The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-03
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also taken place. Among the
NOTABLE DEAD
may be ment, oned the names OF
Simon Cameron, Secretary of War
during the Civil war, under Presl
dentLincoln; Stanley Matthews,
Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court Of the United States; Laura
Bridgman who Was deaf, dumb and
blind for fifty eight out OF so years
of her life; William Wilkie Collins
the great novelist; Maria Mitchell,
l.. L. d. tic most distinguished Of
female astronomers; John Ericsson,
the inventor Of the Monitor, which
revolutionized the worlds manner
OF marine fighting; I. d. Woolsey,
d. d. D. L. ID. ex. President of
Yale College; Horatius Bonar of
Scotland, the sweet singer Of Israel:
Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, former
mistress of the Presidential man.
sion at Washington; Jefferson
Davis, ex- President Of the South
ern Confederacy; Il. T. Minor and
@. III. Halter of Seattle.
have burned mp six or eight mil
lion dollars worth of property in
Seattle, five or six at Spokane Falls,
two millions at ElIensbnrgh, and
five or six million at Lynn Massa-
chusetts, while the
JOHNSTOWN HORROR
which swallowed up fifty millions
and six Or eight thousand lives,
was the most sudden and greatest
disaster which has ever visited
any place in the United States.
And typhoons have destroyed. ten
thousand lives in China and Japan.
But a great amount of
BROTHERLY KINDNESS
has been develodcd in connection
with these sad events. Money by
the hundreds OF Thousand dollars
end even millions has been given
willingly to help the suffering
ones, and these places have proved
themselves worthy Of this help, by
the energy which they have showed
in trying to retrieve their fortunes
aud build themselves up again.
TIE CENTENNIAL
Of the inauguration OF OR first
President George Washington,
was celebrated last April, the last
Of the celebrations connected with
the founding OF our government,
series which has given TO the peo-
pie great amount OF knowledge
Of the early history OF our country.
OTHER EVENTS
in the United States to be noticed
arc the opening Of the territory OF
Oklahama to settlement, the ces
sion by the Sioux Of a part Of their
reservation to white settlement, a
part more than twice as large as
massachusetts: and the convention
OF Delegates Of the various nations
Of North and South America,
which is examining the CONNER
cial and manufacturing interests Of
the United States.
IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
we find that Japan has adopted a
new and progressive constitution:
the Samoan trouble has been set
tied, III very satisfactory manner:
the great London strike has been
amicably settled; IIayti has raised
through revolutions; and Brazil,
the only empire in America has
discharged her emperor and Joined
the sisterhood of republics.
THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
shows continued prosperity, in
every part, Notwithstanding her
fires. Bnt the great event of the
year with her has been that with
Montana, and North and South
Dakota, she has held an election
for constitutional delegates, who
have met and formed State Con-
stitution, which has been adopted
by the people, who have also cleo
ted orr first set of state officers.
We have been fully admitted as
State into the Union. and the alki
10y and by) placed in our Territor
ial seal tbirtysix years ago, is no
more, and we can now write in its
place alta (now).-S.