The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-02
EASTERN MELANGE.
The Kansas Coal Miners Strike
Nearing an End.
ACT OF A RELIGIOUS LUNATIC
A Nebraska County Treasurer Skips
With the Swag-DrOught In
New York State.

Scyenteen-year locusts have put in an
appearance in Missouri.
An irrigation canal eighty-six miles
long is 10 be dug in Colorado.
General Fitz John Porter has become
cashier Of New York's postofIice.
General Booth of the Salvation Army
is coming TO this country in October.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and 81. Paul
proposes to reduce wages 10 per cent.
The late Thomas j. Morse OF st. Louis
carried 100000 insurance on his life.
The Health Officer of Florida declares
there IL no yellow fever at Pensacola.
Moberly, Mo, has two banks which
are said TO actually turn away depositors.
At Lancaster, Pa, recently hundreds
Of acres OF tobacco were ruined by hail.
The iron and steel mills in Pennsyl-
yania that were shut down are starting
up.
The New York Tribune declares that
racing is going downward in public esti-
nation.
Nearly $4,000 damage was done at
Lynn, Mass, by floods following re-
cent storm.
Representatives OF Egypt are studying
Southern methods Of cotton raising near
Atlanta, Ga.
The New York Recorder (Rep.) advo-
Gates the free coinage Of silver at rea-
sonable ratio.
Il. p. Hutchinson, or "Old Hutch, I"
has sold his membership on the Chicago
Board of Trade.
Two Of the 5,O0O-horse- power turbine
wheels for the great Niagara power plant
are nearly done.
The Rock Island switchmen threaten
TO strike If an attempt is made TO re-
duce their wages.
Mining experts are actively at work
inspecting the gold region Of the Rocky
Mountain States.
A fine quality OF coal in seeming in
exhaustibIe quantity has been found in
Kerr county, Tex.
The New York banks will soon in
crease their circulation TO the extent OF
$S,OOO,O 600 or $l0,0OO,OO0.
Philadelphia Italians have been try
ing to wreck cable cars, because their
children were killed by them.
A company has been formed to intro
duce the sliding railway system exhib-
tied at Chicago into this country.
A movement il in progress to intro
duce improved machinery in the gold
districts of Alabama and Georgia.
One thousand saloons have suspended
business in Chicago this month. They
could not stand $500 year license.
Galveston is experiencing an excess Of
rainfall and New Orleans drought. A
year ago these conditions were reversed.
The Kansas coal miners strike is near
ing an end. The strikers are trying to
return to work on the best terms obtain
able.
There is great apprehension at Omaha
lest the foundation of the new Federal
building is not on ground stable enough
to support it.
A Chicago statistician figures that
wheat at the price it is now selling-$l9
ton-is only S6 a ton more than timo-
thy hay is bringing.
The employees of the bureau of en-
craving and printing at Washington
have been ordered to work till o'clock
every working day until further notice.
At Philadelphia Rachel Boyle, % years
Of age, during period of religious ex-
citement cut off u portion of her lips,
and then broiled it as an offering to God.
The State officers of Kansas have de-
Cided to send out commissioner to So
licit seed wheat for farmers of that State,
taking notes from the farmers in pay
ment.
The women of Hiawatha, Kan, are
raising funds to send all of the drunk
ards OF that town to the Kelley cure,
and they expect to make money by the
operation.
The American Bankers Association
Convention, announced to be held in
Chicago September 6 and 7, will not
take place because Of the present finan-
cial situation.
Barrett Scott, Holt county (Neb.)
Treasurer, has disappeared, and an in
NeSElRdJlOn Vi his dCCOuHlS buOWs bllOTG-
age OF about 100000. 1t is thought that
Scott has gone to Mexico.
Topolobampo colonists have reached
Kansas, and have asked Congressman
Broderick to investigate the methods
pursued by the managers of the colony.
The refugees say it is a swindle.
Only Massachusetts, Virginia, Ohio,
Wisconsin and Iowa will elect Governors
this fall. Only three Legislatures to be
chosen--in Virginia, Kentucky and
Iowa-will elect United States Senators.
Local bankers at Mobile, Ala, ridicule
Bradstreet's report of probable crisis
in the cotton region, owing TO want of
currency. When the time comes they
say all the necessary funds will be forth
coming.
Chicago has been so overrun with car
penters that the unions of that city
have appealed to sister unions through
out the country for financial aid to en-
able them to pay the fares of some of
the unemployed TO othsr cities.