The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-06-03
EASTERN MELANGE.
Bears and Panthers Rampant
in Arkansas.
SALVATION ARMY MEN GO WRONG
COlOrcd Democrats Want Their Re-
publican Brethren Turned
Out Of Office.

The Dakota wheat acreage has beer
reduced about IA or 20 per cent.
The proprictorship Of the New Yorl
Herald has been invested in stock com
pany.
The cable rates between this country
and China have been reduced 10 81 ~
per word.
The New York Board Of Education Is
hard up for money to pay the salaries
OF teachers.
IT Is estimated that the new buildings
erected in Philadelphia during 1893 will
cost y28 100000.
Eighty bodies Of paupers and unknown
persons were lying in the Chicago morgue
one day last week.
Skin from n dissected convict was
made into purses for Il dozen Michigan
University medical students.
A law and order crusade has been
started at Nashville, Tenn, and gam
bling houses will be suppressed.
The Judiciary Committee Of the
Michigan House has reported in favor
OF a return to hanging in that State.
The only States in the Union which
hold more silver than gold in their ma
tlonal banks are the Southern States.
In the annual report of the Cincinnati
Sanitarium it is asserted that the gold
cure makes lunatics by the wholesale" /"
James r. Kcene is said to have made
81, 100000 by the big crash in National
{ 'np,la,ra tIn Na,r Nnel.
change.
The Northwestern Guaranty Loan
Company Of Minneapolis is in trouble,
and suspension, it is said, cannot be
ayertcd.
Joseph jefferson, the distinguished
comedian, has had an abscess on the
back of his neck cut. He had been
suffering very much.
Governor Flower of New York has
vetoed the act appropriating money for
the establishment of colony for epilep-
ties in that State.
The Massachusetts, Legislature is con-
sidering bill requiring all road wagons
OF burden to be provided with tires from
three to five inches wide.
The crevasse at Lakeport, Ark, is in
Creasng in width, and the whole land
in that section is being covered with
water from the Mississippi.
st. Paul takes day off, or rather
three days off, beginning June 7, and
celebrates the completion of j. j. HIl's
Great Northern road as transcontinen-
tai line.
A Minnesota engineer is seeking to
obtain a charter from the Canadian
Parliament for the construction of q
ship canal to connect Lakes Erie and
st. Clair.
The house-to-house inspection, which
was begun by direction of the Phila-
delpha Board of Health some weeks
ago, has already abated thousands of
nuisanCes.
Bears and panthers, driven by floods
from the lowlands of the Saline river in
Arkansas, are making life miserable to
farmers. Many domestic animals have
been killed in pens.
The story in circulation to the effect
that the bureau of engraving and print
ing is quietly printing bonds with view
to having the same ready for issuance
shortly is without foundation.
An act passed by the Alabama Legis-
lature prohibits the killing of ring
necked Mongolian pheasants in the
State for period of eight years, begin
ming June of the present year.
The National Negro Democratic
League wants all the negroes appointed
under Republican control turned out of
office, and has addressed q letter to the
President Suggesting such action.
George Hallett and George Mason,
two Salvation Army men at Souix City,
Ia, have been arrested for counterfeit
ing. On their confession large quanti-
ties of metal and dies were captured.
Belva A. Lockwood was admitted to
the bar of the State of New York at
Poughkeepsie week ago. This event
marks the termination of long struggle
on her part to secure judicial recogni-
ton.
The Texas Legislature has passed q
law providing that the money received
from the direct tax refund shall be re-
stored, as far as possible, to the persons
who paid the tax or their representa-
tives.
The New West Education Commission
has received $4,000 from Nathaniel
Gordon of Exeter, N. H., for the perma-
nent endowment of Ogden Academy,
Utah, which will hereafter be known
as the Gordon Academy.
The recent recommendation of Acting
Register Smith for the destruction OF
$152, 900 of unissued registered Az
per cent bonds of the funded loan of
1891 has been approved by the Secretary
OF the Treasury, and the bonds will be
destroyed.
The Ladies' Memorial Bazaar, which
has been in progress at Richmond for
several weeks, has closed. The object of
the bazar was to raise funds for estab-
fishing Confederate museum in the old
home of Jefferson Davis in Richmond.
The bazar netted nearly $4,000.