The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-05
EASTERN MELANGE.
Gross Earnings Of the AtchisOn
for the Past Year.
THE WHEAT CROP or KANSAS,
The Real Estate Valuation Of the
City Of Philadelphia-Fail-
ures for Six Months.

New Yorks new city directory con
tains 4OO, 900 names.
The Kansas wheat crop is estimated
at ~, ,OO0,0 600 bushels.
Krupp, the great gunmaker, with his
party il in this country.
New York bankers say that the money
scare is practically over.
The Treasury gold reserve will soon be
up to the full figure Of $l00,0OO,0O0.
Preliminary work to the opening Of
the Cherokee Strip il well under way.
The winter wheat crop will be 10000
600 bushels lcss than that Of last year.
George Gould is reported to be loser
by the squeeze" to the extent Of $l0,-
100000.
The enlargement Of the Erie canal has
again become an important question in
New York.
Impure milk poisoned half the West
Point cadets, but all were saved by the
post surgeon.
Secretary Herbert says The United
States ought 20 have twelve such ships
as the Victoria"
The failures for the first six months in
1898 have been &, G,239, more than in any
previous like period.
Senator Voorhees, declares that Con-
gress will continue unintcrruptedly in
session for full year.
The MOrmons are proselyting with
much success near Beaver Dam, Va.
Most OF their converts are young women.
Senator Berry OF Arkansas says that he
has voted three times for free silver, and
that he is not in the habit OF changing
his mind.
Philadelphia no longer fears cholera,
into such excellent condition has the
Delaware Bay and river quarantine serv-
ice been put.
The National Alliance OF Theatrical
Employees has been organized at New
York. John Williams OF New York was
elected President.
The gross earnings of the Atchison
during the year ending July | was $50,
5G6, 6O6, an increase OF S3,50l ,Sl5 over
the previous year.
4 monster lock, to be built on the Cal
bert Shoals canal at Birmingham, Ala,
will be when completed, it is claimed,
the largest in the country.
The russet shoe, which has attained
such wide popularity within the last few
years, has caused good deal OF trouble
in the leather trade in the East.
The floating debt of the Chicago Ex-
position is So, 900 900, a million greater
than it was on June |, and there is fear
OF a financial crisis in its affairs.
Mr.. Cleveland now weighs 300 pounds,
seventy-fve pounds more than his nor
mai weight, and is greatly inconveni-
enced physically in consequence.
Railroad passenger rates from Louis
vile and indianapolis to Chicago are
down to cent a mile. A thorough de-
moralizaton in rates cannot be avoided.
During the past ten years the normal
standard of production for wheat in this
country has varied from 49, to l6 BUSH
els per acre, making an average of l4la
bushels.
The statement of the Philadelphia
Board of Revision of Taxes for this year
shows real-estate valuation of $749,-
35S, ,447, as compared with $732, 300, ,S92
last year.
What is described as gigantic speci-
men of an antediluvian monster has
been discovered in Boyd county, Neb.
Workmen are now engaged in eXhuming
the monster.
Cashier }. j. Bush of the defunct Ell
mira IN. W National Bank has been
arrested upon warrant charging him
with making false reports and falsifying
his accounts.
immigration statistics for the month
OF June show that 81 ,907 alien steerage
passengers were landed on Ellis Island
during that month. AS usual, Italy
heads the list.
Secretary Lamont is considering the
suggestion of General Schofeld that
there be created a military department
of the lakes, with headquarters at Buff
falo or Oswego.
In the Massachusetts reformatory for
women good behavior is rewarded by
permitting the well-behaved ones to
wear dresses with smaller checks. The
bad ones wear very big checks.
The State Supreme Court OF South
Dakota has decided that the Western
Union Telegraph Company must accept
messages rendered whether or not writ
ten upon the regular telegraph blanks.
A building is nearing completion at
the corner OF Pine and William streets,
New York, which, although it is only 16
feet 3 inches wide, is lS5 feet high. The
brick and stone in it are held together
by metal skeleton.
The irrigation canals constructed at
great expense in Kansas are said not to
be entirely successful. The fault is not
in the irrigation system, but in the fact
that the bitches have been made too ca
pacious for the water supply.
The Francis S. Barlow Camp of United
Confederate Veterans OF Polk county,
Fla, has unanimously adopted resolu-
tions expressing their grateful apprecia-