The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-15
EASTERN ITEMS.

| There is bitter crossing fight between
the Duluth, Crookston & Northern and
the Manitoba roads.
The whole business portion of Find
ley's Lake, Pa, was destroyed by fire
Sunday.
The baby giraffe born in the Cincin-
natl Geological gardens is dead. Its
mother refused to nourish it.
The latest advices from Blount county.
ala, state that the outlaw, Rube Bur
rows, and his partners are still at large.
1t is confidently asserted that the res
ervations of the Kiowas, Sacs and Kick
apoos will be open to settlers by next
March
There is no compromise possible be-
tween the Baseball league and Brother
hood. If the association remains neu-
tral it will not be molested.
William Henderson, an old and we'll
known theatrical manager, died last
week at Stockbridge, Mass, from pneu-
n1onia. He was 66 years of age.
The notes of the great lumber firm of
Wainwright & Bryant, of Philadelphia,
have gone to protest. Judgments have
been entered aggregating $25O,OOO.
The report that E. ]. Baldwin has pur-
chased half interest in the Richmond
hotel at Chicago is discredited at Chica-
60 by those Immediately interested.
A fire at Selma, Alabama, Sunday, de-
stroved Leopold Bros. dry goods store,
td fa1 Il L
The loss is over $780,
Thomas Duane, who is supposed to be
the driver OF the hack that carried DR..
Cronin to Lis death, has been arrested
at st. Joseph, Mich.
Sixteen men were required to carry
the body of Annie Price, the Irish giant
ess, Barnum's fat woman, who died last
week, to the hearse
1t is reported that John Jacob Astor is
engaged to be married to Mrs. Bowler, of
Cincinnati, widow of nephew of George
H. Pendleton.
Stoneboro, a mining village of !, 200 in-
habitants, near Sharon, Pa, was almost
literally swept out Of existence by FIRE
Saturday. Loss, $150,000.
Samuel w. Miller, cashier of the Amer
ican bank at Findlay, Ohio, was prob
ably fatally stabbed Sunday night by F.
w. Stokes his father-in-laW.
The roads competing with the Union
Pacific and Northwestern will form. an
alliance and inaugurate a bitter fight
against the Vanderbilt Union Pacific
deal.
Father Matthew has come to America
to raise funds for the completion of the
church begun fifty years ago by the orig
inal Father Matthew, of temperance
fame.
The Mexican government processes to
be seriously offended at the tone of the
speech of Mr.. Miner, when presented
to the Costa Rican governor as minister
of the United States.
Albert Parsons, the 10-vear-old son of
tie executed anarchist, Parsons, myster-
ioasly disappeared from his home on
Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, and has not
since been seen.
A movement has been begun at Colum.
bus, Ohio, by the labor organizations, to
islature to support the eight-hour and
weekly-payment bill.
Democratic heelers at Baltin ore are
making confessions of their sins for the
ber eft of their former political oppo-
nents. The elections take place Tues
day, the 25th of November.
Millionaire W. w. Astor, late minister
to Italy, has written a novel entitled
"Sporza," based on the Mlanese song
which he has translated. The novel is
semi-historical Italian romance.
Some surprise was caused Sunday
evening il Trinity Episcopal church, the
most fashionable at Newark, N j., by
the announcement that Rector J. Saun-
ders Reed would resign and 20 to San
Francisco chmch.
Two negroes engaged in fight at Mem
dhis with cotton hooks. They had
quarreled over the prior right to unload
at the railroad station. Both received
wounds that will probably cause their
death
Five of the Rarnards, moonshiners,
who killed Henry Sutton Las January in
Hancock county, Tenn, will be hanged
on the 23d of November, the supreme
court affirming the death sentence Of the
court below.
Among the proposed reform meas
ures to be introduced in the French
Chambers, is one restricting the liberty
of the press and es establishing a kind of
censorial commission instead of jurors to
try offenders of the law.
Before leaving Omaha each of the ALL
souvenir, steers horn brightly pol
ished, decorated with ribbons, and filled
with fancy little sacks containing samples
of Nebraska grains.
The prospects of Johnstown, Pa, being
again under water are good. Rain has
been falling almost continually for the
past thirty-six hours. A great many of
the streets are already almost impossible
to pedestrians.
Postmaster General Wanamaker in his
forthcoming annual repvrt. will recon-
mend that postofices be established on
the principal steamers plying between
the ports of the United States and Eu-
rope, similar to the postal service on
railway trains.
Thomas Shea, of Boston, started out
to kill John L. Sullivan Saturday, and
found him in barber shop with Thomas
j. Kelley, a prize fighter. Shea COM
menced the quarrel, and Kelley, seeing
Shea move to take a pistol, took razor
from barber's hand and cut Shea's
throat. Shea ca-not live.
1t is believed that Charles w. Hatch,
who Was accraed of murdorinO his ,,nclo