The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-05
EASTERN ITEMS.
Texas Judge Killed by the Wife Of
a Defeated Candidate.
The Minority Makes Its Report in the
Clayton Breckenridge Contested
Election Case.

The total assessed value of Kansas as
fixed by the State Equalizers is $346, ,45O,-
S48.11.
Three English engineers have gone to
inspect the route of the Labrador Coast
railway.
A line from the dairy districts to sup
ply New York with milk is the latest
project in pipe-laying.
A disease, which some believe to be
anthrax, has appeared among cattle at
Cartwright, Manitoba.
There is much doubt over the passage
OF Federal Supreme Court relief bill at
this session of Congress.
Returns to the Census Bureau from the
South are discouraging the immediate
reapportionment pushers.
South Dakota's Supreme Court has
rendered decision sustaining the pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic.
Warden Durston says the official re-
port will show that the execution of
Kemmler was great success.
In one of the Chicago hospitals rs per
cent. OF the patients are suffering from
the effects of cigarette-smoking.
The total product of pig iron for 1889
80 in the Southern States was $50, ,346
tons, against l, ,78O, ,909 tons in 1890.
The Connecticut peach crop is said to
be a partial failure, but it is relatively
better than that of New Jersey and Del
aware.
The steamship Normandie has arrived
at New York with the statue of Lafay-
cite, which France has presented to the
United States.
A man in New Orleans confesses to
murder committed in England thirty
five years ago, for which an innocent
man was hanged.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
-Nettleton confirms the report that the
Corwin has been ordered to Alaska, but
will say nothing further.
H. HI. Simpson is on his way to this
country from Australia to engage base
ball team. He represents a syndicate
with a capital of 100000.
Systematic depredations of books in
the mails from the Philadelphia postof-
flee have been discovered and a clerk
arrested, charged with the theft.
The Committee on Commerce has re-
ported favorably to the House the Senate
bill to provide for the inspection of live
cattle and beef products intended for ex-
port to foreign countries.
Smallpox is ravaging Guerrero, a Mex
ican border town, and Texas towns are
becoming alarmed over the possibility of
being afflicted with the contagion unless
quarantine is established.
At meeting of the trunk line passen-
ger agents at New York it was decided
to give 2-cent per mile rate for ten or
more persons travelling on one ticket on
any road of the association.
Judge Max Stein of Hidalgo county,
Texas. was killed in Renos, Mexico, by
Mrs. Della McCabe. The trouble grew
out of an election, in which Mrs. Nc
Cabe's husband was defeated.
Among the contributions to the 81 900
fund to endow a bed in the Monmouth
IN. j. memorial hospital is that of j.
B. Haggin, who gave 500, and many
prominent turfmen made donations.
Two hundred farmers of Huron coun-
ty, Mich, have asked for public aid be-
cause their crops were totally destroyed
bv the storm which swept over the east
ern portion of the county at harvest
time.
Seventeen soldiers acting as a patrol
for the City Custom-house at the City of
Mexico deserted in body after killing
their Lieutenant. Cavalry is in pursuit
of the deserters, three of whom have
been captured.
New York's Board of Health warns
the public to beware of the average
towel supply at the public baths, as in
yestigation has shown that many victims
of ophthalmia can trace their aff1iction
to that source.
The Denver Lottery Company, which
recently opened headquarters in Kansas
CITY. Kan, has vacated it's Office, and it's
officers fled the town after having re-
ceived $50, 900 by the sale of tickets, ETC.,
leaving all prizes unpaid.
Manv of the people of Newfoundland
express themselves as strongly In favor
of annexation with the United States, if
there is not satisfactory settlement OF
the fisheries question, which is now
causing so much anxiety on the island.
George Faribault, Chief of the Indian
Police at Standing Rock agency, N. d.,
| is dead. He was the Daniel Boone OF
Minnesota and man of great influence
among the Indians. He saved the lives
of many whites during the Indian
troubles.
The minority report on the Clayton
Breckenridge election contest has been
made to the House. 1t charges that the
majority report was unfounded IN
truth, not justified by the evidence and
is defaced by the repetition OF partisan
slander, not sustained by any testimony
The Kansas Railroad Commission in
reducing local rates on cereals 81 per
cent. and on other articles 10 per cent.
asserts that local rates have been main
tanned for some years after distance
rates had been reduced because the roads
of the State were embarrassed, but that
current earnings-which are undoubted-
lv most fAvorable-now justify reduc-
ton.
A Memphis electric-light company was
sued for $499. SO damages few days ago
for DESTROYING shade tree in the yard
of a citizen. The damages were decreed
by default. The President of the com
nany was subsequently arraigned before
3 Justice. charged with trespass in put
ting up the wires. He waived an exam