The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
EASTERN ITEMS.
MILWAUKEE HANDSOMELY DECO
RATED IN HONOR OF THE q. Ar.

A Rustic BridgeDefaultingP Postmaster
Welcomed at Ell Paso-A Noted
Cracksman Rearrested-
Shipping as Seamen.
The Boston wool market is featureless.
New York had 5000 arrests last year.
The warship Galena has been ordered
to Hayti.
The Baltimore will have her official
trial September 9.
Natural gas will be run into Philadel-
phia before very long.
The Chinese wash-house held stiffiy to
the one price system.
A Flndley, O., man bequethed $4,000
for home for hackmen.
Clause Spreckels reached New York
on the 26th from Europe.
AL aliens in the employ of New York
city are being discharged.
Speaker Carlisle was heartily welcomed
by the citizens OF Ell Paso.
Cns forest fire north of Boise City,
Idaho, was 100 miles square.
There is State Retail Merchants Pro-
tective Association in Iowa.
The New York authorities are still
chopping down telegraph poles.
Over 1000 Cinnamon arrived in the
City of Mexico one day last month.
Milwaukee is handsomely decorated in
honor of the G. A. R. encampment.
Tie Wyoming broaght 123 Swedish
Mormon recruits to New York on the
9th.
Brooklyn, n Y, is to have new Edi-
son central station of 900 lights capa-
city.
Andrew Barstow, one of the best known
men in the Eastern sugar trade, is dead,
aged 46.
A new enterpris at Bango, Maine, is
the shipping of sawdust in bales to var
ions cities.
All assemblages are prohibited at Eau
Claire, Wis, owing to the prevalence OF
smallpox.
President Harrison says he has not yet
decided upon calling an extra session OF
Congress.
The President has been invited to visit
the Alabama State Fair at Birmingham
in November.
The contract for the Northern Pacifie's 8
big hotel building at Winnipeg, has been
let at $500, 600.
Florida is delighted witn having gone
through the summer without an epidemic
OF yellow fever.
Ex-Governor John G. Brown OF Ten
| nessee, died at Red Boiling Springs, that
State, August II.
| John Watson, of Nebraska City, it is
stated, has been offered the District At
torneyship OF Alaska.
The striking Italians on the new rail-
road at Lima, o., threaten to kill all
those who return to work.
Plans have been agreed upon for the
distribution at Johnstown, Penn, OF over
81 ,OOO, 900, OF the relief funds.
Immigrants arriving at Philadelphia
are said to have evaded the Contract La
Dor law by shipping as seamen.
LAWYER Alphonse Phillips, an official
in the Mexican lottery, has disappeared,
leaving 800, 900 unaccounted Tor.
The law against the importation OF fol-
eign contract laborers is now frequently
enforced at the port of New York.
Allen Marvel, it is said, will succeed
w. B. Strong as president OF the Atchi'
son and Santa Fe Railway Company.
It ie now believed the court martial III
the case of Lieutenant-Colone Fletcher
at Fort Omaha, has found against him.
The drowned body OF James Orr, Cal
ifornia miner, has been found hoat1ng Ii
East river, under the BROOKLYN bridge.
A Chinese laundry was raided in De
troit and eleven gamblers arrested; alst
a woman who was there smoking opium
Malone was nominated by the VIZ
ginia republicans for Governor ant
Campbell s. Lemp for Lieutenant-Gov
ernOr.
The trouble between whites and black
at Mount Pleasant, s. c., has beel
quelled. The military has not been Win
drawn.
J.R. Cunningham, the defaulting an
absconding postmaster at Oofeysbrre
Mo has been arrested at Bentonvlie
Arkansas.
Congressman Laird's death, accordin
to a postmortem examination, was due {
blood poisoning from an unnecessar
surgical operation.
An e, idemic of Hux has appeared
Charleston, w. Va, and about nIt
deaths have occurred in thirty Gays
Children suffer the most.
A rustic bridge Just completed in Houl
ton county, Ga, contains ffty-seven al
ferent kinds of wood and vines, and
were grown in the county.
Jimmy Hope, the burglar. was rea
rested on his arrival at New York. A
|. effort will be made to send him back
prison on the Manhattan Bank ndlc
ment.
The agent of the Coleville India
Agency sayssthe Upper Spokanes VOL
work. They drink two much whiss
and there is great immortality among II
women.
The moonshinefs in the mountain
near Waterville, Tenn, led Dy Jof
Hobhs oy,enlv DEFY the United Stat