The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-08-06
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The Revenue Department Makes
a Peculiar Decision.
GAIN OF LAND FROM OLD MEXICO
Key to the HlerOglyphIcs That VIII Unlock
the Mysteries in the lIlltlte In.
scrlptIOns Pound.


scriptIOns Found.
Eleven deaths have resulted from the
riots at Homestead, Pa.
New York banks have $40, ,207, 900 in
excess OF the legal requirements.
A Tennessee convict Is pronounced by
the pententiary physicians TO be Of both
sexes.
New York business men are greatly
worried over the lack OF warehouse IA
clities.
The manufacturers OF Fall River,
Mass, have just increased wages 3l9
per cent.
There is quite rush Of people into
the Southern States who have a few
thousand dollars TO invest.
General George +. Afford OF Dallas,
Tex, is about TO go to Europe TO induce
farmers TO settle in that State.
Marshall Field paid 100000 for 800
square feet Of Chicago land recently
the largest price ever paid in that city.
Bya cut OF the Rio Grande river 1t
vas shortened about two miles, and 900
acres OF Mexican land are now on the
American side.
Golden, a suburb OF Denver, contain
ing 5000 people. IL in danger OF being
swept away by a grand landslide from
Table Mountain.
The railroads are finding 1t necessary
10 make cheap excursion rates in order
to supply harvest hands TO Central and
Western Kansas.
A Buffalo deaf mute has recently been
attacked by st. Vitus' dance in his arms
and fingers. He is learning to make
signs with his feet.
BY order of the Commissioners OF the
District Of Columbia all the theaters in
Washington must be fitted throughout
with electric lights.
The story OF concessions by the Mexi-
can government TO an American COM
pauy to build railroad from FL Paso 10
Mazatlan is again repeated.
The Revenue Department has decided
that the bi-chloride OF gold institutes
which claim to cure inebriety are liable to
the government for the retail liquor tax.
An attempt has been made to burn the
State women's prison and reform school
for girls at indianapolis. Three fires
we're started at the same time, but were
extingulshed.
A student oil Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity is said TO have discovered the key to
the heroglyphics that will unlock the
mysteries in Hltite inscriptions, hith-
erto wholly unknown.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford road propos es to run an electric
train between New York and New Ha-
ven and make the dstance--seventy-
miles-in sixty minutes.
For a second time since the passage OF
the silver law OF 1890 so per cent. OF the
customs revenues at New York during
the first ten days OF July was paid in the
new treasury notes issued under that law.
Over 400 damage suits have been filed
against the Little Rock and Fort Smith
and Missouri Pacific railroads for viola
tion of an Arkansas law fixing passenger
rates, and the court is deciding about
fifteen cases day against the companies.
A huge bowlder and beside it flag
staff fifty feet high have been erected in
Franklin, N. H., to mark the spot where
Daniel Webster was born. The birth spot
was originally in the town OF Salisbury,
hut is now included in the territory OF
Franklin.
The father of Alice Mitchell, who
killed Freda Warde last January at Mem
phis, testified that Alice's mother was
insane and the girl had manifested sim
liar peculiarities. She speaks of Freda
as II she were living now, and takes no
interest in her own trial.
Father Bay, Catholic priest in Chi
cago. shot and killed Barney Moran,
burglar, who had entered the priests
house one night last week. Moran fred
twice at the priest, missing him. A
Coroner's jury decided that Father Bay
was not to be blamed or censured.
The strangest thing of this generation
in the way of will making is reported
from Kentucky. One of the richest men
OF the State died few days ago, and cut
his sons off with 800 each because of
their liking fast horses. His widow and
daughter divide fortune of $4,000, 900.
A Syrian woman, badly afflicted with
leprosy, was allowed to land at New
York, having passed inspection at quar-
antne. 1t is said the inspection is too
and there is fear that unless it
is made more rigid the danger of i'm
porting cholera infection will be very
great.
The Haskell multicharge gun has again
been tested at Reading, Pa, for penetra-
tion into iron plates. The projectile
penetrated the best range iron six inches,
which is three plates more than any gun
ever penetrated before. The projecUile
was found 10 be as perfect as when it
came from the lathe.
The American Museum of Natural
History at New York has secured the
Harry Edwards chronological collection,
which is we'll known in San Francisco.
The collection includes over 1000 in
sects of all kinds from all parts of the
globe, and is very rich in the lepidoptera
Of North America, especially the butter
dies Of the Pacific Coast.