The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-15
EASTERN MELANGE.
Quantity and Quality Of the
Texas Wheat Crop.
THE TRUST LAW OF ILLINOIS
COlOred Successor TO Father MOllin'
ger Performing Miracles in
the Way Of Cures.

st. Paul, Mimi, claims population
Of 225,OOO.
Chinch bugs are doing great damage
to the Kansas wheat crop.
The State Of Texas has won a suit TO
recover lands grabbed by railroads.
The woman suTragists OF Kansas
have raised n campaign fund OF $4,000.
Maine towns this year have paid a
bounty Of IS each on thirty-two bears.
The ST.. Louis health officers have be-
gun to inspect emigrants arriving in the
city.
Just before it adjourned the Illinois
Legislature passed very radical anti
trust bill.
Thirty-two sites are offered for the
new Philadelphia mint at prices ranging
from 81 to 100000.
A telephone line $500 miles long is
planned in Canada 10 connect Halifax
with Vancouver.
DR.. Ernest Hart, the London sanitary
expert, says that ChicagO's water is bad
and may cause trouble.
Thewomcn Of Kansas, who are TO open
their campaign for suffrage in September
next, are already afeld.
A plot OF ground was sold in Chicago
the other day for 100000 which was
purchased in 1856 for $500.
Ironwood, Mich, has such an epidemic
Of typhoid fever that the public build
ings have been made hospitals.
By recent order OF the authorities OF
Carthage, ILL.,, counting has been forbid
den in the public parks Of that place.
George Vanderbilt has purchased 20,-
600 acres Of land in North Carolina,
with view OF making it game pre-
serve.
Northumberland Percy Daniels,
Populist, OF Kansas has a scheme by
which no one will be taxed but million
aires.
A New York printer has been sem
fenced 10 year in State Prison and
fined 1900 for printing green-goods
circulars
The big Chicago telescope will be APP
proximately "a feet long and 4 feet in
diameter, and the dome will be 20 feet
| in diameter.
The Kansas Railroad Commissioners
are going to compel wholesale reform
in freight charges on the part OF the
roads in that State.
1t is claimed that there is now due the
government in royalties for coal mined
on government lands in Kansas from
$500, 900 to 100000.
The widow of one of the Italians
| lynched at New Orleans tried to bring
suit as an alien, but the courts decided
! that she was an American.
Southern papers say that the machine
cotton picker is success, and that in
many districts that commodity can now
be raised at cost Of 2l8 cents pound
A company has just been formed in
| Oklahoma to develop the immense beds
of asphaltum recently discovered neal
the Arbucke Mountains on the Chicka-
saw reservation.
The Worlds Labor Congress al
Chicago, August % to September 4, will
conclude with what is proposed to be
the greatest labor demonstration ever
seen in America.
Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago cable.
railway magnate, has commenced the
building of brownstone mansion which
is to cost 81 100000. Mrs. Yerkes' room
is to cost 100000.
The Berry trust law in Illinois, it is
stated, will enable the Attorney-Genera
to break up the passenger and freight
associations now controlling and fixing
rates to and from Chicago.
Secretary Carlisle has issued circular
requesting Collectors OF Customs to ex
ercise more care in the selection of sub
ordinates. This notice has been called
forth by the Puget Sound scandal.
The rain-making experiments in Kan
sas have resulted in the death of {
Captain of the Kansas National GuarC
and the serious injury of two mel
through the bursting of the cannon
employed in the experiments.
"Victory" monument designed b,
Casper Buberl, which is to be erected
by the State of New York to her deaC
heroes on the battle field of Gettysburg
measures from base to top 96 feet. TIL,
figure is l3 feet inches high.
Brother" Day, the colored successo
of Father Mollinger at Pittsburg, is sale
to be performing miracles in the way o
cures equal to those claimed to hav
been performed by Father Mollinger
Day is full-blooded negro, but hi
auditors are nearly all white. The cure
are mostly by faith.
An underground electrical railwa,
system, which was successfully tried a
Coney Island recently, and which, it i
claimed, can be operated at less cos
than the trolley, is further said to b
"free from the Objectionable overhea,
wire and the attending danger to life.
A. w. Glover of Windsor Locks, Wis.
claims to have discovered in the founda
tions of an old foundry stone covere
, with hieroglyphics, supposed to be G
, Indian origin, though no one versed il