The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-31
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Wonderful Progress Made in the
Condition Of Our Navy.
A GOVERNMENT BUILDING SINKING.
The Trick Of Voting on the Names Of Dead
Men Developed Into a Scientific
Fraud In Providence.

New Haven, Conn, is in the throes OF
temperance revival.
There are nearly l,0OO, 900 pensioners.
During last year 5,3O6 pensioners we're
dropped.
Colorsdo's Legislature proposes TO
make silver coins full legal tender in the
Centennial State.
Excitement has been caused by the
discovery Of rich deposits OF nickel ore
near Keokuk, Iowa.
The government building in Chicago
Ia sinking 30 that elk new props have
been put in to hold 1t.
The Wells. Fargo Express Company, II
ie reported. has secured control OF the
Colorado Midland line.
Suits against forty-three companies
are 10 be brought at ST. Joseph, Mo-, for
violation Of the antitrust law.
Canadian newspapers say the annexa-
tion question must be discussed. They
are now willing TO hear both sides.
IL is estimated that the value OF the
honey and wax produced in this country
during the past year WAS $40, 100000.
1t is thought that George GouId's in
clinations will prompt him to own a
large racing stable, and that he will soon
be on the turf.
The Brooklyn bridge is TO have great
pneumatic tube for the transmission o.
mail and baggage between New York
and Brooklyn.
Herr Seidl the New York musician.
will get $l5, 900 for playing FIVE months
at the Worlds Fair, and his orchestra is
paid accordingly.
A woman who was elected Trial Jus
tice in Wyoming commenced her duties
by committing her husband to Jail for
contempt OF court.
Jersey City is TO have a new city hall,
a contract for the construction of which
has been awarded. The cost has been
limited TO $237 900.
Atlanta is to have belt road five
miles in length, connecting all the roads
centering there. II is 10 be opened as
an independent line.
The st. Luis Republic figures it out
that the recent rise IN cotton has made
the South richer by 100000, 900 since
the middle of October.
The Wisconsin monolith on the Worlds
Fair grounds is to pierce the air at a
height OF ll5 feet. 1t will be the high
est obelisk in the world.
Nine. Diaz, wife OF the Mexican Pres
ident, is going to send at her own ex.
pense woman's band of iorty-five
musicians to thu Worlds Fair.
A combination to form the largest and
most complete printing and publishing
house in the world has been formed at
Chicago, with $1,000, 900 capital.
DR.. Preserved Smith, who was found
guilty of heresy by the Cincinnati Pres
bytery and sentenced to suspension, will
appeal his case to the General Synod.
Richard Mansfield complains that
Boston, instead OF criticising his acting,
found fault with his legs. He thinks
Chicago is intellectually superior to
Boston.
New York's Board of Aldermen pro-
poses to pass an ordinance which will
render unlawful the driving of steers,
bulls or cattle through the streets of the
metropolis.
If the prohibition bill should pass the
South Carolina Legislature, Charles
ton brewing firm, whose charter lasts
seventeen years, will have monopoly
of the business in the State.
A temporary camp of military in
st'tction for the army and volunteer
forces is proposed by Senator Mitchell
to be established at the Worlds Far,
the militia not to exceed $4,000.
The upper mill of the Lackawanna
Iron and Steel Company at Scranton,
Penn, has been shut down on account
of lack of ordere. This movement
throws 800 men out of employment.
The Pennsylvania Company will make
extensive improvements near Washing
ton, d. g., and reduce the running time
to New York to four and one-half hours
The assessed valuation of the coal
lands of Schuylkill county, Penn has
been definitely settled by the County
Commissioners, who place them at $16,-
694,756.
The trick of voting on the names oil
dead men, non-resdents, minors and
the like appears to have been developed
Into an almost scientific fraud in Provi-
dence. R l., where over 2, 90 names OF
fictitious personages were found on the
list of voters.
Secretary Trscy's report on the con.
dition OF the navy shows wonderful pro-
gress in the past few years. The esti-
mates in the report for the fiscal year
ending June 80, ls94. for the navy and
marine corps, including those for public
works and the increase of the navy, are
$24 All, ,498, being $2,7l3,141 less than
those for the last fiscal year.
There is now in Washington regu-
lsrly organized committee consisting ol
five members sent from the New Orleans
llCsnvention to aid in pushing the Mica.
\ tagua canal bill through Congress. They
are all confident that the bill will pass
slthOugh they are not so confident that
lit will pass at the short session.