The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-08
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Heavy immigration Flowing Into
Northwestern Iowa.
STRANGE DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.
Bishp p Wigger Is, ,ues a Circular Addressed
to the Priests Resembling His
Former Order.

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The Colorado Senate has passed a bill
abo ishing capital punishment.
Prof. Totten predicts the end OF the
world some time in September next.
Fifty thoueand hote rooms will be
available near the Worlds Fair grounds.
The Okefnokee swamp in Georgia il
reported 10 be oyerrun with wild hogs.
A big Boston syndicate ia trying 10 &c.
cure control Of the Canadian steel indus-
tries.
Washington newsboys are forbidden
by law 10 sell papers except on the date
OF esue.
The city Of Boston is making a hard
fight against the trolley system Of elec-
tric ears.
The Aransas Pass railroad has virtu-
ally passed into the possession OF the
Southern Pacific.
In the Lower House OF the Pennsyl-
vanla legislature the anti-Pinkerton bill
has finally passed.
strange disease among cattle in
Central Illinois is believed to be due TO
the feeding Of millet.
Estimates az to the cost OF the hotels
in the Worlds Far district range from
;S,5J0,00O to $i,0u0,OO0.
The heaviest immigration that ever
flowed into Northwest Iowa and South
Dakota is in progress now.
A crinoline-manuiacturing concern has
been established IN Rhode Island, the
fret OF the kind in America.
1t is thought that the coinage of
Worlds Fair souvenir halfdollars will
be completed in three months.
About 100 Cinnamon living in Boston
have intlmAted tnat they intend regis
tering within the prescribed periol.
Some one has gone off with all the coin
ard records OF the noted Tenderloin
Club ut New York, and 1t is now in the
throes OF dissolution.
South Carol ma has issued bonds cov-
erIng it's new loan, amounting to 81, ,260, =
0O0, bearing 4 > per cent interest and to
run for lorty years.
by Nulo vi Ol W ~ llC HlluutsOlh
Senate has passed the Senate bill ex-
tentlng the iull suffrage at all elect ons
in Minnesota 10 women.
The Gaze involving the Mormon Church
property his been advanced in the
United States supreme Court TO the sec
ond Monday OF the next term.
The receivers OF the Reading road
have definitely decide on the issue of
receivers ertlfcates. The bondholders'
committee will PROBABLY fight it.
A corporation with a capital of $l5,-
0 0,0OO has been formed TO cover New
Jersey in the neighborhood OF Jersey
Clty and Newark with electric railways.
1t is propo ed by the organized tin
and sheet-irUn joo workers and cornice
workers OF St. Louis to establish a train
ing school where apprentices will be
taught the trade.
The Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk
roads have agreed upon q rate OF | u
fare for the round trip from Canadian
points to Chicago during the Worlds
Fair. Tickets will be good for one month.
The Kansas Legislature has passed a
bill making it illegal to require gold
contract in notes, mortgages or other OBJ
legations and making silver, as we'll as
gold, legal tender for all debts in Kan
sae.
A committee appointed by the House
of the Tennessee Legislature to investi-
gate the charges against Judge Duboise
of the Shelby County Criminal Court
has reported that there are no grounds
for impeachment.
Reports to he bureau OF statistics of
the Treasury Department show dec ded
increase IN the number of immigrants
entering the port of San Francisco, while
in the other ports of the country there
has been falling-off.
1t is thought probable that at the con-
clusion of the naval review Secretary
Herbert will divide the ships into three
fleets, put new officers in command and
send the vessels away at once to the Pa
citic, the South Atlantic and Europe.
Plans for the America cup defenders
show that some radical changes have
been introduced over the former type of
yachts. The new boats are ne4rly all
124 feet in length, % to 26 feet beam,
and have a mean draught of IL to ii
feet.
The customs officers at New York are
holding the trunks of a number of Ital.
ian opera singers under the belief that
the clothing in the trunks is not the
property OF individual members, but of
Henry Abbey, who has charge OF the
troupe.
Judge Dallas in the United States Cir.
cult Court at Philadelphia has denied a
motion to require John F. Searles, Jr.,
Treasurer of tie American Sugar Retin-
ing Company, to show cause why he
should not be compelled to answer i'm
portant questions in the suit of the gov
ernment against the sugar trust.
Bishop W gger of the diocese of New
ark, N. j., has issued a circular letter,
addressed to each priest in the diocese,
resembling his former order in which
priests were ordered to refuse absolution
TO those members of pari h who sent
their children to the public schools in
preference to the parochial schools.