The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-02-11
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Boston Photographers Will Have
to Respect the Sabbath.
STAMBOULS RECORD IS REJECTED.
Two New Brands Of Cholera Bacllll Dis.
COyered-An Autograph Letter
Of Columbus.

The wheat crop Of Texas is expected
to be a large one.
There is not Populist in the Mis-
souri, Legislature.
The Ice on the Mississippi river at st..
Louis is foot thick.
Ice in the Chesapeake has stopped the
Baltimore Bay line steamers.
Diphtheria has begun to diminish
again by trile in Philadelphia.
Wolves are reported to be destroying
lambs and pigs in some parts Of Louis.-
ana.
Eighty.six persons were killed on rail.
roads in Kansas last year, and 5l5 per
sons were injured.
Doctors have discovered two new
brands OF cholera bacilli to spring on the
public next summer
Secretary Elkins has approved plans
Tor two bridges across the East river,
from New York TO Brooklyn.
David Dudley Field thinks Brooklyn
should be annexed to New York and the
consolidated city called Manhattan.
The Edison Electric Company has been
ordered hy the court 10 sell its lamps to
the Sunbeam lncandescent Company.
An old gold miner living at Atlanta,
Ga, says that the best gold fields in
America to-day are in North Carolina.
Published figures show that the num-
ber OF persons killed at grade crossings
in the city OF Chicago last year was 1876
A bill before the Illinois Legislature
provides that in Chicago' all vehicles
used to transport prisoners shall be COW
cred.
New York and Boston capitalists have
arranged to start big spirita distillery
at Louisville, KY, in opposition to the
trust.
A total Of nearly $0,00O,O 900 has been
appropriated by the nations OF the world
and the various States for the Worlds
Fair exhibits.
There are about forty petitions before
the Connecticut Legislature to build
electric street railways and electric in
terurban lines.
The Mexican government has abolished
the payment OF subsidies to the press,
and three OF the principal daily news
papers OF Mexico are about to suspend
Baroness Blanc, who has created a
sensation in New York by her matri
monial escapades and stage ambitions,
has pleaded bankruptcy to her creditors.
A Minnesota legislator proposes to
raise fund for the State University and
general school fund by an annual tax OF
tax OF l.2 mills on all property in the
State.
Mr.. Parker OF Boston, Chairman OF the
Judiciary Committee, will introduce
bill into the Massachusetts Legislature
prohibiting the issuing of free passes by
railroads.
Satolli is gradually bringing within
the folds of the Catholic Church those
who have heretofore taken an independ-
ent stand and defed the local church
authorities.
Boston photographers are forbidden
to work on Sunday any more. The city
has 50 ordered. and the Chief OF Police
has notified the photographers that he
will enforce the order.
John Hutchinson, Collector of Inter
nal Revenue, has just issued the first cer-
tticate in the Hartford Comm district
to Chinaman under the Chinese exclu-
sion act OF May j., 1892.
The Duke of Alba OF Spain has notified
the Secretary of State that he will send
to the Worlds Fair an autograph letter
of Christopher Columbus, as we'll as
other valuable documents.
The sundry civil bill as recently
agreed upon by the House Appropria-
tions COMMITTEES carries $3.50, 900 for the
new Philadelphia mint and $5O0,000 tor
theimprovement of Philadelphia harbor.
The House Committee on Foreign At
fairs has reported adversely the bill to
give Rear Admiral Brown permission to
receive medals and other tokens from
the Hawaiian government.
The natural gas supply of the great
gas belt around Findlay, Ohio, Is no
longer equal to the demand. The pres
sure is 80 low that it is useless for heat
ing purposes, in homes even.
OF those who formed the original band
of 300 Grant supporters in the nominat-
ing convention of 1880 some 250 are still
living. They are to organize an associa-
tion to be called "The Old Guard"
Lieutenant Totten, United States
army, has forwarded his resignation to
the War Department. He was until re-
Gently Professor of Military Science in
Yale. He will devote his time to liter
ary pursuits.
The Upper House of the Alabama As
sembly, by vote of seventeen to fifteen,
refused to pass the bill granting pen
sion of 500 per year to the widow of JEFF
ferson Davis. An attempt to reconsider
is to be made.
A movement is on foot in Bridgeport,
Conn.,, to move the birthplace of the
world-famous midget, Carles s. Stratton,
General Tom Thumb, from its present
site to Seaside Park and convert it into
q public museum.