The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-06-25
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
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Minister Enters a Crusade Against
Church Fairs, Etc.
KANSAS WHEAT OUTLOOK GOOD.
Schemes to Delraud Hotels at New York
DIsCOyered-New York Board
Of Education.
KANSAS WHEAT OUTLOOK GOOD.

The New York Grant monument fund
Is complete.
Chicago has an elevated road, and 10
elated over II.
In Minneapolis 7,S77,947 barrels OF
-four were made last year.
The exports OF gold up to date this
yeaI have been exceptionally light.
The cotton acreage Of Tennessee will
be 10 per cent. smaller than last year.
Chicago Board OF Trade market quota
tions will soon be distributed free 10 the
public.
A Tilted woman in Chicago hired a
prizefghter TO spoil ner former lovers
beauty.
The wallpaper trust has been incor-
porated in New York with $l4,000,000
capital.
A young Methodist minister has been
arrested at Atlanta, Ca, for jumping
board bills.
Gas is TO be manufactured in Long
Island and piped under the East river
into New York.
Colonel w. B. Remy, Judge Advocate
General OF the navy, has been placed on
the,retired list.
Louisiana's Supreme Court decides
that the "Jim Grow" law does not apply
10 interstate passengers.
The New York Board OF Education is
preparing TO wipe out all saloons in the
vicinity OF schoolhouses.
The Kansas crop report shows wheat
acreage equal to last year, with an ex-
cess OF corn, but backward.
For three vacant chaplaincies in the
United States army over 1900 appliCa-
tions have been placed on file.
For killing q negro Section Boss An
derson OF Greenland, Fla. has been
threatened with negro uprising.
United States troops have been sent
10 the scene OF the troubles between
stockmen and rustlers in Wyoming.
The city of Chicago, feeling that its
attractiveness is somewhat at stake, has
organized Il society for the prevention Of
smoke.
Mississippi planters in the river bot.
tom are moving for permanent reduc-
ton OF tax assessments on account OF
overflows.
The crops in Kansas are in grand
shape. Corn is growing well, and the
wheat is heading ont. In Nebraska, too,
the crops promise well.
An ordinance licensing gambling
houses in Omaha was signed by the
Mayor, and they are running wide open
in violation of State law.
There is talk OF submitting the Lou
isiana Senatorship to vote of the white
people Of the State, the Legislature be-
ing unable to agree on candidate.
The descendants of the immortal Davy
Crockett will celebrate the 106th ami
versary OF that deceased hero and states
man at Rutherford, Tenn, August II.
An unknown foreigner has created a
reign of terror in Cambridge, Mass, by
stabbing number of women, whom he
accosted on the streets after nightfall.
Owing to the long season of spring
rains, much of the bottom lands in West
Tennessee, heretofore planted in cotton,
will this season grow corn or some other
crop.
Rev. J. w. Wilson OF indianapolis has
entered upon vigorous crusade against
church fairs, grab bags, ratiles and all
other schemes to raise funds for church
purposes in illegitimate ways.
The labor organizations of New York
city have begun war upon the Chinese.
1t is their purpose to arouse against the
Mongolian such cyclone of public ha-
tired as will drive him from the town.
A large and finely equipped hospital
has been dedicated in Atlanta, bearing
the name of the late II. w. Grady, ed
itor of the Constitution. This memorial
is the result of popular subscription.
A New York insurance company will
put up building having twelve stories
and high gable, with street frontage
of So feet 6 inches. 1t resembles an
Egyptian obelisk.
DIR. Nagle of the bureau OF vital sta
tistics says that so cosmopolitan has New
York become in recent years that more
than 100 languages and dialects are
spoken in the city.
Governor John Young Brown of Ken
lucky has signed the bill compelling all
railroads in the State to provide separ-
ate cars for negroes. The law will 90
into effect in ninety days.
The Interstate Elevated railway oi
Kansas City is to be changed from a
steam to an electric system at cost Of
$500, 700. 1t is expected that the recon
struction will be completed so that tb-
line can be run by July l.
One of the largest and hardest log jams
ever known in the Northwest has been
forming in the st. Oroix river at Eagle
leland. 1t is over five miles long, and
the logs are piled up in all shapes, and
it contains over 150,00O,0 900 feet.
The Wigwam in Chicago, where the
Democratic National Convention will
meet, has frontage of 800 feet on Mich
igan avenue, and is $50 feet in width. II
is the largest convention hall ever
erected, and its full capacity is 10000,