The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-12-02
EASTERN MELANGE.
Big Chunks of Gold Quartz
Found in Colorado.
TERRIBLE DROUTH IN GEORGIA.
Colorado Miners Decline TO Accept
Work at a Greatly Reduced
Rate--The Anarchists.

The associated banks OF New York
have 800, 10000 in gold.
A short cotton crop and dry weather
are reported from Texas.
The Republicans Of st. Louis carried
! the School Board election.
Baltimore trolley cars must be pro-
vidcd with ifc.saving fender.
Over 800 lynchings have taken place
in the South during the present year.
Big chunks Of quartz full Of gold have
been struck on a claim at Cripple Creek,
Col.
Terrible drought has dried up wells
and springs in Georgia's mountain dis
| trlCta
Philadelphia has got the liberty bell
back from Chicago, and business has
been resumed
A movement has been started to es-
tablish q steamship line between Gal
weston and Tampico.
Failure to answer a New York Jury
notice or explain his delinquenccs may
cost Carl Schurz 400.
The Chicago Presbytery has deposed
and suspended Rev. Tothcroh from the
ministry Of the church.
The Louisiana taxpayers are requested
TO pay their taxes at once and save the
public schools from closing.
There is n general movement through
ont the country toward higher insurance
rates on farm property risks.
The first application Of woman TO be
a notary public in New Hampshire has
been refused by the Governor.
Many Indiana pensioners learn they
have been dropped from the list on pre-
senting their vouchers at indianapolis.
1t is said that the attorneys for Prem
dcrgast, the assassin OF Mayor Harrison,
will try for change OF venue from Chi
Cago.
Four hundred persons have been ar
rested in West Virginia within ten DAYS
for moonshng and illicit retailing of
whisky.
\ Baltimore and Ohio train recently
made the run from Akron to Chicago, a
distance OF 352 miles, in eight hours and
twenty minutes.
The Georgia House of Delegates has
voted down II proposition to increase the
pay OF the Judges OF the Superior Court
from - 900 to $500.
From January 10 October OF this year
rs, 434 aliens arrived rs cabin passengers
IN this country, making an increase OF
30 746 over last years arrivals.
A Denver dispatch says that "thc
union miners are standing out lor their
old wages and refuse to accept an offer
Of $2 Is for eight hours work"
The United States District Court fined
tho 81. Louis and Mississippi River
Packet Company 81 900 for carrying gas
olne on passenger steamboat.
The great viaduct Of the Wilkesbarre
and Eastern railroad over Panther creek
has been completed. 1t is more than
| 800 feet long and 1853 feet high.
They lynched white man down in
Virginia the other day for assaulting a
negro girl. The color line is fast giving
way before one with Il moose in the end
of it.
Over $4,000 Russian Jews have landed
at the port Of New York in the ten
months of this year according to the Of
fetal report of the Commissioner of I'm
migration.
Bridgeport's Comm coffee house, es-
tablished rs result OF temperance agi-
taton, earned 25 per cent dividend its
first year, In that time $780, 900 meals
have been furnished.
The Javancse people, who formed such
q center Of interest in the Worlds Fair,
have departed for their native land and
each man takes with him trunk, n
sewing machine and a gun.
Colorado declared for female suffrage
by majority OF about 1000. The min
ers are said to have voted for it to en-
courage immigration of strong minded
women from New England.
A railroad is to be built to the summit
Of Whteiace Mountain in the Adlron-
dacks, the height of which is 5000 feet.
The road will be thirteen miles long, and
will begin work next spring.
At the children's building in the
Worlds Fair, where babies were cared
for and checks given to their parents to
insure safe redelivery, only one baby out
OF 10000 remained uncalled for.
But very little money is being loaned
in Kansas, and farmers are finding it
hard to secure renewals OF their loans,
which are becoming due. The cause as
signed by the loan companies is the fear
of hostile Populist legislation.
Louis +. Menage, whose extradition
has been asked from Guatemala, was
President of the Northwestern Guaran-
tee Loan Company of Minneapolis,
Mimi, which failed last May. Menage
made away with at least $30000O0 be-
longing to the concern and its clients.
The bodies OF Alexander McClelland
and his son Oscar, who disappeared from
Centrala, ILL.,, in 1881. have been dis
covered in q pond, where they were
buried and staked down. A brother of
the deceased senior McCleland is sus-
pected OF committing the crimes. The
discovery has created great excitement
at Centralia.