The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-26
Trouble Brewing in Railroad
Circles in Nebraska.
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT IN FLORIDA
Suspended Pensioners Given More
Tine IN Which to Make Proof
Of Their Rights.

The wheat crop Of Illinois il the small
est ever known.
Chicagos unemployed number more
than ever before.
The troops will soon be removed from
| the East Tennessee coal mines.
The biggest gas well in America was
struck near Pttsburg last week.
II is paid all the members Of the Cab
met will keep house this winter.
The Mormon Tabernacle choir will 20
East to sing at the Worlds Fair.
Work will be begun on new Federal
building at Burlington, Ia, at once.
Hot weather has given East Tennessee
the best cotton crop in twenty years.
The Board Of Trade Of New Orleans il
working 10 secure better mail service.
There was an increase OF over $l7 ,0O0,-
900 in the amount Of currency during
July.
A plague Of grasshoppers is sweeping
down on the farmers in the Tennessee
Valley.
Aluminium car tickets are In use on a
Michigan-strect railway, and are quite
popular.
The United States Watch Company
Of WaItham has resumed work, but cut
down pay.
Labor day in ST. Louis, it is predicted, q,
will furnish the greatest procession ever
seen there.
More hard coal has been mined 80 far
this year than ever before in a cOrre-
spending period.
Girls may legally smoke cigarettes on
the streets. SO reads the decision Of Il
Louisville lKy.) court.
West Virginia has suffered from a
long-continucd drought, but recent vi
olont storm has ended it.
In the Brooklyn elevated railroad sys-
TEN steam as Il motive power is 10 be
superseded by electricity.
Secretary Smith says the Cherokee
Strip will probably he thrown open TO
settlement on September |.
New York is having no end of trouble
with its cable railroad on Broadway. 1t
breaks down every day or two.
Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio an
nounces that under no circumstances
will he be candidate this fall.
Returns from recent school elections
in Kansas show that women are fond Of
exercising the right OF suffrage.
Advices from Labrador report the cod
fishing excellent and salmon fishing fair
There are no reports OF distress.
The property in the county OF New
York which was exempt from taxation
last year amounted to 1904, 900 900.
A Baltimore asphalt company has dis
charged 900 hands because the banks
would not discount its city warrants.
The new postmaster at Dundee, Mich,
among his other qualifications has a
mustache 32s4 inches from tip to tip.
There is trouble brewing in railroad
circles of Nebraska over the injunction
proceedings in the maximum freight law.
A company has applied for incorpora-
tion which proposes to construct ship
canal from Lake st. Clair to Lake Erie.
The Australian ballot was used for the
first time in Florida recently at Jackson
Vile, and gave unqualified satisfaction.
New England farmers are reported to
be unable to harvest crops that are re-
markably fine because OF insufficient
help.
The railroads centering in Boston suf-
fered depreciation of more than $lO,-
SOC, 600 in stock valuation during the
month Of July.
There will be no more deaths from
"heart failure in Philadelphia, for the
Board of Health has declared that there
is no such disease.
A colored peoples insurance company,
which had no existence, has been VIC
timizing the colored people in New Jer-
sey out of large sums.
Taunton, Mass, some years ago decided
site to the United States for a Federal
building and, having lost patience wait
ing for the latter, wants the land back
again.
1t is rumored in New York that Will
lam B. Hornblower will be selected to
fill the vacancy on the United States
Supreme Bench caused by the death OF
Judge Blatchford.
A plot of ground, 75xl0O feet, on the
corner OF Fifth avenue and Eighty-tirst
street in New York has been sold to Au-
gust Belmont for $2S5, 900, or at the rate
of $3S a square foot.
In Milwaukee an old couple took fright
and drew their savings-a few thousand
dollars-from the bank. Since then one
of them has sat up all of every night
guarding the money.
/ Judge Lochren, Pension Commissioner,
has extended until October 10 the period
within which pensioners whose pensions
have been suspended may make proof OF
their right to receive them.
A great scheme of changing many Of
the important surface railroads in the
section of New York city above Twenty
third street into roads operated by ca
bles instead of by horses is agitated.
Wolves and coyotes are increasing in
numbers on the stock ranges in South
ern Alberta as in the Dakotas and other
Northwestern States, and are causing
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