The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-15
EASTERN ITEMS.
1t is Reported Congress Will Not
Adjourn Before October.
A Drought in New England-Gambling
Rampant at Saratoga and Long
BranCh-0ther News.

Nine members of Congress have died
during this session.
The cruiser Philadelphia has been ac.
cepted by the government.
A force of men at Johnstown is still
engaged in searching for the dead.
According to recent census the popu-
latlon of Montreal is estimated at 277.-
600.
The schedule of immigration at Balti-
more shows that 27 1894 immigrants land
ed there.
Richmond, Va, has 100000 inhabi-
tants, but no hospital or public dispen-
sary, it is said.
The new census gives Atlanta, Ga, a
population of 10000, an increase of 100
per cent. in ten years.
a Western Republican Senator thinks
Congress will not ad djourn before October.
and perhaps not then.
Schoharie, N. Y, has according to the
last census about 1000 less people than
she had forty years ago.
Frank Woodruff, who was connected
with the Cronin murder, is now wanted
III Kansas for horse stealing.
Ernest Hess, member of the Board of
Trade of Chicago, has failed. He was
short 1000, 600 bushels of oats.
Several city officials at Omaha have
been arrested and charged with bribery
in selling railroad right of way.
Pay Inspector George A. Lyon, U. S.
N, has been ordered in charge of the
pay office at San Francisco on September
10 next.
1t is thought that the census will show
the population of Kansas to be about
| 100000. Nebraska expects nearly
| 100000.
The assessed valuation of real estate in
Brooklyn this year for purposes of taxa
ton is $431 ,037 Az, an increase of $23,-
374, 300 over last year.
Travel over the Brooklyn bridge is in
so rapidly that the President of
the Commission says new bridge should
be commenced at once.
Secretary Tracy has signed the contract
for the tubular boilers for the armOred
vessel Monterey under con-
struction at San Francisco.
Albert Geonegan, City Clerk of Paris,
Tex, is missing, and his accounts are
short between IS 900 and SIC, 600. Efforts
Ire being made to overhaul him.
James Mooney, the man who attempt
ed to blow up the steamer Queen in
North river few years ago, was drowned
1T Fort Rockaway last week.
A subscription fund has been started
among New York physicians for the re-
lief of DIR. John HI. Douglas, who at
ended General Grant in his last illness.
The total contributions to the Johns
own (Pa.) sufferers were 1922, 1850.
The total expenditures were 81, ,845, 140. .S3.
The commission has $67 ,205.47 cash in
land.
The apple crop of Nova Scotia will be
below the average this season. Great
have been committed by cater
pillars, which have stripped whole or
:hards.
The Western railroads are considering
/ plan by which no road shall take more
han a certain percentage of any COM
modify. 1t is to get around the anti
pooling law.
New York's water supply is graphic
allv described as stream equal to a
liver fifty feet wide, ten feet deep and
lowing six miles an hour, pure and cool,
)ut of the hills.
The steamer Louise, with 800 excur-
;ionists on board, collided with the
steamer Virginia the other day off Fort
Carroll, five miles from Baltimore. Sew
eral lives were lost.
Gambling is in full blast at Saratoga,
Long Branch and some other places that
could be named where the authorities
10 not suppress it for reasons, perhaps,
best known to themselves.
Secretary Harris of the North Dakota
Board of Railroad Commissioners char
acterizes as unreliable the report that no
elevators in North Dakota will accept
grain for storage this year.
An investigation is under way in Bos-
ton as to the running of peach trains
rom the Middle States to New England,
it being alleged that the Eastern mar
kets are Disseminated against.
Manuel Garutia, 20 years old, the scion
If noble family in Spain, who has been
attending the military academy at Ches-
ter. Pa, is now in New York, and it is
declared that he has the leprosy.
The House has non-concurred in the
Senate amendment to the sundry civil
bill, which increased the
for the Sailors Home at
Santa Monica from 500, 900 to Sly 600.
Nearly l 900 heads of families in the
Province of Quebec alone have made ap-
plication for the State bounty of loo
acres of land voted to Canadians who are
the fathers of twelve children or more.
The saloonkeepers of Chicago are in
arms against the big brewery syndicate,
and will not accept orders from it. This
is owing to a resolution of the syndicate
binding saloonkeepers in an arbitrary
way.
The Western Union people will carry
ND the partially burned building in New
York nine stories, discarding the man.
sard roof, and will build an addition nine
stories high on twenty-fve-foot lot in
rear of present building.
According to a telegram from Boston
the damage in New England by the pres
ent drought is now past recovery. Most
Of the districts have been without rain
sufficient for a growing season for weeks.
Corn and tobacco on the lowlands are
IT'LL in fair condition. -