The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-09
EASTERN ITEMS.
j. Wilkes Booth Again Said to
Be Living.
New York Senate Passes the Weekly
Payment of Wages Bill-Other
Interesting News.

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army the present year over those of last
year of 16 per cent.
The disputes of the building trades at
Philadelphia have been settled by con-
cessons of the masters
The mortality of the Fifty-first Con-
gress has been exceptionally large, Con-
gresham Randall being the ninth.
Nc one enters Claus Spreckels' great
sugar refinery at Philadelphia without a
permit from the owner, and permits are
few.
Ed Brown, a cowboy, at CHEYENNE,
put bullet through his head because a
prrttv school teacher wouldn't marry
! him.
The New York Senate has passed the
Weekly PAYMENT of Wages bill and the
bill making Abraham Lincoln's birthday
legal holiday.
Kansas sends solid delegation of
Union soldiers to the lower branch of
Congr' So; Miss ssippi sends a solid Con-
federate brigade.
New York banks have been specially
warned to loox out for bogus bank in
sp -c'Or who is representing himself as
Chiet Inspector Bell.
British Scotch, Welsh and Canadian
societies in Chicago are active in forming
po'i 'itiual organization of friends of the
public hool system.
The Nor-nern Society of Georgia, COM
posed OF Northern men residing in that
State, has been organized with w. B.
Mills, of Ohio, as President.
Frank B. Loomis, for several years past
Washington correspondent of the Gin
clnnatl Times-Star, has been appointed
consul at st. Etienne, France.
The killing is reported in West Vir-
ginia, near Pigeon Greek, of Smith Bais-
den, John Baisden and William Baisden,
three brothers, noted desperadoes.
The celebrated an-Electric case of
Rodgers VS.. Ex-Attorne " General Gar
land and others has been dismissed at
Washington, each party to pay his own
costs.
While Chicago people want Sunday
closing law New York people are asking
the Legislature to relieve them of Sun
day prohibitory law that does not pro-
hibit.
Twenty persons were poisoned at Man
haitian, Conn, by cake delivered to vari-
Gus houses by baker who peddles in
he vicinity. Five of the victims are
likely to die.
Agents of six great coal companies met
in New York recently and decided to re-
strict the production for May to $50 D,
900 tons. No action was taken toward
advancing prices.
The resignation of John S. Bell, chief
of the secret service bureau, has been
asked. There are several candidates for
the place, with eX-Detective Furlong, of
Missouri, in the lead.
From appearances the city of Pittsburg
is liable to lose the $1,000,000 library
that Andrew Carnegie proposed tod onate
to that city. Some trouble is experienced
in complying with the conditions.
Pierre Bayard Cox, son OF ex-Con-
gresham Cox, OF North Carolina, is dy-
ing from the effects of fall which frac-
tured his skull. He was in the gtadu-
ating class of the New York Medical
College.
The United ates steamer Philadel-
phia, now at Cramps yards, Philadel-
phia is practically complets d, and will
he given preliminary trial next week.
The date for her official trial has not yet
been fixed.
By order of Governor Gordon, of
Georgia, General Commander of the
Uni ed Confederate Veterans, there will
he held in Cha tsnoOga a general re-
union of all ex-Confederates on July Sd,
4th and 9th next.
The hearing on Gernsheim & Co 8 ap-
pliraton for an injunction to restrain re-
organization of the Houston and Texas
Central Railway Company has been con-
ludt in the New York Supreme Court.
Decision was reserved.
Tn the New York State Senate Mr..
Fassett has introduced bill. which was
orGt red to third reading, fixing salaries
for the ohe>i and Under Sheriffs of New
York, and ordering that all fees be turned
over to the city treasury.
A special from Birmingham, Ala, says
that Louise Worcester, confidante of j.
Wilkes Booth, the assassin OF President
Lincoln declares that Booth is not dead
and that she received letter from him
two wears after his alleged death.
In the caucus of the Republican MEM
bers of the House on the silver question
it was developed during the discussion
that majority of the members were Op-
posed to the Window bill. The whole
suhiect has been referred to the Repub-
lican Caucus Committee for its action.
The total gross exchanges for the past
week. as shown by dispatches from the
leading clearing houses of the United
States and Canada were 81 ,141 lac, 900.
an increase of 1873 per cent as compared
with the corresponding week of last year.
w. p. Johnson, Jr., son of the Rock
Island General Freight Agent at Chicago,
and wife, were robbed at Mcfarland,
Kan. T. ey were en- route to Denver on
their bridal tour, and while absent from
their state room the theft was committed
Bishop Eshers' candidate, Rev. John
Vittler, demanded recognition at the
EvangelicaI Church at Humboldt Park,
Chicago, and all the people rose from
their seats and dragged him bodily from
the church. After this the service pro-
ceeded-
Father Peter J. Fl. Ryan, of st. Peters
Roman Catholic Church, at Lowville, n.
Y. has been suspended from his priestly
office on account of acts unbecoming
priest He struck lady member of the
congregation in the lace with prayer
book because she refused to pay o GER
| tain assessment,