The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-02
EASTERN ITEMS.
MILWAUKEE, INVITES THE GRAND
ARMY VETERANS.
VIII Probably be Court
Battle Ship Texas-"True Light
Baptists Trouble Brew.
ing at Oklahoma City.

iAS dI OkidQOma City.
General Sherman is at Fort Riley, Kan.
The cranberry crop of New JERSEY is
said to be ruined.
Chicago restaurants are serving En-
gllsh sparrows for reed birds.
1t is believed the last cabinet meeting
OF the season was held on the 18th.
A Philadelphia newsboy has recovered
$4,000 for injuries from a traction car.
Malone will probably be the next Re-
publican candidate for Governor of Vir-
ginia.
It is estimated that the wheat crop OF
Missouri will aggregate 25 100000 bush
els.
1t is reasonably certain now that the
heavy gold expectation has virtually
ended.
Vigilantes at Springview, Neb., broke
into Jail and shot to death H. H. Maupin,
cattle-thief.
r. G. Horr, the recently appointed
Consul at Valparaiso, says he will not ac-
Cept the position.
The introduction of the electric light
has caused marked diminution of crime
in Pittsburg, Penn.
Secretary Blaine is said to contemplate
visit to the principal Southern cities
early in the autumn.
A Kansas editor says that 10000 rail-
road cars will be required to haul the
wheat crop of his State.
1t is said that more cattle have been
shipped from Texas to the North this sea-
son than for many years.
George Clark, at one. time owner o;
$4,000 acres OF land in Central New York,
died recently, aged so years.
A syndicate of English capitalists has
offered to purchase several of the large
Touring mills of Minneapolis.
The Chicago Board of Trade has re-
solved to restore the market quotations
withdrawn on the 31st of May.
The Indians at Cheyenne Agency, D.
T., are showing less antipathy to selling
their lands to the go, ernment.
The Niagara Commissioners are op-
posed TO all schemes Ior the CONVEX sion
of the cataract into water power.
The English plans of the hattie ship
Texas has got to be changed again to save
| the vessel from becoming failure.
Severe storms prevailed throughout
the northern part of the State of Illinois,
recently, doing much damage to crops.
The Reading Road intends to put in
practice it's elevated project in Philadel-
phia without the assent of the city coun-
Gil.
It is near to the scene of the New York
Johnstown flood that there is great ex-
element over the reported discovery OF
gold.
Twenty-Five cases of leprosy is reported
under treatment at the lazarettO at Ira
cadie, Gloucester county, New Bruins
| wick.
James A. Patterson, Jr., prominent
citizen of Waynesboro, Va, has left his
home and wife and debts for parts un-
known.
Anton Bolak was hanged at Belvidere,
| N. j., on the 10th inst, for the murder
of Michael Bollinshire, at Oxford, in Sep
tember last.
Non-resldents have been prohibited
from h,lnting in Indian Territory under
a penalty of $500 fine and cOnfiscation Of
the firearms.
The Utah wool output for 1889 will be
nearly $4,000, 900 pounds at prices rang
ing from IA to 19 cents, with an average
of i7a cents.
| William P. Sweepe, well-knOwn at
torney of Philadelphia, has disappeared,
and is said. to be an embezzler to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
Yellow fever is reported on board the
ship Premier, at Quebec. The captain
is dead, and two of the sailors is down
with the disease.
The cowboys and sheephearders in the
Chickasaw Nation are at daggers' points
and a bloody fight ls expected in the
Mud Greek section.
The failure of G. H. Treat & Co. and
The G. H. Treat Manufacturing Company
of Georgetown, Va, with liabilities o1
800, 900, is announced.
Milwaukee invites the Grand Army
veterans to 90 to the encampment there.
Commander-in-chief Warner also urges
the veterans to be present.
There is trouble brewing at Oklahoma
CITY, owing to the opposition to the pres.
ent city government. United States
troops have been asked for.
A number of persons implicated in the
Sullivan-Kilrain fight in Mississippi,
have been arrested and will be prosecut-
ed to the full extent of the law.
The MISSISSIPPI Democrats have nomi-
mated John M. Stone for governor. Gov
ernor Lowery is commended for his efforts
to stop prize fighting.
The annual regatta at Marblehead
Mass, has shown that the Merlin, one
of Edward Burgess latest designs, is the
fastest yacht that has yet sailed in those
waters.
| A new religious sect calling themselves
'sTrue Light Baptists" has sprung up in
the eastern part Of South Carolina. They
do not believe in ministers or in keeping
the Sabbath.
A Southern newspaper offers to give a
city lot to every new subscriber. A rival
paper makes the same offer, and agrees
to throw in city hall or street railroad.
No dollar limit there.
A cloudburst in the Little Kanawha
Valley, w. Va, on the 10Th was the most
disastrous ever known in that state. The
loss of life is great, and the loss of prop
lerty cannet now be even estimated.
Lieutenant Hampton M. Roach, First
Infantry, who left his station at Alcatfaz,