The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-03
EASTERN ITEMS.
CoLORED BRETHREN AT KANSAS
CITY CROSS RAzoRs.
CIan-na-Gael Policemen Removed in
Cnicago-Hanlan Challenges the
World-Cigarmakers on
q Strike

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Minneapolis is excited over a SMALLPOX
scare. poA
Whittier has just celebrated his 82d
birthday. ~ o-'
The European influenza has appeared
In New York. "
Hanlan has challenged the world for a
sculling match. - =
A Buffalo elevator worth 1920 Oor
burned to the ground.
Chicago is removing the Olan-na-G Gael
men from it's police force.
General Malone has taken house at
Washington for the winter.
The baseball pitchers box will he en-.
larged next season to 6x4 feet.
A general readjustment of Northern
Pacific officials is on the tapis.
William s. Harrison, nephew of the
president, has just died at Chicago.
George Guther, of St. Louis, was beaten
to death by his 17-year-old son, Emil.
Oliver L. Barbour, the eminent legal
authority, died at Syracuse, aged 70.
The city clerk of Council Bluffs gamblsd
away $1,000 in city funds and resigned.
The more silvsf men study Secretary
Windows new plan the less they like it.
Judge Thurman's wife is prostrated on
account OF grief at her daughters noto-
riety.
The Allen House burned at New Or
leans. Lodgers escaped in their night
| clothes.
Yale will hereafter row only against
Harvard. She is declining other chal-
lenges.
Governor Lowry has refused to allow
Kilrain to pay his imprisonment penalty
by fine.
Robert Dalton, of Toledo, fell on elec-
trio light wires and was roasted to death
by electricity.
The Keokuk, Iowa, grand jury has re-
| turned f0rty-two indictments again st
saloon keepers.
Barrett has cancelled his engagements
and will probably be unable to 60 upon
the stage again.
DR.. Daniel Ayres, of Brooklyn, gives
the Wesleyan University and endowment
fund of $250,000.
Five prominent Mormon officials at
Salt Lake are under indictment for appro-
priating public moneys.
1t is said that the Northern Pacific has
decided upon Canadian route from St.
Paul to the Atlantic ocean.
A. Meyer, Wells Fargo's defaulting
agent at Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced
to five years imprisonment.
1t is now said that w. Scott Clifford,
who married Judge Thurman's daughter,
already has wife in the East.
Kilrain's sentence was 5000 fine and
two months imprisonment. He is out
on 500 bail pending an appeal.
The commissioner of public works in
New York city is cutting down the poles
of the electric light companies.
The destitution in North Dakota is not
so serious as feared Help is coming in,
and the people are in better spirits.
A discharged drunken cook set fire to
the Oklohona House, at Kansas City,
and one lodger was burned to de ath.
As far as can be learned, no trace has
vet been found of the present where
abouts Of absconding Cashier Silcott.
Key West cigarmakers are out on a
o0ynfn npn m
per month instead of the Gust mary 1900.
The Cherokee Indian commission failed
to secure the willingness of the Indians
| to sell their land and have returned to
Washington.
Owing to large sales of land in Mime
sofa, the Northern Pacific road officially
announces that it will retire 10000 shares
of preferred stock.
At the session of the Pan-American
conference President Blaine appointed
various committees, and the conference
adjourned until after the holidays.
The Rev. DR.. w. S. Rainsford, of st.
Georges Protestant Episcopal church,
New York, has paid $27 IS for shooting a
Long Island quail out of season.
Mrs. Richard A. Proctor, widow of the
astronomer, who was carried off by vel
low fever, is gaining livelihood by de-
livering her husbands lectures.
julius Hoffer teased Louise Epperson
of Bakersville, Mo-, until she was exas
perated beyond endurance and she shot
| him in the head. He died instantly.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch prints the
names of several Missouri state senators
whom it charges with having been bribec
to vote against the dressed meat bill.
A farm hand named Gilmore. neal
Grand Rapids, Mich, tried to persuade
the wife of his employer to eiope with
him. Failing in this, he shot fatally botf
the woman and himself.
| Frank B. Gowen, wealthy lawyer and
railroa man, and at one time presided
of the Reading road, shot himself fatally
lin Wormley's hotel, Washington, u. y
| No cause is yet known for the act.
| George w. Evans. alias William + rank
lin. a noted bank thief, was arrested a
New Orleans while trying, in compan.
with a confederate, to steal $40 ,O0'
money package FROM an express Office.
\ Sales of Chemical bank stock wer'
made last Saturday in New York at $46O'
ner 500 share. II is said to be the high
est price for any bank share in the world
Thomas Potter, a well-known citizen
died in Washington, aged SO. de wa
one of those who drew Lafayette's car
riage into Washington from Baltimore u
1924.
The Hon. Proctor Knott is said to b.
! making q strong campaign for the succec
sion to Mr.. Blackburn as senator iron
Kentucky. The election will occur mex
month.
Il The American federation of labor elect
ed for president Samuel Gompers, Q
, | New York, and secretary T. J. Maguife
. e No~v Vo~b nofrnit will be the Dl0c