The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24
EASTERN ITEMS.
THE TALK ABOUT AN EXTRA sEs-
SION OF CONGRESS.
Presidential CIemency-Heavy Damages
Recovered-Robbers Captured
Rainfall in Washington
Suicides In Ohio.

1HcTo were GIlTce SuIClu0S at CleVeland
Ohio, on the 9Th.
The Scotch-Irish Congress is in session
at Columbia, Tenn.
Thirteen sat at the Presidential table at
the Centennial ball.
Talk about an extra session to organize
Congress is again revived.
The Chicago Club gave Minister Lincoln
farewell dinner on the Sth.
Great suffering is reported among un-
successful Oklahomer boomers.
The prospects for large peach crop in
South Jersey were never better, it is said.
The consignment of trotters from Palo
Alto has reached New York in good con-
dition.
Bugs and the fly are playing havoc
with the wheat and tobacco plants of
Kentucky.
"Maple syrup on snow" is treat that
they are yet able to serve among the
Maine hills.
Fifth-avenue Hotel entertained 1900
guests each day during the celebration in
New York.
The president has appointed Asa Mat
thews, of Illinois, to be first comptroller
of the treasury.
The White House oak which was blown
down few days ago, was planted by
Martha Washington.
About fifteen companies have been
organized during the past month to build
cotton mills in the South.
"Jere" Dunn, the prominent sporting
man who killed Jimmy Elliot in Chicago,
is defendant in divorce suit.
Edward Scovell, leading tenor of the
Boston Ideal Opera Company, is threat
ened with complete loss of voice.
Anumber of men, charged with robbing
cars belonging to the Union Pacific Rail-
road, were arrested in Montana.
The rainfall in Washington during the
past month was 9.13 inches, an excess of
81 inches over the average for April.
A Kansas family has arrived at Zell-
wood, Fla, in a prairie schooner" The
journey took them nearly four months.
All the Florissant, Col, robbers escaped
into the mountains hut one, who was
killed. The body has not been identified.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has
decided in an insurance case that the
suicide of an insane man is an accident.
A hemorrhage of the lungs has caused
John A. Enandor, appointed minister to
Denmark, to write a letter of declinatiOn
to the president.
Tramps in the jail at West Chester,
Penn, are compelled to break stones on
the street, wearing ball and chain at
tached to their legs.
One of the most suggestive incidents in
the great military parade was the cheer
ing called out by the playing of ''Dixie"
by the Southern bands.
It is estimated that the amount paid for
windowrent of Fifth avenue, New York,
during the Centennial parade would pay
all the taxes on that street for year.
Work on the branch of the Mexican
Central road running from AguasCalientes
to San Louis Pobispois is nearly completed,
and trains will be running in less than
month.
The Mayor of Cincinnati has appointed
wealthy and influential lady, Mrs
Mairleny, of that city one OF the Work.
house directors.
The war department has just completed
and published the allotments of the
$400, 900 appropriated by congress for the
equipment of the militia. i
Six women were killed and five injured
in a collision between street-car and
switch-engine on the Michigan Central
tracks, in Kalamazoo, last week.
The books of ex-Treasurer Wildman, of
Typographical Union, No. 6, of New York
city, are being examined by experts, and
it is reported that he is about $4,000 short.
An explosion on the whaling bark Sea
Fox, of New Bedford, Mass, while the
vessel was at Equimena, killed five men,
injured several and badly damaged the
vessel.
Secretary Tracy has extended for four
months and four days the time allowed
the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco,
in which to complete cruiser No. 5, the
San Francisco.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has given the representatives OF the
Western roads hearing in the matter OF
mileage allowances on cars furnished by
shippers, car companies, individuals or
connecting lines, etc.
Secretary Window gave hearing to
persons interested in the question of the
dutieble character of Canadian built cars,
used in the transportation OF merchan-
disc between Gambia and United States
points.
The introduction of high license i'll Bos-
ton has closed out 100 liquor saloon.
Furnishings to the value of s., 200, 900 are
on the market. and over two thousand
idle bar-tenders are ready for professional
engagement in other cities.
Ten years ago the superintendent OF an
Iowa railroad booted tramp out OF his
office for having the cheek to ask for
pass. To-day that tramp is the superln-
tendent of that same road, while the man
that lifted him on his boot keeps restau-
rant and sends him over lunches.
The president last week pardoned John,
an Alaska Indian, convicted OF resisting
an officer. and colnmuted the sentence OF
hanging to ten years in the penltentlary
in the case of Grace Smallwood, colored,
of Washington, D. c., who straagled to
death her illegitimate child.
President Harrison, in late reception,
courageously reverted to first principles, :
and restored President Washington's Gus
tom Of not shaking hands with every body,
but merely receiving the bows OF the
callers and saving his right arm and
nervous system for greater usefulness.