The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
EASTERN ITEMS.
Willard AND THE OREGON TRANS
CONTINENTAL.

Secretary Bayard'S Marriage-Woman's
Suffrage-Factories Established
Prisoners Lashed-Miners
Resume Work.
Maine farmers complain of scarcity
| of help.
Natural gas will soon be piped to San.
dkusky, Ohio.
President Harrison will not talk poll.
tics on Sunday.
Congressman Samuel s. Randall is con-
valescing rapidly.
The Chicago Drainage bill has passed
the Illinois senate.
Worms are destroying the cotton crops
III Southern Arkansas.
Anarchist literature are being extern
slvely circulated in Chicago.
The Atlanta is to relieve the Omaha as
flagstaff oil the Asatic station.
Oil has been struck at a reported depth
OF 1900 feet in Terre Haute, Ind.
The Woman's Municipal Suffrage bill
was defeated in the Michigan senate.
All OF Mrs. Langtry's stage properties
are to be sold at auction on May 2Sth.
A Northern syndicate has purchased
10000 acres OF land in North Carolina.
A Chicago meat firm will build FIVE
story refrigerating depot at McKeesport
Compulsory education laws are likely
to break up child labor in several states.
"Uncle Dick Tate" ex-State Treasurer
of Kentucky is believed to be in Califor-
MA
A report in the West Virginia Guber-
natorlal contest is not expected before
July
A million dollars in gold bars has been
ordered for export to France from New
York.
Eleven prisinors were lashed and five
of them pilloried at New Castle, Del, re-
Gently.
The town of Cummings, ILL.,, suffered
from disastrous fire last week; loss,
100000.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has received
from the Queen Regent OF Spain, pho
tograph.
1t is thought the sum of $2,0OO,O0O will
cover the entire cost of the New York
pageant.
The Illinois house has passed the bill
reducing the rate of interest from s to
per cent.
Ex-Commissioner of Pensions John G..
Black VIII make his home at Chicago
hereafter.
Willard claims to have secured a ma
jority of the stock OF the Oregon Trans
continental.
Horrible stories are being told of the
management Of the asylum for the Chi
cago insane.
The coming conference of North Amer
lean nations at Washington promises to
be a success.
The Pennsylvania legislature appro-
priated $75, 900 for dress uniforms for the
State militia.
Mrs. A. f. Horton, OF San Diego, was
thrown from & cab at Washington, last
week, and killed.
The Canadian Fisheries Department is
already sending out its armed cruisers to
watch American fishermen.
The New York legislature has appro-
priated $4,000 for monument to John
Ericsson, in New York city.
Artesian wells have a future in this
country. The towns in Dakota are put
ting them to important uses.
A wind and hailstorm passed through
the northern portion of Texas, last week,
doing great damage to crops.
1t is said that the negroes of Louisiana
and Mississippi are moving out by thou
sands and are going to Kansas.
sumed work at Pittston, Penn, after an
idleness OF over seven months.
A mob at Wyckliffe, KY, on the 18th
inst, hanged Joe Thompson, who had
criminally assaulted a little girl.
V;scount Adolph de Vallcourt, a dis
tinguished Frenchman, died suddenly at
San Antonio, Texas, of epilepsy.
At a recent birthday celebration in
Fairhaven, VT, thirteen persons were
present whose ages aggregated 1913 years.
William Hansen, q 17-vear-old boy,
was wantonly shot at Joliet, ILL.,, last
week, by a colored policeman named
Babb.
Fish in the Iowa river are dying by
thousands from Marshalltown down. 1t
is believed the glucose works have pois-
soned the water.
Denver, Col, authorities are making a
vigorous war on vice. Over four hum
dfed prostitutes have been arrested with
in the past few days.
A woman's walking match is in pro-
gress at Baltimore, one of the conditions
being that 800 miles must be covered in
six days or no money is paid.
Francis Wayland Goddard, of Provi-
dence, r. l., died suddenly in dentist g
office in Boston, on the 18th inst He
was widely known in the state.
The marriage OF ex-Secretary Bayard
to Miss Clymer, daughter of E.'. Clymer,
of the United States navy, CT Washing
ton, will occur early in the summer.
The Sioux Reservation in Dakota,
which is expected to be soon ceded to the
United States, is five times - large as
Oklahoma and five times better farm
lands.
Twenty factories, with the aggregate
capital of 81 SOC, 900, have been establish
ed in Florence, Ala, town of some
25OO people, during the seven months