The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-06-17
EASTERN MELANGE.
Bank Failures in the West
Brighten DepOsitOrS.
MR.. BUSHYHEAD STRICTLY IN IT.
MOhammedans to be COlOniZed In
Florida and Georgia by an
American Convert.

Erie, Pa, Ia to have Masonic Tenn
pie. 1t will cost 100000.
The total registration OF Chinese un-
der the Gcary law is less than 1900.
Kansas Popuists have started prof
ect to build railway by public subscrip-
ton.
Several cases of smallpox have been
found in New York tenement on First
street.
Kansas milers, fearful Of shortage
in the wheat crop, are engaging for fu-
ture delivery.
Paderewski's total receipts for his
aiXiy-iour concerts in the United States
amounted to $4,000.
EuIaia admires American rush, +" and
wonders at the newspapers, whose pict-
urcs please her greatly.
The Farmers and Mechanics Lumber
Company and the Loomis Coal Company
at st. Louis have failed.
Kentucky has Parliament which
won't adjourn. 1t has been in session
for eight months or more.
The speed OF the cruiser New York ac-
cording to the final computations was
twcnty-one knots an hour.
The Missouri Railroad Commissioners
have decided that a single horse must be
accepted as freight, though unaccompa-
MED by a person.
Philadelphia has gas plant of its own,
and last year it netted a revenue OF over
| II 600, 600 in addition TO the free use Of
what was needed for public purposes.
New York expects less blockade and
quicker transit on Broadway because Of
running on that congested thoroughfare.
1t is now authoritatively stated that
Carlyle W. Harris, the executed wife
| poisoner, came near cheating justice on
the eve OF of his execution by taking
poison.
The Michigan Legislature has legalized
the use OF the Myers voting machine in
towns, villages and cities. The vote in
the Senate stood 10 to 4; in the House
~ to 3.
Louisville has offered 81 900, 900 for the
removal OF the State capital of Kentucky
from Frankfort to that city. The Legis-
lature, which is now in session, will set
tie the question.
When the dispensary law goes into ef-
feet in South Carolina on July the State
will realize 81 profit on every gallon of
liquor sold, and is expected to clear $780,
900 the first year.
A Detroit doctor, who undertook to
pull dislocated ankle into place, dislo-
Gated the knee joint of his patient. The
latter has entered suit against the doctor
for $4,000 damages.
1t is the opinion of the New York
World that the revenue bill of the next
Congress will contain clause imposing
tax upon incomes over a certain
amount-say over $4,000.
In Ohio after August | all wholesale
dealers in cigarettes must pay $500 and
and all retailers 500 for license fees, and
the prospect is that very few of either
will take out the required license.
The first vessel with a green flag flying
at her top that ever entered Boston har-
Dor has just arrived at that port She
is the four-masted bark Cave Hill, built
in Belfast, Ireland. Her tonnage is
2,l57.
BY II ruling of the United States Cir
cult Court OF Appeals at st. Paul, Mimi,
it was held that a foreign subject who is
qualified to become citizen of the United
States under the Revised Statutes does
not become such by filing declaration
OF intention to do so. He must comply
with all the provisions of the Federal
statutes.
One of the Florida phosphate compa-
nies is shipping 800 tons week. There
are now dozen companies thus engaged,
one OF which is formed by French capi-
talists, who ship phosphate to France.
Europe now annually consumes rs 900
tons of Florida phosphates. The capital
invested in these Florida companies is
$36 $50, 900.
The Salvation Army in New York ex-
poets to make remarkable display in
that city next fall, when General Booth
will visit this country. Commander
Ballington Booth and his wife will have
charge, and it is their purpose to bring
to New York at least 100 900 members of
the army, and that every State and every
province in Canada will be represented.
Mrs. Frank G. Button, alias Mrs.
Anna f. Wetmore, alias half a dozen
other names, who was arrested in Pitts
burg recently at the instance of her
newest father-in-law, Jacob Button, ap-
pears to be the most remarkable adven-
turess that has ever operated in the
United States. Her scheme was similar
to that of Eva Mann, who wrecked and
finally drove to suicide Robert Ray
Hamilton.
Alexander Russell Webb, the United
States Consul, who four years ago en-
braced the religion of Mohammed, and
who represents the Mohammedans in
the United States, has been securing
land in Florida and Georgia for the pur-
pose of establishing colonies of the faith
full in this country. He believes that
within five years there will be about
5000 active, able-bodied Musselmans
settled in the first colony.