The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-23
EASTERN ITEMS.
AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE WANTS
THE ALTON ROAD.
The Governments Expenses-Died From
Delirium Tremens-Beat the Cop
per Trust-Fighting the
Jute Bagging Trust

Joaquin Miller is in Chicago.
Buffalo is to have a "men only" hotel.
Gold has been found near Arrow Rock.
Mo.
St. Louis wants the Worlds Fair in
1892.
Salina, Kan, lawyers have gymna-
SUM.
East St. Louis is to have an electric
railway.
Chattanooga, Tenn, is to have electric
street cars.
Squash fried in bread crumbs is a new
summer dish.
A movement is on foot to form an
Orange Trust.
A case of yellow fever is reported at
Brunswick, Ga.
Secretary Tracy is quite i'll from an at
tack of dysentary.
Gold is said to have been found in Cler-
mont county, Ohio.
Thirty protective tariff clubs have been
formed in Alabama.
The average taxation in New Hamp-
shire is $1.64 per 500.
A wolf-hunting association is to be in
corporated at Salem, Ill.
Montana's Convention will declare
strongly against tn Chinese.
Boston wants the big show of 1892 held
at Washington, not New York.
Alabama farmers are fighting hard to
break up the jute bagging trust.
A dispute over the payment of % cents
has led to law suit in Pittsburg.
The stream sent by Hartford fire en-
CINE beats the world, going 348 feet.
A Chicago dime museum is trying to
get hold of Geronimo and Sitting Bull.
North Dakota is expected to house
about 10,000,0O0 bushels of wheat to sell.
The Scott Elevated Railroad bill passed
the Missouri House of Delegates on
the I'd.
The Special Senate Committee on Arid
Lands held session at St. Paul On the
1st inst.
Murat Halstead has annouced that he
is a candidate for United States Senator
from Ohio.
Editor John Arkins, who was brutally
assaulted at Denver by blackleg, is
improving.
The Constitution of South Dakota is
longer and stronger than that OF the
United States.
1t is contended that Black Bart had
something to do with the train robbery
near Kansas City.
A man named j. D. Sullivan from San
Francisco, died from delirium tremens at
Denver, on the Sd.
Suits are pending against fourteen ex-
! County Treasurers in Arkansas why are
short in their accounts.
Kilrain is about to leave Virginia fol
parts unknown. He says he has no idea
of surrendering himself.
C.P. Huntington will head syndicate,
it is stated, to purchase the ship-build-
ing works of Roach & Sons.
Burke, the Cronin suspect, is safely
harbored in Jail at chicago. and it is re-
ported that he made confession.
The governments expenditure in July
exceeded the receipts by 81 l7,3ll.5l,
owing to the large pension payments.
Hansen, the Minneapolis man bitten
by cat, is to be sent to Pasteur, who
has offered to treat him free of charge.
| Lightning struck an electric car at
Lynn, Mass, the other day. A big scare
and fortunate escapes for many passen-
gers.
| A bona fide offer of $40,00O,0OO has
| been made for the Alton Road by an En-
glish syndicate to General Counsel Beck
with.
Chicago is incorporating Worlds Fair
Association with a capital OF $5,OOO,OJO
A strong effort is being made to smut out
New York.
The order of parade of the Knights
! Templar at the Triennial Conclave to be
held in October at Washington, has been
announced.
The Standing Rock Indians will sign
the treaty and. it is safe to predict that
IL ,OOO, 900 acres of land will be opened
for settlement.
Mayor Grant OF New York has received
plans for tower which shall exceed the
Eihel Tower in height for the Columbus
Exposition in 1897.
Judge Field of TIE Circuit Court OF
Kansas City has declared the statute al
lowing religious associations to be incor-
porated unconstitutional.
The Nicaragua Canal Company expects
to have the lake open to the world III
two and oIe-half years and the whole
canal in about five years.
| Ex-Attorney-General Garland has been
appointed resident attorney OF the North
ern Pacific Railroad, at salary, 1t is
said, of $25, 900 per year.
The National Bureau of Engraving at
Philadelphia, one OF the most extensive
| lithographing establishment in the coun
| try, is in financial Distress
Prof. J. w. Howell, well-known edu-
Gator Of Rutledge, Tenn, is dying OF n.y.
drophobia. He was bitten thirteen years
ago by black -and-tan terrier.
James B. Haggin sailed for Europe on
the Sd. He won the suit against the
French Copper Trust for 100000, and
has gone to collect the money.
Twin children belonging to one OF the
| locked-out miners at Spring Valley, Ill,
died on the I'd, the mother having too
little food to provide nourtshment Tor the
children.
1t is reported that the Nicaragua Canal