The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-07
EASTERN ITEMS.
CLEVELAND AG In ASPIRING FOR
THE PRESIDENCY.
Kyrle ellew DEAF Be t-W. c. IT TT
Seceders Organize = Around
the World in 72 Days
Forepaugh Dead.

Cleveland is open for the nomination
in 1892.
Adam Folepaugh, of circus fame, dice
at Philadelphia.
Msntana's governmental muddle i,
growing no better.
The bark Pythomene was scuttled ane
sunk in New York flarbor.
Denver's sheriff is trying to close up the
city's saloons on Sunday.
Great suffering from cold and hunger
is reported from South Dakota.
President Oakes, of tie Northern Pa
cific, is still confined to his loom in New
York.
In railroad accident near Cincinnati
several cars were burned and five persons
killed.
The president has summarily removed
seventeen unsatisfactory land office of
| ficials.
Four men were terribly burned by the
igr iting of a natural gas well at Dehaven.
Penn.
The body of Banker Dittman of Phila-
delphia, was found floating in the Schuyl-
kill river.
The Virginia Legislature has invited
Senator Daniel to deliver an eulogy OF
JEFF Davis.
Six persons were killed and thirty in
jnre d by an explosion of natural gas at
Columbus, Q.
Charles Francis Adams, president OF
the Union Pacific, is in Cuba for a three
weeks vacation.
1t is said that Willard has succeeded in
raising the Northern Paclfic's new $780,
100000 mortgage.
Green Braxton, negro. was hung at
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, for the murder
of Lewis Pugh, white.
Thirty-five negro strikers were ar
rested at Appalachicola, Florida, and one
shot by state troops.
A call has been issued for convention
OF all the reform parties to be held in St..
Louis September 8.
NCW LII N Capitalists are COu
the advisability of investing to complete
the Panama canal.
Nicholas Meyer, of Chicago, murdered
his wife and then committed suicide.
Jealousy was the cause.
The first torpedo boat has just been
launched at Bristol, Rhode Island. 1t
is called the Gushing.
The Massachusetts state insane asylum
at Worcester, Mass, was burned. All
the patients were rescued.
Natural gas exploded and wrecked a
three-story building at Pittsburs, seri-
ously injuring many people.
The convention of w. G. T. U. seced-
ers have assembled at Cleveland, O.,
and perfected organization.
A Portland, Maine, smelling and ship
building concern has ben bought by
Englishmen for $25, 100000.
Herr Most, the anarchist, is under ar
rest at New York City, for using lam
guage tending to incite riot.
Peter Oglesby, nephew OF Ex-Governor
Oglesby, of Illinois. accidentally shot
and killed himself near Denver.
P. B. Hutchinson, of Chicago, has
been swindied out of 100000 by his
clerks, Thomas Stoner and B King.
James Fortner, the d-faulting county
treasurer of Manhattan, Kansas, is
starving himself to death in his cell.
Hon. John McSweeny, the most
prominent criminal lawyer in Ohio,
died at Wooster, of acute pneumonia.
Miss Nellie Bly, arrived in New York
Saturday. She accomplished her trip
around the world in seventy-two days.
Thieves smashed Montreal jewelers. g
window in broad daylight and success
fully made away with SIS 700 in jewelry.
Henry A. Phillips, of New York, chief
of the middle division of the pension
bureau, has been removed for inefficiency.
Ranchmen estimate Nevada and
Idaho's losses by the winters severity at
60 per cent. for the cattle and 4G per cent.
for the sheep.
George Lounsbury, cashier in the
New York postoffice. suicided at Hacken-
sack, New Jersey. He is short in his
accounts $4,000.
Sidney Dillon, a nephew of Hon. Sid
ney Dillon, of New York, accidentally
shot and killed himself while out hunting
near Omaha.
A strike is on at the Apallachico'a saw
mills. Trouble is breaking out between
the negro strikers and the whites with
bloody results.
Kyrle Bellew. he actor, has been
dropped from the Lambs club in New
York, for not paying the steward his
board bill Of $S5.
w. Devine, clerk in the inquiry de-
partment of the Chicago postoffice, was
arrested. He had been pifering the mails
for eighteen months.
News was received from Flathead lake,
that thirteen Indians, tried to cross the
ice on ponies and broke through, and i've
Indians were drowned.
Sing Lee, Chinese laundryman, and
Mamie Sweeney, a white WON an, were
found dead in the Chinaman's basement
at Binghampton, N. Y.
Out of band of 800 Manitoba Indians
near Winnipeg, few are expected to sur
vive a des.dly plague of the lnfiuenza
which has prostrated the tribe.
It is understood that the Prince and
Princess Hatzfeldt will live in New YORK
city, in the great house which Mr.. e. r.
Huntington is to build on Fifth avenue.
By the lease of the Wisconsin Central
road to the Northern Pacific, the WIS
consin road is to receive 50 per cent. o.
its gross earnings, leaving the remainder
/ to the Northern Pacific for operating