The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
EASTERN ITEMS.
BANKER DREXELS DAUGHTER
KATE, TAKES THE VEIL.

Murat H6 stead To Be Onereo the Rus
sian Mission = Charges Against
Oarsman Teemer New
York's Registration
Jay Gould is trying to secure an indie
pendent outlet to Boston.
North Dakota's Legislature viii as
semble on November 10th.
Kansas expects to make two million
pounds o. sugar this year.
The whole village of Powelton, Center
Penn, is advertised for sale.
Philadelphia is to have a new million
dollar hotel, called the ''Metppole."
Ex-Mayor Seth Low, of Brooklyn, has
accepted the Presidency Of Columbia
College.
The contest for the speakership OF the
next House is now centralized in Wash
ingtOn.
1t is reported in Washington that the
Russian Mission is TO be offered to MHrat
Halstead.
The long session of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers at Denver has
come to an end.
John Barry, son of policeman IN New
York, has been driven insane Dy the ex-
cessive use of cigarettes.
1t is reported that large amounts OF
money are IN circulation In
the State of Puebla, Mexico.
The customs authorities are endeavor-
ing to stop the opium smuggling on the
Canadian Western frontier.
The official announcement has been
made that at last the White House has
been entirely cleared o. rats.
1t is understood that Secretary Tracy
will recommend that the Boston Navy
Yard be fitted up to build modern ships.
The names of 2 ,Oe7 colored voters were
stricken from the lists in Lynchburg, Va.
Otherwise they could have voted at the
recent election.
Frank NJ. Smith, agent of an aid soci-
ety ard building association at Min
has skipped and rewards are
offered fO- him.
The Nebraska State Board of Trans
portation has issued an order requiring
the railroads to put in force the coal
tariff, recently prescribed by the Board,
within thirty days.
COMPLICATIONS have arisen in the
MARYLAND oyster business A fight for
Western trade has begun between the
Baltimore Exchange and the Peninsular
Packing ASS citation.
Experts say, according to the Pittsburg
Dispatch, that with natural gas and other
steel rails can be turned out
near that city for less cost than they
can be made In England.
Five men were killed and three injured
by the breaking out of molten iron In
Coleman Furnace No. /, at Lebanon,
Penn. The men were overwhelmed by
the rush of molten iron.
In bulletin issued by toe Ohio State
Board of Health, diphtheria is shown TO
be prevalent to an alarming extent Id
Cincinnati, Toledo, Springfield, Dayton,
Columbus and other places,
The New York Post returns the
Worlds Fair subscription books with the
notification that it will not only not re-
ceive subscriptions. but will oppose the
Fair if { entral Park is chosen.
The National Maritime Exposition was
held at Boston. On all sides were
models of Yachts, steamers, hfe-boats,
berths and SAMPLES of everything per
tanning to ships and shipping.
The total registration in New York city
is 2lS, 800, the hghtest know in the city
since 1885. Last year, which was the
Presidential year, the ref istratios reached
2S6, $40. In 1877 il was 233, ,436.
Burglars near Hume, Bates county
Mo-. tortured Mr.. and Mrs Janies. an
elderly couple, to force them to tel
where their money was hidden. Mrs
James died from her injuries.
jerry Coffey shot and mortal,
wounded his wife at Leadville. The
murdered woman's maiden name was
Mary Gallagher, and she was brougn'
up at Virginia City and Pierce, New.
The Pres5ytery in special session Al
New York has adopted the proposition
to revise the confession OF faith by
vote of 52 to %. The extent OF the re
vision of the confession is undetermined
After Miss Kate Drexel, the Philadel
phia bankers daughter, takes tie ven
she will go West to establish Schools 10
Indians, and South to place means
education within the reach OF the colores
people.
The Pittsburg, Penn. Window Glass
Manufacturers Association has decldet
to advance the price of glass 8 per cent
making 10 per cent advance this iail
Other districts are expected to take simi
Lar action.
A type-written will has been declares
valid by the courts of Berks county
Penn. This establishes the claim Q
type-writer wolk to be called writing,
while the patent Office has ofhcian.
classed it as printing"
Near Vergennes, Mich, Sunday
Hagga Westbrook fractured his we
skull with hamnar while she sep
and his three daughters while asieel
were assaulted In the same manner
ALI were fatally injured.
The Duke of Northumberland recentr
presented to the Astor Library four vol
nmes of the annals of his ancestors, on
of whom, Lord Percy, served IN the a.
tack on bunker Hill and the stofmih
of Washington Heights.
The epidemic OF typhoid fever at que
bee was caused by a uliikman washn
his cans in water from a foul wen
Nineteen cut of twenty-nine famliie
whom be supplied were stricken, anon
which were eleven deaths.
Commander Francis Higg1son ha
had charges made against him for plat
ing GUY Andrews, young apprentice