The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-12-23
EASTERN MELANGE.
Annual Report Of the Comp
troller Of the Currency.
DESTITUTE MICHIGAN MINERS.
The Gross Receipts Of the Worlds
Fair POstOiIlce-The Virginia
Mari Deposits.
DESTITUTE MICHIGAN MINERS,

Mcpherson will lead the fight in tEe
Senate for the Wilson bill.
A Chicago company has cornered In
dumas output OF block coal.
Iowa lines are 10 make an effort to
have local freight rates raised.
South Carolina has netted in four
months s32, 1876 on her liquor.
Chiefs Of Police Of many big cities are
in league TO stamp out anarchy.
1t cost Philadelphia 3.000.0l to bring
the liberty bell home from Chicago.
The cablc-car managers are giving &C.
rious attention TO lfc-saving devices.
A new gold field, twenty miles square,
has been discovered near lIartzel, Col.
Richard Mansfield declares that there
are 5000 starving actors in this country.
A Southern newspaper says that nearly
every house in Honolulu has telephone.
Oranges from the Salt River Valley,
\. T., are now arriving in Eastern cities.
The jal at Concord, Mich, has been
utilized for hotel by lack Of prison
crs.
Attorney General Little is after the
Kansas lottery companies with Il sharp
stick.
The destitute condition of the people
on the South Carolina islands demands
relief.
A Cincinnati man has been fined $50
and costs for abusing another man over
the telephone.
A syndicate Of American capitalists is
said to be organizing TO control NOya
Scotia lime kiIns.
Four hundred coal miners at ishpcm-
ing, Mich, have struck against receiving
their pay in store orders.
Gross receipts of the Worlds Fair
postotice amounted to $6l, ,3SS, and the
expenditures were $20,6l4.
Cincinnati capitalists will invest ST.
O0O0OO in mining the mari deposits
along the coast OF Virginia.
New York's Worlds Fair building,
which cost $4,000, was bought by a
wrccking company for 81, 200.
Bills providing for investigation of
election methods in several counties OF
New York are in course OF preparation.
Representative Loud believes that the
prune industry OF his district will be ru-
ned if the Wilson tariff bill becomes
law.
Cashier Louis A. billiard, who embez-
zled $4,000 from the Chicago Tribune
Company, will wear stripes for four
years.
A company has been organized in the
new Territory Of Oklahoma to put a
Touring mill in every county in Okla
homa.
The free list will be enlarged by Rep
resentative Wilson's bill, should it be-
come u law, by the addition Of some 45O
articles.
1t is not any longer swell to wear a
big chrysanthemum in the New Yorker s
button-hole, because it is regarded as a
Western fad"
This year surpasses any one in history
for railroad accidents. From November,
1892, to November, 1893, 2,3lS were
killed on the railroads.
The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette
says Honolulu has charming climate,
but its pest is the mosquito, with no
frost to cut short its career.
All Chinese laborers in the United
States must register before Collector OF
Internal Revenue before May next, or
else be subject to deportation.
The total American supply of oranges
this year is expected to be 1000, 900
boxes, and the greatest previous yield,
that OF 1892, was only $3.50, 900 boxes.
The National League for the Protec-
ton of American Institutions at New
York has issued an address to the public
in defense of the American free common
school system.
A doctor of Allegheny, Pa, kept a
prematurel ly-born infant, which the
mother thought dead, in an incubator four
months, and surprised the mother by re-
storing it to her.
A bill prohibiting prize-fghting in
South Carolina has passed the General
Assembly. The penalty is three years
imprisonment and 81 900 fine for princi-
pals and seconds.
1t is stated at Chicago that Wells,
Fargo " 20. Tor cash bonus OF Sl,IUu,
600 and 40 per cent of the gross receipts
had secured new contract with the
Southern Pacific Company.
Maurice Bletz. vote repeater, has
been sentenced in the Federal Court at
Kansas City to two years in the peniten-
tiary for fraudulent voting at the general
election held November s, 1892.
The Erie road has cut the provisions
rate from Chicago to Boston from 301a
cents to 24l9 cents, and to New York
and Philadelphia in proportion. The
other lines will make the same rates.
Nearly 500 groggeries in Chicago have
been forced out of business since No
vember on account of the dull times,
and it is probable that from 500 to 1000
others will fail to renew their licenses.
The Iowa Tontine Investment Com
pany at Des Moines has failed. Presi-
dent Stone is missing, and so are the
funds. Among the victims at Des Moines
are the President of one bank and two
or three cashiers of others.