The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-06-11
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The Assessed Value Of Real Estate
of New York City.
THE GRANITE CUTTERS STRIKE
The Value Of BreadstuiIs Exported From
This Country to Europe Reaches
an Enormous Sum.
THE GRANITE CUTTERS STRIKE

A reservoir OF natural gas has been
struck near Butler, Mo.
The Delaware river will be famous
salmon stream in few years.
The granite cutters strike in New
England is growing in magnitude.
Eastern capital ia being largely in.
vested in railroad enterprises in Mexico.
A new telephone company, with acap'
ital OF $500, 600, has been organized IN
Chicago.
The $1,000 900 Illinois Central per
cent. Cairo bridge bonds have been over
eubscrbed.
Poker playing among the women in
Buffalo for money is becoming alarming
ly prevalent.
The Christian Endeayor Society con-
emplates building hotel at Chicago to
cost 81 100000.
The Lingham gold mine at Belleville,
Ont, has been sold 10 Senator John Z.
Jones OF Nevada.
The Vandcrbilts have just bought
5000 acres of bituminous coal lands
near Du Bois, Pa.
The city government OF New Haven,
Conn, has approved the adoption OF a
nine.hour work day.
Indiana has OF all States the largest
percentage Of Germans l5j per cent.
among its immigrants
A bill making ten hours legal day $
work for railroad employees has passed
the Massachusetts, House.
Thirty.hve alien contract laborers for
hidden to land at New York have ap.
pealed to the Treasury Department.
Senator Allison says there will be a
surplus OF $25, 100000 or more at the end
OF the fiscal year instead Of deficit.
Four hundred Carnegie mill employees
at Pittsb burg are out Of employment ow'
ing to the failure of the natural gas sup
ply.
A company is being organized in Chi
cago with the ostengibe object OF search
ing for lost treasure on the Purgatoirt
river.
The collections OF internal revenue fol
ten months are $l25, SAG, ,06l, an increase
of $5,609,Sil compared with ten months
last year.
A Judge in Charleston, S. c., has de
cided that the sale Of soap by druggis
on Sunday is lawful, because cleanliness
is next to godliness.
The Ericsson submarine gun has beer
tested at Brooklyn, and has shown th'
best results OF any test ever made in thi
or any other country.
Seventy five miles of the Charleston
Cincinnati and Chicago railroad, running
through Tennessee, has been sold 10
5000, 900 to satisfy debt.
The aggregate assessed value of tn
real estate of New York city is 81 500,
$40, 703, which is an increase Of $4S, ,33l
1853 over the preceding year.
The largest log Jam ever known in tn
Northwest, containing over l6O,OOO,O0
logs, is threatening to turn the st. Croi,
river, Wis, into new channel.
The Wisconsin Legislature is expects
to meet in extra session early in July t
rectify the gerrymander declared uncon
stitutional by the Supreme Court.
The Watertown arsenal has just com
pleted brass casting, said to be tn
largest ever attempted in any workshops
1t is intended for Pacific Coast defens
, guns.
The great need OF Europe for bread
| shown by the fact that in the last te
months the exports of breadstutfs froI
kn II,;tnl NttntaI n NQInn
$253, ,065,629.
, Adevice is said to have been invente
by means of which locomotive can TAX
coal without stopping. The Pennsy
I vania railroad will soon make a test
4 its usefulness.
0 In the Court OF General Term at Wasl
1 ington the court held that the order I
e the Secretary of the Treasury could NJ
t be annulled or set aside except by jud
8 dicial authority.
# At a mass meeting of Socialists at Oh
g cago resolution was adopted with
It whoop condemning the press and tt
l. general public for their stand again
n Teed, the new Messiah.
: A Jury in the Superior Court in Oh
cago gave verdict OF $50, 900 against
street railway company of that city, oil
o of whose cars on st. Patrick's day c.
Is off both legs of boy above the knee.
Ut President Newton of the Des Moin
1t and Kansas City railroad is on trial
n the United States Court in the form
l. city for mailing an enormous quaint
70 OF old papers during the week when Il
1t mails over his road were being weighe
d The new railroad bridge at Memph
40 is located on the spot where Ferdinal
v de Soto crossed the Mississippi in 154
" and in excavatng for the short pier I
q the Tennessee side some Spanish hi
n herds, supposed to have been used
@ him, were found.
Of There is fire in the tunnel throu,
2 the Coosa Mountains on the line of t
O. Columbus and Western railroad in Al
lg bama. There are large veins of &C
Or through which the tunnel passes, a
le these are thought to be burning. 7
tunnel cost 81, 100000.