The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26
EASTERN ITEMS.
THE g. A. r. ENCAMPMENT AT MIL
WAUkEE.
Cut in Freight Rates-Another
Flood at Johnstown The
Cronin Murder Case.

President Harrison is at Deer Park, Md.
Mrs Langtry is quite i'll with brochitis.
A new screw has been sent to the
Nipsic.
A summer charity in New York is the
ice-water cart.
There is an epidemic of insanity at
Elizabeth, NJ
The fee for a retail liquor license 1T
Joliet, ILL.,, is $1,000.
Boston's directory, just issued, con-
tains 1872, 1853 names.
In Minneapolis the surplus CANNES are
curtailed by electricity.
There were 1874 deaths in Boston in the
week ending June 29th.
An Englis syndicate has got possession
OF the breweries at Denver.
A statue of General Grant was unveiled
at Fort Leavenworth July 4.
Corporal Tanner had Grand Army
reception at Chicago, the 7th.
The total rainfall in Baltimore since
June 1st is over thirtyfour inches.
A Bridgetown woman, rs years old,
took her first railroad ride recently.
One hundred square miles in Montana:
were swept by prairie fire recently.
Seventeen persons were killed in the
railroad accident near ThaXton's, Va.
George w. Lord has been appointed
postmaster at ALA, Morrow county, Or.
The buffalo fly is reported to have ap-
peared among cattle at Three-mileRu |,
NJ.
Mexico is overrun with foreign capital
lists seeking opportunities to build rail-
roads.
Artificial ice is cheaper in Southern
cities than the natural article in the the
North.
In the past year there were 1866 deaths
by violence in New York, including ac-
cidents..
Mrs. ex-President John Tyler, died at
the Exchange Hotel, Richmond, Va, on
the 10th inst.
Johnstown women are using the ragged
garments which have been set out there
for carpet rugs.
Nothing of special Importance has been
done in the Constitutional Conventions
of the four new States.
Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of Cen
eral Sherman, was ordained priest at
Philadelphia, on the 7th.
Governor Lowery has invited President
Harrison to review the National Guard
of Mississippi, at Natchez.
The brickmakers' strike near Chicago
is growing serious. Police have to pro-
tect the new men employed
A new postoffice has been established
at Denver, Marion county, Or, with
Jacob Denver as postmaster.
Jefferson Davis has received an offer
from a Northern Publisher to write his
tory of the Confederate States.
A syndicate known as the american
Straw Board Company" has absorbed all
the principal mills in the country.
Cashier Miller of the Malta, Ohio, Ma
tionaI Bank, has disappeared. His ac-
counts are said to be short $32, 900.
Commissioner of Pensions Tanner de-
nies that he contemplates resigning, or
that his resignation has been asked for.
John Kelly was hanged at Canandai-
qua, n. Y, On the 10th inst, for the
murder OF Eleanor O'Shea, in November,
1888.
The gun shops at the Washington
Navy Yard are nearing completion, and
a large force will be put to work in few
weeks.
The contracts for the work of digging a
canal through Timpico Bar, Texas, are
said to have been let to New York and
New Orleans firm.
Another food at Johnstown, Pa, on
the 10th, causes the loss of property
amounting to $4,000 Thirty or forty
lives are reported lost.
Louis Charter, agent of the American
Express Company at Houghton, Mich,
has disappeared, and $40, 900 of the COM
pany's money is also missing.
The New York Board of Health has ap-
pointed forty doctors to visit the tene-
ments in July and August and give med
icine to the poor free of charge.
All the lines of the Trans Missouri AS
sociation will meet the cut of the Chicago
& Alton Road. The cut is on cattle from
Missouri river points to Chicago.
Mrs. Carlson, owner of the Carlson
cottage, where DIR. Cronin was murdered,
has identified Martin Burke as the man
who rented the cottage from her.
The gunboat Yorktown's battery is
nearly completed, and the vessel will soon
be taken to sea from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard for a trial test at broadside firing.
The Democrats arc to earnestly contest
the battles in the four new States this
fall, and they hope to be able to divide
the result equally with the Republicans.
The Persian Minister at Washington
complains of his treatment, society hav-
ing cut him off its list owing to his loose
associations, and he is anxious to leave
town.
Judge Tuley has declined to issue a
writ of habeas corpus in the case Of John
Beggs, senior guardian of Camp 20, Clam
na-Gael, now III Jail, charged with con-
spiracy to murder DR.. Cronin.
General Joseph E. Johnston rendered
his resignation of the Office of Railroad
Commissioner last March, but it was not
accepted until July 7th. His successor
is not yet publicly known.
John L. Sullivan and party was arrest