The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-10
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
An Investigation Of the Machinery
of the Miantonomah.
AGGREGATE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.
All the Cotton Manufacturers Of Rhode
Island Raise the Wages Of Mil
lIands--Etc.

The new government OF Kansas may
make war on freight rates.
In Kansas they are using the empty
jails for the storing OF surplus wheat.
Whiting contests have been inaugu-
rated at church festivals in Sedalia, Mo.
On March 4, 1893, twenty-five seats in
the United States Senate become vacant.
The Democrats will have a majority OF
ninety in the next House Of Representa-
tivea.
Tammany is already making prepare
tions 10 attend CIeveland's Inauguration
in large numbers.
The strike at Homestead, Penn, has
bsen declared off by the leaders OF the
Amalgamated Association.
Several Pennsylvania manufacturing
establishments have closed down on ac-
count Of the scarcity OF water.
The men who are taken back at the
Carnegie works are confronted with
heavy reduction in their wages.
The division OF Kansas into two States
is Deing agitated with more or less We
hemence by the newspapers Of that State.
Judge King at San Antonio, Texas,
has decided the Aransas Pass road must
pay it's debts, and the receivers were dig
charged.
The City Council OF Columbia, Mo-,
has granted twenty-year electric light
and water works franchise to st. Louis
company.
E-aN 1T khn NJ lpuf
by Chicago through the Irregularities in
the water office is $500, 900 for the year
1902 alone.
Secretary Foster OF the Treasury does
not think that new issue OF bonds 10
meet the financial complications will be
authorized.
The aggregate OF the public debt OF
the United States, including certificates
and Treasury notes, wac. $780,, ,337 $40
on October 81.
An appeal for aid has been Issued by
the United Hebrew Charities. The sum
OF $Se 900 is needed for the year ending
with next October.
During the ten months ended with Oc-
tober the gross earnings OF l26 railroads
III Ile IHlLtb CIhltb NclC ftGEy Oh tOlOt
an increase OF $2S, S22, AIS.
In 1899 the production OF wool in the
United States amounted to 265, ,000, 900
pounds, and the imports of wool for the
same year reached l05, 43l ,2Sl pounds.
An investigation of the Mlantonomah's
machinery develops the fact that much
faulty material Is in the heavier parts
and collapse may occur st any time.
Lieutenant Peary has obtained three
years leave of absence, and will attempt
journey to Greenland and over the
frozen Polar Sea with but one compa2-
ion.
A conspiracy to cheat the city OF Phila-
delphia by the use OF bogus coke checks
at the Ninth Ward gas works has been
unearthed and six people are under ar
rest.
All the cotton manufacturers in Rhode
Island are increasing the wages of the
mill hands. Tne latest is the Manville
Company OF Providence, which employs
800 hands.
President Harrison does not propose
to 20 into retirement, but he will, 80
long as his present vigorous health con-
tinues, labor in his beloved profession of
the law.
Concrete as a substitute for piling in
foundations has proved disastrous in
New Orleans, La. The new st. Paul's
Church, on which it was tried, is sink
ing and is being torn down.
Plans of construction OF New York
city's proposed $6O,O00,000 four track
underground electric railway have been
adopted. The route is to be fifteen miles
long. Fare is to be cents for each
passenger.
The tunnel at Niagara Falls is finished,
and the falls are to be harnessed by next
March. Forty-tive thousand horse
power OF electric current will be trans
mitted from there to Buffalo and 5000
to other points.
A gas we'll near Montpelier, Ind, ,
which for some time past has been sup
plying that community, suddenly began
blowing oil, which percolated through
the pipes and made it's appearance In
the houses of patrons.
The Illinois Steel Company's immense
plant at South Chicago, employing
1000 hands, is expected to shut down
on December Is for two or three months.
Uncertainty as to the possible changes
in the tariff is said to be the primary
cause.
Owing to the almost total failure of
the crop West, cabbage is higher and
scarcer in Chicago than it has been for
twenty-five years. Dealers predict that
there will be rise of 500 per cent. in the
price of the vegetable.
Joseph L. Montieu, coin clerk in the
United States Sub Treasury at New Or
leans, has been arrested, having been
discovered in petty peculations. He was
in the habit OF taking 81 from each 81 900
package of silver tied up by him.
Sinclair, cashier of the Armour Pack
ing Company at New York, has been
missing since last week. 1t is estimated
that the com pany's losses will be not
less than $50, 900, while some believe the
amount will run up to $780, 900 or $S5, 900.