The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-23
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Gold Medal Found in the
Stomach Of u Steer.
BIG PEACH CROP.
Grant Locomotive Works at Chicago
About To Resume Business
HOke Smiths Broom.

Philadelphia has $4,000 more boys
than girls.
Chcago's stock OF sugar IL low, and
wholesalers cannot I'LL orders.
There is noticeable increase in de-
posits OF the Cincinnati banks.
Mayor Carter Harrison Of Chicago has
been reducing his tenants rents.
The movement TO provide pension
for Mrs. Jefferson Davis IL 10 be revived.
The government has ordered by mail
the dissolution Of the Behring Sea fleet.
genuine case Of leprosy has been
found in the penitentiary at Laramie,
Wyo.
About 200, 900 old pension claims are
sidctrackcd, later claims taking the prec-
cdcnt.
Congressman O'Neil predicts that coal
will be placed on the free list in the re-
vision.
The Texas lines have agreed upon uni
form rules in the handling Of cotton
products.
Grasshoppers have struck the section
Of Illinois about Litchfeld, and are do
ing great damage.
The annual eclipse Of the sun in Octo-
ber will be visible over the Western half
OF North America.
The fruit crop OF Oklahoma this year
is reported to exceed the production Of
the last four years.
Kansas has issued an appeal for seed
wheat or money to buy it for farmers in
the western part Of the State.
The total receipts Of gold in Chicago
direct from Europe are estimated TO be
slightly in excess OF $S,000,00
Chicago is convinced that it needs +"
a new 100000 Federal building. New
York "needs" new postoffice.
Angered citizens on the Rio Grande
border, Texas, have been rounding up
cattle-thieves. Fifty were caught.
The Kansas Board of Health is ar
ranging for thorough investigation of
the sanitary condition of the State.
The big storm nearly extermnated the
grasshoppers which have been making
such ravages on crops and vegetables in
Western New York.
The Louisville and Nashville troubles
have been temporarily healed. The men
work at reduction of 10 per cent in
wages until December,
President Palmer of the Worlds Fair
directory says this is no time for sub
scriptions for the Duke of Veragua, and
nothing has been done to help him.
1t is estimated that the total damage
to the oyster beds of New Haven Harbor
and Long Island Sound, caused by the
recent storm, amounts to $2,000,00O
1t is reported that newspaper is to
be established in Lewiston, Me-, to ad-
vocate Canadian independence. The
town is full of French Canadian factory
hands.
The remarkable claim is made by the
Jessup (Ga.) Sentinel that there has not
been death in that town since last Sep
tember. The town has population Of
over 900,
During the six weeks ending August
q over 1000, 600 bushels of wheat were
exported to Europe. In the same time
last year less than 20,000,000 bushels
were exported.
The demand for currency has brought
out the old fractional scrip, government
and other, issued during the war, which
have for years been in collections or have
been forgotten.
The Eastern and Western coal sales
agents at New York have decided that
the September output shall be 10000
tons instead of 2,750,000 tons as previ-
ously reported.
Chicago day at the Worlds Fair will
be October 8, the anniversary of the great
fire of 1871. Flags, banners, streamers
and bunting will be displayed every
where in the city.
The total valuation of Illinois property
for taxation purposes is only $761 ,230, ,6Sl,
counting in Chicago. Watches are val
ued at an average of $2.02, while all the
diamonds and jewelry in the State are
rated at $57 ,347.
The Grant Locomotive Works at Chi
cago are about to resume business, and
will employ 200 men. The works have
contract to build tifty-tive locomotives
lOI bllC DulllllSIOh lOuu dV ~ SOoU VA
ceeding 100000.
A gold medal was found in the stom-
ach of Texas steer slaughtered at Chi
cago last week. The medal is in the
shape of Maltese cross, and bears the
inscription, Awarded to Miss Ida Work,
Ursuline Academy, Dallas, Tex" Ar
mour & Co. have written to the convent
people, stating the medal is subject to
their order.
A party of union and non-union paint
ers, while discussing the merits of theiI
position in the labor world at Chicago,
became angry and began fighting. The
police were called, and the combatants
ran. One of the men, Emil Schultz, was
followed by crowd shouting, "Stop
thief" and the farther he ran the greater
became the crowd which followed. He
was cornered, and the crowd pelted him
with stones. He fired at the mob sew
eral times, and hit woman half block
off. A police officer finally reached him
J and knocked him down.