The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-09-17
BEYOND THE ROCKIES,
Police and Other Courts of ST. Louis
VIGOROUSLY Corrupt.
HUGE SUGAR FRAUDS UNEARTHED.
Homestead Strikers Continue to be Ar.
rested at the Instance Of the
PInkert0n Thugs.

Rain has saved yirginia's tobacc
crop.
There Ia grain blockade at Kansa
City.
The paper mills Of New England ar
forming trust.
Pittsburg will build a $4O0, 900 hom
for It's paupers.
The continued drought has injured
corn in Illinois.
Chicago's school census shows the city
has ,43S,0l0 people.
Philadelphia is soon 10 have a systeu
OF elevated railways.
Atlanta is said TO have park for col
ored people exclusively.
II is proposed IN build railroad from
Washington to Mount Vernon. It will
soon be ready.
1t is planned to construct great yacht
harbor on the north shore, off Lincoln
Park, Chicago.
Russian Jew immigrants at Boston are
washed with solution of carbolic acid
to kill cholera germs.
Bank Commissioner Johnson of Kan
sas has Issued report, which shows
great prosperity in that business.
1t Is reported that Republicans will
institute suit to test the constitutionality
OF the Indiana apportionment act of 1891.
MIR. Wanamaker receives more appeals
from cranks and other beggars for money
and official favor than any other man in
public life.
An agent of the Red Cross Society is
at Brownsville, Tex, investigating the
condition OF destitute people in the Rio
Grande Valley. 80
Grasshoppers are doing an immense
amount OF damage in Ohio to oats and
other growing crops. Whole fields OF
oats have been destroyed.
Usage Indians in Oklahoma scared
white man nearly to death by institut.
ing mock torture of burning at the
stake and cutting oil his hair.
1t is said in Texas that the Railroad
Commission is only restrained by the
recent decision from making rates On the
Gould lines aud the Santa Fe.
The Legislature OF Louisiana has
placed itself on record as favoring the
election OF Senators OF the United States
by direct vote of the people.
Arrests are being made at Homestead.
Ia, OF the men who were engaged in |
the battle with the Pinkertons, the lat
ter having sworn out warrants.
The government has unearthed extern
sive sugar frauds by systematic under
weighing of impor ations. Eight i'm
porters at New York are said to be in
golved.
Anderson & Co. OF Port Huron. Mich.
manu- acturers of carriages and agricuIt-
lral implements, have tled chattel mort
Eages aggregating $23O,000 to secure
,reditors.
The Transcontinental Railway Asso-
nation has instructed the Chairman to
'ive the required three months notice
o the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
the existing agreements.
The Highblnder Society of New York
ent messenger to Emporia, Kan, to
lotify Wuong Lee that he must leave
here or die. Wuong is naturalized, and
he officers have promised protection to
him.
An attachment has been filed at New
FORK for $3.50, 200 against Bullick 4 Will
Ter, railroad contractors, who built the
donterey and Mexican Gulf railroad.
The claim is for money advanced to carry
n that work.
There are counterfeit $40 gold pieces
| date 1852 in circulation at Chicago
hey are ligher in color and great deal ,
ghter in weight than the good coin.
IN all of them appears the letter go"
1dicative OF the New Orleans mintage.
1t Is reported in New York that the
'lkins- Widener- Yerkes syndicate has /
obbled up the Jay Gould holdings in a
he Manhattan E evated Railway Com,
any, and that the triumvirate of street.
.ilway men will demand three seats in !
le company's directory.
st. Louis. Mo-, will have an attractive ;
'ature during the fall festivities in the O
lape OF a large Illuminated globe with i
le different continents, oceans, etc.
ainted on it's surface. It will be 100 !
et in circumference, and will contain r
600 incandescent lamps. :
Canadian Pacific railway officials are s
larged with being engaged in assisting I
nugglers to pass Chinese into this coun- O
y, and the Treasury Department has
ficially notified the Deputy Collector a
Customs at Montreal of the fact with =
view to putting an end to such work. " y
The wheel manufacturers west of the v
lIeghany Mountains have organized the E
'estern Wheel Association at Indian ri
,olis. Dwight Smith of Jackson, Mich, a,
rs elected President and Jay III. Smith ct
'cretary. The organization controls 95 o,
n cent. OF the factories west of the
Ileghanies. ~
An aerolite weighing forty-four pounds h
Il on the farm of Lawrence Freeman &C
ar Bath county, S. d., late Monday m
The advent of the stone was g,
'ralded by several sharp explosions 70
lich were heard distance of fifteen h,
lies or more, and in some instances n,
eated considerable alarm. E