The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-01-07
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
A.
An Advance in Stocks Increases the
Value of Gould Property.
BOOMERS READY FOR A RUSH.
Application for an Injunction Restraining
The Commissioners From Closing
the Fair on Sundays.

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The tobacco trust has clptured the
! Lorllards.
The Supreme Court OF Mississippi haa
decided that alcohol Ia not beverage.
New York health officers are preparing
TO receive the cholera again next sum
mer.
About 1000 men are without employ.
ment and on the verge Of starvation IN
Toronto.
Secretary Foster estimates a deficiency
Of $4,000 in The quarantine estimates
for 1881.
Justices Of the United States Supreme
Court bar cigarettesmoking from their
apartments.
The Iowa corn crop is reported TO be
far short OF the usual average, caused by
the wet weather.
The City Council of Dubuque, Ia, has
decided to buy the plant Of the Dubuque
Water Company.
General Boynton asks the House Ap
proprations Committee Tor 100000 for
the Chickamauga National Park work.
For the fun OF chasing CARA, the Mex
lean border bandit, the United States
government has thus far paid 500, 900.
A New York syndicate is trying TO buy
for 81 000,0 ,0O0 all the rolling mill and
heat furnaces in and about youngstown,
0.
The Hudson river is TO be dredged to
uniform depth of twelve fee: from
Troy southward at an estimated expense
of 5000 600.
The recent advance in stocks has made
the Gould property worth about $l5,-
900 600 more than il was on the day Of
Gould's death.
The packing in Chicago since the
opening of the winter season is 632 900
hogs, or 80 per cent. less than the same
time last year.
Among the Missouri exhibits at Chi
caIo will be twenty-four varieties OF to-
bacco from the experimental farm OF the
State University.
Another appropriation for the govern
ment exhibit at the Worlds Fair of
$40 900 is asked. making the entire APP
preparation 81 100000.
A supposed ghost at Flatbush Hos
pital, New York, turned out to he live
man who had been hustled off to the
morgue as dead, but returned.
There is trouble with the Welsh tim
workers at Elwood, Ind. They refuse to
permit the company to operate patent
machines with unskilled labor.
Boomers are already assembling on
the southern border of Kansas in antici-
patton Of the opening to settlement OF
i 600 600 acres of land in Cherokee Strip.
Telephones have been introduced at
the government rifle ranges at Fort Sher-
idan, Ill.,, as a means of communication
between the firing points aud the targets
Elmer Perrin OF Long Branch, n. j.,
is reported to have vomIted eight green
peppers, each an inch and half long,
that had grown from seed in his stom-
ach.
j. f. Lee, the American astronomer,
who has been studying at Berlin for four
years with Prof. Forester, has been ap-
pointed to the chair OF astronomy at the
Chicago University.
Premier Gladstone will be invited by
the Worlds Fair authorities, they say,
to cross the ocean in order that he may
deliver the address at the formal open
ing of the exposition on May /.
The Eastern railroads are getting
ready for the Chicago Fair. Gar builders
are overrun with orders. One Eastern
firm is turning out seventy-fve cars per
day, and has orders ahead for 5000 cars.
Boston is to get gas for cooking, heat
ing and power purposes for 81 per 1000
feet, while that for Illuminating pur-
poses is to have candle power of at
least twenty-five, instead of sixteen as
now.
Zinc miners at Webb City, Wis, have
noticed lately that shaft they were dig
ging has been growing hotter. At a
depth of 1853 feet the other day they had
to etop work, as flames burst through into
the shaft.
A new serpent mound, the largest now
known, has been discovered by Prof.
Putnam near Fort Ancient, o. 1t is 900
feet long and about ten thick, and is con-
sidered one of the most remarkable OF
prehistoric works.
An application for an Injunction to re-
strain the Worlds Fair Commissioners
from closing the fair on Sundays is to be
made before the courts at Chicago. The
is based on the assumption
that the Jackson Park is public property
held by the Park Commissioners in trust
for the people, and that they have no
to debar the public from en-
trance to it any day in the year.
For some time John Voorhis has been
a teacher in the primary department of
the public school at Williamsburg, Col.
He was also an amateur dentist. When
children were unruly he extracted their
teeth as punishment, threatening them
with greater punishment if they should
tell their parents. He extracted ten
teeth from one Italian boy, who told his
parents. This was the direct cause of
the mob organizing to lynch the man.
Voorhis got wind of their coming, and
made his escape on horseback.