The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-27
EASTERN ITEMS.
HEAVY STORMS ALONG THE At
LANTIC COAST.
Pension Commissioner Tanners Resig-
Lation Asked for-Trying to Fight
Duel-The Cronin Murder
Sunset Cox Dead.

Quebec City will annex st. Sauveur.
Diamond fields in Guerrero, Mexico,
are reported.
There is a rush of Boston school chill
dren to get vaccinated.
Rice birds are playing havoc with the
rice crop in South Carolina.
A light frost is reported in the northern
part Of Kansas and Missouri.
An epidemic of typhoid fever has brok-
en- out at New Concord, Ohio. -
The Sioux reservation is becoming a
resort for criminals of all kinds.
Sioux City's Corn Palace for 1889 is to
be more magnificent than ever.
Fifty persons were poisoned by eating
cheese at Bettsville, o., recently.
Fourteen hundred men are now en-
ployed at the Brooklyn Navy yard.
Louisville has voted down the question
of teaching German in the public schools.
Governor Hoards, of Wisconsin, is
making it uncomfortable for prize fighters.
A Soldiers and Sailors monument Las
lust been completed at Winslow, Maine.
Congressman "Sunset" Cox died at
New York on the 10th inst. of heart dis
ease.
It is estimated that the Illlnoise corn
crop will not exceed half good average
yield.
One hundred and fifty Mormons arrived
in New York on the 18th inst. en- route to
Utah.
A device for firing dynamite from ordi-
nary cannon has been invented at Syra-
cuse, n. Y.
The Bell Telephone Company has in
creased its capital stock from $10,0OOOO0
to ST., 100000.
Considerable sensation was made by
the appearance of sun bonnet in Hyde
Park, recently.
A postoffice in Fulton county, Pennsyl-
vania bears the brief and unromantic
name of "Sis."
Many public improvements are going
On simultaneously in the streets Of the
National Capital.
The President has appointed Henry @.
Yarmouth, of Louisiana, collector OF GUS
toms at New Orleans.
A letter-stamping machine that can
GELS "a, 900 stamps an hour is on trial In
the New York postoffice.
James K. Keene denies he is leading
the present speculation in sugar trust
certificates in New York.
G. B. Wright of the Northern Pacific
denies he has sold out his holdings in the
Northern Pacific to Willard.
The wife of Cronin, the suspect, COM
plains that her letters are opened at
Chicago before they reach her.
The crops throughout New England are
reported to be in good condition, with the
exception of potatoes and apples.
The Supreme Council of the Order of
Chosen Friends begun it's seventh bien-
NAL session at Minneapolis on the 10th.
A Chicago policeman now bobs up with
startling facts regarding the murder OF
DIR. Cronin. Why has he kept mum so
long?
Lawrence Barrett has returned from
Europe with new play, "Manelon,
hich he will open the season with in
tie fall.
By the death of Mrs. Ellen M. Clifford,
at New Haven, her estate which is valued
at sc, ,OOO, 900, reverts to local charitable
institutions.
San Domingo is the only American
country tnat will not be represented at
the Conference of American Nations at
Washington.
The fifty American workingmen and
women who went to Europe last july to
investigate the condition of European
workmen, have returned.
A young sailor who was tarred and
featherd on the steamer Baltic, from
eide in sight of the passengers.
The statement of the Boston Montana
Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining
Company for one year ending June 3Oth
shows mining profit of $1,014,917.
The Governor of Georgia has asked the
Governor of South Carolina to arrest two
members OF the Georgia Legislature who
have crossed the state line to fight duel.
The clam-pearl fishers in the vicinity
OF Albany, Wis, are said to be finding
some valuable gems. One was found the
other day for which the owner refused
$4,000.
Corporal Tanner, of the Pension office,
Washington, at the request of the Presl-
dent, handed in his resignation on the
11th inst. 1t is said he worked his jaw
too much
The six days. Anniversary OF the De-
fence of Baltimore in the sencOnd war
with Great Britain, comm enced there on
the 9th. inst. Presidet Harrison was In
attendance.
st. Louis is entertaining five Governors
at her Exposition, viz, Francis OF
Missouri, Eagle of Arkansas, Lowry OF
Mississippi, Hovey of Indiana and Lar
rabee of Iowa.
Long Island Sound navigators see
promise of a revival of practice, once lam
GUS on the Mississippi, of racing the great
passenger boats that ply between New
York and Fall River.
Reports to the leading cleaning houses
in the United States and Canada show
that the total gross exchanges Tor the
week ending September 7th were $685.
GAL ,571, an increase of liz per cent COM
pared with the corresponding week OF
last year.
1t is positively stated by eye witnesses
that Steve Brodie, the man who flrst
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge, did 60
over the American Falls, notwithstand
reports to the contrary.
Captain P. G. Pope, Commandant OF
the marines at the Washington Navy
Yard, is being tried by court-martial Tor
cruelty to soldier while the latter was
| under senfance on a drunk and disOrderlY