The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-11-18
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Kansas Man Convicted on
Thirty-fve Counts.
APPENDICITIS ON THE INCREASE
An Effective Measure Being Taken
TO Close Gambling and Pool
Rooms in ST. Paul.

Largo beds OF porcelain clay have been
discovered in the Cherokee Strip.
A war of determination against olco-
margarine has begun in Pittsburg.
Opposition TO the electric railroad at
Gettysburg has apparently died out.
Nearly 10000 is paid for pensions to
llrcmcn in New York city every month.
The grand jury Of Baxter county, Ark,
has indicted sixty persons for ." airing.
A. G. Burnham Of Champaign, H.,
has given $4,000 to found hog:'tal in
the town,
New York is developing a bountiful
harvest OF cranks since the Harrison
murder in Chicago.
Crop failures and the opening OF the
Cherokee Strip have almost depopulated
Southwestern Kansas.
Survivors OF the recent floods in Lou
siana propose TO establish o colony Of
900 families in Colorado.
The tobacco crop in the Ilousatonic
Valley, Conn, has an estimated value Of
50 900, 900, the highest on record
The expectation OF coke ha, recently
become feature OF Baltimore's trade
A large supply is dispatched every month
to Mexico.
The United Press has taken up its
abode at Washington, u. c., in a suite
OF ton OF tho handsomcst newspaper
rooms in the country.
A society has been formed in Balti-
more, the avowcd object Of which is to
assist in perpciuating the memory Of
Christopher Columbus.
There is talk of transporting the New
Hampshire State building at the Chicago
Exposition TO Manchester, n. H., and
turning it into a public museum.
1t has been suggested that the many
duplicate volumes in the Congressional
Library he made the nucleus Of free
circulating library for Washington.
c. 0. Beardsley has been convicted on
thrty-fve counts of selling liquor ille-
galIy at El Dorado, Kan. His fine will
be $500 and his jail sentence $50 days.
After careful investigation the New
Orleans Times Democrat states that the
oyster industry OF Louisiana was not Sc
riously injured by the late severe storms.
Encouraging results are said to be OBJ
tained from the exploration of the Pie
draa Ncgras coal mines OF Mexico, which
IL being made for the G. p. Huntington
interests.
Within twenty-four hours after the
Battle Creek disaster on the Grand
Trunk railroad fifty lawyers were on the
ground looking for damage suits on the
percentage plan.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has decided that a man is justified in
stopping a dog fight, and il he gets bit
ten while doing it, the master of the dog
is liable for damages.
The Medical Society of New York has
adopted report calling attention to the
danger of drinking water from the aver
age water tank, as found in railway cars
and other public places.
Most of Wisconsin's fine fish exhibit
at the fair will be taken to foreign lands
to further experiments in propagation.
The Chicago public schools will receive
pOTllOu Vi lHc ulspldN.
In view OF the alarming spread of ,ap-
pendicitis q prominent life insurance
company proposes to insert the ques
tion: do you swallow grape seeds?"
in its application blanks.
Rev. Edward Bagley, pastor of the
Christian Church at Washington, has
been selected to be Chaplain of the
House by Democrats, to take the place
of Rev. S. W. Haddaway, deceased.
The exhibits at Chicago OF grain and
rice from Mexico, Liberia and Trinidad
are to he disiniected, with the object OF
preventing the introduction in this coun-
try of insect pests not native to our soil.
A Toronto capitalist is at Niagara Falls
trying to organize company to build a
bridge across the river for the exclusive
use of trolley cars. He estimates that
the structure could be constructed for
$400, 900,
The Real Estate Congress at the
Worlds Fair developed the fact that the
site of Chicago was marked as q trading
post on La Sales map, made in in 1890,
and that it was then designated "She-
kaw-gu."
Albert Abbink at the st. Louis (Mo.)
city hospital is suffering from q disease
called anchylostomum dodenale the ef-
feet OF which is to render him as white
as marble. Even his tongue, gums and
finger nails are devoid of all color.
w. II. Riley, senior member of the
large dry goods importing house of w.
II. Riley 4 Co. of New York and Paris,
has been arrested in the latter city and
charged with entering imported goods at
the custom-house by means OF false in
voices, by means OF which the govern
ment has been defrauded.
News from Washington intimates that
the naval force of the United States in
Brazilian waters is being reinforced to
counteract the influence of Germany and
England, which is exercised in favor of
Mello and to the disadvantage of the
trade relations between Brazil and this
country. Minister Thompson has re-
ceived instructions to protest against any
foreign Intervention.