The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-05-06
EASTERN MELANGE.
and Fraudulent Disposal
Of Public Property
IN THE WEATHER BUREAU.
Fire Insurance Advanced In an Iowa
City-The Cost Of the Recent
Chicago Election.

Two Philadclphians are in Jail for
c0unterfeiting l-cent pieces.
It ~ estimated that the recent Chicago
election cost all hands 100000.
Newspaper writer's unions are crop
ping up throughout the country.
A bin to establish bureau Of labor IL
before the New Hampshire Legislature.
The charteringof electric railway com
panics in Ohio IL going on at Il rapid
rate.
Baltimore proposes TO encourage man
niacturing plants by exempting them
from taxation.
Seven cruisers will protect the Cana
| dian mackerel boats in the Gulf Of st.
Lawrence this season.
Generous Brooklyn Aldermen have
| given away for nothing street railway
franchises for which $3.50, 900 was offered.
The Park Commissioners of New York
have refused TO grant site in Union
Square for statue 10 Roscoe Conkling
A Vermont Judge has ruled that a
girl who discards lover must return the
engagement ring ii he has given one TO
her.
Governor Hogg Of Texas has issued a
proclamation establishing quarantine on
the Gulf coast and the Rio Grande bor-
der.
A syndicate has been formed in Phila-
delphia for the completion of the
| Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago rail-
road.
Minnesota now gets from its tax on
| the gross earnings Of railroads 81 ,500,0 900
a year, and the amount increases year
after year.
All kinds OF building material except
iron and steel have advanced in Chicago,
and numerous building projects have
been deferred.
A number OF prominent women OF
Philadelphia have started movement
to prevent men from expectorating on
the sidewalks.
The maximum freight bill of Nebras-
ka, having received Governor Crounz'
signature, is now law. 1t will be
fought by the railroads.
The Attorney General OF Ohio has de-
cided that insurance against burglary in
that State is legal, because burglary is
an accident to property.
This has probably been the worst win
ter ever known in New York for horses.
Pneumonia and pulmonary diseases have
carried them off rapidly.
Fifty American and eleven British
companies have recently been organized
to develop business in Mexico with q
capital of over $l00,000,000.
1t is proposed in Massachusetts to pro-
vide for the use of indelible lead pencils
at elections to prevent the fraudulent
altering of ballots during count.
President Cleveland's mail has reached
an average OF about 1000 letters day.
Secretary Thurber and five clerks are
kept busy handling the packages.
The company which proposes to estab-
lish an electric railroad between Chicago
and st. Louis has let contracts for the
entire construction of its roadbed.
Wife-beating has become so common
in New Jersey that there is movement
to erect whipping posts for the punish
ment of the cowardly bullies who prac-
tice it.
Fire insurance rates in Des Moines
have been advanced 20 per cent. The
alleged cause is the inadequacy of pro-
lection from fire on the part of water
works of that city.
A Washington special says: Secretary
Carlisle has definitely decided to redeem
in silver the outstanding treasury notes
issued under the act of 1890 and known
as the Sherman act.
The highest recorded speed ever
achieved by a locomotive was recently
made by a compound engine on a New
York road, when it covered mile in
| thirty-seven seconds.
Ground has been broken at the Bat
terry on the spot where is to rest the mag
niticent bronze monument which is to
! be dedicated to the memory of John En-
lesson of Monitor fame.
DR.. Sheldon Jackson, Commissioner of
Education for Alaska, has received Or
ders to go to Siberia to purchase and
transport to Alaska tame reindeer to be
propagated there for the use of the ma
tives.
James Dixon, an expert accountant,
has just completed an audit of the ac-
counts of the Economic Society, show
ing it to be solvent by small margin.
The society's holding are valued at $5,-
100000.
The extensive deposit of asphalt near
st. Jo, in Montague county, Texas, is
being operated by a local company hav-
ing a capital stock of 100000. The
product is being shipped all over the
country.
The New York custom-house reports
that the government now holds $2l 1904, :
900 in bond for goods in the bonded
warehouses. This amount is said to be
the largest ever held by the government
for bonded goods.
1t is said that large number of Chi
nese recently discharged at Tampico and
from various railroad construction camps
in Mexico are vending their way toward
the Rio Grande in the hope of slipping
unobsarvsd into the United States.