The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-10-01
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Grasshoppers Doing Damage to
Both Corn and Cotton.
THE KANSAS WHEAT CROP LARGE.
Builders Of Engines, DynamOs and All
Equipments Intended for Steam
and Electricity Busy.
The Eastern hay crop Is short.

The Eastern hay crop IL short.
There are five State tickets in the iiel,
In Texas.
The New Jersey State prison contain
03B convictt.
The seasons domestic tobacco crop i
reported exceptionally large.
Connecticups peach crop amounts thii
year 10 only 5000 baskets.
The Chicago Council has approved th,
act OF the Mayor In closing Garfield rae,
track.
Kansas has 8, 900 miles OF railroad. and
there Is wheat blockade at every
station.
The lire engine manufacturers OF the
United States and Canada have formed
a trust.
1t Is not unlikely that the G. A. X.
Encampment Of 1893 will be held AT
indianapolis.
The United States is the richer by
$2,UO0,O In money orders never pre-
sented for payment.
All the larger cities in Pennsylvania
patton OF the cholera.
Indiana is claimed to have but one
surviving soldier OF the war of 1912
There are 252 widows.
Lebanon, No., is infested with band
oi burglars, who use their pistols with
reckless indifference.
The Kansas wheat crop will am.unt
to 10000, 900 bushels, or 5000, 900 more
than last years crop.
Four boodling ex.Canadian bank or
civil officers are said to be living in one
block in Detroit, Mich.
The Metropolitan Traction Companv
Of New York has increased it's capi-
tai stock to $50, 100000.
Somebody in Rhode Island ia said to
be palming off bogus oleomargarine on
-he New England public.
In 1880 the money added to prizes bv
he racing associations amounted tn
Sls,O0O. Now it reaches $4,OOO,OO
The new Croton dam TO he built neal
New York, 1t is said, will be the largest
n the world. Work will soon be begun.
A much-needed rain the latter part OF
asst week saved the Missouri corn crop
md guaranteed the wheat acreage OF
lext year.
st. Louis takes to the antique. That
tty is organizing what is claimed to be
he first Italian regiment ever formed in |
his country.
Roland A. Hewitt, well-known BIZ
yclist at Atlantic City, N. j., and
Jerk in the postotiice, is charged with
obbing the mails.
A meteor about twelve inches in
iameter fell and shattered a rock twelve
ines as big near Livingston Manor,
ulIivan county, N. Y.
Uncle Sans income is increasing.
he governments receipts in August
ere about 5,000,000 in excess of those
the same month in 1891.
A resolution to assess the capital stock
the Pullman Car Company at $43,-
sS, 750 was introduced in the Board of
EQUALIZATION at Springfield, Ill.
Owing to the cholera scare, it is re-
orted that the city of New York has
cen made cleaner than at any time
nee the last visitation of cholera.
In Louisiana they are talking of the
egfadation OF the prize ring by allowing
10 admission therein OF black pugilists
n equal terms with white bruisers.
There is great demand Just now for
ectric torchlights, which will be used
some campaign clubs as a substitute
r the time-honored, bad-smelling oil
ghts.
The builders of engines, dynamos and
i equipments intended for steam and
ectricity Hhaye vast amount of work
hand, probably more than at any
rmer period.
There seems to be an impression that
lolera is incurable. This is a great
istake. The large majority of we'll ,
nditioned persons are usually saved by
od treatment.
James j. West has been set free by
'dge Tuthill of Chicago, and the pros !
utions for alleged acts committed :
lille in possession of the Times proper .
we're quashed. +.
The Niagara Falls tunnel will prob. :
'ly be finished October |, and the =
leel-pit excavation shortly after.
'wer will begin to be furnished toward :
e,end of March. y
An electric road for passengers, freight !
d general service between Fonda. q
hnstown and Gloversville, N. Y, is to q
constructed at cost of $500,0O0. 1t :
IL be seventeen miles in length. y
drasshoppers are doing damage to Q
tn corn and cotton in West Tennessee. a
some places cotton has been stripped O
re of its leaves, and it is often the f,
80 that bolls are cut off from the limb. {,
The river coal operators at Pittsburg t,
We served notices of reduction on Il
3 miners and closed the mines until a
3 new schedule is agreed to. Between ii
100 and 5000 men are thrown out of D
rk. n
The Boston Globe is authority for the Al
tement that not one member of the ii
lited States Senate was born west of ri
, Missouri river, and all but two out Is
thirty-three were born east of the ii
ssissippi. tc