The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-06
EASTERN ITEMS.
MALONE WILL ACCEPT THE NOM
INATtON.
Horrible Railroad Accident-Laying the
Conner Stone-Killed With q Beer
Glass-Skipped to Canada
Arrested for Bigamy.

Whoopup is the name of a Dakota town.
Washington, D. c., wants big hotel.
Wymore, Neb., fakirs pay $50 tax daily.
Minneapolis has an Industrial Ex-
change.
Alabama reports an immense" corn
crop in sight.
The next Scotch-Irish Congress will
meet at Pittsburg.
A Pennyslvania colony wants to settle
near Moulton, Ala.
The wheat yield in the Northwest is
beyond expectations.
A free bridge over the Savannah at Au-
gusta, Ga, is talked of.
A Denver paper has been fined 1900
for cri i'icizing the court.
There were 21S deaths in Boston in the
week ending August 10.
Ex-Congresman William Mines, of
Virginia, died on the 10Th.
New York's Mayor has resumed his
war on the overhead wires.
The Foresters will hold their next an
nual convention at Brooklyn.
New York Republicans will hold their
State Convention September 25th.
George Slater, newspaper man, well
known at New York, died on the 10Th.
The Indian Commissioners will soon
begin negotiations with the Chickasaws.
Cleveland is to have the best cable
road. 1t will make eleven miles per
hour.
A woman of Trenton, Kan, seized and
held four of her neighbours chile rem for
debt.
William Walter Phelps was the guest
of Secretary Blame at Bar Harbor last
week.
Elias Loomis, LID, professor of ma
tural philosophy and astronomy at Yale,
is dead.
The winnings of Haggin's stable to
date at New York are reported to be
$87, ,1S5.
Louis Demarest and Sumner Miller
were hanged at Lake Charles, La, on
the 10th.
The gun-hoat Petrol has made satisfac-
tory trials and the fine will probably be
removed.
A gun, capable of discharging 1000
balls per minute have been invented by
an Indiana man.
William Hef1ing, the leader of des-
perate band of counterfeiters in Arkansas,
has been captured.
There is proposition to make chiefs
of divisions subject to the operations of
the Civil Service law.
In a distance of seven niles from
Pueblo, Col, seven bridges were carried
away by floods recently.
Professor Barrett, City Electrician of
Chicago, says that city will soon be the
best lighted in the world.
Three men were fatally and two SER
iously injured by falling walls at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the 10Th.
The republicans speak confidently of
electing the successor to Gay, deceased
Congressman from Louisiana.
A forty round prize fight between two
cadets, took place at West Point, N. Y,
on the 22d, and ended in draw.
1t is understood that the friends of the
Atchison are ready to advance the money
to see it through its present difficulty. =
Post Quartermaster-Serge Thomas
Griffin, now at Benicia Arsenal, CalifOr-
MIA, has been placed on the retired list.
Kate Baum, 16 years old, who myster-
iously disappeared from Lebanon, ILL.,,
has been found in hospital in st. Louis.
The West Virginia election investiga-
ton has shown singularly fair contest.
No genuine frauds have been discovered.
At Indianapolis on the 22d, President
Harrison received large number OF call
ers in the parlors of the Denison Hotel.
Malone, it is believed, will accept the
nomination for Governor of Virginia, and
the administration will give him its sup
port.
The Constitutional Convention at Bis
marck, N. D., has indorsed the PROPOSE
ton to hold worlds fair in 1892 in Chi
cagO.
The Brazilian ENJOYS to the Congress
of American States, to meet in Washing
ton next October, have arrived in New
York.
Howe and James Pullen, under arrest
at Liberty, Mo-, charged with the Wabash
train robbery, have practically established
an alibi.
The Kansas City Council has passed a
law raising huckster's license to $50.
The grocers worked this through to kill
the business.
]. Frank Collom, the alleged forger o1
1927 900 worth of notes, was released
from the Minneapolis Jail on the 10th,
on 500, 900 bail.
Henry Terlan, prominent young man
at Covington, KY, was killed by blow
from beer glass in the hands Of a
woman at dance-house.
The Newport cottagers, in their hight
against the street railway there, set uI
the claim in their bill of equity that they
own to the middle of the street.
1t is gravely announced in the dis
patches from the English feet that it has
captured the White Star steamer Ger.
manic and the Ameri, an liner British
Princess and made their passengers pris-
oners of war. This is part Of the mimic
warfare INDUCED in by the English feei
which went to sea after the review OF
Emperor William.
James Spencer, of Parke county, Ind,
had his face accidentally bruised by the
head of horse afflicted with glanders'
| The disease Was thus communicated t(