The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-12

DEATH OF EX-SENATOR SIMON
CAMERON.
A Pottery Trust-O'd Fellows In Ses-
sio. Governor Hills v toeJThe
Johnstown r lief Commit
tee-A Roaboat Upset
Leading pottery houses are organizing
trust.
Connecticut has adopted the Secret
Ballot law.
The Supreme lodge, A. 0. U. W., will
meet in Boston next year.
The Sullivan-Kilrain fight will come
tf next week in Louisiana.
Chicago talks of selling the entire lake
front within the city limits.
Over $5,40O,0OO in gold was shipped
from New York to Europe on the 22d.
The official vote in Pennsylvania gives
a majority against Prohibition OF 189, ,020
Sidney G. Harrison has been appointed
postmaster at Fossil, Gilman county, Or.
A very popular wedding present now
at Hutchinson, Kan, is barrel of salt.
Boone county, Iowa, has paid $500
bounty on $4,000 gopher scalps this sea-
son.
Up to this date Philadelphia has raised
nearly $500, 900 for the sufferers by the
flood.
A convention of deaf mutes of the
United States was held in Washington on
the 26th.
Some New York papers have started a
crusade to stop tipping on the ocean
steamers.
Bostonians are lamenting because re-
cent heavy rains have seriously hurt the
bean crop.
A second installment of canal con-
structOrs left New York on the oath for
Nicarauga.
The New Haven and Hartford Railroad
has been fined $500 for having stoves in
its sleepers.
A peach-grower at Orlando, Fla, has
been receiving $6, $l2 and $16 per bushel
for his early fruit.
Captain Howard r. Hetrick, WE'LL
known journalist, died at st. Joseph,
Mo-, on the 22d inst.
Teller J. A. Houck OF the Traders Ma
tional Bank of Baltimore, blew out his
brains on the I'D inst.
Wallace, Kan, has voted $50, 900 in
bonds to aid in the establishment of a
sugar plant at that place.
The grape crop promises to be very
heavy along the Lake Erie shore. The
late frost did but little damage.
The yawl Navesink was spoken at Val
encia on the Oath. She left Boston on
the 10Th Of May bound for Havre.
The Anachists of Cincinnati have de-
cided to defy the law which provides for
the closing of saloons on Sunday.
There is suspicion in New York that
the cry OF water famine is started for the
benefit of a wafer meter company.
An English syndicate, it is said, has
made an offer to buy the Elgin, H.,
watch factory for about $40, 100000.
Alfredo Deoro, formerly of Cuba, de-
feated Charles Manning at New York in
a continuous 15-ball pool match for 500.
Governor Hill has vetoed the bill
passed by the New YORK Legislature con-
corning the grading and mixing OF grain.
Count Alfred Seckendorf," ;" from Rus
sia, took morphine when asked to pay
his board bill at hotel at Chattanooga.
Fourteen infants under one year old
died in Wilmington, Del, in one week,
recently, out OF total of twenty-five
deaths.
The Canadian Odd Fellows, in session
at Toronto, have voted down motion
for the admission of colored men to men,
bershIp.
Tunis Labee was hanged at Paterson,
N. j., on the 9th for the murder of 49,
year-old woman whom he had lived with
as his wife.
The latest rumor about the coal prop
critics is that they are to be consolidated
into vast trust, having a capital Of
$500, ,0OO,0OO
When the new pumping works are in
place Chicago will have a water supply
of 225, ,OO0, 900 gallons daily, the greatest
of any city in the world.
Mormons are leaving Utah in such
large numbers that the leaders of the
Mormon church have taken alarm and
are trying to stay the exodus.
The Comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Washington National
Bank at Seattle, w. t., to commence
business with $1,000 capital.
A boy of twelve years has succeeded in
passing a considerable number OF $40
notes of the late Southern Confederacy
upon confding grocers in the city Of New
York.
A rowboat with two men and two ladies
was swept over the water works fall in
the Schuykill river at Philadelphia, on
the oath, and the whole party were
drowned.
Ex-senator Simon Cameron, of PEN
nsylvania, died on the 26th inst at Lam
caster, Penn, aged 90 years. Senator
Cameron has served in public life for
many years.
A combination, headed by Red Cloud,
| is said to have been formed sometime
ago to defeat the object of the Commits
sioners. but signs of disintegration are
said to be apparent.
| George Plummer is charged with as
sassinating his brother John, a farmer
living about ten miles from Hadley, Neb.
They had quarreled and bad blood had
existed between them for sometime.
Harry HI. Flamm, bookkeeper of the
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