The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-19
EASTERN MELANGE.
Secretary IIOke Smith Hanged
in EfIigy in Ohio.
NEGROES SUPPLANTING WHITES
Trouble Apprelended Between the
Whites and the SemlnOles In
Southern Florida.

Reading Pa.) Council has voted t5,-
600 TO fight the smallpox.
Grasshoppera have destroyed several
crops Of corn in the vicinity of Pilot
Knob, Tex.
Canadas total wheat crop this year
will be about 100000 bushels larger
than last year.
Baby Ruth is to have Il Shetland pony
thirty.eight inches high, which has been
sent to the President from Scotland
Louisiana has large prospective su-
gar crop in sight, and she is anxious TO
know what Congress is going to do with
il.
Three negroes by stratagem robbed
the Pacific Express Company at Wich-
ita, Kan, Of about 81 800 in currency
and silver.
It il said that fully 25,0O0 whites have
settled on the Cherokee Strip and threat
en- TO make trouble il the government
attempts to eject them.
4 radical reorganization Of the coast
survey il contemplated by Secretary
Carlisle. Some Of the changes may re-
quire Congressional action.
The Pennsylvania railroad system is
said TO have decided to substitute the
Iong-distance telephone for the telegraph
IN the operation OF its lines.
The death rate OF children under 5
years Of age in New York week before
last was 63 per cent of the total number,
or 793 out OF a total of ,257.
For the first time on record passengers
have recently been able TO breakfast in
London on Sunday and dine in New
York on the following Friday.
From present indications the country
will have fully 40O,0O0,0O0 bushels more
OF corn and 80, 100000 bushels more of
oats than were produced last year.
Two hundred and three inmates OF the
Kansas Soldiers Home, who have been
treated for alcoholism, have left the
home, able to maintain themselves.
4 st. Paul special says it is estimated
that 5000 to 1900 idle men are there
and hundreds more arriving daily. Many
are from railroads and mining regions.
All fears Of trouble from idle working
men at Denver have disappeared. Those
who have not left the city will be given
in contemplated public inn
prOvements.
The new Chinese Minister, who will
arrive in Washington about the middle
of this month, will replace the present
legation of nine persons with much
more imposing suite.
There is apprehension that trouble
may arise between the whites in South
ern Florida and the Seminole Indians
over the thrashing OF one Of the chiefs
sons, who was caught poaching.
The slaughter of the innocents now
going on in Cleveland is something ter
rible. Twenty-Five deaths from cholera
ported at the health Office the other day.
A deialcation of $4,000 has been dis
covered in the cash of the National Bank
of Paterson N. j. Abram Pardon, the
paying teller, was arrested, and con-
fessed. He is 80 years old and unmar-
ried.
Because reporter at Denver had crit
icised the conduct of Governor Waite
the latter and his nephew threw the re-
porter out of the Governors office when
he called to see if there was q news item
to be got.
1t is reported at Springfield, Ill.,, that
William Whitman, the American EX-
press Company's absconding cashier
from that place, is in Mexico, and requi-
sition papers will be applied for to cap
ture him.
The reported robbery of Mrs. Ammon
at Chicago by men who personated de-
tectives is said to have been simply a
ruse of the woman to secure q present to
make up for the supposed loss from an
old and wealthy friend.
The fight of the miners in Southeast
ern Kansas is still on, but the importa-
ton of negro miners from Alabama has
weakened the strikers, for the new ma
terial are good workmen and fill the
places of the men who quit work.
The Brooklyn pharmacists are endeav-
Oring to break up the practice of selling
drugs to the big dry-goods stores, and |
have asked the District Attorney to |
make charge against one of the mer-
chants in order to make test case.
1t is stated at Providence, R. l., that
Sl5,0O0,00 worth of certificates of the
Northern Pacific Grain Elevator Com
pany of Minnesota are afloat in the |
country and there is but so per cent of
their value in wheat in sight as security.
For the first time since the passage of
the Sherman silver law the Treasury in
July failed to buy the full quota of 4,500,-
300 ounces of silver. The total pur-
chases for the month were 1854, 900 |
ounces, leaving a shortage of 2,116,000
ounces.
Secretary Hoke Smith was hanged in
effigy by enraged citizens OF Rome, a
little town in Adams county, O., Satur-
lay night. A number of pensions had
been suspended there, and the climax
was reached when the pension OF ]. L.
Reed, veteran of the Eleventh Illinois
Cavalry, aged SO years, was dropped.