The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-17

work on tns Eleventh Census Rerun-
London to Have an Underground
Electric Railroad.

Six thousand Germans sailed for Anne,
lea recently.
Mexico has decided to give bounties t
sugar producers.
Preparatory work has already begun O,
the eleventh census.
The Welden Extradition bill has passe,
the Canadian senate.
The crop reports from Minnesota an,
Dakota are favorable.
Beautiful modern houses near Londo,
rent for 5000 per year.
A rich gold discovery is reported i,
franklin county, Va.
There was a $75, 900 fire at Buena Vista
COL, on the 28th inst.
Henri Rochefort's son committed sui
eide at Bona, Algeria.
Silk weavers to 60 to New York ar,
advertised for in Switzerland.
The American Samoan Commissioner,
are at London, on their way to Berlin.
A team from the Manhattan Athleti,
Club will be brought to the Pacific Coast
Edinburgh has voted the freedom OF
the city to Parnell by vote of IA to Is
The Standard Oil company has come
into possession of the st. Louis Gas Trust
Burglars secured $23, 900 from the post.
office at La Harpe, Ill, on the 9th inst
James, the deposed Long Branch
preacher, has been arrested on three
charges.
There were 1913 deaths from pneumonia
in New York city during the week end
ing April 13.
London is to have an underground elec-
trio railroad that will "do" two miles in
ten minutes.
Yellow Jack swung southwark from
Floriday and has killed 1000 Opeople at Rio
since last fall.
Those who didn't get good claims in
the Oklahoma rush declare the whole
thing a swindle.
Some uneasiness is felt at the City of
Mexico over reported filibustering in
Lower California.
Emperor William has been instru-
mental in the building of four new
churches in Berlin.
A man died from sunstroke at Okla
hOma City last week while sitting on his
claim unprotected.
Lady Lonsdale sailed on the Umbra on
the 9th inst, to join her husband, who
is in San Francisco.
A fire in the Lee-Deening Company's
establishment at ST. Louis, on the 2Sth,
caused a loss of $125,000.
Scott Bailey, the negro who assaulted a
young lady at Halifax courthouse, Va, =,
recently, was caught and lynched.
In Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn,
which was opened in 1910, the 250, ,000th
interment took place there recently.
The City of Paris, the new steamer
which has just completed its first trip,
cost $2,500,000 and can accommodate
1000 passengers.
George Francis Train has tasted eleven
days. He drinks only water, which he
thinks is sufficiently nourishing to any
one but glutton.
At the Texas Spring Palace in Fort
Worth, 173 varieties of Texas grass will
be exhibited. The exhibition will be
opened this month.
Billy Wilson, of st. Paul, Mimi, a
heavy weight, says that he is anxious to
meet Peter jackson in a fight to finish.
Both are colored men.
Barron amendment to the supply bill,
increasing the duty on saw-logs for ex-
port from Canada, has been rejected by
the Canadian parliament.
The women of Paris now indulge in
cigarettes made of tea, and the effect on
the nerves is much more marked than
that exercised by tobacco.
There is a bad show for wheat in Rus
sia as well as in Austria, but there is
bright outlook in all the wheat-growing
districts of the United States.
Colonel D. B. Dyer, of Kansas City,
has been elected mayor of Guthrie, Okla
homa, as a compromise candidate.
Gamblers are being driven away.
The Prussian Minister of War, at re-
cent reception to the Emperor, surprised
his guests with music furnished by an
orchestra made up of army officers.
An Englishman has made toy con-
tanning 400 animals and men. They are
all put in motion by windmill turned
DIV the current from burning candles.
There is considerable excitement in
Saline county, Mo-, over the discovery OF
GOLD near Arrow Rock, California ex-
pert having pronounced it a rich lind.
The bark J. w. Scammell. from st.
yohns, N. F., for Rio Janeiro, ran into
New York, her crew having mutined.
They say that the vessel is unseaworthy.
The managers of the Western roads
met at Chicago on the 9th to consider
the proposition of lessening the tine be-
tween Chicago and Ogden. 1t is claimed
fast trains are too expensive.
Lieutenant Dorr, who eloped from
West Point with the wife OF Lieutenant
Tottten, about two years ago, is now
manager of the Rarrios estate in Guate-
mala and is living splendidly.
Postmaster Edward S. Jimison, at Ash
borne, Penn, shot burglar dead while
breaking into the postofice, on the 27tb.
Unison, who was sick in bed with pneu-
monia, was appointed only two weeks
ago.
At Chelsea Park, Kansas City, Mo-, on
the 2Sth, bridge across an artificial lake
gave way and precipitated about seventy
five person into seven feet OF water
Most of them scrambled out or were as
sisted on shore, more frightened than
hurt. but fifteen were injured, four O
them severely.
On the 18th inst, horrible railroad
accident occurred on the Grand Trnni