The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-02-06
Jack the SlasRer Capt
ured in New York.
SELF CONFESSED PATRICIDE.
Missouri State University Building
Destroyod--DlsCovory of a
Wonderful Cave.

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colored people only.
Pontoon bridges across the Missouri
river are said 10 be failures.
The Whisky Trust Is not scared by u
threat at prosecution In Chicago,
The estate OF the late Senator Plumb
OF Kansas is valued at 1000, 900,
The buildings OF the Worlds Fair will
contain twenty.nine acres OF glass.
just 2s. l6S alien immigrants arrived
at the port OF Philadelphia during 1891 4.
At the annual meeting OF the Sugar
Trust the capital stock was increased by
$25, 100000.
Maine rivers are still open, and the
'cemen are afraid they will have no har-
vest this season.
A compilation OF the funds In eight
savings banks OF Baltimore gives a total
Of $SS, ,547.l3.
Congressman Brosius proposes TO tele-
graph 100000 TO st. Petersburg for
Russian sufferers.
An English syndicate, with az, l6o, 900,
has purchased twenty-three OF the twen-
ty-nine flour mills of Utah Territory
Baltimore is 10 have new athletic
association called the Maryland, incor.
porated with a capital stock Of 5000, 900.
The popular vote was about 100000
in 1884, about IL ACC, 900 In 1887, and it
will probably reach $4,000, 900 votes In
1890.
DR.. Kelley asks the parties who wish
10 start an institute" Mt Excelsior
Springs $500, 600 for the State Of Mis-.
souri,.
Thieves recently held up a small iu.
neral procession In Hilledale county,
Mich, and robbed the minister and un-
dertaker.
Over ei7 bills for the payment OF
Southern war claims have been intro
duced In the present House OF Repre-
sentativee.
Leavenworth is TO be the western de-
pot for the Keeley bichloride remedy,
and II Ia not improbable that DIR. Kelley
will go there 10 live.
One planter In Louisiana will this year
draw from the United States treasury
bounty OF $S5, 900 upon a sugar product
Of 4,2s0, 900 pounds.
Another outbreak OF looting and blood
shed among the miners OF Tennessee is
almost hourly expected, and the State
troops are preparing for 1t.
A poor man in st. Louis who some
years ago befriended beggar in distress
has just received $60, 900 remembrance
from that individuals estate.
A $6, 900 monument Is TO be erected at
Waldheim cemetery, Chicago, to mark
the resting place OF Anarchists Parsons,
Spies, Lingg, Engel and Fischer.
The Kansas Board OF Railroad Com
missioners has ordered the railroads OF
that State to put into effect by February
u new and reduced schedule of rates.
The collateral inheritance tax on the
estate OF the late Governor Tilden will
exceed 100000. Westchester county
will be enriched by this amount, and the
County Treasurer's fees will be $1,000.
The Mayor and Council OF Philadel-
phia are at odds on appropriations for
pavements OF 100000. The Mayor
wants all the money used to improve
Broad street. The Councilmen want
each ward to have Its share.
A wonderful cave is said to have been
found near Peterborough, Ont. The
floor is rich in silver ore, twelve pounds
Of the rock containing $l1 worth Of sill
YER. The sides of the cave are marble,
and the ceilings are covered with huge
stalactites.
An experimental sidewalk Is now in
operation in Chicago. 1t consists Of two
movable platforms 800 feet long, moving
side by side in the same direction, one
at the speed OF three, the other at six
miles per hour. 1t has carried 500 per-
sons at one time, and seems to be sue
cess. 1t will be used at tho Worlds
Fair.
The sub-treSsury In New York did
more than billion-dollar business last
year, the receipts aggregating $l,227,-
384,524.81. Among the largest transac-
tions were $127 ,401, ,005.83 received from
customs duties and $52,515, ,442.06 ex-
pended in the purchase Of silver bullion.
Under the influence Of religious ex-
citement at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
William Coulton confessed to the muir
der OF his father, and gave the particu-
lars OF the crime. He had been tried by
jury and acquitted; therefore his con-
viction on the charge Of murder is inn
possible.
'Jack the Slasher," who, suddenly
walking up behind a partially intoxi-
Gated pedestrian, would cut his throat
with razor and then disappear, has
been captured in New York. He has
confessed some of the crimes, saying the
impulse to kill under certain circum.
stances Is uncomfortable. He wanted
to kill all Germans. A German had once
assaulted his mother, and whenever he
saw man who looked like his mothers
assailant he tried to kill him. He had
been incarcerated in an asylum for the
insane some time ago, but escaped.