The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-25
EASTERN ITEMS.
An Outbreak of Cholera Reported
in Illinois.
The Burlington and Missouri to
Build Road from Cheyenne
to Deadwood.

The Boston Evening Traveller has been
sold.
Philadelphia will build another theater
tn S year.
Mayor Grant favors burning New York
city garbage.
The Equitable Bank at New York is to
close its doc s.
Polygamous Mormons are said to be
leaving U'ah
Pittsburg is scoursed by an epidemic
OF black measles.
Chicago is to have a new hotel four
teen stories high.
The Illinois House of Representatives
has passed an antitrust bill.
Antonio de Navarro and Mary Ander-
son will be married in London.
New York dealers have advanced the
price OF ice to $5 ton wholesale.
The mining population of Eastern
pennsylvania is in great distress.
The school-book lobby i, accused of
attempted bribery at Des Moines.
The total number of licensed places to
Ii liquor in New York city is 1887.
Clark on, First Assistant Postmaster
General, is to retire on the let of June.
Colonel Winslow Judson, prominent
railroad man at St. Joseph, Mo-, is dead.
The public debt was reduced during
March at the rate OF about $379, 900 day.
Starvation is reported among the In
diaus on the Pend d'Oreille reservation.
The Illinois Legislature will be called
IN special session to deal with the Worlds
Fair.
An ice trust has been formed by Chi
cago dealers and prices have been ad-
vanced.
The meeting of Union Pacific called
Tor April 30 is to settle trackage rights
with various roads.
1t is said that farmers of Woodford
county, H., re much alarmed by the
outbreak of cholera.
Jefferson Medical College, graduated
220 doctors, and the HahIemann College
graduate sixty-six.
The School-book Trust, it is reported,
will cut prices May one-quarter on a
horizontal reduction.
Should tine eight-hour law for clerks 90
into effect the employees of the New York
postoffice will number 800.
Clarence P. Wickoff, clerk in Fuller
& Fuler's drug house in Chicago, has
been detected stealing goods.
The town of Natick, Mass, has voted
81 900 toward the fnnd for erecting a
hronz" statue Of Henry Wilson.
Cows i'll be no longer allowed to run
about the streets OF New York. The
Board of Health has issued the decree.
The estimated expense for collecting
ear ending June 80, 1891. is $34, ,O92. 80.
Sugar was usei as fuel by the steamer
Polynesian of the Allen line on her last
trip, the supply of coal having run short.
Pittsburg paper ventures the opinion
that the number of illicit d linking houses
is no greater in that county now than
during the era of low license
The American Economic Association
will award it prize of $3.50 for an essay
under 25.00U words, ON the Estate and
Local Taxation of Personal Property in
the United States" next December.
The wholesale merchants of Richmond
pushing their business into the South
ern States and regard the outlook as fav-
orable.
Nearly all of the United States Rolling
Stock Company's plant at Decatur, Ala,
has been destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of $200,0OO.
4 commit ttee OF Chicagoans are now
considering the feasibility of getting from
Genoa the housesin which Columbus was
born for exhibition at the Fair.
Edward Happy, the son of rich
Louisville, KY merchant, has been lost
in the Big Horn mountains three weeks
and is believed to have perished.
Gifts of 81 100000 have been made to
the McGin University at Montreal. A
woman's branch is to be erected and
school of architecture and science ad led.
The BURLINGTON & Missouri road will
build new line from the ,rossing of the
Cheveune river in Wyoming to Dead
wood, S. D. TIE extension is 100 miles
long.
Governor Campbell of Ohio, Congress
man Dalzell and Andrew Carnege will
be The principal speakers at the Scotch
Irish Congress to be held at Pittsburg in
May.
The Baltimore Flour and Corn Fx-
charge will receive DO official quotation
hereafter from the Chicago market,
which hqs discon tinued them in an effort
to close up the bucket shops.
A New York Assembly nil provides
fine of 81 ,00J and one years imprison-
ment for an person who prevents col
or<J ,1oruon from oDi1yinO auv rosort or