The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-29
EASTERN ITEMS.
EX-PRRSIDENT HAYES ON THE
PRESENT JURY SYSTEM.
English Investments in Milwaukee Grain
Elevators-Mrs Hari let Beecher
Stowe Mildly Demented.
Floods in the East.

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Twelve thousand shee~ perished in the
recent blizzard in New Mexico.
Lot,a, the actress, has been seriously y
injured by runaway team in Boston.
I e Cronin jury is still occupied in
listening to the witnesses for the defense.
Wholesale arrests under the Sunday
closing law are being made at Cincin-
natl
Black Bart has been sentenced to a
lie servitude in the Michigan peniten-
tiary.
| William Bloemer and Hugh McHargne
shot and killed each other at Mt. Yer
non, KY.
| Ex-Commissioner Tanners daughter
Ada has resigned her place in the pen
sion Office.
The congress of American nations is
Ill session at Washington, Mr.. Blaine
presiding.
Alice Jackman, a highly connected
belle and heiress of st. Louis, has been
kidnapped.
The president is being urged to ask
congress tor uniform bankrupt law for
the United States.
James Gordon Bennett has sold the
Herald building in New York TO John
Petit for 81 100000.
The president is said to be preparing a
proclamation throwing open the Sioux
reservation to settlers.
The president h appointed Wilder
Sweet, OF Idaho, associate justice of the
supreme court of Idaho.
Secretary Window is anxious to stop
coming silver, and Issue silver certif-
Gates for deposited bullion.
Mrs. H.rriet Beecher Stowe is mildly
delnented, and is rallied at by hoodlums
! in the streets of Hartford.
The pottery works at East Liverpool,
Ohio, said to be the finest in the world,
are in ashes. Loss, $250,000.
Contributions have been pouring in to
Mrs. Parnell's aid since the report of her
destitution has been given out.
The receipts and expenditures of the
National Grange for the past year were
$i3, 1893 and $l3,763 respectively.
The Mormon exposures at Salt Lake
City are still in progress in the courts
and are attracting widespread attention
A weanling colt was recently sold in
Kentucky for 5000, said to be the
highest price ever paid for colt at that
age.
Ex-President Hayes attacked the
present jury system in speech before
the national prison congress at Nash
vile.
Shaefer, Slosson and Vignaux will
play billiard tournament in New York
in January and another in Chicago in
February.
Stephen w. Dorsey, of New York, has
satisfied judgment for $1l2,928 obtained
against him by Arthur Levy, of Lon
don, England.
The forgeries of Barrett, the missing
piano dealer of Cleveland, Ohio are
now estimated at 500 600, nearly all his
friends being victimized.
The largest sssemblage ever gathered
to witness college athletics, attended the
Princeton Harvard football game at Cam
bridge. Princeton won.
Mrs. Della Parne,l, mother of the
Irish patriot, is in extreme destitution at
her New Jersey home. Various projects
have been started for hei relief.
Since October over $500, 900 worth of
horses have been sold in four counties
alone in Kentucky, and the sales of the
year will easily foot up $3,OOJ,OO0.
Catholics have begun a crusade in
BALTIMORE against the saloons. It is
hoped to reduce the city's 2800 saloons
to 900, paving $500 year license.
The Knights of Labor refused to adopt
an eight-hour resolution. The feeling
was that this should be left to indi-
vidual lodges, as local conditions vary.
The Trunk line presidents have abol-
ished all commissions and rebates west
| of Chicago. An effort is making to have
similar action taken by lines outside the
association.
The options on six Touring mills and
| al the grain elevators in Milwaukee, ex-
cept those owned by the st. Paul road,
are reported to have been secured by an
English syndicate.
The Typographical Union of Topeka
proposes erecting monument to com
memorate the services and newspaper
career of the late John A. Martin, ex-
govel nor of Kansas.
| The New York chamber of commerce
held its 12lst annual banquet last week.
| Among the speakers were ex-President
Cleveland, Justice Miller. ex-Minister
| Phelps and Secretary Noble.
| Three dynamite cartridges were ex-
ploded under theater at Hurlev, Wis
consin. The building was damaged, but
no one in the large audience was injured.
No clue to the perpetrators.
| A freight train was wrecked in Wash
ita canyon. T., On the Denver, Fort
Worth & Texas. Engineer Wilmath and
Brakeman Weirs were killed, and Fire
mau Elan was badly inju ed.
The independent Oil deal in the Ohio
field has been completed. It embraces a
reorganization of the Glyser Oil Com.
pany with capital stock of $500, 900,
and tract Of 5000 acres of valuable oil
land.
The number of cigars imported during
the last fiscal year was 90,034. .4O7; value
of manufactured tobacco imported, &c.,
1868 total number of special taxpayers,
$50, l39, of whom 59).0l3 are dealers in
manufactured tobacco.
/ Heavy rain storms and numerous
4 damaging foods are reported from Mary
land, Pennsylvania, New York and New
! jersey. At last accounts the waters are
still rising. and many river towns and