.
Smallpox threatens TO become an epi-
demic in New York.
The total assessed value OF Illinois
property for 1892 is $745, ,754,l72
Chicagoans are 10 build a hotel near
the exposition that will cost $500, 600.
Missouri wheat is falling far below the
expectations both as TO weld and quality.
Postmaster Wanamaker has ordered
the first postmasters 10 visit those
OF the second clsss.
The smoke nuisance ia 80 bad in Erie,
Pa, that the Common Council has been
called on TO devise means OF relief.
Canada wi endeavor to have a con-
ference with the United States to AMIGA
bly, settle the differences over canal tolls.
Crop reports from all parts OF Illinois
and Iowa indicate yield ol corn equal
TO about 70 per cent. OF last years crop.
The Boston Superintendent of Streets
is looking into the suggestion about
making the city carts with broader tires
The Astor heirs have been paid $507,-
6S9.75 damages by the city OF New York
for property wrongiully appropriated in
1876.
A Judge in Chicago the other day sem
fenced TO one days imprisonment man
who killed another for having ruined his
home.
The buildings OF the Brooklyn Coop
erage Company at New Orleans with the
entire plant has been destroyed by fire.
Loss $350,0O
A ship, supposed TO have been lost on
the Atlantic coast before Columbus
touched American shores, has been dis
covered near New York city.
Charlemange Kopler has left the stage
to enter the Dominican convent in Lou
isvilIe, KY. as monk. kopler WAS
fairly well known as an actor.
The government crop report is figured
10 indicate a yield OF | ,73S ,000, 100 BUSH
els OF corn, $4,000, 900 bushels OF wheat
and $1,000 900 bushels of oats.
The tobacco warehouse owners of Gin
cinnati have formed trust with $500,
600 capital. The concern will be char
tered under the laws of New Jersey.
The Navy Department is disgusted
with the coal which it has been COM
pelled to purchase at Tacoma and Seat
tie for ships cruising in northern waters.
Loanable capital in large amounts has
recently been offered in Chicago at per
cent. for one year, with the privilege OF
paying before the expiration OF that time.
The Scudder family has published a
statement tending to show that Dr.
Scudder, the suicide and murderer of
his mother-in-law at Chicago, was in
sane.
A recent census bulletin shows that
there are in round numbers 100000
negroes in the United States, of whom
$50, 900 reside north of the Ohio and Po-
tomac rivers.
Kansas City grain men are jubilant
over decision OF the Attorney-General
of Kansas, which permits grain inspect
ors from other States to inspect and
grade wheat in the State of Kansas.
Marshall Cushing, private secretary of
Postmaster General Wanamaker, is men
toned in Washington for the place of
First Assistant Postmaster General soon
to be made vacant.
The bids of two of the principal con.
tractors for work on the Hennepin canal
have been rejected by the government,
hao hn tno hoo
the eight-hour day.
With nearly Z 900 saloons-375 OF them
on one street--and thirty theaters, all
open on Sunday, Chicago doesn't care
very much whether the Worlds Fair is
open on Sunday or not.
The earth on which the depot of the
New Orleans, Fort Jackson and Grand
Isle railroad at New Orleans was con-
structed has caved in, and the buildings
are total wreck. The loss will reach
$50, 900.
Senators Allison and Jones and Con-
gressman McCreary may not participate
in the international Monetary Congress,
the constitutionality of their appoint
ment being questioned under Section 6,
Article L., of the Constitution, which
prohibits the appointment to an office Of
emolument OF member OF either House
of Congress.
A suit has been instituted at Balti-
more that promises to become sensa-
tional among naval officers. The plaint-
ifs charge that Ensign B. Dashiell has
made use of patent of Lieutenant Sea-
bury, and the chief of the bureau Of
ordnance knew that fact, but through
favoritism approved and manufactured
the design of Dashiell.
Two effigies, clad in the uniforms of a
General and Colonel of the Pennsylvania
militia and labeled General Snowden"
and "Colonel Streator, were burned on
the lake front at Chicago by 2U0 mem
bers of the Second Regiment of the Illi-
nois State Guard in token of their indig-
nation at the punishment recently in
ficted on Private Iams and approved by
General Snowden. The affair has Gre
ated a profound sensation.