The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
EASTERN ITEMS.
House Committee Favors Selling
Mormon Church Property.
Minister Miners Conduct in the Barrundia
Affair Upheld by the State
Department.

feet.
Fall Rivers new City Hall will prob
ably cost $500, 900.
Total cash in the United States Treas
ury is 1894, ,557, ,461. .O7.
The wheat acreage in Kansas this fall
will be about 100000 acres.
The late census shows Boston to be
entitled to 1l3 more saloons.
There are are thirty-nine theosophical
societies in the United States.
Brooklyn druggists in meeting con-
demned the aduIteration of drugs.
Maine spe'ulators are Offering S. a
barrel for winter apples on the trees.
Englishmen are planning to open ND
100000 acres of land in We Virginia
Farmers are at the head of the Guber-
material tickets of both parties in In
diana.
The Prohibition candidate for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania has withdrawn
from the contest.
A remarkably rich gold mine is re-
ported to have been discovered near
Rapid City, S. D.
The death roll of the Grand Army of
the Republic last year was 5,476 out of
membership of 464, ,652.
Physicians have condemned the water
in East Lake, from which Bridgeton, N.
j., gets its water supply.
1t is estimated that fully 1000 Penn
sylvanians are in the employ of the
United States Government.
Over fifty thousand American tourists
are said to have arrived home from
Europe since the 1st of August.
Tie posofice force at New Orleans
has been reduced on account of The de-
crease in mails, owing to the anti-lottery
law.
The bill appropria'ing $1O0, 900 to sur
vey Alaska has been favorably reported
by the Hodse Committee on Foreign At
fairs.
Secretary Window accounts for the
stringent money market on the ground
of the rise in the value of our principal
crops.
New York City is kicking against the
Federal census because it will reduce it's
representation in Congress and in the
State Legislature.
The Canadian Government, it is
understood, will shortly abolish the ex-
port duty on Canadian logs shipped to
the United States.
A number of Jews recently arrived
from Russia are negotiating for 700
acres of land near Centre Grove, N. j.,
on which to start colony.
The Southern Illinois Imm igration and
TO spend 500 in advertising the aivan-
tages OF Egypt. They want boom.
Late heavy rains have caused over
$1O0,O00 loss by the damage to crops
along the Genesee river and its trib-
utaries in Western New York State.
The United States Treasury, as the
result of the measures adopted by Mr..
Window, has been paying out $2,0O0,0 900
per day since the middle of August.
A large emigration of negroes from
Mississippi to Oklahoma is anticipated.
Agents sent by them to "spy out the
land" have returned with favorably
Boucicault's estate will be contested
for by both his widows, Agnes Robert
SIN and Louise Thorndvke. The old
scandal is likely to be dished up again.
The American Forestry Congress, at
it's recent meeting in Qubec, adopted
resolutions recommending the sending
OF young men to Europe to study for
estry.
Friends of the late General Fremont
in New York are manifesting consider
abe interest in the conditi of Mrs.
Fremont, and doing so in substantial
manner.
The subscriptions to the fund for the
erection of monument to the memory
of the late Henry w. Grady at Atlanta,
Ca, are being rapidly collected. About
$40, 900 were subscribed.
1t is reported in Washington that
General Russell A. Alger wishes to pur-
chase newspaper in New York City
and to put ex-Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Clarkson at the head of it.
By vote of to the House Com
mittee on Judiciary has ordered fav-
orable report on the Senate bill provid-
ing for the disposition of the personal
property of the Church of Latter Day
Saints in Utah.
Canadian estimates are to the effect
that the Mckinley bill will reduce
Canadian exports to the United States
by at least $40, 100000. 1t will shut out
Canadian barley and enlarge the mar
ket for California barley.
MINERS conduct in the Barrundia af-
fair is upheld by the State Department,
but the conduct of Captain Pitt, the
Department says, demands investiea-
tion. The argument is used that the
Captain either should not have accepted
Barrundia as passenger. or, having
accepted him with knowledge OF his
legal status, he should not have car
ried him within the territorial limits of
Guatemala.
There is hardly doubt but that the
provision relating to the fortiication of
sweet wines for domestic use will be re-
tanned in the tariff bill, though it seems
likely that California will have to sac
fee that part of it relating to the for
tification of sweet wines for foreign
expectation, thereby imposing a duty
on fortified wines which have been
shipped abroad and imported into this
country again, heavier than the present
internal revenue tax of 60 cents per gal
lon.