The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-01
EASTERN ITEMS.
UNCLE SAM CAPTURED FIFTY.
THREE PRIZES.

Cut the Electric W1reS-A Congressman
Dead-A Hotel Manager Skips-
Big Failure-Publicly United
Suicide of Dude.
Congressman Nutting of New York, is
dead.
Land all over Missouri is advancing in
val1e.
The Indian Commission is at Guthrie,
Oklahoma.
John L. Sullivan says he is ready to
fight again.
The statement that Kansas is out OF
funds is denied.
Large numbers of deer are being killed
in Eastern Maine.
The Peking railway project has been
temporarily postponed.
A IA year-old boy, near Philippi, w.
Va, weighs 250 pounds.
Johnstown, Pa, has over three hun
dred cases OF typhoid fever.
1t would take train 1926 miles long
to carry the Kansas corn crop.
A piano tuner, totally deaf, has been
found by Cincinnati reporter.
In New York smoking cars are to be
provided on the street railways.
Quail and iack-rabbits are about to take
possession of Jefferson City: Mo.
The funeral of Bishop Vail took place
at Topeka, Kan, on the 14th inst.
The Cabinet on the 18th discussed our
commercial relations with Mexico.
Ex-Governor E. A. Percy, of Florida,
died at Galveston, Tex, on the 18th.
Secretary Tracy has given his consent
for Il Baltimore to have another trial.
Pueblo has let the contract for the
foundation of its Colorado Mineral Palace.
The Brotherhood Of Railroad Brake
men opened a session at ST. Paul OH the
18th.
One company now has control of the
seventy-two miles of street railway at
Omaha.
The work of laying a cable between
Halifax and Bermuda will commence III
November.
South Dakota will urge upon Legisla-
ture and Congress the necessity for irri-
CATION in that State.
Governor Hill and his personal staff
passed through Washington last week.
They called on the President.
Robert Barrier was taken from Jail at
Lexington, N. c.. last week, and lynched.
He murdered his mother-in-law.
The discovery of the white fungus,
which lays out the chinch bugs, has
proved great thing for Kansas.
Ex-Tax Collector Lederer, at Bloom,
ineton, ILL.,, has confessed to forgery,
larceny and falsifying the records.
A ffty-year-old grapevine grows in
Germantown, Penn, or a trunk which
meas ures two feet and half round.
H. E. Martin, manager of the Hotel
Delmonico at Kansas City, has disap-
peared with several thousand dollars.
Clark & Keen, Philadelphia manufac-
turers of worsteds, have made an assign
ment. Five hundred hands are affected.
The Laundrymen's National Associa-
in session at Buffalo, is discussing the
effect of Chinese work on American labor.
Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers, is opposed to
federation with other larbUr Organlza-
tions.
Complaints have been made against
certain cotton planters in Texas for i'm
porting Mexican labor to harvest their
crops.
A company has been founded at Jack
son, Miss, to buy large tract OF valu-
able land in Arkansas owned by Jefferson
Davis.
The Supreme Court met last week at
Washington, and afterward, according
to the annual custom, called upon the
President.
There are over forty Pension Office
employees drawing large salaries VINO
were rerated by Commissioners Tanner
and Black.
It is estimated that 100000, 900 worth
of pine lands have been released 70
public use by treaties with Indians In
Minnesota.
The authorities of Missouri are prepar.
ing to put in force the Anti-Pool and
Antitrust law passed at the last session
of the Legislature.
Efforts are being made to secure a pur'
chaser for the Panama Canal plant-one
who will obtain renewal OF the CONTRACT
and finish the work.
Hon. Frank Pettigrew OF Sioux Falls
and Judge e.. G. Moody OF Deadwood are
chosen to represent South Dakota IN the
United States Senate.
The Government, it is believed, vii
take some steps to recover the money
which has been paid to all those pen
sioners who have been rerated.
A special Naval Board, now in exist
ence, will, it is said, recommend the ap
preparation of $4,000, 900 for the exten
sion and improvement OF the BrooklyI
Navy Yard.
At the international Exhibition IL
Paris in 1878 the United States took tel
grand prizes. At the Worlds Far tnl
year Uncle Sam captured fifty-thre'
grand prizes.
A sensation has been created by th'
discovery of a deficiency of $4,000 IN th'
accounts of William III. Stowe, quarter
master of Admiral Foote Post, Crane
Army of the Republic, at New Haven
Conn.
G. o. Wheeler, at present super;nten
dent of the Wisconsin Central and forn
erly connected with the Michigan Cen
trail. is to be made general saperinten
dent of the Santa Fe, vice D. j. Chas