The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
EASTERN ITEMS.
THE PUBLIC DEBT INCREASED DIR
ING MAY
A Rich Vein of Gold Found in Georgia
"A Woman to Be Hanged-Death
From Fear-Two THEY
Lynched at Seattle.

Ohio oil will be pumped to New York
city.
Valentine, Neb., has an Indian hod
carrier.
Mind-Reader Bishops estate was worth
only $3.50.
Bangor, Me-, is to run its own electric
light plant.
Oklahoma's inhabitants are.disappear-
ing rapidly.
Smallpox is making terrible ravages in
Guatemala.
The public debt has increased So, 7O2. :
S77 during May.
Indianapolis talks of peoples coop
eratlve ice company.
President Harrison will spend part Of
his summer in Maine.
Internal revenue frauds have been dis
covered at Cincinnati.
Paramount Park, Philadelphia, is to
have gravity railroad.
One or two districts in Florida began
shipping peaches last week.
The bathing season has already been
initiated at Old Point Comfort.
4 woman who had been bitten in Phil
adelphia 10y dog, died OF fear.
The Valkyrie finished third in the
yacht races in Eng land, on the Sd.
The incorporation of the St. Louis
breweries was completed on the 3lst.
Some Iowa counties are payinga bounty
OF cents head for gophers destroyed.
United States Minister Ryan was ban
quoted at the City of Mexico, on the 30th.
A great effort is being made il New
York TO promote trade with South Amer
lea.
A smallpox patient was discovered IN
the Milwaukee County Hospital, on the
3Oth.
A rich vein OF gold ore is reported to
have been found on farm near Gaines
vile, Ga.
The runner that an extra session of
Congress will be held in October, is re-
newed.
A railroad agent at Shelbvville, Ind,
has been arrested for selling tickets on
Sunday.
A war rate on the roads west of Chi
cago, extending to the Pacific Coast, is
predicted.
General n. P. Chapman, of California,
with his family, is on social visit to
Washington.
The monument over the tomb of ex-
President Arthur, at Albany, will be un-
yelled June 10.
An earthquake at Ell Paso on the 3lst,
caused the people TO rush from their
houses in terror.
A heavy fall Of snow is reported from
several parts of Michigan. The damage
to crops is great.
A new political organization known as
the Single Tax Party" has been formed
IN South Dakota.
A woman is to be hung in Jefferson
county, Ala, June q, for highway rob
berry. She is colored.
Frost damaged the corn in some por-
tons of Indiana so severely that replant-
ing became necessary.
Canadian Forgers are flying to the
Unitedt Safes. 1t is queer crime that
doesn't work both ways.
Congressman Edward J. Gay, a mil
lionaire sugar-planter, died at Thibo-
deauX, La. the 30th inst
The American expedition to begin work
on the Nicaragua Canal, sailed from New
York under British colors.
Huejuetta, Mexico, was almost entirely
destroyed by hail storm an inundatlon
on the 30th. Many lives were lost.
A convention to frame Constitution
for the ''State of Wyoming" has been
called for July 4th, at Cheyenne.
Thirty divorces were granted In one
day during the recent session OF the
Supreme Court at Manchester, n. Fl.
Hungarlans and Poles are leaving
Reading, Penn, in large numbers on ac-
count Of the suspension at the iron works
The jury in the case of the McClelland-
town bandits returned a verdict OF guilty
against Louis Wasker and the two Sulll-
vans.
C. P. Huntington is to build palatial
residence in New York, on the southwest
corner OF Filth avenue and FIfty-seventh
street.
tits understood that it will be several
months before the guns OF the Charlf s.
ton and Baltimore will be ready to go on
board.
A number of persons in Atlanta re-
sponded to parrots cry OF fire" and
discovered that a house across the way
was in flames.
The Palace Car Company is suing the
Wagner Car Company to prevent the lat
ter from using the vestibule as COM
pleted structure.
The iron market at Cleveland, Ohio,
was nearly paralyzed on the 3fst by the
sale OF 5000 tons of Tennessee iron, Al
forge, at $l3 60 delivered
Gambling is licensed in Laramie,
Wyo. T." Such is the deplerable but
truthful item that is going the rounds OF
the Western press.-Laramie Boomerang
The Secretary of War has ordered the
dismissal from the army OF Private dus-
tavus Kimball, Company 6, Thirteenth
Infantry, now in confinement at Angel
Island, Cal.
The Pail Mall Gazette greeted our new
Minister to England, on has arrival IN
London. with glowing panegyrlc on
Abraham Lincoln, and adds: I'VE vel
come the son for the sake of the father :
The California capitalist reported to
have married lady OF Pontic, Mich,
is supposed to be L. N. Brannac, who
has a wife at Santa Cruz He is worth
about $50. 900.
A game of baseball was played at Port
land last Saturday, between the printers
of the Morning Oregonian ard the print
ers OF the Lewis & Dryden Printing Co.,
for the benefit of the Seattle sufferers.