The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-10-29
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Marriages Between Chinese and
Europeans in New York.
TO HAVE ANOTHER BRIDGE.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad VIII
Control the Ohio and Mlssls-
sIppi Road-Etc.

The orange crop Of Leon county, Fla,
Ia larger than for many years past.
Toledo has Doodle scandal. It's Al
dermen have been accepting bribea.
Owing 10 the scarcity Of hay, Kansas
farmers are harvesting their corn fodder.
A Chicago man has sued his doctor for
$4,000 for breaking the drum Of his ear.
Now that the cholera scare is over, the
streets OF New York are resuming their
dirty state.
The Canadian government is TO follow
our example in making postal card o.
various sizes.
Negroes are turning bandits in NJ issis.
aippi. Several murders and one double
lynching have occurred.
At New York marriages between Chin
ese laborers and Europeans OF the poorer
classes are increasingly frequent.
The Baltimore and Ohio party seem to
have carried their point, and will gain
control OF the Ohio and Mississippi road.
Spurious silver dollars are plentiful in
some OF the Eastern States. They are
said to be clever limitations, but light OF
weight.
The net gold fund in the Treas Try is
still growing. Two months ago il
amounted TO $ll0,000,000, and now it is
$l2J, 100000.
Pittsburg thinks OF damming Indian
creek iorty-three miles away to get
supply of water, il needed, OF l50, ,0OO, 900
gallons day.
While driving a we'll at Linwood,
Mich, "a vein Of soft coal, two feet thick,
and one OF hard coal, six and one-hali
feet thick, we're struck"
The contractor for the construction OF
the Canadian 500 canal binds himself TO
have the canal completed by the open
ing Of navigation in 1894.
The story that the grasshoppers are
eating up the early wheat in Kansas has
been traced to the State Central Com.
mittee OF the Peoples party.
An Omaha sport in red clothes is
walking from Omaha to Chicago and re-
turn, begging his food, and to do it in
thirty-seven days for $4,000.
1t is estimated that the voting lists of
Boston will contain at least 81, 900 names.
In 1888 the number OF registered votes at
the national election was 72,ll5.
The Daltons were second cousins to the
James boys and dstantly related to the
Youngers, who are now in the Minnesota
penitentiary for the Northfeld bank rob.
berry.
Mr.. Whitney, President of the West
End road OF Boston, and syndicate OF
capitalists are reported to have pur-
chased all the open coal mines of Nova
Scotia.
The County Commissioners of Carbon
county, Pa, week before last sold 10000
acres of uuredeemed mountain land.
Some Of it was sold for less than 3 cents
an acre.
A Canadian officials has gone to Hud-
sons Bay to vestigate the truth of the
reports that American whalers are snug
Cling large quantities Of goods into that
district.
The street railway conductors of Gin
cinnati who used the old punched tick
cts over and over again and cheated the
out of 100000 or thereabouts
are out of a job.
Three big law firms in New York are
having vast amount of real estate busi-
ness, and are inserting clause of their
now requiring all future pay
ments to be made In gold.
1t has been estimated by fnanciers of
that not less than $500, ,000,-
600 of American securities held in
Europe have been unloaded in this coun-
try within the last two years.
The Interstate Bridge and Street Rail-
way Company, having a capital of ST.
10000, has given out the contracts for a
new bridge over the Missouri to connect
Omaha, Neb., with Council Bluffs, la.
1t is stated that the remains of Christie
pher Columbus have been offered to the
United States as security for 500, 900
loan at 6 per cent. interest. The offer
was made by President Henreaux of San
Domingo.
The Dubuque (Ia.l water company
wants the city to buy the plant at 1885,
900, alleged price offered by outside cap
ltalists. The city holds an option to
buy it at its appraised value, which will
not exceed 5000, 1000.
Ihe Indians at Pine Ridge Agency are
sullen, and communication between the
various tribes of secret and apparently
important nature is said to have taken
place during the summer. I,hey expect
the Messiah in 1898.
M. j. O'Brien, formerly one of the
most prominent citizens of Chattanooga,
who is under indictment for the EN- bez-
clement of $4,000 from the order of
Catholic Knights of America eighteen
months ago, has been arrested in Phila-
elphia.
The annual convention of tht, National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
will be held at Denver, Col, from Oc-
,ober 28 to November 2 inclusive. The
National Convention consists of $40 dele
rates, and usually attracts 5000 visitors;
William L. Stead, late of the Pail Mall
Gazette, and his wife also will come to
marica tn attand the oonvsonkiox,