The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-08
EASTERN. ITEMS.
A WOMAN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
FOUR TIMES.

Roast. Alive-The Treasury Robbed
The International Congress-The
War Against the Jute Trust
"A Dividend Declared
Diphtheria is prevalent at Gallitzin
Penn.
Eight thousand cigarmakers are locked
out at Key West.
There were 1914 deaths in Boston in the
week ending October 18th.
The State forces have been withdrawn
from the work at Johnstown.
A giraffe was born at the Cincinnati
Geological Gardens ON the Goth.
Subscriptions to monument TO Cap.
tain Eads have begun in St. Louis.
There is an epidemic of typhoid fever
at Grandin, N. D., and great alarm is felt
There is no longer any reasonable
doubt that this is to be cheap food year
A company has been formed to build a
coffin factory in st. Louis to fight the
trust.
An attempt was made to wrecka Rock
Island train, near Mcfarland, Kan, on
the 10Th.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has
declared its usual quarterly 81 per share
dividend.
An experiment of using steel ties is
now being made by the Chicago 4 Wes-
tern Indiana.
West Virginians want one of the new
cruisers named the Wheeling, after the
city of that name.
Anthony Hamilton. the colored jocky,
rides for August Belmont next season at
salary of of $4,000.
Eight citizen of New York have been
killed by badly Insulated electric wires
within eighteen months.
A syndicate is examining the cable
railway system a. Kansas City, with a
view to purchasing the same.
B. T. Babbitt, the famous soap manu-
facturer, died in New York on the Doth.
He was aged an even 80 years.
The delegates to the International Con-
gress are TO be given a possum barbecue
when they visit Nashville, Tenn.
A legal flaw has been discovered in
nearly all the mortgages held by loan
companies on Kansas homesteads.
Bradstreet's weekly trade circrlar
states that the prices in California wines
are strengthening on the short crop.
jeremiah Ahern of California, clerk
in the Geologic Survey at $1,000 per year,
has been promoted to the $l4O0 class.
The r. B. Stone Lumber Company of
Chicago has made an assignment. The
assets are $36, 900; liabilities, 10000.
The death of Ex-Governor Hartranft
necessitates the appointment Of a new
member of the Cherokee Commission.
A test will shortly be made at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, of the newly patented pro-
cess for making steel direct from coke
pig.
Maggie Mitchell, it is said, has mar
ried Charles Abbott, the leading man Of
the company in which the actress is a
star.
A Pennsylvania woman who has been
struck by lightning four times has sus-
tained no injury beyond losing conscious
ness.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce
proposes to build 100000 building
Site, corner of India street and Central
wharf.
Rev. DR.. A. Judson Barrett of the
Lake-avenue Baptist Church at Roches-
ter, N. Y, dropped dead on the street on
the Goth.
The Texas Pacific round-house at Long
View, Texas, with seven new engines.
has been destroyed by fire. The loss is
$l55, 900.
Bill Nation, the Oldest moonshiner in
Southwestern Texas. has been captured.
Officers have been hunting him for
twenty five years.
H. D. Brooge of Topeka, Kansas, has
Just been declared to have forfeited $S0OO
because he loaned that sum at interest
above the legal rate.
Governor Melette of Dakota has for.
warded the Constitutions of North and
South Dakota and the official election
returns to the President.
Rev. John Mcdowell Leavitt of New
York, of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
has withdrawn to become q Reformed
Episcopal Church minister.
The Ordnance Department of the
United States Army is looking into the
subject of smokeless powder, and tests
are to be made at an early day.
George Hazleton, formerly Republican
Congressman from Wisconsin, has been
appointed Attorney for the District OF
Columbia, to succeed Mr.. Riddle.
At Greenville, Ala, a negro poured
gasoline over q white man and brother
negro touched the fluid with a flame.
The whiteman was literally roasted alive.
The Treasury at the City of Mexico has
been robbed of negotiable interior debt
bonds to the amount of $2,500, ,00s. Sew
eral arrests have followed and more are
expected.
The sheriff at Denver was charged with
favoring defendant in obeying venlre,
and at the request Of the States Attorney
the selection Of jurymeD was placed IN
other hands.
4 The Rowan county, KY, fued is be-.
ieved to have ended by the marriage OF
Frank Tol,iver and grace Martin, brother
and sister of the leaders of the opposing
bloody factions.
David P. Winnie, manufacturing agent
for twines and cordage in New York. has
assigned. His liabilities are $32 QUO.