The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-28
EASTERN ITEMS,
The State Treasurer of Missouri
a Defaulter.
miscellaneous News From ALI Parts
OF the East Condensed Into
Paragraphs

Omaha linemen have st. uck.
The Grant Monument Association now
has Sal 1893 80.
Kansas farmers are petitioning for g
reduction in corn rates.
The public debt reduction for Feb
ruary was $6,l 9,4S6.66.
A cable-car labo1er at Denver had his
leg ground off by the cable.
The railway earnings for January show
gross increase of $4,000,0O0.
The Kingston {Ont } City Council has
voted to tax all chur, h property
David Dudley Field has made speech
declaring for compulsory voting.
In Brunswick, Ca, the law confines
the sale OF liquor to three streets.
A new town called Stanley will be
founded on the Sioux reservation.
An Illinois farmers union has declared
that lump-jaw cattle are good to eat.
The Cherokee strip is being invaded
by hundreds of Oklahoma boomers.
Virginia tax assessments in the future
are to show the race of the taxpayer.
A mysterious and fatal cattle disease
has broken out in Wayne county, Ind.
The brewery owners Of New Orleans
talk OF consolidating all the companies.
The declarations Of the State Treasurer
of Missouri orQ nnu- Hnr,roI A q ),, nOO
A number of Sparks rulings adverse
to settlers have recently been reversed.
Chicago's street railway stock is boom
ing since the vote on the Worlds Fair
The land on which the Auditorium at
Chicago stands has been sold for $i7O,-
600.
George H. Pendleton's funeral at Gin
cinati was attended by many distinguish
ed men.
German colonists arriving in Nuevo
Neon, Mexico, to work in the cotton
fields.
The Canadian Pacific is encountering
heavy snowdrifts in Maine, which delay
travel.
The Knights of Labor of New York
want the legal rate of interest fixed at 5
per cent.
1t is estimated that 10000, 900 Euro
pean eggs were eaten in the United States
last year.
Phonorraph closets are very common
now in the off, es of the New York busi-
ness men.
Howell Osborn is said to have squan-
dered $4,000 year on Fay Templeton,
the actress.
Judge Tuthill of Chicago has decided
that it is not li5elous to call person an
Anarchist.
Jay Gould is reported to have ac-
quired nearly all the coal fields in the
Southwest.
1t is proposed to have daily mail and
passenger steamers between New Yvlk
and Liverpool.
Considerable excitement prevails at
Tiffin, O., by an abandoned well tegin-
ming TO flow oil.
In 1888 Illinois farmers made $1O,O00,-
000 on their corn crops last year they
lost that amount.
The Atchison railroad gross earnings
approximated for February show an in
crease of $425, 900.
The Legislature of Mississippi has
changed the name of Bolivar county to
Jeff Davis county.
A bill has been introduced in Congress
for the establishment of a life-saving
station at Hueneme, CAL
The Women's Suffrage Convention has
chosen North Dakota as the immediate
battle ground for the cause.
There is a rumor that the Chicago
Yards are about to be sold to an English
syndicate for $50, 100000.
The law prohibiting the use of stoves
or furnaces in passenger cars goes into
effect May l in Maryland.
The Kansas State Board of Agriculture
reports that the population of that State
has declined 56 ,638 the past year.
Minister Robert Lincoln authorizes
denial of the report that he intends to
resign in consequence of the death Of
his son.
The Chester (Pa.) School Board has
adopted and will soon introduce the
school savings bank system into the pub
lie schools.
In many parts of Maine lumbermen
have had an exceptionally good winter,
with just snow enough for shedding and
no big drifts.
A New York court has enjoined the
production by Mark Twain of the play
'Prince and Pauper" on petition of Ed
ward H. House.
The Senate Committee on Public
Buildings will recommend 100000 each
for site at Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane
and SO 1000 tor Walla Wal'a.
F. w. Smith, the defaulting Land
office Receiver at Tucson, A. T., has
skipped, leaving his bondsmen in the
Iurch Four indictments are awaiting
him.
Cavalry overlook five renegade Apache
murderers thirty miles north of Globe,
A. T., after a 800 mile chase. Three
were taken alive and two killed in the
capture.
The German government has de ided
to opan the business of the Reichstag
with the prs jects prepared by the Coun-
Gil OF State, the foremost of which are
the hills regulating work on Sunday and
restricting the hours OF labor of women
and children. More complex measures
relating to the hours of mile adults and
the miners work day will be reserved
until the autumn session. A bill will
ESQ no nresanted aiming 70 control