The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-06-24
EASTERN MELANGE.
Total immigration During Ten
Month Ended April 30.
SOUTHERN PACIFICS REPORT.
Reduction Of Freight Rates From
New Orleans to Pacific Coast
Points Does Good.

The church taxation bill was defeated
in the Michigan House by vote OF ~
30 80.
The Texas Central is looking over
ground for its proposed extension IN
Mexico.
Philadelphia wants new mint build
ing. The money Is appropriated Tor
new site.
Governor Flower OF New York is worth
several million dollars, and he is taxed
for 10000.
Thousands OF acres Of land have been
laid waste in Southern Arkansas by the
recent floods.
Joseph Pulitzer Of the World has given
800, 900 10 the building fund Of the CO.
lumbia College.
The Railroad Tax Assessors Of Kansas
are being urged by popular clamor 10 in
crease the taxes.
Dunn, chief OF the weather bureau,
promises one Of the warmest summers
We have ever experienced.
The Bell Telephone Company has se-
cured an injunction against the Mckees-
port Company at Pittsburg.
A company has been chartered in
Kansas to print and circulate campaign
matter for the Peoples party.
Kansas crops are improved. Wheat is
giving better promise, and the corn acre
,,.,l1 In la r,,ar han IgtIal
Seventy furniture factories at Cincin-
natl have clos ed. This is the answer to
the demands OF the workmcn for nine
hours and other concessions.
Tammany is in clover. The Governor
OF New York did not veto the bill that
gives Tammany $4,000, 900 dock i'm
prOvCmcnts.
Since Jay Gould's death the "Gould
stocks" heve suffered a shrinkage ol
more than {5O,000,000, and one-half oI
this falls upon his estate.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, Saturday referred tc
| Dr. Briggs as modern prophet, fit tc
rank with the prophets OF the Bible.
Michigan health officers are accused
! by Canadian papers OF " working Do
minion railways under threats OF inter
fcring with their traffic arrangements.
Hundreds Of English sparrows have
/ built their nests in the Worlds Fail
| buildings. and before the show close:
they will have increased to thousands.
Representative w. l.. Wilson of Wes
Virginia, who is Cleveland's choice To-
Chairman of the Congressional Way
and Means Committee, favors an income
tax.
The Kansas millers are buying wheat
outside of the State for July and Sep
tcmbcr delivery for fear that the hom'
crop will not meet their grinding require
ments.
Late reports from South Dakota AM
Nebraska state that cholera has wipet
out whole herds of hogs, and that tn
scarcity will be greater than it was
year ago.
The st. Luke's Hospital property oil
Fifth avenue, New York, has been solC
for 100000 in cash to an unknown
millionaire; one report says to Coils /
Huntington.
A call from some of the prominent la
dies of Boston for fund to provid
rocking chairs for aged women unable t
buy them was responded to by contribu
tions amounting to over $4OO.
General Boynton in a letter in tn
Washington Post says the demand of tn
old soldiers is that the pension roll sha
he made a roll of honor and a weedin
out of the undeserving is necessary.
The total immigration to the Unite
States during the ten months ende
April 80, 1898, was 1884, ,S25, decline c
1lQ, 1873 from the immigration of the col
responding ten months OF the previou
year.
The annual report of the Southern Ps
cifc Company (the entire system) fc
, the year ending December 3, 1892, show
net earnings of $l7, COS, ,996, against $40
2S6, ,2O4 in 1892, being decrease OF 81
6O2, ,2O3.
1t is reported in Washington that A
r torney-G General Olney and Assistant Se'
l retary OF State Quincy will resign at a
e early date, and that there is chance fC
Pacific Coast man getting one OF tn
; positions.
! The Eastern railroads find it difficu
l to maintain rates during the World
E Fair. The latest scheme for gettir
around the agreed schedule is reporte
from Cincinnati, where one railroad di
tributed circulars offering trip to IL
: fair and return and weeks board (,
S16.
n DR.. Briggs, who was convicted OF he
+ esv bv the last General Assembly, sa,
p it is high time that all broad-mindt
:. men should organize and work togeth
y ior their own safety as well as for tt
+ honor of Presbyterianism. He calls upt
$ the Presbyterians to resist the encroac
5 ments upon their rights by the Gener
g Assembly.
: The reduction of freight rates fro
: New Orleans to the Pacific Coast pom
l. has given an impetus to the rice trad
e Louisiana merchants being able to col
e pete in prices with China and Japan al
IS furnish far superior article. Rou|
is rice is being utilized for flour purpos
1t at home, and is cheaper and more n
tritive than oats.