The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-11-05
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Large Amount of Cold Consumed
in Filling Teeth.
SCRANTON ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Board Of Directors Of the Union TheOlOg.
iCal Seminary Vote to Stand
by DR.. Briggs.
The Virginia peanut crop is small.

The Virginia peanut crop is small.
The census OF Oklahoma Territory
shows population of l33, 100.
There has been big registration all
through the State OF New York.
Atlantic City has voted TO purchase
the present water works there for $780,.
600.
Indian Commissioner Morgan favors
compulsory education among the In
dians.
General Miles ia worried about the
restIessness Of the Indians in his de-
partment.
There is TO be determined fight to
make Massachusetts, railroads provide
mileage tickets.
New Jersey has begun proceedings
against several railroads that have en-
tered the coal combine.
The Treasury Department has shipped
SlO,000,0OO in small notes South and
West TO aid in moving crops.
Chow Tai and Hip Lung, Chicago Chi
nese merchants, are in the East looking
after the contest OF the registry law.
A large extent Of territory in the
NueCes country in Texas has been sub
merged blythe severest rains ever known
in that section.
Francis II. Hewitt, City Weigher at
the New York custom house, is charged
with bribing his assistant to make false
returns on sugar.
Omaha, Neb., is flooded with counter
felt silver dollars dated 1892 and bearing
the New Orleans mint mark. The coins
are light and greasy.
The total Presidential vote in 1884 was
l0,04S, ,46l, and in 1888, ll,3 s,03S. 1t is
estimated that this year the vote will 20
as high as l4,U00,000.
A certificate OF organization has been
filed at Trenton, n. j., incorporating the
Melbourne Rubber Company, with a
capital OF $4,000, 900.
Millions of grasshoppels have made
their appearance in Western Missouri,
and the wheat crop threatens to be a to-
tai failure in consequence.
The assessed valuation OF Dallas, Tex
has fallen off nearly $4, 900, 900 in one
year. Dallas is one OF the many over
doomed towns of the South.
A big deal has just been consummated
in which the Pennsylvania Southwest
system has absorbed the Terre Haute
and Peoria road and its branches.
A record is kept at Ellis Island OF all
the Jewish immigrants who arrive at
the port OF New York. Since August
last this record has not been large.
The Postmaster General has signed
mail contracts with the international
Navigation Company, the terms OF which
require the econstruction of five new ships.
Never before in the history OF Chicago
with one exception was building so act
i've as this year. The exception was in
the twelve months succeeding the great
fire.
Oral arguments in the Indiana appor-
tionment case have been postponed until
November II. This decision removes
the case as factor in the coming cleo
ton.
The Presidents proclamation opening
the Crow reservation to settlement is
causing brisk rush. The land can cas-
lily be made very productive by irriga-
ton.
The Michigan insane asylym is so
badly crowded that it has been found
necessary to refuse to admit any more
patients. Every hall and room is crowd
ed with cots.
Ho Chen Shing, the interpreter of the
Chinese Minister at Washington, is in
disgrace. He has been selling informa-
tion, and will be summarily dismissed
from his position.
The surface of the ground over the
Central mine at Scranton, Pa, has be.
gun to sink, and the 100000 Roman
Catholic Church of st. Patrick is in dan
ger of being engulfed.
The University of Notre Dame, Ind,
has just celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
sary of its establishment. The founder,
Rev. Edward Soran, still hale and
hearty, though so years old, participated
in the ceremonies.
The increase in silk manufacture since
1880 in the United Sta es is 1l2.77 pei
cent. In value oil Its products. The cot
ton manufacture ranks second, being
1851 per cent, and the wool manufact.
ure third, being 26.S9 per cent.
In fight at Wyandotte, Mich, be.
tween the Salvationists and a party oi
toughs Carrie Lowe, one of the Saliva.
ton Army Lieutenants, was fatally in.
jured and three others OF the army in.
jured. Two bystanders were hit.
A New York dentist says that the fill.
ing OF teeth with gold has grown to such
proportions that about $4,0U0,000 of gold
is consumed in this way every year, and
that this consumption should enter into
all calculations as to the supply of the
precious metal.
Almost every operator and station
agent on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe system has struck. The company had
refused to comply with the demand fol
$50 as the monthly minimum pay in.
stead of $50, with twelve hours consti.
tuting days work.