The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-01
EASTERN MELANGE.
Our Imports From China Over
top Our Exports.
MOURNING AMONG THE GYPSIEs.
Cholera Raises Havoc Among the
Hogs In Iowa, South Dakota
and Nebraska.

There are in Pennsylvania over 6,000
members Of the Sons OF Veterans.
Virginia Populists are making prepa-
ratlOns for an active campaign this fall.
Twcnty-three Illicit distileries were
raidcd in North Carolina week before
last.
Residents Of Lake George are very
anxious TO have fish hatchery located
there.
An electric railway, several hundred
miles in length, Is to be built in Ten
ncsscc.
The sentiment against bull-fghting is
spreading TO nearly all the States OF
Mexico.
Floods in the Tombigbce and Saxa-
pnlla rivers have injured the Mississippi
cotton crops.
MoOnshiners in Pickens county, Ala,
disguised as whtcaps, murdered wit
ness against them.
Five thousand people in and around
Hope, Ark, were left homeless and des-
titutu by the recent tornado.
A peculiar characteristic Of Washing
toms death rate il the excessive mortal
ity among infants and children.
The last letter written by George
Washington has recently been sold at
auction III Philadelphia for $3.50.
Western roads are paying commissions
OF 80 and 10 each passenger TO get the
immigrant traffic from New York.
Forty-two foreign nations are now
represented at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition by 327 representatives.
The Connecticut Legislature has re-
pealcd the statute requiring drunkards
to tell where they bought their liquor.
The sheriiIs Of Kansas propose to make
Il fight for the commissions on sales OF
cut off by the last Legislature.
Ex-Labor Commissioner Peck OF New
York has fled the country. 1t is said he
feared punishment for burning his Office
records.
In the last two months fully one-half
OF the young hogs in Northern Iowa,
South Dakota and Nebraska have died
of cholera.
Passenger business over the Pennsyl-
vania lines is now SO heavy that the
declines TO furnish cars for pic
mics or excursions.
The merchants tailors of Texas have
formed State organization to fight com
petition OF agents from abroad who take
orders in that State.
The Massachusetts Commission on
Improvement finds that half
the towns of the State cannot afford to
improve their roads.
Suits for $l5O,000 against the various
branches of the Standard Oil Company
have grown out of the big flood and fire
on Oil creek last summer.
Though the entire cotton crop of the
country was under 100000 bales last
year the enterprising New York Cotton
Exchange sold 81, 450, 800 bales.
Senator Sherman has just moved into
his new $l50,000 house. Much of the
Senator's wealth has been made by in
vestment in Washington real estate.
The exports of breadstuffs from the
United States the past nine months
have shown loss of nearly $1,000 900
in comparison with the preceding year.
According to the Albany Law Journal
women are eligible as delegates under
the law providing for the holding of
convention in that State
The Civil Service Commission has been
called upon to decide whether the Post
can remove a clerk in
the classified service for insubordination.
The cable cars on Broadway, New
York, appear to be great success, tax
ing in, it is said, nearly three times as
much money as the horse cars they dis
placed.
There is mourning among the gypsies
because of the death in Illinois of Mrs.
Harrison, who had been chosen to sue
ceed Mrs. Young as Queen of the Ro-
many folk.
Mr.. Jewell, the latest of the Kansas
whose first attempts CHANGED
to be coincident with remarkable rain
falls, finds that he cannot play the trick
Il second time.
Rev. Mr.. McAnney of Tarrytown, N.
Y, thinks 100000 of the people of
this country will die of cholera before
fall if the Worlds Fair should be kept
open Sundays.
Leading capitalists in Eastern cities
have been conferring with a view of
a company to establish electric
lines on large scale in number of cities,
East and West.
The New York Five Points, once re-
garded as the wickedest spot as well as
the most densely populated, has been
and will be converted into a
park.
Among the West Point graduates are
Edward Taylor of Idaho, Frank B. Nc
Kenna of California, William R. Smed-
berg, Jr., of California, and Verting X.
Hart of Wyoming.
We bought OF China last year mer-
chandise, chiefly tea and raw silk, to the
value of nearly 800, 900, 900, while China
bought only 100000 of goods, chiefly