The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-05-13
EASTERN MELANGE.
Strike ON the Union Pacific
Satisfactorily Settled.
Pennsylvania Iron Trade Expects
Much Trouble This Year In
Strikes-C. w. Harris.

Albany il 10 have an electric trunk
line.
Kansas is filling up this spring with
Germans.
"Gum-chewers' lockjaw" has made
its appearance.
The new directory Of st. Louis con-
tains l9l ,523 names.
A $2,00O,O0O postofIice IL to adorn the
city Of Buffalo, n. Y.
Boston il planning TO build an elevated
railroad 10 cost S25 100000.
Nut culture is attracting attention
on the Delaware peninsula.
George Gould says the Union Paciic's
iloating debt is only S4,000,OO0.
The New York Legislature has dried
up the pool rooms in that State.
Missouri crop prospects are most dis
couraging, owing TO heavy losses.
II il said the railroads will ignore the
Nebraska maximum freight rate law.
Eastern capitalists are said to be try
ing to buy the st. Louis street railroads.
The water il very low in the South
Pass ut the mouth Of the Mississippi
river
There are seventy-sevcn branches of
the Theosophcal Society in the United
States.
The strike on the Union Pacific is at
an end. The terms Of settlement have
not been made public.
PittsbWg capital, controlling 10000
acres of gas territory, will build great
iron mills at Munice, Ind.
Governor Flower of New York will
commute the sentence of Carlyle w.
Harris, the wife murderer.
The 1927 electric-light lamps of
Chicago are maintained at the expense
to that city OF $lO2 each per year.
Louisville will offer 100000 in
bonds and building site, if the State
will move its capitol from Frankfort.
The Populist women of Kansas have
begun organizing women suferage clubs.
The first was organized at Topeka last
week.
The Pennsylvania iron trade expects
much trouble during this year in strikes.
Manufacturers will attempt to reduce
wages.
General Harrison has been invited to
make the chief speech at the unveiling
of the new soldiers monument at Ath-
ems, o.
Cargocs OF horse meat, it is said, are
being shipped from New York to Bel
gium rs food for the poor people OF that
country.
The Goodland Rain-making Company
is said TO be contracting with farmers in
Western Kansas counties at an average
OF 81 900 per county.
\ Kansas woman, who held q man up
at revolver point and went through
his pockets, has been sent to the peni-
tentary for two years.
Governor Nelson of Minnesota has
signed the anti-scalper bill, which be-
comes law April Is next. Scalpers
say they will contest it.
According to a recent decision it is an
oilense against the laws of the United
States to send dunning or scurrilous
on Il postal card.
Electric roads in Ohio are so numer-
GUS that there is prospect OF SO many
being jammed together as to form
continuous line across the State.
AS Il result of the immense crops of
grain harvested the last two seasons in
South Dakota, that State is this spring
having the heaviest immigration in ten
years.
The first grain fleet of the season has
cleared from Chicago with 100000
bushels. Notwithstanding the severe
winter, navigation has opened earlier
than usual.
The wonderful influence of the sun on
earth is shown by the fact that during
less than three minutes while the last
eclipse was total the temperature fell
three degrees.
The receipts from water rates in Chi
cago during the last fiscal year aggre-
gated y, 1852, and the operating ex-
penses were only 81, ,170,0 ,09S. This leaves
II profit of 81 ,399,S54.
Steel caskets for the bodies of those
who die suddenly on shipboard are
being carried on many of the transatlan-
tic liners. The remains are placed in
them and hermetically sealed.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has had occasion to declare itself on the
question whether singular or plural pro-
nouns ought to be used in speaking of
the United States. The Court sustains
the constitutional form, "The United
States are."
John Railey, a Tennessee farmer in
hard luck, has just been made happy by
the receipt of $685. from Frank X. Wall
dram of Reading, Pa, being in full pay
ment with 6 per cent interest for horse
which Walldran, then a soldier, appro-
priated from Railey's stable in 1864.
In the effort to keep New York's
streets clean four hundred red barrels
have been placed at the corners of Union
Square for passers by to throw their
banana skins and papers into. If the
experiment prove useful, barrels will be
placed at street corners all over the
city.