The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-08
EASTERN MELANGE.
The Number Of Sheep Sheared
in Montana.
DISHONEST WATER COLLECTORS
Buildings Occupied by Government
Clerks to be Examined--The
Childs-Drexel Home.

Our "militia Of the sea" now numbers
about 600 men.
The gold in the Treasury IL slightly
increasing in quantity.
Winter wheat il nearly all harvested
in the Southern States.
The Delaware militia will be dis
banded for lack Of funds.
Denver claims population Of $4,000,
based on directory names.
The Capital National Bank at Indian
apolls has reopcned its doors.
Detroit's city government is waging a
determined war on the gas companies.
Proctor Knott OF Kentucky has
declined the offer Of the Hawaiian mis-
sion.
The Mississippi river at New Orleans
is within one foot Of the highest point
ever recorded.
Missouri is the first State TO build a
Confederate home entirely from indi-
ydual contribution.
The protest against rapid bicycle
riding on frequented streets is general
all over the country.
The Wabash has adopted the rule
limiting tickets TO continuous passage
one day from date OF sale.
The mackerel fishers are having great
sport this year. Nothing like it has
been enjoyed for years past.
Natural gas discovered near Newlin,
Tex, is frightening the colored popula-
tion away from that vicinity.
As the hot weather begins Phila-
delphia is having trouble with its gar
bagc OF an alarming character.
1t is reported that new line Of
steamers are to ply between New York,
Jamaica and Central America.
American capitalists are said to have
bought much land on the Isthmus of
Tchauntepec for bonanza farming.
Cleveland is to arbitrate the dispute
between Argentina and Brazil over the
possession of the State of Parana.
Wholesale poisoning OF sheep is the
latest phase of the Colorado war be-
tween shecpmen and cattlemen.
Last year there were 100000 sheep
sheared in Montana, an increase OF SO
per cent over the previous year.
An East Tennessee young woman has
brought suit for 1000 against a man
for saying that she had false teeth.
Senator Stewart has recently ex-
pressed the belief that the Sherman
silver purchasing act will not be re-
pealed.
The fear is taking form in Western
Kansas that this season will not pro-
duce more than three or four crops Of
alfalfa.
The unveiing Of the monument to
Nathan Hale in City Hall Park, New
York, has been postponed until Sep
tember %.
The builders Of the new cruiser New
York will receive about $4,000 in
premiums by the governments accep-
tance of the vessel.
Water collectors at Detroit have been
stealing. II. l.. James committed
suicide when his theft was discovered
Several are under arrest.
The Chicago and Northwestern has
secured an entrance into Denver by the
purchase of the Scranton road, coal
line seventeen miles long.
A monument to the memory Of
William Cullen Bryant, the American
historian and poet, will shortly be
placed in Central Park, New York.
Every building in Washington oc-
cupied by government clerks is to be
subjected to thorough examination as
to its safety, lighting and ventilation.
The Governor of New York has Just
vetoed bill making the use of cheese
as an article of diet compulsory in the
military camps and prisons of the State.
There are now in the elevators Of
Minneapolis, Duluth and Superior about
"A, 100000 bushels of wheat, or about
twice as much as they contained a year
ago.
The Tree-planting and Fountain
Society of Brooklyn is actively engaged
in arousing intelligent interest in the
planting and care of street trees in that
city.
The feeling at Washington is that the
financial crisis is past. The condition
of the country as reviewed from treas
ury standpoint shows general improve
ment.
J. H. Richardson of New Haven,
Conn, has begun suits for $4,000, 900
for infringement of patent held by him
by reaper manufacturers of the United
States.
The complete official returns of the
Chinese registration have been received
at Washington. They show that out of
10000 Chinese in the United States
l3, 139 registered.
The International Typographical
Union has declared that no one shall be
admitted to the Childs- Drexel Home
unless he had been a member of the
union for five years.
The Oil-well Supply Company, one of
the most extensive corporations in
Pennsylvania and the largest concern
of its kind in the world, has gone into
| the hands of receiver.