The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-20
EASTERN ITEMS.
AMERICAN TOURISTS ARRESTED IN
SWITZERLAND.
Robbed the Mails-Mexico not Satisfied
With Consul General Sampson-
Will Deliver Meesages-A
Trotting Horse Seized.

Iowa, has failed.
John Grass, the. great Sioux chief, is
dying from sunstrOke.
Chipred beef IN pound boxes is having
run in Philadelphia.
The price of real estate in Newark, DEL.
has doubled recently.
Georgia Is about to pension the widows
of her Confederate dead.
A Detroit man bought 50-cent rattle
ticket and drew church.
North Dakota will hold it's election on
the first Tuesday in October.
Helxhay. the Gogebic stage-robber, is
now in jail at Bessimer, Mich.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is to establish pension system.
Mrs. Catherine Sullivan, the mother of
the pugilist, died in Boston on the 3Oth.
Pierre. s. D., is coming forward as a
prominent candidate for the Capital city.
The removal of the remains of General
Grant to Washington is again being
agitated.
The Petrol win not make another trial
and will accept the penalty for deficient
horsepower.
At present the South is building more
railway mileage than any other part of
the country.
There are fifteen men and one woman
in New York Tombs prison awaiting trial
for homicide.
Georgia Is $25 ,OOO, 900 richer than she
was last year, according to the reports of
the assessors.
Gas got into the sewer and caused an
expl sion at Fourteenth street and Broad
way, New York.
Three routes are being surveyed for the
proposed avenue from Washington City
to Mount Vernon.
Rev. Charles Wingate, pastor OF the
Church oil st. John the Evangelist at
Haverhill, Mass, is dead.
w. E. Selement, General Delivery
Clerk in the st. Paul Postohice, has been
arrest ed for robbing the mails.
Bob Younger, one of the three noted
outlaw brothers, is dying of consumption
in the Penitentiary at Saltwater, MINI.
The legality Of the annexation of the
suburbs OF Chicago to that city is to be
decided by the Supreme Court OF Illinois.
Two colored men named Young and
Garrett have induced Oil colored men to
locate upon Government land in Okla
homa.
H. II. Turner, an Englishmen, was
found in his room at Denver dead. Both
murder and suicide theories have been
formed.
General Crook has been directed to
take steps to prevent trouble between the
Indians and the whites in Western
Colorado.
The Dominion customs officers have
seized the ,well-known trotting horse
Dave Thompson on the ground of under
valuation.
1he Grant Monument at Fort Leayen-'
worth, Kan, will be unveiled on Septem7
Der 14th, with orations by Senator Ingalls,
and others.
It is said that Mexico viii ask the
United States to recall General Sampson,
the newly appointed American Consul at
Paso del Norte.
Mrs. Mary >Donnelly, the nurse who
was stabbed by Mrs. Robert Ray Hamil-
ton at ATLANTIC City, N. j., has been de-
clared out Of danger.
DR.. sPotel, of Portland, :, Or, while
ten porarily insane, jumped from q sleep
ing-car somewhere in Nebraska recentiy,
while on his way West. a
There, are. eleven or twelve thousand
less Chinese now in British Colpn bla
than there were some time ago. The $5O
head tax had it's effect.
The School Directors Of the Conemaugh
Valley have issued an appeal for help to
rebuild the school houses washed away
in the Johnsto&n food.
The trouble between the New England
roads has been practically settled, the
Canadian Pacific and Vermont Central
agreeing to pay commissions.
Wana6aKer proposes to the Western
Union that in onsideration for reduced
rates the Postoffice Department will
undertake to deliver messages.
Cornelius G.. Quinlan, prominent
seller of cattle, has been swindled at
Kansas City out of about $2O, 900 by Bud
Ginon, sharp gambler from Chicago
Brierly,ithe lover of Mrs Maybrick,
has reached Boston. He declares Mrs.
Maybrick was the victim ola conspiracy,
and this he blped eventually to prove.
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Houston, Texas, asks Northern capital
to tie amount of $3.50. 600 to invest with
like amount of Houston funds to 60
into the cotton manufacture in that city.
The Supreme Legion Of Select Knights,
Ancient OrsieH of United Workmen, has
closed its biennial session at Kansas City
and will hold its next meeting at Pitts
burg.
The naval battle on Milwaukee Bay, In
honor OF the Ct. A. r. encampment, was
grand success. One vessel OF the
enemy's' was blown up and another
burned.
The Comstock Tunnel Company has
fled a, certificate ef incorporation at
Albany, N. Y. Operations will be carried
on in the town Of rSltro and Counties OF
Lyon, storey. Washoe and Nevada.
The Chinese, actors who recently
electrified New York are still in that city,
and local Cinnamon intend building them,
a theatre In which they can bring out the
127 historical dramas of their repertoire.
A deposit Of asphalt has been dis
covered near Cloverport KY. It covers 2
large area and Is thirteen feet thick. It
is lust below the surface and can be
mined at very small cost.