The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-19
EASTERN ITEMS.
A BIG REAL ESTATE SWINDLE IN
ST. PAUL.
Geronimo Will Not be Sent Back to
Arizona-Wil Tsst the Meat In
spection Law-Local Option
Cigarette Smoking.

New York wholesale grocers have a
trust.
Indianapolis men will test the Meat
Inspection law.
Yale defeated Harvard in the college
regatta on the 2Sth.
A labor lyceum for women has been Or
ganized in st. Paul.
Denver's Fourth OF July celebration ex-
tended over three days.
Missouri has set apart $1,000 for wolf
scalps for 1889 and 1890.
Some Chicago cable cars make from
l015 to IA miles an hour.
The Hudson Bay Company report
shows net profit OF e6S, 900.
Philadelphia will presently have two
new cold-storage warehouses.
The electric cars continue to scare
horses in Boston and vicinity.
Fourth of July was turned over to the
small boy in all towns and cities.
Two acres of land at Stockbridge,
Mass, have been sold for $4,000.
2 Mrs NJ. L. Evans has been appointed
postmistress at Lake View, Oregon.
A Chicago enthusiast talks OF erecting
a tower in that city 1000 feet in height.
Grape-growing promises to be profit
able business In some parts OF Florida.
: The Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased the great Derrick well at Oil City.
The Pittsburg policemen have sent
their old uniforms to the Johnstown
police.
S. G. Morgan, cashier of the bank OF
Sidney, Neb., committed suicide on the
2Sth inst.
About one-half the adult males at the
Boule agency have signed the proposed
treaty.
Crop reports from abroad are worse
than last month in the Atlantic States
and Europe.
Richard Broechk, who challenged Vii
Lard to duel: has been sent to the in
sane asylum.
Colonel A. M. Saxton, st. Joseph
banker, and prominent Missourian,
died on the 9th.
According to the new city directory,
Chicago has population of over nine
hundred thousand.
A Cincinnati jury acquitted saloon
keeper who sold on Sunday ''just to give
the spies lesson.''
Erie Canal is reducing rates on grain
from Buffalo to New York to compete
with the Lehigh Valley road
Indiana's Supreme Court has decided
that shaving on sunday is not a neces.
sity. Abraham never shaved.
The Knights and the Farmers Alliance
of Alabama viii work together In the
next election for the legislature.
The Locol Option bill in Michigan has
become law. This means prohibition
in halt the counties of the State.
The figures of Just completed directories
make the population of st. Paul and Min
neapols close on to half million.
A new Connecticut law prohibits cigar
ctte SMOKING py uiiiiUIS unuC' AZ oau eAS
sale of tobacco in any form to such per
sons.
The Standard Oil Company are prepar
ing to build an 8-inch oil-pipe line from
Cygnet, Ohio, to Detroit, tor handling
fuel oil.
A New York estimate is that 10000
tourists more than the number who &c
every summer viii cross to Europe this
season.
John P. Hudson of Smyrna, Del,
leading peach-grower, places this sea
sons yield of the Peninsula at I,UO,UU
baskets.
It's denied in Washington that any
such proposition as that of sending Gero
nimo back to Arizona has ever been con
templated.
Michigan has passed law by which
one-ffth of the voters In any county MAJ
demand and secure vote on q loca
option law for that county.