The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
EASTERN ITEMS.
A WOMAN LYNCHED FOR CATTT n
STEALING IN WYOMING.
A Newfoundland Dog Ouer Horseshoe
Falls-Chinese in Transit-Blaine
Not Satisfied With the Sa-
moan Ire eaty-Notes.


Falls-Chinese in Transit-Blaine
Not Satisfied With the Sa-
moan aty-Notes.
Heavy rains have fallen all over Col.
orado.
Mrs. Mackay has sailed for the United
States.
Ex-Governor Nelson Dewey, of Wis
eonsin, is dead
The Pronibitionists Of Ohio has no,ni-
mated State ticket.
There is decided check in Italian i'm
migration to this country.
New York capitalists have bought $3,-
5000 OF Indiana State bonds
The Sunday law at Kansas CITY had
but three open violators on the 21st.
Three cars of California fruit was re-
ceived and sold in Chicago on the 2oth.
The Cincinnati Club has offered slo.-
900 for Comiskey, the St. Louis first base
man.
Charlemague Tower, the Philadelphia
millionaire, died on the 25th, aged 81
years.
The city OF Dover, N. H., recently bor-
rowed in Boston So, 900 at 81 per cent
interest.
Heavy shipments of cattle are now be-
ing made from New York for the Englisl,
markets.
The Belgian blocks that are now being
laid by Philadelphia came all the way
from Maine.
A bill to enioin the construction of the
LaKe-street Elevated Railroad at Chicago,
has been filed.
Word has been received at Washington
that the Charleston will be ready for trial
IN about seven weeks.
The Vanderbilt people want the Ken
lucky Central Railroad, and have made
Huntington an offer for it.
It is expected that over 10000 Knights
Templar will be in Washington at the
coming Triennial Conclave.
Colored Republicans express the opin-
v
the next Mayor OF Baltimore.
A livery stable WAS burned in New
York on the 10Th inst, in which 120
horses were roasted to death.
There is talk of the consolidation OF
Ohio and Indiana natural gas companies
and the formation Of big trust.
Jay Gould is credited with having late
ly borrowed large sums of money, the
estimate being put at $S, ,00o, 900.
Farmers in the Schuylkill Valley,
Penn, have been doing their work by
moonlight to escape the midday heat.
Chinese in transit for foreign ports are
permitted, by decision of the Treasury
Department, to pass through the United
States.
A New Haven man has been held for
murder in the second degree for acciden-
tally shooting boy while celebrating the
Fourth.
Many people are left HON eless by the
recent food in West Virginia, and unless
assistance is given very soon the setter
ing will be great.
Two hundred and fifty applications have
been filed for the vacancy In the Corps OF
Chaplains IN the army. It is presiden-
tial appointment.
The wife of Dave Wambold of the old
San Francisco Minstrels has applied for
a divorce and has been granted q separa-
ton and alimony.
A complete Constitution has heen pre-
sented to the convention OF North Dakota,
prepared by some of the ablest lawyers
In the United States.
Creghan and Richardson, the two at
tendants at the Chicago Insane Asylum,
charged with the murder OF Burns, an in
mate, have been acquitted.
The students at Macalister College at
Minneapolis, a Presbyterian institution,
are In revolt at the dismissal OF DIR. Kirk
wood, one of the professors.
In the first land claim contest in Okla
homa, the Register and Receiver of the
land Office have decided that neither OF
contestants was entitled to the land.
A barrel containing a Newfoundland
dog was sent over Horseshoe Falls at
Niagara on the 21st. Pieces of the barrel
were found, but the dog was not seen.
Cattle Kate alias Kate Maxwell, the
notorious cattle rustler OF Wyoming Ter
ritory, was lynched, along with Averil,
her paramour, on the Goth, near Rawlins,
Wyo.
Colonel r. J. Page, a prominent law
yer and editor of the Times-Register at
Marion, N. c., was shot and killed on the
22d at Ashyille, N. c., while alighting
from the midnight train.
The owners OF the American schooner
Matte Winship, which was seized of
Nova Scotia for illegal fishing, have been
ordered by the Canadian government to
pay fine OF 5000 and costs.
The contract for the furnishing of 428
tons of steel plates for the armored bat
tie ship Maine, has been awarded by the
Department to the Linden Steel Com
pany, OF PIttsburg, for $34 ,753.
The law firm in New York which
Grover Cleveland entered after leaving
the Presidency, has not, 1t Is reported,
secured any unusual increaseof business
on account of the distinguished accession
Senator Wade Hampton has just re-
turned from long visit to Canada, and
states that the question OF annexing Cam
ada to the United States is being ser
iously considered by the Canadian au-
thorities.
John L. Sullivan has received the $50,
600 stake in the Kilrain fight, also Rich
ard K. Fox belt, representing the world