The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-10-28
EASTERN MELANGE.
The Eighty-fOurth Parallel Of
the Pole Reached.
MARY WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Large Number Of Deaths Caused by
the Recent Storm Below New
Orleans, Louisiana.

The new public building at Omaha
will be built Of granite.
The cotton crop IL 10 per cent short Of
last years yield in Southwest Texas.
For 10 cents each children under II
are now admitted 10 the Worlds Fair.
Denguc or break bone fever has made
its appearance at Corpus Christi, Tex.
Ex-Trcasurer Green McCurtin OF Ok
lahoma is short tl0i,727. He has dis
appeared.
\ public library and literary resort cx-
clusively for the blind has been opened
IN Chicago.
The Ferris wheel at the Worlds Fair
| has taken in the 5000 900 il cost and
5000 beside.
New York city will spend 500, 900 to
make her day at the Worlds Fair a
memorable success.
Many railway bridges have been swept
away by floods in the Indian Territory
and Northern Texas.
Denver has contracted 10 ship TO Eu-
rope by the way Of Galveston, Tex, 3, 900
tons Of Colorado hay.
The Welsh in the United States claim
that they are in number AZ many az their
countrymen in Wales.
The manufacture OF cigarettes shows a
remarkable and steady increase over
other forms Of tobacco.
The cruiser New York will be the first
United States vessel 10 receive battery
OF Whitehead torpedoes.
Eight thousand men are employed on
the canal that will carry the sewage Of
Chicago TO the Illinois river.
In New York the grand jury has made
Il prcsentment recommending that the
office Of Coroner be abolished.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
worker, has induced over 600 persons to
sign the pledge ut Tuscola, la.
A Portland (Me.) furniture man, who
has failed for nearly $500 900, shows up
with less than $4,000 worth of assets.
The employees of the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad have agreed to accept a
10 per cent reduction in wages until Jan
uary.
The chilly autumn weather has
brought sickness and death to the
OrentaIs on the Midway Plaisance,
Chicago.
The diminished price of silver has
caused the shutdown OF many Mexican
mines and also greatly decreased the
revenue.
Contracts have recently been made for
between 500 and 900 cars in Nebraska
for transportation OF last years corn and
hay crop.
Mrs. Samuel Bennett OF Tanner, w.
Va, gave birth to her twenty-ninth
child a few days ago. All the children
are alive.
1t is safe now to number the deaths in
the recent storm below New Orleans at
1000 and over, and the loss in property
will be many millions.
The house of the late Justice Bradley,
formerly the Washington home OF Ste
phen A. Douglas, has been purchased by
Papal Delegate Satolli.
The Texas Associated Press has con-
tracted with the Associated Press for q
period of ten years and severed its con-
nection with the United Press.
A correspondent of the New York Tri-
bune suggests the holding of great
Worlds Fair at New York in 1900 to cell
ebrate the closing of the nineteeth CEN
tury.
There is movement in Canada for
having national park created in the
Nepigon country, in order that the
trout fishing there may be eternally per-
petuated.
The New York Herald announces that
President Mcleod of the New England
railroad has secured an entrance to the
center of New York city with good termi-
nal facilities.
Fourteen members of the Board Of
Freeholders of Patterson, n. j., have
been convicted OF making $4,000 fraud
ulently in the purchase OF courthouse
| for that town.
At present there are seventy-one pub
! lie buildings i'll course OF construction in
! the United States, and the plans for
! forty-nine new ones, for which appropri-
ations have been made, are being pre-
pared in the Treasury Department.
Representative Caminetti has discov-
cred a way to avoid the heavy expense of
deporting Chinese who refuse to register.
He proposes that the government send
some of the old war vessels going out of
commission for that purpose.
The Standard Oil Company has bought
5000 acres of land near the lake front at
Ashtabula, o., with the intention of
erecting big steel plant capable of turn
ing out 1000 tons per day. The location
is favorable for securing supplies of
cheap coal and ore.
The Old Mary Washington monument
at Fredericksburg, Va, was pulled down
and the box in the cornerstone turned
over to the officers of the Monument AS
sociation. The box was filled with water
and confused mass of pulp. None of
the objects could be distinguished. The
stone OF the old monument will be placed
in the foundation of the new one about
to be erected. The same cornerstone
viii be ussd.