The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-09
EASTERN MELANGE.
Anthrax Attacks Also Human
Beings in Illinois.
THE COTTON CRISIS IN TEXAS.
Chicago Bankers Import Gold Direct
From Europe Typhoid Fe-
YER In 81. Louis.
THE COTTON CRISIS IN TEXAS.

The Bank Of Commerce at Havana
has failed.
Gcorgia's cotton crop will probably be
the largest in her history.
A $l2,OO0,O 600 drop in Georgia's valua-
ton will cripple the State schools.
The Minneapolis and Duluth stock OF
wheat amounts to l2,5i2,50 bushels.
The new government lands about ready
for statement comprise II, ,38O, 900 acres.
Notable Colored men at Philadelphia
have organized an anti-lynching league.
Cattle and sheep herders are fighting
over the possession Of ranges in Colo
RADIO.
The use Of certified checks instead OF
cash il being tried with success at Little
! Rock.
A steady increase in through and ex-
port freight is noticeable on Eastern
roads.
Dick Roche, the noted gold-brick swim
dIer, is jailed Mt Omaha for his usual
tricks.
St. Paul and Minneapolis publishers
are talking Of reduced prices for type
setting.
The agitation for the removal OF the
capital OF Kansas from Topeka has been
renewed.
The anthrax is attacking not only all
kinds Of live stock, but human beings,
in Illinois.
Senator Stewart predicts the silver
question will be under discussion months
and months.
The Massachusetts, Agricultural Soci-
ETY. employs 100 men in fighting the
gypsy moth.
Governor Tillman will protect South
Carolina cocktails by securing a trade
mark on them.
The army worm has appeared in the
cotton fields Of the Arkansas and Mis-
sissippi river bottoms.
The wholesale grocers at Memphis
have issued notice that they will sell hog
product for cash only hereafter.
The losses incurred by insurance com
lhlllt6 III ANHItEENt AlNl lilE ilN Nol ACt-
amounted to 80 per cent OF the premi-
ums.
There is much agitation in Southwest
ern Kansas over proposed irrigation
ditch, which would drain the Arkansas
river.
A negro murderer, pardoned recently
by Governor Altgeld of illinois, has just
been arrested at Rushville for highway
robbery.
A crisis exists in Texas in regard to
OF the banks will advance money to move
the staple.
The State Railroad Commissioners Of
Kansas have taken hold of the seed
wheat problem to handle it in nom
partisan way.
A Boston Judge has decided that a
newspaper may publish biographical
sketch of man, but not his portrait,
against his will.
The resumption of operations in the
iron and steel plant in the Pittsburg
district has returned to work between
10000 and $1,000 men.
The Government Industrial School at
Santa Fe, N. NJ, is to be changed into
training school to prepare Indians to be-
come teachers of their own people.
George A. DAILY, the American loco
motive who was imprisoned at the City
of Mexico for having run over and killed
a man fourteen months ago, has been re-
leased.
A vein OF coal has been discovered
near the mouth of Whisky creek, one
mile south of Atkinson, Kan. 1t is
twenty-iour inches thick and of good
quality.
There is said to be less than half as
many icebergs in the Atlantic Ocean
this year as there were last year. This
is supposed to indicate severe winter in
Europe.
The latest proposed ship canal is to
run from Toledo to Cincinnati, making
Cincinnati rival to Chicago for lake
traffic. The government is to be asked
to assist.
The impression is growing about the
capitol at Washington that the present
extraordinary session of Congress may
come to an end about the middle OF Sep
tember.
The silver delegates from the Chicago
Convention say that they will probably
open headquarters in New York, which
will be the central point of all their cam
paigning in the East.
The epidemic of typhoid fever in 81.
Louis has reached alarming proportions,
and is not accounted for by the health
authorities, who report the city in a
good, clean condition.
Several arrests have been made at In
dianapolis of leading business men, who
are charged with embezzlement and mis-
appropriation of the funds of bank of
which they had control.
The New York Herald has boldly
moved up to Thirty-third street and
Broadway, leaving Newspaper Row far
behind. The new building is two stories
high, of solid masonry and iron through
out.