The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-25
EASTERN ITEMS.
Indiana White Caps Whip a Poor
House Superintendent.
Wlman Declines to Return to Canada
and Become the Leader of the
Liberal Party.

The estimated increase of the popula-
ton OF New Hampshire is $4,000.
1t has been decided in Philadelphia
that Sunday shaving is not a necessity,
The Vermont Assessors annual report
Will show markt depreciation in the
value of farming lands.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
mas begun an inquiry to uncover the ma
nipulation in grain rates.
| Florida intends to ask for the same
amount OF space at the Worlds Fair as
that desired by California.
The price of ice has been advanced in
st. Louis to 81 per 100 pounds, and moth
ing less than ten pounds is sold.
The latest estimate or rough count
gives st. Louis a population of 44S, ,124,
Baltimore 433, 900 and Chicago 100, 900.
New York is breaking up the clock
stock game. The principal runners of
the concern were arrested for selling
stock in mythical mine.
The Georgia Melon Exchange. which
was formed by the leading growers with
view to regulating the output and max
ing the sales direct to retailers, has gone
under.
The Governor of Massachusetts has
vetoed the bill authorizing the consolida-
ton of gas and electric-light companies.
The Senate refused to pass the bill over
the veto.
The President has returned to the
House without his approval the bill ex-
tending the time of payment to purchas-
ers OF land OF the Omaha tribe of Indians
in Nebraska.
The bill to send a commission to Ore
gon to negotiate for the purchase Of the
surplus acreage of the Puyallup Indians
has been favorably reported to the Lower
House OF Congress.
A huge tower, eleven stories high, is
to be erected at South Kingston, r. l.,
and Dedicated to the advent of modern
spiritualism by Joseph P. Hazard, a
wealthy spiritualist of that plaee.
The National Starch Manufacturing
OOhpdut, tiiO F1O,OOU,VUU CdptGdl SpOCk
of which has been listed by the Stock
Exchange, has bought outright all the
principal starch works in the country.
British Minister Pauncefote denies that
negotiations with Mr.. Blaine over the
Bebring sea controversy have been broken
off. A report 20 that effect having been
published called forth this public denial.
White Caps in Harrison county, Ind,
took the Superintendent of the county
poorhouse, John HI. Denhoe, from his
bed and gave him twenty-five &c lashes He
was charged with maltreating his charges.
A pneumatic gun, which easily throws
an eight-inch shell a distance of 5000
yards, intended for dynamite and to be
used for coast defense in England, was
successfully tried at Cold Springs, N. Y.
The United States Book Company has
been formed at New York, with capital
of So. .250 GOO, and all the business in low
priced publications which have been car
ried on by twenty-one concerns has been
absorbed.
The Chicago Railway Association has
decided to make a reduction of 1915 in
the passenger rate from Chicago to Hei-
ena and Montana points after August l,
because the Northern Pacific cut the rate
from st. Paul.
Notice is given that on or about August
]. 1890, a fixed white light of the fifth
order will be exhibited from the struct-
ure recently erected on the northeastern
extremity of Ballast Point The light
- 70 ha onf,ro hnr,1nrr
A bill has been reported favorably to
the House granting $l2 per month to all
women who served as army nurses in
the the late war for a period OF six
months OF more, and who rendered serv-
| ices to the sick on the battlefield.
By de ;ision of the Supreme Court of
Ohio property to the taxable value of ST.
O44,. 90 is restored to the tax duplicate of
Hamilton county. having been omitted
for four years. The taxes on this to be
raid to the city are about $l50.C00.
Erastus Wiman declines to return to
Canada and enter politics as the leader
of the Liberal party. He is convinced
that he can serve the Dominion most ef-
fectually by remaining in New York and
pushing his agitation for commercial
uniOE.
An inspector of customs at New York
seized from Adolph Nordman OF Califor-
ria, who arrived on the steamship La
l'Bretagne, gold watch valued at 500,
which he had concealed on his person.
Nordman says the watch was for his own
personal use.
Henry Root of San Francisco has begun
suit against the Third-avenue Cable Com
pany at New York to restrain the COM
pany from using grip apparatus on the
cable road which he claims TO own. He
saws he purchased the grip from the pat
entee, Henry Casebolt.
An appendix to the sentence of the
Pope i'm the Burtsell case de lares that
hencefo, th it is established that the Bish-
obs of the United States have full power,
without baying recourse to the Propa-
gan nda. to transfer from one parish to an
other titulars of posts not essentially ir-
removable.
At the Cheyenne Agency the Indians
have been without meat rations for tour
days. owing to the cattle not being driven
in from the range. Twelve died OF con-
sumption and lung fever, and the physi-
clan has many more serious cases on his
hands. Sickness prevails almost entire
| ly among the semi-civilized.
Aueek ego, at the instance OF the Brit
ish Government, the Canadian Govern
ment carried into effect an act, passed
last session, making it punishable with
| imprisonment for life for an officer or Of
fetal If the Canadian Government to
furn sh any information regarding the
defsnses Of the country to q foreign
State.