The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-15
Revenue Returns of New South
Wales for May.
A VERY OBJECTIONABLE CRANK.
The AccOmpliCe of the Notorious
Murderer Eyraud Receiving
Offers of Marriage.

Ihe Thames river IL at the lowest
ever known.
Cholera has appeared among the pill
grims at Jeddah.
The present British Parliament has
among its members sixteen brewers.
English holders Of Argentine bonds
have accepted the Rothschilds' compro-
mise.
A German physician has revived the
apple treatment for the cure Of in
ebriates.
A postal reform under the manage
ment Of Europeans is 10 be inaugurated
in India.
Consul-General Collins at London is
alert in trying to prevent the importa-
ton OF cholera.
The scarlet fever epidemic Of last
winter in London has revived with in
creased virulence.
The town Of Schneidmehul, Posen,
Germany, is slowly sinking into the
workings OF colliery.
The London City Council want to
spend $3,750,000 on new buildings for
their official occupancy.
The French government will ask the
| Deputies for a loan of 81 ,000,0 900 to help
drought-stricken farmers.
The Berlin correspondents OF the
London News and London Standard say
the army bill will surely be passed.
Germany is looking for Russia to open
a commercial war against her, owing to
the failure recently OF proposed COM
mercial treaty.
Herr Liebknecht, the Social Demo-
cratic leader Of Germany, favors mi
litia system in place Of the present
standing army.
A number of German army officers
are to visit the United States for the
purpose of studying the immense sys-
tenn OF railways.
French paupers are provided for by
the funds arising from 10 per cent tax
on theater tickets. The tax averages
SIC, 0,500000 year.
Three lots on the corner of Oxford
street and Oxford circus, London, brought
at auction the other day price equal to
$1l5 square foot.
The Car has officially thanked the
Commissioners who negotiated the
extradition treaty between Russia and
the United States.
The Queen has decided that there
shall be ten bridesmaids at the royal
wedding, and that they shall all be her
own grandchildren.
A new cruiser to be called Minerva
and to cost 100000 is to be built for
the British navy, and its construction
will be begun at once.
The attention of the British House of
Lords has been directed to the increas-
ing danger of navigation in the Red Sea,
owing to the absence of lights.
On many of the railways in Germany
the practice of starting locomotive fires
with gas instead of wood has been
adopted, and proves economical.
H. L. Williams, United States In
spector of Emigrants at Liverpool, is
being denounced in the local press for
the undue severity of his methods.
The London Times says there are
fresh rumors of trade failures in Aus
tralasia and the banks there do not
want to send gold back to England.
Mrs. Langtry and the Duchess OF
Montrose have joined John Strange
Winters No Crinoline League. The
league now numbers II 900 members.
Sixty-thousand Italian ladies, led by
the flower of the aristocracy of Rome, are
petitioning the Chamber against divorce,
which they contend is an Offset against
religion.
Endeavors are being made to realize
the contemplated Scandinavian exhibi-
ton, which has been discussed good
deal the last year or two, in Stockholm
in the year 1896.
Only four prominent Australian banks
are solvent at the present time, and in
the failure of the fourteen or more
banks in that country England lost
about $4,000 900.
There have been set on foot in Glas-
gov an association for the protection ol
uninsured depositors in Australian
banks, and one for the protection Of
insured depositors.
The revenue returns of New South
Wales for May show decrease of G120,.
900 as compared with May, 1892. Gus.
toms returns for May fell off e50,000
and railway receips $50, 900.
An experimental boring made by the
Prussian government in the Rybnib
district of Prussian Silesia has beer
carried to the depth of mile and 6
quarter, and is still progressing.
The plague of locusts in Algeria is sc
phenomenal that moving train wa;
recently delayed for two hours, the
engine being powerless to drag the car.
riages through the bed of insects.
The Chinese government appears tc
be awakening to the fact that the rapiC
increase in the sale OF Indian teas il
Europe may be due in part to causes fol
t which the Chinese growers are respon
isible.