The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14
EASTERN ITEMS.
A MORMON COLONY TO BE FORMED
IN MEXICO.
The Life OF Martin Van Buren-Postal
Appointments-Caaif Ratsins
in London-Brewery Sold
Secret Ballot Bill.

Milwaukee's treasury is empty.
Evangelist Moody is in New York
Money loans in Chicago at to 6 pe,
cent.
Severe frosts are injuring crops in Da-
Kota.
Rev. Sam Jones' is shaking" up Dan
vile, Va.
Rochester, N. Y, is to be lighted with
natural gas.
President Diaz has officially received
Minister Ryan.
Malarial fever is playing havoc with
horses in Chicago.
A feeling OF uncertainty still pervades
the copper market.
A pension has been granted Peter
Withers, OF Idaho.
Eastern men have bought the biggest
brewry in Montana.
A 100000 Cuban sugar grinding fac
tory has been burned
The Secret Ballot bill has passed the
Connecticut Legislature.
Adjutant- General Drum has been
placed on the retired list.
Rose Terry Cooke, the authoress, is
seriously i'll at Pittsburg.
California cherries at 81 pound are
admired afar in Pittsburg.
Rails have been shipped for the road
from Ell Paso to chihuahua.
The Government printing office at
Washington is said to be unsafe.
The mother of Jake Kilrain, aged 5s
years, died at Baltimore on the 18th.
The popularity of lawn tennis is rapid
ly increasing in some Eastern cities.
The ConnellsviIle, Penn, region is
pestered by band of colored tramps.
R. S. Simpson has been appointed
postmaster at Amity, Yamhill county, Or
1t is rumored that Catholic Congress
will be held this summer in Washington.
The Sioux Indians are said to be will
ing to negotiate the sale of their reserva-
ton.
A heavy consignment of last years Cal
ifornia raisins has just been sold at Lon
DON
M. A Robertson has been appointed
postmaster at Independence, Polk county,
Oregon.
Al. Florey has been appointed post
master at Eagle Point, Jackson county,
Oregon.
The New York Legislature authorized
the appointment of six female factory in
spectors.
Benjamin Hoover, has been commits
stoned postmaster at Matoles, Crook
county, Or.
A committee has been formed In Lon
don to arrange for national memorial to
ohm Bright.
Duncan G. Ross nearly killed Pete
Laroyer in lroadsword contest, at Mon
treai, last week.
Denver, Col, has been seized with an
epidemic of murders and suicides to an
alarming extent.
It is claimed that there are defects in
the construction of parts of the postofice
building at Baltimore.
E. s. Bruhaker has received his COM
mission as postmaster at Mount Tabor,
Multnomah county, Or.
A peculiar disease, resembling malarial
fever, rs prevalent among horses IN the
vicinity of Indianapolis.
In the May parties held in Central
Park, New York, recently, there were no
less than 1879 children.
A tremendous hail and rainstorm. re
Gently, caused washouts between Kansas
City and Lawrence, Kan.
Idaho and Wyoming begin to feel lone
some as Territories. They want to come
into the sisterhood OF states.
Seventeen-year locusts have made their
appearance In countless numbers In the
central portion of Tennessee.
George Bancroft has recently completed
life of Martin Van Buren, to be pub
hshed by the Harper Brothers.
The reward of $50, 900 for the arrest of
Tascot, the murderer of Banker Smell at
Chicago, viii hold good for sixty days.
The wheat crop in Sonora Mexico, is
immense. For the first time In the his
tory of Mexico there will be surplus.
The presidents family will spend the
summer at Deer Park, Nd, where he
will be able to join them every Saturday
The Galveston News says that more
cattle have been shipped from Texas to
the North this season than for many
years.
John w. Norton of ST. Louis, has been
granted divorce from Emma s. Norton,
who eloped with Henry Moore less than
a year ago.
A plot was unearthed last week for a
general delivery of convicts confined IN
the Hudson County peniteDtiary, at
Snake Hill, n. j.
The Canadian Pacific has applied to
the Secretary of the Treasury to be bond
ed as common carrier between ports OF
the United States.
1t lis proposed to make important
changes In the monitor Puritan. She
viii be transferred into an ar1nored YES
sci of modern type.
No one has vet been decided on to fill
the vacancy on the Supreme Bench, al
though there has been considerable spec
ulatioa on the subject.
Mrs. Coleman, of 18l Mulberry street,
New York, is making enquiries for her
father, Peter Rutherford, who came TO
California In 1849 A cousin has died IN
Scotland, leaving property to which she
would be entitled If her father is dead,
but she cannot prove his marriage TO her