The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-01-14
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
The National Council of Women
Eliminates at Chicago.
AN OLD MAN CHARGED WITH BIGAMY
Crusade Against the Habit Of Splitting on
the Floors Of Public Convey
ances In Brooklyn.

Two old women In Delaware have beer
arrested az witches.
The valuation OF the State OF Maine il
placed at 1865, ,00O,00
The years -four output promises 10 b,
the greateGt ever known.
Kansas mines produced 60,0OO,0)(
bushels Of coal this year.
The ladies Of Brooklyn are organizins
to demand cleaner streets.
Starvation is reported among both set.
tiers and Indians in Oklahoma.
a recent hailstorm in Texas was of Ice
pellets that weighed two pounds.
A menagerie 10 cost 81 ,50O, 600 is being
talked about for the Worlds Fair.
There is report that the Guion line
OF steamers is going out Of business.
The Ohio and Mississippi railroad may
be controlled by the Baltimore and Ohio.
The numbering OF the people of Phil
adelphia by the police cost just 81, ,253.56.
Columbus (O.) saIoons must close at
midnight by order OF the Chief Of Police.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has given $4,000
tothe police pension fund OF New York
city.
Commercial travellers, it is said, sup
port two-thirds Of the country hotels in
America.
A public census OF Philadelphia lust
taken shows 1t TO have population Of
l,l42,653.
There never was such rush OF sugar
and molasses into the New Orleans mar
ket as now.
Secretary Of the Treasury Foster says
there is no occasion for alarm in fnan-
cial circles.
Secretary Fosters efforts to retain gold
in the Treasury are said to be meeting
with success.
Large seizures Of Illicit distilleries
have been made in Wilkes and Catawb ba
counties, N. q.
Great distress is reported in Western
and Northwestern Kansas as a result of
the cold weather.
The packing house business at Chicago
has reached condition OF dullness un-
paralleled in years.
Congressman Scott proposes to push
his bill increasing the whisky tax from
% cents to $l.25 per gallon.
South Cardinals Senate has passed to
its third reading the bill making the
State its own saloonkeeper.
A most exhaustive trial OF the dynam-
lite cruiser Vesuvius and her guns is to
be made by the government.
Frauds in the weighing OF sugar for
bounty have been discovered, so govern
ment officials at Atlanta say.
February 25 will witness the formal
opening. OF the new European steamship
line under the American flag.
Pierre Lorillard was horsewhipped in
front of a New York hotel by a cabman
on whom he attempted to impose.
The scope of the bureau of military
information is being extended and per-
lected by Secretary of War Elkins.
The Yaqui Indians have defeated
Mexican troops sent to subdue them
and driven from the Indian town of Be.
len all the Spanish traders and their
families.
The National Council OF Women. re-
Gently in session at Chicago, sent forth
a illumination against French heels, cor
sets, tight sleeves and street dresses with
long trains.
An electrically controlled machine
which will effectively stamp $4,000 let
ters in an hour is one of the interesting
inventions that has been adopted in the
Postoffice Department.
Senator Cullom proposes amendments
to the interstate commerce law whereby
witnesses can be protected when giving
evidence.
Dartmouth College at Hanover, N. H.,
has received bequest of 100000 from
the late Ralph Butterfeld, NJ. D., of
Kansas City, Mo.
The Continental block at Douglass and
Fifteenth streets, Omaha, has been
burned. The building and business
losses are nearly 100000.
John D. Rockefeller has given another
81 100000 to the University of Chicago.
This makes $3,600,000 which the mill
lonaire has given to the university.
The women of Danville, ILL.,, are arm
ing themselves with revolvers and prac-
ticing at shooting since the acquittal of
the man who made an assault upon Mel |
lie Henderson in that city.
The Directors of the Women's Health
Protective Association of Brooklyn have
crusade against the habit
Of splitting on the floors of public con-
veyances and various public waiting sta
tions.
Out of the $50 miles of passenger rail-
way tracks in Boston 120 are equipped
with heavy girder rails and trolley wires,
and the process of change from horse
power to electric traction goes steadily
The Solicitor of the Treasury is of the |
opinion that the use of the Columbian
coins in the manufacture of |
various articles as souvenirs, such as
spoons, forks, ETC., would be violation
Of the law.