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The leader., 1889-12-21
Foreign.


RoBERT BROWNING, the poet, has died III
Venice without any suffering. He had been
i'll but short time with bronchitis.
The American Legation at Para has de-
cided to demand the trial of Moussa Bey for
the murder of missionary in Crete
1T is decided that conference for consid-
ering the subject of the federation of all the
Australasian colonies will assemble at Mel
bourne in February.
THE influenza which has been epidemic in
Russia is spreading through Germany. The
administration OF justice in the courts is sus-
pended, because all the Judges are down with
it. tits proposed to close all the schools,
especially at Dantzic, where at least half the
children are affected.
THREE little boys broke through the ice
while skating at Port Hope, Ontario, and
were drowned.
AN artillery officer and sailor have been
arrested in st. Petersburg for completely
with an attempt on the life of the Gar of
Russia.
THE mangled body of woman supposed
to be another of Jack the Rippers" VIC
TINS, was found among the ballast of ves-
sci which arrived at MiddeSborOugh Eng
land, from London.
DURING the progress of an anti-Semitic
meeting at Vienna riot occurred between
Austrian Conservatives. Five of the parti-
cipants were in jured.
A PORTUGUESE force in Africa, under
Serpa Pinto, picked a quarrel with a savage
tribe called Makololo, and butchered hundreds
of them.
A SHOCK of earthquake has been felt in
Granada, Spain At one theatre which was
full of people, the audience became panic
stricken and fed from the building.
DURING a fog in London eleven persons
were drowned by walking into the river, ca
mails or docks.
The Brazilian receipts from customs and ex-
else for the first half of December are $780,
900 more than during the same period of
1888.
THERE is a famine in the Austrian province
OF Galicia, and peasants are killing their
horses to save the feed.
BUsHIRIE, the noted Arab who led the in
Surgents in their revolt against the Govern
ment of Zanzibar, East Africa, and who was
captured by villagers of Magailla and handed
over TO the authorities, has been hanged.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by Pro-
visional President Fonseca, declaring all
foreigners shall be considered citizens of
3razil after two years residence if they ac-
cept, but shall not be eligible for President.
THE ship Reporter, Captain G.. Spaulding,
Of Newburyport, Mass, bound from Hong
Kong to New York with general cargo, is
a total loss in tho China Sea. The captain
and crew were saved. The ship was valued
at $50, 000
THE Moorish Government has cabled to
Washington demanding the recall of Consu!
Lewis. Great excitement prevails in Tan
giers owing to his action relative to the seizure
Of a case containing firearms.
THE bark Ten6y Castle has been wrecked
nc Holyhead, England. Eleven persons were
drowned.
The leader., 1889-12-21

FRANKLIN B. GowEx, ex-President of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, COM
mitted suicide at Wormley's Hotel. Washing
ton, by shooting himself in the head. He was
prominent Philadelphia lawyer.
WORD reached Washington that the wife
Of Representative Joseph Cannon, of Illinois,
had dropped dead at her home in Danville
Ill. Upon receipt of the news Mr. Cannon
was completely overcome and took the first
train for his home.
CAPTAIN LORENZO B. SHEPARD, of Behr-
ing Sea fame, has been appointed Chief of
the Revenue Marine division at Washington.
THE United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that the law taxing telegraph receipts
is unconstitutional
TWENTY-FIVE Sioux Indian Chiefs arrived
at Washington to consult with Secretary
Noble upon their agreement to cede their
land IN the Dakotas to the Government.
PRESIDENT HARRISON through Secretary
Blains telegraphed his congratulations to
Henry n. Stanley at Zanzibar.
THE japanese Minister to this country has
been called home by his Government.
THE President has nominated John w. Ja-
cobus, prominent New York city Republi-
can, to succeed General Mcmahon, as Mar
shal for the Southern District of New York.
The leader., 1889-12-21

Judge David j. Brewer, nominated by
President Harrison to fill the vacancy in the
United States Supreme Court, was born at
Smyrna, in Asia Minor in June, 1887, his
parents being missionaries in that place.
They returned to the United States soon af-
terward and settled in Connecticut, where
young Brewer was educated in different
schools in Hartford, Middletown and New
Haven. In 1851 he entered Wesleyan Uni
versity but at the close of his junior year
went to Yale College, where he was graduated
in 1856 After this he passed one year as a
law student in the Office of his uncle, David
Dudley Field, in New York city, and then
went to the Law School at Albany, where
he was graduated in 1858. He went West,
and in 1859 settled ut LeavenwQrth, Kan,
where he began the active practice of law.
In 1861 he was appointed United States
Commissioner, and in 1852 was elected Judge
of the Probate and Criminal Courts of
Leavenworth County. Two years later he
was elected Judge of the First Judicial Dis
trict of Kansas, and in 1866 became Presi-
dent of the Board of Education of Leaven-
worth. For several ensuing years he was
Superintendent of the Public Schools of that
city, and in 1858 he was elected to the Office
of Prosecuting Attorney for the county. He
became an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Kansas in 1870, and was reelected
to that position In 1876 and 1882. He re-
signed from the bench in 1884 to accept the
appointment of United States Circuit Judge
for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, which was
offered to him by President Arthur. His
most CONSPICUOUS work as jurist has been
in the construction of the prohibitory and
railroad legislation In Kansas.
The leader., 1889-12-21
LATER NEWS.

JAMES =. SULLIVAN, tramp, IN jail al
Alfred, Me-, killed himself by jumping from
the upper corridor to the basement, crushing
his skull.
TIE members of the Executive COMMITTEES
of the National Civil Service Reform League
dined together in New York city. George
William Curtis presided.
GOVERNOR BEAVER has announced re-
duction of 1881, $50 in Pennsylvana's debt
during the year ending November 3Oth.
NE1GHBoRs discovered fire in the house of
Mrs. Margaret Strahorn, at Athens, Penn.
They forced open the door of the house and
Mrs. Strahorn's dead body was found lying
at the foot of the stairs horribly burned.
D. c. PORTER and James Doggett were
killed by fall of slate in the Kelly mine,
Danville, ILL.,
THE Western States Passenger Association
was dissolved by mutual consent OF the rail-
roads interested at Chicago.
SAMUEL V. MARKS, of Lynchburg, Va,
shot and seriously wounded his son and then
blew his own brains out.
A DESPERATE attempt to escape from the
county Jail was made at Springfield, Mo-, by
sixteen prisoners. They fired the ceiling OF
the cell, but the fire was extinguished and
none escaped.
JEFFERSON DAvIs's will has been filed at
Mississippi City, Miss. The bulk of his prop
erty goes to his widow; the rest is divided
among his two daughters and two friends.
A CONFERENCE of number of leading col
ored men from various sections of Virginia
was held in Richmond, at which preamble
and resolutions were adopted memorializing
Congress to pass a General Election law
which would guarantee them better right
of suffrage.
BEN. BLANToN, an ex-convict, sEot and
killed Thomas Click, who had testified against
him, at Colfax Washington. Clicks wife,
standing over his dead body, implored his
friends to avenge his death.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Judge Brewer of Kansas, to be one of the
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of
the United States.
SECRETARY WINDOW is having prepared
proposals to be advertised for the exclusive
privilege of catching seals in Behring Sea.
THE new loan of the Mexican Government
mas been more than subscribed for in Lon
don.
CAPTAIN WEBSTER, Superintendent of the
lie Blanca mine, near Pachuca, Mexico was
waylaid and stabbed to death in the Santa
Gertrude canyon.
The leader., 1889-12-21
South and West.

DIPHTHERIA has been raging at the little
town of Ia Grange, 10. A dozen deaths oc-
curred. Many persons left the town. The
pubic schools closed.
WILL CARDIN, white man, was lynched
near Cleveland, Tenn, for an assault on a
segen-yearold girl.
JOHN MAKTIN, Ambrose Donnelly and
Bert Sheldon, all little boys, broke through
eIce while skating on a mill pond at Iron
ton, WIS Martin and Sheldon were
drowned.
BILL" EASTON. alias ''Black Bill" ''Jack'
Powers and a conductor on the Northern Pa
ciic Railroad were arrested at Tacoma,
Wyoming. for smuggling opium. They are
the leading men OF a gang of smugglers who
have been giving the authorities much
trouble
w. c. SHUITLEFF, of Waterloo, Ia, has
been appointed to the position made vacant
by the defalcation of Cashier Silcott.
The South Carolina Civil Rights law,
which provided that the same accommoda-
ton must be furnished for both races by
railroads hotels, theatres, ETC., has been re-
pealed by the State Legislature.
THOMAS SPooNER was hanged at Port AL
len, La, for the murder of Seth Sevearingen,
and Carter Williamson for the murder of his
wife at Dorseyville, La.
A BOILER at Randall Brothers & Co.'s
sawmill Covington, Tenn, exploded, COM
pletely demolishing the building and killing
Fireman Jones and Mr.. Stewart, one of the
firm. Two OF the employees were seriously
injured.
HARRY WALTERS fell into a vat in which
he was boiling maple syrupat Union Springs
Ala, and Yves scalded to death.
So serious has the epidemic of diphtheria
in Canton District, w Va, become that the
County Board of Health has directed the
erection of a large hospital in the afflicted
district, and will send a competent staff of
physicians to take charge of it. Many deaths
have occurred.
JOHN HENIMEI, aged eighty-ive, while re-
turnning frorn church at Chicago was struck
by train at a grade crossing and instantly
killed.
FIVE prominent Mormon officials at Salt
Lake City. Utah. have been arrested, charged
with conspiracy and mis- appropriation of
public funds
FIVE men entered the express Office at
Brownswood Texas, knocked down the ex-
press agent and robbed the safe of $1,000.
Two brothers. Swedes named Berglund,
were Instantly killed in the Cleveland mine
near Ishpeming, Mich, by the unexpected
explosion OF blast
AN election in the First Colored Baptist
Church. Kansas City, Mo-, ended in a riot.
Two men named Benjamin and Knight were
fatally cut and a number of others seriously
hurt.
FRANK Hurry, Chicago travelling man,
met R. f. Smith, travelling man of Louis
vile, at Mt Sterling. KY and demanded an
apology for remark made about his wife.
In reply Smith shot him fatally.
GEORGE GUENTHER. aged seventy of st.
Louis No. was fatally beaten by his son
Emil The boy bears bad reputation, and
is only seventeen years old. The quarrel
arose over the refusal OF his mother to furnish
him with money.
SIX bridges on tine California Southern
Railroad have been washed out at Salidad
Canon. Cal, and the storm there has done
500, ,0G0 damage.
The leader., 1889-12-21
Economical Use ofInanxural Souvenirs.

ssIn Paris nothing is wasted, says q
observant visitor to the French Capita,
struck by the frugality and economy of
the prudent housewife, who makes she
remains Of yesterdays roast up ipto a
nice and highly delectable dish fq to-
day, tomorrow and next day, . has
nothing but bleached bones to cast away
at last, and they go to the makeF OF phos-
pilates.
But the American is wayteful crea-
ture, and World reporter, commenting
in party of ladies on the pretty and
unique red dresses which are so prevail
ent among the school children this win
ter, was a bit astonished at the reply
which it invited.
The ladies cast curious, quizzical
glances at each other and then one of
them, who has the right to thus address
the scribe, calculated:
"Why, you goose! don't you know2
Those gowns are souvenirs of the Wash
ine:on Centennial. Everybody decked
his store or house-front with bunting, and
those cute little gowns are made of the
bunting of the first of your country's col
ors. The blue will come later; the
white has served little already during
the summer"
The reporter rejoined with heartiness
that 1e New York mother was getting
wisp s. was evincing laudable desire
to Il = .e.-Neao York. World.
The leader., 1889-12-21
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

AT the inquest in the cases of the five men
killed at the National Line Pier New York
city, verdict of accidental death was rem
dered. Richard johnson, one of the victims
was shown to have left three widows.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND urged ballot
the race problem in the South at the banquet
OF the Boston Merchants Association.
A CAvE-IN occurred at Rundy's coal mine
near Butler Penn, killing an unknown man
and fatally injuring Frank Hauff, both min
ers.
DR. E. c. HIGBEE. State Superintendent
of Public Schools of Pennsylvania, has died
at Lancaster. aged ffty-nine years.
WARREN LELAND, JR, the we'll known ho-
tel proprietor of Long Branch n. j.. has
made an assignment of all his property to
Joseph McDermott, lawyer of Freehold
The liabilities, including mortgages, are
1852 900.
The injunction obtained by the electric
light companies of New York city, restrain
ing the city from interfering with their prop
erty was dissolved, and preparations were at
once made to cut down defective wires.
THE State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
which met at Harrisburg, Penn, decided in
favor OF giving farmers the same protection
enjoyed by manufacturers and against com.
pulsory education.
WI UTOOuefS. JONI dQC ALEXANDER MCKEE,
lar, aged twenCy-one and twenty y-seven years
respectively, were buried alive by the cave-in
OF sand pit near Cassonville, Mich.
The Huron mine Office and boarding house
at Hancock, Mich, has been burned, and
two Finnish women and one child perished in
the flames.
"A JOINT resolution was adopted in both
houses of the Legislature at Richmond, Va,
urging Vlrginias Senator's and Representa-
tives in Congress to vote for holding the
Worlds Fair at Washington.
THREE magazines, containing ten tons of
nitro-g -glycerine, were blown up at North
Clarendon, Penn. Three oil derricks were
wrecked twenty-five thousand barrels of oil
burned, and windows shattered for a dis
tance of mile around. Loss $40, 900.
THE American Federation of Labor in ses-
sion at Boston made provision for strike
fund in preparation for the demand for the
eight-hour day on May 1.
ANOTHER man has been killed by an
electric shock in New York city; and a
vigorous onslaught was made on the over
head wires by city officials, with the result
that the town was left in comparative dark
ness by night.
A FLOOD IN the Conemaugh River carried
of several bridges and did other damage at
Johnstown, Penn.
THREE men were killed by coal train
running through an. open drawbridge over
the Oyerpeck River near Hackensack, n j.
Miss ETA DURGIN, of Dover, n. H.,
while walking on the track in the railroad
yard, was run over and killed by a shifting
train.
THE delegates to the Pan-American Con-
greSs visited New Y ork city, and were en-
tained by the Mayor and prominent citizens.
BOILER exploded at the Cambria Iron
Works Johnstown, Penn, and Engineer
Henegan was roasted to death by escaping
steam.
The leader., 1889-12-21
Washington.

TEE Treasury Departments is informed that
the Government of Venezuela has restored
the import duties on corn. rice, be. a; and
peas whir.' 'Ve'~ placed on the free list last
June
ADJU7AsT- ys:.sECA4. HASTINGS. of Penn
sylvania, has reported to the War Depart
ment that the National Guard of his State
comprises 6G5 commissioned officers and 1860
enlisted men, and that the total number of
men in the State available for duty is 500. 9O5.
THE Pan-American Congress held short
session at which the committees to have
charge OF the different subjects to be consid-
cred by the Congress were appointed.
SECRETARY AND MRS. BLAINE and their
son. Walter, went to Baltimore to attend the
dinner given by General Felix Agnus to Mr..
and Mrs. Emmons Blaine.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, ex-President Cleve-
land and Justice Fuller will participate in
The centennial celebration in New York city
of the first sitting of the United States Su-
prene Court
The leader., 1889-12-21

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together
and until the last few years was supposed to be
1ncurable. For reat many years doctors pro-
nounced Is a local disease and prescribed To-
with local treatment, pronounced 1t incurable
Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tional disease, and therefore requires constitu-
factured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional clre on the market.
1t is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to
teaspoonful 1t acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. The offer
one hundred dollars for any case il fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials. Address,
L. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
e Sold by Druggists, Toe.
The leader., 1889-12-21
MURDERED BY A WOMAN.
Girl Shoots Man Because He
leased Her.

Louisa Epperson, daughter of wealthy
farmer, of Barkers3ille, Mo-, shot and killed
julius Hofer, young man employed by her
father, as he sat at the family table eating
his dinner. Hofer had been in the habit of
teasing the girl about her admirers, and at
the breakfast table Hofer made some remarks
which incensed the girl. She told Hofer that if
he erepeated the remark she would shoot him.
Hofer promised to refrain, but at dinner be-
gan again on the same subject. The girl
without word, arose, left the table, walked
deliberately into another room, picked up a
38-calibre revolver, and returning to the
dining-room, shot Hofer in the right side of
dead The murderessxis described as an un-
usually attractive bout nineteen years
The leader., 1889-12-21
News About Town.

1t is the CURRENT report about town that
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs is
making some remarkable cures with people
who are troubled with Coughs, Sore Throat,
ASTHMA, Bronchitis and Consumption. Any
druggist will give you trial bottle free Of
cost 1t is qua anteed to relieve and cure.
he Gerge Bottles are SOC. and 81.
The leader., 1889-12-21
The Peeple

Nre notNelow 70 understand that, Ia order to
Warrant their manufactures Ia RuarAnteeing
sess mord than ordinary merit and curative
propertleA DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
cEvery 1s the only blood medicinel sold-
through dINHggists. under . positive 0stdFanfec
that It VIII henefit or ure or money paidA FORT
viii be returned. In all blood. skin and tcalp
diseases, and for ell scrofulous affections4 is
The leader., 1889-12-21

Pure soap is white Brown soaps are adul-
terated with rosin. Perfume is only put in to
hide the presence of putrid fat. Dobbins's
Electric Soap is pure, white and unscented.
Has been sold since 1866 Try it noW.
The leader., 1889-12-21

DURINGth last eighteen months the Rus
from the Empire.
The leader., 1889-12-21

THE estimated white population Of Montana
is 1iOCO0, and the Indians number about 15,-
1Q
The leader., 1889-12-21

THE Emperor of Germanvs new crown
weighs three pounds and has frame OF solid
gold
The leader., 1889-12-21

$500 Rev aif offered by the proprietorA Of
DR.. sage's CatR Rrrh Remedy for Al incurable
The leader., 1889-12-21

BEAR batting w,s an ancient popular Eng
ish sport but 1t was prohibited by Pariia-
nent in 1885,
The leader., 1889-12-21

/. afiicted with sore eyes use Or. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 6c- per bottle
The leader., 1889-12-21

Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun-
try in the world. Full Information free. Ad-
dress Oregon Im'igrat'n Board. Portland. Ore
The leader., 1889-12-21

The old smokers delight-"Tansilrs Punch
Americas finest &c. Cigar.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
Territorial Officers.

Territorial Officers
Auditor John Murphy
Ire ,surer-Frank r odgett.
Brigad er General-G ID. Bill
Adjutant General-Rosselle G. O'Brien,
Olympia
Quarter Master General-D. G. Lowell.
Prosecuting Attorney 2i Judicial district
W. 4. Re snolds, Cheha alis
Commissary General Mr.. Livingstone
Colfax.
Delegate in Congress B. Allen,
Colfax.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
Mason County Officers.

Mason County Officers.
Au iito--Jo< <eph w. Day, Jr.
Trea.urer-F Crank Freds IN.
Sheriff and Assessor-D NJ Duckworth
Probate Judge-W. II. NJ. Dunbar.
Surveyor 5. w. Shelton.
Supt. of Schools C. :. Brumbaugh.
Wm Potts.
County Commissioners Franklin Purdy.
NJ. c. Simmons.
Joint Counci len We;r
Joint Representative NJ. Freds n.
Wreckmaster-McDo Simmons.
Justice of the Peace tSheton Precinct
George Cyphert-
Constable Shelton Precinci)-
George Nogthie.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.


Federal Officers
Governor c. Moore.
Sscrstary-O. C. White.
United States Judges:
r. A. Jones. Chief Justice and Judge
lst district. Seattle.
Frank A. Attlyn. I'd district, Olympia.
W. 6. Langford. Sd district, Walla
Walla
George Turner, 4th district, Spokane
Falls.
United States District Attorney-W. II.
White, Seattle.
United States Land Officers, Seattle:
Rrgister-John B. Baird
Receiver III. f Shields.
United States Marshall-T. J. Hamilton
Seattle.
Surveyor General-Joseph c. Bre kim
ridge, Os smpia.
Collector of Customs-C. NJ. Bradshaw,
Port Townsend.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-01
INTERSTATE w. G. T. U.

The w. G. T. U. Interstate Conference
closed its five-days session at Mountain
Lake Park, Md, Monday evening. The day
was given to reports. election of officers and
other conference business. The resolutions
ore very stalwart. They declare for absti.
nencc and prohibition, denounce all
liquor license as criminal and thos,
who favor license rs parties or
partakers Of the crimes that now out of the
soloon; demand one standard Of morals for
men and women; declare it worse than trea-
son to withhold the power of the ballot from
the virtuous and intelligent women of the
home and lodge it with the vice and isno-
rance of the saloon for the homes destruc-
ton; bid God-speed to the party that stands
with them against the saloon and bears their
banner: "For God and Home and Native
parent reverses sure omens of victory for
prohibition. The following officers were
elected for the coming year
President-Mrs. c. Is. Buel, Of Chicago
Vice Presidents-Mrs. Il. w. Tudor, Bal
timore; Mrs. Jane Il Johnson, Parkersburg,
w. Va; Miss Matte Mcconnell McKees-
port; Mrs. NJ. X. Pinkhouser, Harrisonburg
Va.
Secretary-Mrs. Jennie McClurkin, Ro-
ney's Point, W. Va.
Treasurer-Mrs. H. J. Cecil, Baltimore.
The Executive Committee will continue
in session over tomorrow, planning and de-
vi.inS larger things for the ne1s annual
ference