The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27

NoW Jersey Is now the htteenth State
to adopt ballot reform.
1t is proposed to secure s5OO,OOO for
public library in Philadelphia.
Kansas railroad assessments for taxa
ton We're increased $780, LIST year.
General Francis A. Walker has been
confirmed as Park Commissioner of Bos-
ton.
The next general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will be held
in Omaha in 1892
Eastern capitalists are trying to obtain
concession for large smelling works near
Monterey, Mexico.
The Riverside and Oswego Mills Com
pany OF Providence, R. L, has been re-
organized by the creditors.
The Mormons-non-polyg ygamists-have
established a church in Brush Creek, !
Highland county, o., with fifty members.
The Western railroads have restored
the passenger rates on the basis in effect
prior to the recent opening of the rate
war.
AL Hayman has contracted with Bron-
son Howard for a ntw pay. The piece
will not be finished until season after
next.
The Western Union Beef Company,
with $4,000 0O0 capital, has been jncor-
porated at Denver. 1t is gigantic beef
trust.
The builders and laborers' strike at
Toronto is over for five years, an agree
ment covering that period having been
reached.
The collections of internal revenue for
the month OF May amounted t. $l6,S37,-
772, a sum larger than for any month
since 1870.
A baking company has been organized
at indianapolis with a capital of $5,C00,-
900. 1t expects to tontrol the business
in the West.
In Boston there is a well-defned de-
mand that the advertisements in street
cars shall give way to quotations from
good authors.
Secretary Wind )m has made a favor
able report on the customs administrative
bill, and it will probably be approved by
the President.
Seven of the principal breweries and
malthOuses at Chicago have been alb
sorbed by the Chicago Brewing and Malt
ing Company.
The syndicate to build ships on the
Delaware is said to be the most slbstan
tial concern of the kind ever organized
in this country.
Doxrya boc louo~cJ 4bo u,~x,,~J x,,,,
ming record for half and quarter mile runs,
and proposes to beat the worlds record |
before leaving college.
According to a dispatch from London
81 100000 was expended in May in the
United States by British syndicate in
the purchase of breweries.
AS result of test just completed the
dry dock at the Norfolk navy yard is not
in the least injured as reported.
Mexico has abolished its antiquated |
and irregular system of currency and
adopted a complete decimal scheme SINH
lar to that of the United States.
The bigh-license law, which has been
in effect in Baltimore for month, has
proved so satisfactory that there is talk |
of doubling the present fee Of $3.50.
There is clear majority for the lottery
in each House of the Louisiana Legisla
ture, but the requisite two-thirds to over
come Governor NichOlls veto is wanting.
The farmers of Berks county, Pa, are
complaining about the ravages of the
Hessian fly and the appearance of rust
on the wheat All crops look backward.
Mrs. Grant says there is no possibility
of the removal of the remains of Gen
eral Grant from Riverside park to Ga
lena, where a statue of Grant is soon to
be placed.
New York has passed bill creating
"eight female inspectors of factories, "
and the bachelor Governor of the State
is all torn up. There are 80 applicants
for the places.
An inventor by the name of A. Davis
has completed plans for an elevated cleo
trio railroad for Montreal, and has Sc
cured patents for the distinguishing fea
lures OF the system.
During last year 257 people lost their
lives by railroad accidents in Cook coun-
tv, Hi, and of this number nearly all
were killed at grade crossings within the
present limits of Chicago.
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
MED the motion filed on behalf of Emma
J. Gonzales for a review of the depart
ment's decision of March "a in the case
against the townsite of Flagstaff, A. L.
The Rhode Island Senate passed bill
extending the provisions OF the Austria
liam system to municipal elections, but
the House failed to reach the bill before
adjournment, and it therefore goes over
to the next session.
The total gross exchanges of the coun-
try for the last year, as shown by dis
patches from the leading clearing houses
in the United States and Canada, were
81, ,468, ,17S, S9S, an increase OF 37.7 PER
cent. as compared with the correspond
ing week last year.
1t is rumored at Chicago that heavy
stock-yard holders, seeing the ultimate
removal of the yards from the heart OF
the city, are not only willing but anx-
ious that the English syndicate should
purchase them. The small holders are
trying to prevent a sale.
Seven wise women, at the suggestion
of Miss Anthony, have incorporated
themselves into a new organization at
Washington, D. c., under the name OF
1.-THE Wimodoughsls,' the particular
business and object of which organlza-
ton is the education of women in pollt-
ical science, art, literature and physlcai