The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-16
Huge lIailstOnes Fall in the
State Of New York.
RADICAL METHOD FOR RELIEF.
Amount and Mileage Of Railroads
In the Hands Of Receivers
at the Present Time.

bfaHhhopperH are doing great damage
TO crops in Iowa.
A conference Of Anarchists il TO be
held in Chicago September ID.
A Kansas editor boasts Of being a
graduate Of the Kceley Institute.
The rate Of taxation just fixed in New
York is the lowest in thirty years.
Active measures are being taken to
enforce the health laws Of Kansas.
Another gas well with powerful flow
has been struck at Stronghurst, Ill.
Governor Turncy OF Tennessee IL out
in proclamation dcnouncing lynching
About 1900 men who were idle in
! Pittsburg two weeks ago are at work
again.
During this year IA 1896 silver Treas
ury notes have been redeemed in silver
dollars.
Senator John Sherman has decided TO
say very little at present upon the money
question.
A sea turtle, weighing 1000 pounds,
was captured near Portland, Me-, the
other day.
Frick, the Carnegie manager at Pitts
burg, has had his salary of 800, 600 year
reduced TO $4,000.
Senator PETER has asked that the sal
aries Of all government officers above
| 81 900 year be reduced.
Atlanta is about TO celebrate her ff-
ticth anniversary. Her population is in
close neighborhood of 10000.
Much dissatisfaction is found with the
registration requirement by intending
settlers in the Cherokee Strip.
The counties of Western New York
report II plague OF grasshoppers that is
doing much harm to the crops.
Last year the total valuation of the
railroads of Kansas was $4,000, 900.
This year it is increased $4,000, 900.
II. y. Kathrcns, Secretary of large
oil company, says that the supply of pc
troleum in Wyoming is ineXhaustible.
Railroad Commissioners of Kansas
have not yet been able TO secure seed
wheat for the western part OF the State.
Francis Murphy, the well-known tenn
peranCe advocate claims that the excess
sive use Of intoxicants is on the decrease.
But 1000 men are now employed in
the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, Kan.
Last year at this time 1000 men were at
work.
There is an organized kick all over
Kansas about the celebrity with which
the State Board of Pardons is letting out
criminals.
Secretary IIoke Smith has declined to
execute asphaltum mining leases on the
Indian reservation in Utah. He says it
is illegal.
Railroads with q mileage of over 49,
600 miles and capital of $1,000,000, 900
have gone into receivers hands in this
country this year.
The Jayanese village in Midway Plai-
sance at the Chicago Fair is unable to
meet the exactions Of the management
of the fair, and will close.
The city OF Cleveland has filed a claim
to land on the lake front occupied by the
Pennsylvania, Lake Shore and Big Four
railroads and worth $2,000,000.
Rome, N. Y, reports u fall of hail
stones weighing one quarter OF a pound.
Every exposed window was broken and
roofs damaged. Rain fell in torrents.
The New York Sun has been making
study of the debts of the various States,
and finds that in the last ten years there
has been total decrease of $40 0,000,000.
w. w. Oglvie, the milling king of
Canada, estimates the yield in wheat in
Manitoba and Northwest Canada this
year at about twenty bushels per acre,
or total yield of about 10000, 900 BUSH
els
The recent "hunger riots" in New
York had their comical side One of the
loudest clamorers for bread, who was
taken into custody by the police was
searched, and was found to have $35 in
his pockets.
New York's Dock Commissioners have
built on several different piers peoples
pavilions. In these structures iron pill
lars support the roof, the building being
open on each side to let the breeze enter.
The pavilions cost $500 each, and are
to serve as public promenades.
DIR. Warmers corset factory at Bridge
port, Conn.,, employs 1000 women. 1t
now is running only part of the time,
but for all of the workwomen who do
not make enough to pay their living ex-
penses DR.. Warner furnishes the meals
until the factory shall be running full
time again.
A movement is on foot in South Caro-
lima to have John G. Calhoun's body,
with the sarcophagus erected over it by
the State Legislature some years ago,
removed from st. Philips neglected
graveyard in Charleston to Fort Hill,
where was his home and where the col
lege he wished for has lately been estab-
lshed.
Typographical Union No. 16 of Chi
cago, including all the large English pa
pers of that city, adopted radical
method for the relief of the unemployed
in the shape of rule, to hold good for
five weeks, that none of the regularly
employed shall work more than four
days each week, putting on subs the
other three.