The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-30
EASTERN ITEMS.
President Harrison Dimes With Mr..
Blaine-Sudden Death-The Idaho
Convention-Rich p troleum
Deposits in tMexico.

Mexico is to have fair in 1892.
Baltimore is to have cable road.
Fighting before Port-au-P-ince con-
tinues.
John Leonard, the well known Fenian,
is dead.
Hop culture is to be undertaken in
Manitoba.
A Sweet Potato Trust has been formed
in Baltimore.
JOHN L. Sullivan was tried at Purvis,
Miss, on the 18th list.
The President dined with Mr.. Blaine
at Bar Harbor on the 9Th.
Rheumatism is immensely fashionable
at Boston, says the Herald.
A carnage road to the top of Pixies
Peake has just been completed.
The new shoe shop in the Maryland
penitentiary has begun operations.
The reports of yellow fever at Tampic,
Mexico, are pronounced unfounded.
A horse stealing industry has been Or
ganized along the Upper Mississippi.
Rich petroleum deposits have been dis
covered in the State of Guerrero, Mexico.
The drought in Mexico has killed thou
sands of cattle, and an epidemic is feared.
The total circulation OF money in the
United State. August 1, was $l,379, 1885,
937.
The New York delegation, it is said,
will support Reed for Speaker of the next
House.
The National Prohibition Camp Meet
ing at Decatur, ILL.,, proves to be big
success.
Colonel James Cory, U. s. A, retired,
died suddenly at Fortress Monroe on the
9Th inst.
President Harrison has promised to
visit California during his vacation next
summer.
The prediction is made that By 1895
the Nicaragua Canal will be open for
business.
The Governor of st. Louis has respited
Anderson, the wife murderer, until Sep
temher Is.
President Harrison is expected to out
line his message while at Deer Park in
September.
Chicago hotel men are unite in favor
of having the Worlds Fair Of 1892 located
in that city.
A Washington county, Ohio, farmer,
80 years old, assists the hands in the
harvest field.
A Georgia prophet predicts the end of
the world on the 10th of August. Come
again, old ''Proph."
Jay Gould said at Saratoga the other
day that this is going to be prosperous
year for big railroads.
The Florida State Board of Health re-
quires al cities of 10000 inhabitants to
dispose of refuse by cremation.
Captain Joseph Skerrett has been re-
commended for promotion to Commander
by the Naval Examining Board.
The Australian ballot system will have
State election in Massachusetts.
Forty-eight persons were declared in
sane in Brooklyn during July. Insanity
seems to be epidemic in that city.
Gigantic mining and manufacturing
interests in the South are projected by
New York and Virginia capitalists.
Commissioner Tanner and Ex-Governor
Russell Alger are candidates for Com
mander-in-C Chief of the Grand Army.
The Knights Templar claim they will
have fully 10000 men in the parade at
the triennial conclave at Washington.
The Johnstown Relief Committee on
the 1st inst, reported disbursement OF
$500, ,OC0 out of about s., ,O00, 900 available.
The Idaho Convention memoralizes the
Government to prevent spectators &C.
curing water privileges in the territory.
The work of distributing the remainder
of the relief fund for the Johnstown flood
sufferers is to be pushed on as rapidly as
possible
A hackwoodsman, while visiting Rock
Springs, Wyo. T., day or two ago,
learned for the first time of the Johns
town disaster.
Jacob Spanyard, who was sentenced to
he hanged at Fort Smith, Ark. on the
9th, has been reprieved until August 80
by the President.
The coke strike in Pennsylvania is
ended, the employees having carried the
day. The operators have conceded every
thing demanded.
The semi-annual dividend of 81 per
cent on the preferred stock of the Oregon
Improvement Company is declared, pay
able September Sd.
Thomas, the runner. who is believed
to be swifter than Caniff. viii compete in
the American and Canadian champion
ship contests this fall.
Another attachment for 5000, 900 has
been laced on the Riverside Mills prop
erty, at Providence, r. |.
Trouble is apprehended in Wilson
county. Tenn, over the preaching OF
Mormon elders. The people talk of driv-
ing them from the country.
There is suspicion that English refner-
les are seeking to combine with the
American trust, in order to control the
sugar markets on two continents.
Robert Morrell, the Pike county, Ind.
octogenarian, has passed the ffty-ninth
day of his fast. ''He is shriveling 1r
like dried peach. "says the physician
The male and female bufa;os now al
the Union Stock Yards, Soath ST. Paul
are about to be shipped to New York
State to breed with PoAled Angus cattle
Dan ]. Phelps. who sustained the full
forco of a -volf current of electricity