The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-01
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Pittsburg Organizes a Municipal
Ownership League.
THE WHITE CAPS OF KENTUCKY.
A Solid Block Of Cold, Weighing 800
Pounds, to be Exhibited at the
Chicago Exposition.

! A legislative investigation has dis-
closed shocking Cruslties praCtiCed on
cOnvicts in the Nebraska State prison.
The Vassar girls have recently been
engaged in dressing dolls for children
among the poorest classes in New York
city.
The statement Of the Rea ling Coal
and Iron Company shows the excess o!
current liabilities over atsets 10 be $2,-
| Gg3 ,003
White Caps have notified the vendors
ol whisky at Providence, Webster coun-
| ty, KY, TO quit the business or take the
corsequences.
The Black Hills OF South Dakota will
send as part Of their mineral exhibit a
soId block OF gold, weigh ng 800 pounds
and worth 100000.
Mrs. James Corbett has been sued for
money due for newspaper clippings
which che had ordered Henry Romerke
at New York TO gather for her.
II is said the shoe manufacturers Of
New England are proposing to conduct
their own tanneries and 10 fight the pro.
posed Sl0O, 100000 leather trust.
Lionel Sartoria, a cousin OF the late
husband OF Nellie Grant, proposes to
Colonlze with English farmers a tract OF
about so, 900 acres in Central Wyoming.
General Buckner is said to be assidu-
ously studying German in anticipation
of being sent to Austria to represent the
dignity OF the United States at Vienna
The VIII sky trust will pass its dividend
1t has manufactured more whisky than
the traie demands, and it takes lots OF
money 10 carry the excess until it is
disposed Of.
The Lexington (Ky.) grand jury has
indicted SIXTY ealoonkeepers Tor selling
liquor unlawiu ly, and has returned fifty
three indictments for the sale OF cigar
ettee to boys.
Congress not having appropriated the
necessary expenses for the Civil Service
Commission to hold the examina ion
they had scheduled in several States,
the dates have been Cancelled.
In the Minnesota Senate a bill has
been introduced to prohipt the prefer
ence Of one precious metal over another
IN the making OF contracts, the inten-
uon beng to abolish gold mortgages.
In anticipation of a heavy movement
o Southern cattle to NJ pntana d Wy.
oming Governor Osborne OF the latter
State has publicly announced the reg la.
tons under which the shipments viii be
admitted.
TIE Postmaster. General has decided
TO lease 30, 75O square feet in the Indus
trial building, adjoining the Forty-sec.
ond street railroad station, in New York
city, for use as the uptown branch OF
the New York city postoilice.
The Alabam National Bank at Mobile
has closed its doors by direction OF Bank
Examiner Campbell. The depositors
will be pa d in full, but the capital stock
OF the bank is impaired to the amount OF
$4,000, or about AZ per cent.
Texas people have finally undertaken
to prevent Iynching by the formation OF
anti-IynChing leagues at Rio Grande
City. 1t is expected that the movement
will spread throughout the State and
eventually throughout the South.
Frederick Douglass is the President OF
company just organized for the pur-
pose OF establishing large manufacture
ing enterprise near Newport News, Va
building a town and giving employment
to young colored men and women.
The electric lighting question is again
being agitated in Kansas City, owing to
the inefficient service and extortionate
rates of the private company. Another
company has offered to light the city
hall for about one.third OF present prices.
Ballington Booth proposes to try in
this country the plan of farm colonies
for the regeneration of social outcasts
which his father introduced successfully
in Darkest England" and the first
colony will probably settle in New Jer-
sey.
The Russian Jews who formed the
Chesterfield colony near New London
are beginning to leave. 1t is said that
the physical sufferings of the colonists
during the past winter have been acute,
and the outlook for the future has dis.
heartened htem.
The gross earnings OF all the railroad
lines in the Pennsylvania system Tor
1892 we're $l3S,974 ,520.65 The expenses
were s9S, ,352, ,0S3 -. The gross tonnage
moved was 14l ,37l ,S46 tons. The num-
Der OF passengers carried was 5000, ,341.
These are bewildering aggregates.
The disnterested in Milwaukee smile
over bill introduced at Madison to
make the salary of the Sheriff of Mil
waukee county $500 year. The Gov
ernor, Secretary of State and Treasurer
get but st, 90 each. Judge Jenkins gets
$4,000, but will get but $4,000 when he
takes Judge Gresham's chair at Chicago.
Pittsburg has organized a municipal
ownership league. Its purpose is to have
the municipality own and operate gas
wo' ks, water works, electric plant, street
railways, telephones and all ether pub
lie utilities that are in their nature a
monopoly. Many of the best citizens in
the town are in the movement.