The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
EASTERN ITEMS.
Chicago Has a Great Real Es-
tate Boom.
A New York Census Enumeration
Commits Suicide at the End of
His First Days Work.

A fierce war in Chicago-New Yorl
passenger rates is said to be likely.
The Indian Appropriation Bill carries
an appropriation of nearly s6,OO0,O0O.
Under the new law New York city vii
be cut up into l,126 election districts.
More than one-third of the Iouisians
legislators are pledged against the lot
terry.
The salt trust scheme has been re
vlved under the name of the North
American Salt Union.
Governor Thayer of Nebraska has re
voked the call for an extra session of the
Legislature.
Mrs. Flack's alimonv has been fixed
She gets $25 week, her house and life
policies for $1,000.
At the close of his first days work az
census enumerator at New York, Frant
Mague committed suicide.
A signal service officer in Pittsbure
says this has been the wettest season
Western Pennsylvania has had in many
years.
The Indian Commissioners are max.
ing little progress with the Sac and Foz
Indians, who are divided on the question
of sale.
1t is thought that it will not be wise
to make another attempt during the
present session of Congress to pass the
copyright bill.
Complaints of inefficiency and lack O.
accommodation for immigrants at the
New York barge Office are growing il
force and frequency.
The National Encampment of the
Grand Army is to have the use of the
Boston schoolhouses during the En-
campment in August.
The first cremation at the Philadelphia
Municipal Crematory was performed il
the presence of Director Stokley and the
health authorities last week.
The Government has taken forma
possession of the dynamite cruiser Vesu
vius, and that vessel has been placed il
COMMISSION as a man -OI-Wdr.
The public debt statement for June
shows a total debt of 1851 1867, 600 @!
and net debt of 81 ,008, ,859 1893 6S. This
is decrease of $8,661, ,8ll 60 since May
and of $67, ,7S7, ,722 II since June 81
last.
The total emigration from Europe t.
the United States during the ten month";
ended April 80, 1890, was 318, 8,6i5-a1
increase of 303 as compared with tht
corresponding months of the previous
year.
Attorneys of the New Orleans lottery
are taking the ground before the Legisla
ture that the fight against the scheme is
directed from the North and deserves
no consideration from the people Of Lou
isiana.
The Worlds Fair at Chicago expect:
to have the sarcophagus of Cleopatra an(
the mummy of Rameses on exhibition
1t is claimed that in C@sar's camp, neal
Alexandria, the Cleopatra sarcoph-g gu!
was recently found.
The United States Senate has passed
unanimously, the bill for the payment o
$50, 600 to the assignees of John Roach
This is the sum which the Cleveland
Administration refused to pay him or
the Puritan and Roanoke.
Mr.. Ketchum, engineer of the CHG
necto Marine Railway at Ottawa, has
been asked by New York syndicate to
furnish an estimate for marine rail
way for the thirty miles Of the Panami
Canal that are uncompleted.
The Court of Claims has dismissed the
claim of A. B. Mullett against the
United States for compensation as archl'
tect of the building now occupied by the
State, War and Navy Departments
amounting to about 100000.
A Chicago paper says that by the
completion of three deals within the
past few days the school book publish
ing trust has been completed, 80 PEI
cent. of that entire business in the
United States having been taken in.
From all portions of the grape grow
ing sections OF New York reports are ia
vora BILE. In the Hudson River Valley
where the Concord grape is SO largely ant
satisfactorily grown, growers are mucf
elated over the appearance OF then
grape vines.
Chicago's proposed Columbus Towe1
is a pure business enterprise, based OF
the experience of the Eifel Tower il
Paris. Its projectors ask no help from
nybody, but expect to spend 81, ,00O,o ,oOi
in the construction, and to get twlc'
that amount OF money back again dur
ing the exhibition.
Certain New York capitalists have re
Gently received valuable concession
from the Government of Mexico, includ
ing the right to build hotel with ], 1,O0t
rooms. and from 500 to 1000 houses
The syndicate is exempted, to large
extent, from customs duties and taxes
on it's investments.
Commissioner Mason says that th,
collections of internal revenue for thu
month of May last were greater than th'
collections for any one month since 1870
The Commissioner said the large collec
tions indicated the general prosperity o
the country, and that the people wer'
drinking more whisky apd beer and eat
ing more butter than heretofore.
A great real estate boom is reported
in Chicago, part of which results iron
the prospects of Worlds Fair in thai
city. Jackson Park will be the site 0
that Exposition, and tract OF land, tn
principal part of which is under water, ha
been sold for $500 an acre. Before tn
Wor DIS Fair was contemplated land II
that locality was drug at $500 per acre
The Canadian Meteorological Servic'
has discovered a frequent retrograd
northwesterIy movement of cyclone
from the Labrador Coast to the nortl
end of Hudson Bay when other simila
areas are advancing southeasterly iron
the southern shores of these waters
This fact will be useful az soon as tele
graphic facilities Of Q proper characte