The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
EASTERN ITEMS.
John L. Sullivan Tackles the
Wrong Man.
The Body of a Bank Robber Proves
to be That of an Ottawa,
Kan., Farmer.

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Great advances in the price of rubber
goods are likely.
The Amateur Athletic Union met a
Wilmington, Del.
Ogden saloon quarrel.
Slosson defeated Shaefer in the billiard
tournament at New York.
The bill for an Assistant Secretary O.
War has passed both Houses.
The funeral of the late Minister Pen.
dleton was held at Cincinnati.
A league has been formed in Montreal
looking to the independence of Canada
The President has approved the ACT
providing for an Assistant Secretary Of
War.
The Chicago Board OF Trade is making
war on bucket shops. Too much compe.
tition.
The Brotherhood's baseball season will
open April "A and close October 4, with
140 games.
Pittsburg has granted lot of street
railway franchises, covering eighty miles
of its streets.
William Bucknell, Philadelphia phi
lanthropist, died suddenly of apoplexy.
aged 79 years.
The two-year-old filly Reverie, by AL.
caZar out of Sallie Babrow, was sold at
New Yo k for $4,000.
State Senator Brown of Ohio has re-
signed. The resignation will embarrass
the Democratic majority.
Rev. William A. Smith of the Perkins
street Baptist church, Boston, has been
expelled for drunkenness.
Ex-Governor John Palmer is the unan-
imOus choice of the Illinois Democrats
for United States Senator.
Net earnings of the Texas Pacific rail-
road during the past year year were 81,
656, IA, an increase of $369,027.
RearA dmiral Kimberly has been Or
der5d to act as President of the Naval
Board of Inspection and Survey.
Maggie Mitchell has purchased her sec
ond summer residence at Berkeley, Cal
Her first one is at Long Branch.
The Alaska seal lease has been let to
the North American Commercial Com
paDy, it being the highest bidder.
The American wire, rod and nail mills
at Anderson, Ind, the largest in the
were burned; loss, 100000.
F. w Wheeler's ship yard and dry
dock at Bay City. Mich, has been sold
to an English syndicate for $S,5OO,OOO
The public debt statement for February
has just been publish and shows a
decrease in the debt of over $6,OJO,O 900.
Lieutenant Converse, in charge of the
new torpedo boat Gushing, saws she is
up to all requirements and perfect sue
cess.
The House Committee will advise in
ere asing the duty on hay, peas, barley,
potatoes and other Canadian importa-
tions.
The Atlantic and Paci6c's report shows
a decrease in its gross earnings for last
month of $62, 1872, as compared with last
year.
The gross earnings of the Canadian
Pacific for the month show an increase
Of 5000 over the same period the pre-
ceding year.
The Atlantic Fire and Marine Insur-
ance Company of Providence, R l., has
decided to wind up its affairs and go out
of business.
The body of the robber of the Valley
Falls (Kan.f baUk has been identified as
that of Charles Robinson, farmer liv-
ing near Ottawa.
Charles Vail, charged with the murder
of his wife, whose life was heavily in
sured, at st. Charles, Mo-, has been held
for the grand jury.
Great depression prevails in the ingram
carpet business, and the manufacture RS
will probably stop 25 per cent. of the
looms for nine months.
Captain Samuel B. Washburn of the
famous Washburn family of Minnesota,
of the Washburn mills at Min
died at Avon, N. Y.
Chauncey M. Depew denies that he
resigning as President OF
the New York Central to become a can
didate for the Presidency in 1892.
At Perry Sound, Ont, William Robin
sons house burned. and his son and two
two daughters perished. The remainder
of the family escaped by jumping.
Rev. Clement NJ Butler died at Ger
mantown, Pa, aged 80 years. During
the rebellion he was em loyed by the
Government in several important mis-
sions.
Hon. Warner Miller of New York has
been elected Pres dent OF the Nicaragua
Canal Com any A. c. Cheney, hereto
fore President, has been elected Vice
Presi lent
ultimate friends of Robert Lincoln In
Chicago express the oEinion that In view
of the death of his son hewill soon resign
the post Of Minister to Great Britain and
return to Chicago.
A memorial has been introduced in the
South Dakota Senate asking Congress to
submit to a vote of the people OF the
United States the question OF prohlbltlon
of the liquor traffic.
The alleged scheme to colonize Okla
homa and make it a negro State has
aroused the settlers to high pitch o. ex'
citemeut. White settlers are driving
colored people cut of the country
The New York police are waging wal
on bucket shops. Everybody and every
thing i'm them. including monev, are
seized. Men arraigned in the Police
Court g We fictitious names and addresses
1t is reported that ar English syndi
cate is negotiating for the purchase O
four firms in the United States now con
trolling the manufacture of soda water
and beer apparatus for between IS ,ooJ, OH
and S9,000,000.
In the race on Lake Eola, Fla, be
tween Gadauer, Hamm, Teneyeck ane
Hosmer Gaudauer won in two straIgn
heats; time, 5 80 and z %. In the quar-
ter-mile dash Tor st. Johns purse Hamn
defeated Laudauer; time, Liz.