The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-12
EASTERN MELANGE.
New York City Disturbed Over
It's Water Supply.
THE CORN CROP OF KANSAS.
Grant Family to Visit the Worlds
Fair In September - Cable
Cars In New York.

Seats are now reserved for women in
the Philadelphia public squares.
The Fourteenth Regiment will build
in Pittsburg an armory for $4,000.
The farm hands Of Southern Kansas
have organized themselves into a union.
An old Gilman says the number Of dry
wells in Western Pennsylvania il amaz-
ing.
Some OF the recently suspended Kan
sas City banks are beginning business
again.
The engines Of the big armored cruiser
Maine are pronounced every way salts
factory.
The Argon Mine Company at Norway,
| Mich, has closed down. II owes $50 900
in wages.
Caterpillars are numerous throughout
| Pennsylvania, and are doing great dam
age to crops.
New York's postofIice received s., $780,
200 for the year ended on June 30, an in
crease OF 1886, 1867 in year.
The new Internal Revenue Collector
| for the Louisville district has already re-
ceiyed 5000 applications for positions.
Thomas Burns, Superintendent Of Po-
| lice at New York, il about 10 retire. He
has accumulated fortune OF $4,000
New York city is much disturbed over
its water supply. The water looks bad,
and it has very disagreeable, marshy
taste.
The resignation OF Hon. William A.
NJ. Marrck, Assistant Attorney General,
has been rendered 10 Acknowledgement
Olncy.
Kansas corn crop promises TO be the
largest in the States history except for
the year 1889, when it was 273,OOO, 900
bushels.
The Oxford Iron and Nail Company at
cciycr About $50 men are thrown out
OF employment
Governor Carr has commissioned forty
physicians as delegates TO represent
North Carolina at the an-American
Medical Congress at Chicago.
Powderly, it is stated, will resign as
General Master Workman at the next
convention of the Knights of Labor. The
order is said TO be in bad way.
The acting Secretary of War has APP
proved the allotmcnts Of the Missouri
River Commission for the improvement
Of the river to the amount OF 500, 900.
The Marquis de Barboles, brother of
the Dude de Neragua, wants slice OF
the fund that it is proposed to raise in
the United States for the benefit of the
Duke.
The Manhattan Bank at New York
has ordered II. A. We'll, a broker, to
withdraw his account, owing to false
statements he has made about the insti-
tuition.
Since January nearly 200 national
banks have closed their doors, against
less than fifty during the same period
last year; five have been United States
repositories.
New Workers have begun to write to
their daily papers asking that the city
be protected from cable cars, complain
ing that the lives of citizens are "in
NNiA9Voh' JSSP"iNs'
Juan Andreon, alias Juan Daodati,
alias Giovanni Cavalero, said to be one
of the most noted safecrackers and all
around thieves in Europe, has been ar
rested in New York.
Congressman who were most inter-
ested in defeating the force bill, it is re-
ported, may aid their Western colleagues
in opposing the unconditional repeal of
the Sherman silver bill.
The people of Ironwood, Mich, after
about 400 had been Frustrated by typhoid
fever and many had died, found that the
standpipe of their water works was part
full of dead fish, crabs, lizards, snakes
and other carrion.
Eleven hundred commercial organiza-
tions throughout the country have been
invited by the New York Board of Trade
and Transportation to send delegates to
q convention which is to meet in Wash
ington on or about September /.
John B. Koeting, the cashier of the
defunct South Side Savings Bank at Mil
waukee, has disappeared, and simulta-
neously the discovery has been made
that the general ledger of the institution
is not among the effects of the bank.
Misses Lizzie and Emma Borden have
voluntarily transferred, it is said, about
$4, 900 worth of property, which belonged
to their murdered stepmother, to Mrs
Whitehead of Fall River and Mrs. Fish
of Hartford, who were half-sisters of
Mrs. Borden.
Mrs. U. s. Grant, who is still at West
Point, will be joined later by her son,
and they will go to the Worlds Fair in
September. In October they will be
Joined in Chicago by Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris, her daughter, who is coming
over to see the fair.
In Shelby county, Tenn, the Criminal
Court has suspended the Sheriff, and the
grand jury has been called upon to in
vestigate the lynching of the negro
Walker, who was taken from Jail and
hanged by q mob. Several men sus-
pected of completely in the lynching
have been arrested.