The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-26
EASTERN ITEMS. !.
Plan for kidnapping Children Dis
covered in Kansas City.
The United States Takes Hold of the Census
Cases, and Will Investigate the
CrOOkedneSS.

Madam Bavatsky has sued the New
York Sun for Gble.
John K. Foster of Indiana has been
offered the Spanish Ministry,
Mexico has decided tat educe he,
army and change her syst ii of recruit.
ing.
A strong movement to defeat PoWderly
for General Master of the Knights OF
Labor at the coming election is being
made.
The cash receipts of the Mexican
Treasury the past year were $37, ,OO0, 900,
a sum never before equaled in Mexican
history.
The population of the State of Yer
mont, as announced by the Census
Bureau, is 332, $50, decrease in ten
years of thirty-one.
Efforts are being made by citizens of
Galena, ILL.,, to secure the removal of
General Grants remains to that place,
his home in early life.
The Postal Telegraph Company of
New Jersey, which is to open an office
shortly in Orange, is going to mount it's
messengers on safety bicycles.
New York has suffered this year con-
siderable from the drought. All the
streams in the northern part of the
State are so low as to affect the canals.
All the designs submitted in the COM
petition for New York's monument to
General Grant are drawn on the suppo-
sition that the work is to cost $500, 900.
Presumably owing to some religious
disagreement six Icelandic students,
who have been studying in Winnepeg,
have gone to Dakota to finish their stud
les.
The Cincinnati Board of Public I'm
provenents has adopted a resolution
providing for competitive bidding for the
purpose of introducing natural or fuel
gas.
A company has been organized at Des
Moines, Ia, to establish colony at the
South, where Edward Bellamy's plan
of Socialistic government can be prac-
tically tested.
New York's mounted park policemen
have appeared in an outfit of tight riding
breeches and top boots, Whitman sad
dies and Prussian army bits for the
horses brides.
Clara Belle Mcdonald, well-known on
the Pacific Coast on account of her mat
rimonial troubles, has arrived in New
York with her child, where she pro-
poses to study law.
A boycott is being established by At
lantic steamers against cowboys who
are returning after taking over consign-
ments of cattle. The actions of the
men are declared to be outrageous.
Philadelphia iron manufacturers and
dealers have subscribed $4,000 for the
entertainment of the members of the
British Iron and Steel Institute, who
are to visit the United States next
month.
Regarding the Chicago dispatch stat
ing that J. F. GODDARD would succeed
Richard Gray as traffic manager of the
Southern Pacific, President Croker
stated that Gray would remain with the
company.
Uncle Ben Baker, Assistant Secretary
of the Actors Fund, and one of the
most widely known and popular members
of the profession, was found dead at his
residence in New York. He was sew
enty-two years old.
The State School Commissioner and
Attorney General were in consultation at
Atlanta, Ga, in regard to securing for
purposes of negro education in that
State sum of money that has lain in
the Bank of England for many years.
The total gross exchanges for last
week, as shown by the dispatches from
the leading houses in the United States
and Canada, is $1,094, ,720,7 100. an in
crease of twenty-one per. cent. as COM
pared with the corresponding week last
year.
The Boston express Saturday evening
struck a suburban train on the Dan
bury and Norwalk branch of the Housa-
tonic road in Boston and badly dam
aged it, besides shaking up and painfully
| iniuring thirty or more passengers, none
of them dangerously.
| The Brooklyn Board of Education has
ordered that the law against minors
smoking shall be read in the public
schools once a month. The street arabs
have already arranged plan to defeat
the operations of the statute. 1t pro-
hibits smoking tobacco and especially
cigarettes. Hereafter they are all af-
ficted with catarrh and smoke cubebs.
An audacious plan for attempting to
kidnap children has been revealed at
Kansas City. The plan was to kidnap
children of wealthy parents, conduct
them to some secret place In some dis
tant State and keep them there until
their ransoms should be paid. The
Grand Jury found true bill for the Of
fense against Henry G. Wilson, the
owner of livery stable.
+ IF. Murdoch, the young man who
claimed to have discovered the rail
across the track of the Boston and
Maine railway, near Lynn, and warned
an approaching train of the danger, has
been arrested, and confessed that he
had himself placed the obstruction on
the track. though he disclaimed any In
tention of wrecking the train. He said
the act was done in the hope of being
rewarded.
The annual election of the Northern
Pacific Company will be held on October
16 at New York. 1t will be one of the
ouietest on record, no contest is antici-
nated. and, as one of the officials put it,
e We expect every thing to pass off as
i smooth as silk ribbon" Not even a
i committee of proxies has been appointed
but there will be proxies enough present
tn transact all the necessary business.
The fact that no committee has been ap-
pointed to solicit proxies arises from the
fact that the company has no important
change from the present situation te
suggest.