The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-11-11
EASTERN MELANGE.
Action Of u Mayor Commended
by the Grand Jury.
IDAHO MINING EXHIBIT ROBBED
Grand Chief Of the Order Of Railway
Photographers Indicted by an
Iowa Grand Jury.

Tobacco has been found growing wild
in Bee county, Tex.
The endowment orders are likely u
be driven out Of Texas.
The State Treasurer Of Missouri holds
$50, 900 in cash awaiting distribution
among unknown heirs.
The establishment OF an ostrich farm
on st. Joscph's Island, near Rockport
Tex, IL being agitated.
A Kansas Judge has decided that
whisky contracts made in Missouri can.
not be enforced against residents OF Kan
sas.
New York State enjoys a pretty reve-
nue. from its collateral inheritance tax.
The sum reported at Albany il $3,07l,-
G7s.
1t takes 600 men all night and late
into the morning to clean up the debris
left behind each day by the Worlds Fair
crowds.
Prof. f.. B. Clapp Of the Greek depart
ment OF Yale has accepted call to the
Greek department OF the University Of
California.
4 Burlington lKan.) woman is going
TO start crazy quilt with the ribbons OF
her husbands sheep secured at the
Worlds Fair.
Since August there have been twelve
railroad disasters OF more than ordinary
severity, involving the loss Of l27 lives
and the injuring Of 3Ss more.
Exhibitors at the Worlds Fair are
complaining that the electric light given
them il not such as was promised, and
threaten to close their exhibits.
The Arkansas Valley Irrigation Com
pany il sowing wheat in 10000 acres
along its bitches, and will use the result,
/ if favorable, to boom irrigation.
Mrs. Grant, it is reported, intends to
make her home in Washington in the
| future. Mrs. Blaine has offered all her
| Washington real estate for sale.
The New York State building at the
exposition may be sold to the Chicago
Yacht Club at the conclusion Of the fair
and utilized as n naval academy.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| is to build "a piazza of glass around its
new Broad-strcet station in Philadelphia.
This unique porch will extend two blocks.
The Union Pacific has declined to take
off its rate Of $65.50 from the Missouri
river to the Pacific Coast in compliance
with the proposal made by the 800 -
! line.
| The insurance companies doing husi-
ness in Omaha have made an advance
in rates of . per cent. The action is
based on the inadequacy Of the fire pro-
! lection.
The Idaho mining exhibit at the
World's Fair at Chicago was robbed Sun
day night Of gold nuggets and q bar OF
silver bullion from the La Mar mine.
The loss is 5000
Santa Fe employees have appointed a
grievance committee to wait on the Off
GERS of the road and ascertain when they
will be paid their September salaries. A
strike is threatened.
In ballot taken in Boston to decide
upon the most popular names for babies
Helen led the list for a girl with 1873
votes out of the $4,000 cast, and Harold
was first favorite for n boy.
The Union Pacific receivership makes
q total of 26,S77 miles of railroad track
placed under charge Of the courts thus
far in 1898, or l6 per cent of the whole
railway mileage of the country.
f. &. Ramsay, Grand Chief of the Or
der of Railway Telegrapher, has been
indicted at Marion, Ia, by the grand
Jury of Linn county. He is charged
with tampering with the wires of the
Burlington during the strike one year
ago.
The grand jury at Roanoke, Va, sum-
moned to investigate the riot on Septem-
Der 20 and 81, made report commend
ing the action of the Mayor and censur-
ing the police for their laxity in protect
ing the negro, Thomas Smith, from the
mob.
A gang of outlaws has been discovered
in Bracken county, Ky. There are fully
100 of the gang, and in order to become
member one must take an oath to sell
every drop of whisky furnished them by
the manager, John Boone, and break up
all religious meetings possible.
Jacob Schoefer, dealer in notions at
Williamsburg, N. Y, was held in $4,000
bail on the charge of having swindled
Joseph Frese out of $4,000, Max Fischer
s., 800 and Mrs. Catherine Frese $4,000
by selling them brass filing for gold dust.
Mrs. Frese dropped dead when she found
out she had been swindled.
Suit has begun at Tiffin, o., against
the estate of Ex-Governor and ex-Secre-
tary of the Treasury Foster. In the COM
plant it is charged that the Foster firm
was insolvent two years ago, and that
deeds to property to his wife had been
made by Foster at that time and only
recorded on the day of assignment.
Among the whitecaps arraigned at Os-
ceola, Neb., for whipping women was
Mrs. Heald, the wife of the President of
the Bank of Polk county, leader in the
Osceola church and several societies.
The other women are wives of prominent
business men. All are members Of the
local Women's Christian Temperance
Union.