The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-30
EASTERN MELANGE.
Foreign Demand for Silver
Rapidly Increasing.
THE DROUGHT IN KENTUCKY.
Railroad Earnings Still Show Dis.
appointing Results-Mexican
Officials Released.

Alabama convicts will be put TO work
in factories instead Of mines.
Secretary Gresham is preparing a re-
port on the Hawaiian question.
The promise OF immigration TO Texas
il considered 10 be very ilattering.
The army worm has made its appear
ance in portions OF Red River county,
Tex.
Factories are 90 be built near the Ala
bama pententiary 10 be operated by
convicts.
Nashville will probably issue $1,000
OF city scrip to supply the demand for a
local circulation.
The Kcelcyites are TO have a day at
the Worlds Fair, when 70, 900 Of the re-
formed are expected.
An Indiana bank which recently sus-
pended began business on a capital OF 50
and failed for $4,000.
The wheel trust, organized less than q
year ago, has dissolved AZ result OF the
action OF outside companies.
Five hundred Presbyterians have left
Colorado for the Cherokee Strip, where
they propose to found a colony.
An alarming epidemic Of typhoid and
intermittent fever is now prevailing at
the military prison, Leavenworth.
The Comptroller of indianapolis has
gone East TO make one more attempt to
sell 5000, 900 Of city refunding bonds.
Rival electric-light and power compa-
nies at Findlay, o., have consolidated,
and consumers expect increased rates.
No bids having been made for convict
labor in Minnesota, the State has 400
prisoners for whom they have no work.
Rev. Robert Mcintyre of Denver has
requested that his salary be reduced from
$1,000 TO 81 900 on account OF hard times.
Water has been selling at 10 cents a
Cupful and % cents for a canteen along
the Cherokee Strip near Arkansas City.
Employees OF the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis railroad have agreed
to a 10 per cent reduction for ninety
days.
The Pennsylvania Commissioners have
decided to present their State building
to the city of Chicago after the exposi
tion.
The Memphis banks have been notified
from New York that they can have all
the money necessary to move the cotton
crop.
Bank circulation increased $l5, 5,000, 900
in August and 5000, 900 in July, or $20,-
900, 900 since the financial trouble reached
the critical stage.
The recent burning of a Chicago
dwelling house by prairie fire is q sig
nifcant commentary upon the magni-
tude of that expansive city.
The City Judge of Savannah, Ga.
fined himself $40 the other day for being
late, and then remitted the fine on the
ground that " it was his first ofense."
Railroad earnings still show disap-
pointing results. The falllng-of is felt
in all sections OF the country, 80 per cent
of the roads reporting smaller receipts
than year ago.
Mrs. Frank Rheinhardt, a widow of
st. Paul, Mimi, has been notified that
by the death of her brother-in-aw an
estate in India, valued at $25, 900, 900, has
been left to her.
New York city's saloonkeepers have
started q strong movement to abolish
the free lunch. They assert that the
free lunch is needless expense, which
brings in no adequate return.
A movement is on foot in New York
to form trades union including the
young women in sweetstuf shops and
retail stores generally, where the hours
are very long and the girls ill-paid.
The foreign demand for silver is rap
idly increasing. The United States has
$S,000,000 more of silver dur
ing the past eight months than during
a like period in 1892.
Estimates are being prepared at the
Nevy Department for the fabrication of
a sufficient number of modern guns for
the wooden vessels which can be used
for cruisers for five or ten years more.
Ex-senator Thomas w. Palmer has
presented to the city of Detroit for park
purposes a farm of 100 acres, which was
entered by his grandfather in 1920 and
has been owned by the family every
since.
The Mexican officials who were ar
rested for having captured lot of sheep
on the Rio Grande owned by Americans
have been released, and the boundary
limits will be settled by mixed COM
w. J. Davidson has just returned to
o., after building and start
ing in Siam the first electric railroad in
Asia. The motormen and conductors
are natives, who were trained by Mr..
Davidson.
As an inducement to put wide tires on
their wagons New York taxpayers are
offered a yearly rebate of one-half their
assessed road taxes, provided the rebate
shall not exceed the amount of four days.
statute labor.
The weekly weather crop bulletin of
the Kentucky State weather service
states that the present condition of crops
is discouraging, owing to the drought.
No rain of general character has fall
len in Kentucky for nearly three months.