The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18
EASTERN ITEMS.
THE AMERICAN BAPTIST ASSOCIA.
TION.

I1ONs
Sam Small Offends the Prohibitionist-
The Atchison's Blanket Mortgage
Settled the Differences
With the Pistol
Minister Thomas Ryan is in Wasbin :
ton.
Peach trees are blooming all over Penn
sylvania.
An Italian at Chicago cold bic wife and
child for SIS.
The capital of the rubber trust is fixed
at $50. 900, 900. g.
The Vermont day at Gettysburg VIII
occur October 9. e
Edison ard family have sailed .fro1h
Havre for home.
Negroes in Bib county, AIa., refuse b
work for white people.
Rev. Sam Small is nov stumping Ohio
for the Prohibitionists.
An outbreak of smallpox is reported
in Henderson county, Tenn.
The tax collector of Richmond, Va. is
reported short about s60. 900.
The new dry dock at Halifax was used
for the first time September 20.
A woman arrested as a vagrant in
Montreal claims to be 101 years cid.
Diphtheria has closed the public school
at Fieldsboro, Burlington county, n. ].
The builders of the cruiser Baltimore
will receive nearly $50, 900 in premiums.
Virginia and Maryland are getting into
a quarrel over the Potomac oyster beds.
Kansas Railroad Commissioners order
a 20 per cent reduction in rates to certain
cities.
The American Natioral Baptist Asso-
citation advises oolored people to leave the
South.
Mrs. James Blaine, Jr., will sue for a
divorce as soon as she RECEIVERS from her
illness.
The new diffusion process by which
sugar is made from sorghum is not yet a
SUCCESS.
The gunboat Petrol, though deficient
in power, viii be excepted by the Gov
eminent.
Oklahoma authorities are contending
against the illicit sale of liquor in the
territory.
Ex-President Cleveland attended a
mammoth clam-bake at Naysack, n. Y,
last week.
Swindlers are said to be preparing to
float fraudulent bonds of counties In Kan
sas and Texas.
The Colorado Mining Exchange pro-
poses TO contest the Act restricting the
coinage OF silver.
Ben Butterworth received a warm vel
come ON his return to Washington from
his European trip.
William P. Dale, Commissioner of In
dian affairs under President Lincoln, is
dead, aged rs years.
The equestrian statne of Gen. Robert
E. Lee will be unveiled at Richmond,
Va, on December 5.
There is movement in Arkansas to
require railroads TO provide separate cars
for the colored people.
The building of new 81 ,0OO.O 900 sop
position" brewery in st. Louis is now
said to be an assured TACT.
The delegates to the Three Americas
Conference, will visit New England to
inspect her manufactures.
st. Paul, MIMI, through its Chamber
of Commerce, has voted in favor OF Chi
cago for the Worlds Fair.
Over s3. .OOO, coo OF the So, 6,0OO. 900 guar
antee fund of the Worlds Fair at st.
Louis has been subscribed.
Charles 81. Stoddard, a well-known
resident of Reno, New, died In Washing
ton, d. c., on the 31st, OF paralysis.
The total potato crop for 1889 In the
United States is estimated at 233, ,000, 600
bushels. against 217 ,OO0, 900 In 1883.
The son of Ex-Governor Alonzo B. Cor
nell, of New York. pronounces the story
that his father is insane "silly lie"
There is every prospect OF bitter fight
at the annual election of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, to be held in New York
on October Is.
The story comes from Yankton, ID. l.,
that Sam Small offended the Prohibition.
lists there so deeply that they Cancelled
his engagement to lecture.
The permanent Interstate Deep Har-
Dor Committee met In Topeka on the
3lst, and began mapping out the work
of the coming convention.