The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-11
EASTERN ITEMS.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN SUED FOR
A DIVORCE.
A Howl'ng Mob in Kensas-Wants the
Colored People Coloniz d-Old
Documents Found Chicago
Wants the Big Fair.

Wants the Big Fair.
The Michigan peach crop is very short
Indiana has negotiated another $780,.
600 loan.
Snow is several inches deep OH Mount
Washington.
A big deal in Montana mining property
is announced.
George Francis Trains wife has sued
him for divorce.
Mrs. Langtry's lawyer denies the re-
, port of her divorce.
Baltimore is raising capital to build a
large sugar refinery.
Snapper Garrison has resigned from
the Belmont stables.
The Corn Palace was opened at Sioux
City, Iowa, on the 23d.
The Princeton Hotel at Buena Vista,
Col, has been burned.
The trust stocks are spoken OF in New
York as super-saturated.
The Creek Nation is urged to form a
State and join the Union.
The Treasury has expended 1924, ,497, :
744.6 in bond purchases.
A valuable silver find in the mountains
of Pennsy ylvania is reported.
The Yorktown shows power in excess
OF the contract requirements.
The National Silver Convention assem-
bled in St. Louis on the 25th.
Piano-makers are forming prote ctive
association. This is not trust.
An epidemic resembling dysentary is
raging near Meadowville, w. Va.
Typhoid fever is prevalent in Boston
and its suburbs at the present time.
The New York Telegram says the idea
of Chinese invasion is quite comical.
John T. Falooner has been appointed
gauger for the First California district.
The chief of police at Kansas City has
been ordered to suppress the Salvation
Army.
Boston police expect to have parade,
the first for many years, some time in
October.
The streets of Alexandria, Va, were
first lighted by electricity OH the night OF
the 18th.
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins
University says he has no desire to make
a change.
A public school at Troy, N. Y, has
| been closed because the building is over
run with feas.
The New York Daily Graphic, the pic
torial paper, has suspended, and is in the
sheriff's hands.
Secretary Noble has taken ,meaeasures
| to preserve the ruins at Casa Gfande,
Pinal county, A. L.
| Miss Anita Mccormick and Emmons
Blaine were married at Ricbfield Springs,
| N. Y, on the 10Th inst.
Many survivors of the abolition move
ment participated in the Emancipation
/ Day celebration at Boston.
| There is only one colored member of
congress. His name is Cheatham, and
he halls from North Carolina.
"Rattlesnake Pete," an Oil City char
acter, has sold snake skin for IS to
man " ho will use it as a necktie.
1t is thought that New York's efforts
to secure the Exposition OF 1892 will re-
ceive but little support in congress.
Mayor Noonan of St. Louis has made
the temporary suspension of his private
secretary, c. E. Meade, permanent.
Il l.
that Major Warner has accepted the po-
sition OF Commissioner of Pensions.
| Senator Wade Hampton wants the
United States to expend $4,000. 900 in
colonizing the colored people in Cuba.
Governor David B. Hill, of New York,
| is advertised as one of the attractions OF
the fair to be held in Atlanta next month.
Old documents found in Mexican
church lead to the hope that the long
lost mines of that country may be redis-
covered.
1t has been discovered that the city of
Cincinnati owns nearly 81 ,OOO, 900 of real
estate, of which all knowledge had been
forgotten.
Chicago's great public building, the
Auditorium, is nearing completion, and
is expected to be ready lor grand open
ing December 8.
The resignation of DIR. james P. Kim
ball as Director of the Mint, has been ac-
cepted, and it is believed Edward O.
Leech will succeed him.
| There is movement in Michigan to
have the national flag displayed on all
school houses in the State, and Governor
Luce heartily indorses it.
| It is estimated that $4,000 Americans
who have visited Europe this season have
paid to the companies for passage both
ways upward of $4,000, 900.
| Six or more custom houses are to be
established on the Canadian side Of the
international boundary between Mani
toha and the Rocky Mountains.
There was an explosion of gas in one
of the coal mines at Dayton, Tenn, on
the 23d, and nine miners were frightfully
burned, several of whom will die.
There is belief among naval officers
| that the Baltimore can make faster time
at Newport than her record shows, and
trial will probably be given there.
Samuel Murray, a laborer, at Louisiana,
Mo-, made an attack upon his son Alfred
with chair, when his son John, aged Ii
years, took part and shot his father dead.
There is too large sentiment in oppo-
sition to the use of Central Park for the
Worlds Fair at New York, and the move
looking to that site is being abandoned.
An attempt was made recently to
wreck the Wisconsin entral passenger
train, but party of hunters discovered
and removed the distractions in time to
prevent it.
Chicago newspapers are gathering COM
fort from replies to inquiries regarding