The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-08
EASTERN ITEMS.
1t is Decided South Dakota Can
Have P1ohibitory Laws.
The Atlanta Constitution Urges the South
to Boycott Northern Goods If the
Lodge Bill is Passed.

Mrs. Frank Leslie says the Marquis d.
Leuville is an idiot.
The price of beer in Chicago ha
dropped from $6 to $3.50 per barrel.
Canada is estimated to have popula
ton of 5000, 900, which is an increase O
nearly zoe, 900 in ten years.
The announced reduction in grair
rates from the Missouri and Mississipp
rivers to Chicago is likely to end in :
big legal battle.
The defaulting ex-State Treasurer O
Maryland, Stevenson Archer, has beer
sentenced upon confession of his guilt tt
i've years in the penitentiary.
Work is about to begin on the new
Home for Ship Builders on the Harlem
river, for which w. H. Webb of Ford
ham Heights gave about 81 100000.
The sewerage experts have reported tt
Congress five projects for sewerage sys
tenn for Washington, and lay great stress
upon the necessity for new system.
The Canadian Pacific, having won il
the courts the right to enter Chicago
over the Western Indiana tracks, will
run solid trains hereafter between Bos
ton and Chicago.
John Bauss has brought suit agains
Father Aloysius Steffens, rector of St
JOseph's Catholic church at WOOdhaven
l.. l., for rs, 900 for alternating the affec
tion of his wife.
The Atlanta Constitution in Ions
editorial urges the organization of home
league clubs to boycott Northern goods
in the event of the passage of the Fed
eral election bill.
Two large funds, which would have
been left to Harvard by bequest, have
been cancelled because the faculty faileC
to punish the students who painted thu
founders statue red.
Law and order people in Indiana coun
ties infested by white caps are preparing
to organize for the purpose of huntin,
down the miscreants and giving then
some of their own medicine.
Senior Serrano, fruit-grower of So
nora, Mexico, hopes to establish house
in Chicago, and says the exhibit of So
nora oranges at the Worlds Fair will bt
a revelation to the United States.
The importations of mackerel at Bos
ton up to July IL were away ahead O
last year and 1888. They amounted t.
0,642 barrels, as against 5,024 barrels
last year and 6,665 the year previous.
Eight-nine licenses have been issued
by the Canadians so far this season un
der the modus vivendi to United States
fishing vessels. During the whole of las
season the number was seventy-eight.
The Mayor and City Council of Be
ment, ILL.,, are indulging in legal war
which has arrayed the license and anti
license people against each other. The
Mayor is license man, the Council anti
Representative Henderson of lowe
from the Committee on Appropriations
has reported to the House the general
deficiency appropriation bill. This is
the last of the regular appropriation
bills.
The total gross exchanges for the last
week, as shown by dispatches from the
leading clearinghouse in the United
States and Canada, is 81 Ills, ,389 ,573, ar
increase of 2.29 per cent. as compared
with the corresponding week of last year
Simon and julius Kroganker of Brom.
berg, Germany, who ran away from Ger.
many few months ago after securing
nearly 100000 marks by forgery, were
arrested on the arrival of the steamer
Augusta Victoria at New York.
A special from Warsaw, n. Y, says an
English syndicate has announced its
readiness to purchase the Washington
Bar gold mine of Madison county, Mont
Charles B. Benedict of st. Paul is on his
way to Europe for the mining company
1t has been discovered that the sys
tematic conterfeiting of rare and antique
coins of the United States has been sue
cessfully carried on for some time in this
country, and three stations where they
were issued have been traced-one in
New York and two in Illinois.
Subtracting from the public debt the
cash in the treasury, the amount of Pa
cific railroad bonds and interest thereon
the sum of 1921, ,604, 900 eemains as the
Indebtedness of the United States at the
beginning of this month. The CORE
spending total for 1880 was about ST.,
919, ,327 900.
In California, during the past fisca
year, 115 postoffices were established anC
43 discontinued, making a net increase
of 72 offices. In Oregon 80 offices were
established and % discontinued, making
a net increase of 60. In Washington 13;
Offices were established, and only dis
continued, making net gain of 125.
The Sicilians who lay in wait and freG
into party of workmen returning from
their work in wagon some months ago
at New Orleans have been found guilty
and will be sent to the penitentiary
This is the first conviction and heavy
blow to the Sicilian vendettas which
have SO long been in existence in New
Orleans.
Judge Haney at Chamberlain, S. d..
has lust decided that the enabling ac
passed by Congress gave South Dakots
the right to enact prohibitory laws, ant
as this right was guaranteed subsequen
to the passage of the interstate com
merce law, the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States with respec
to original packages does not apply t.
South Dakota.
4 Among the nominations confirmed b,
the Senate are John Mickens, North Da
kota, Consul at Baraguila; Registers o
land ofices-John Anderson, Missoula
Mont; G. A. Berg, Livingston, Mont.
4. S. Neal, Bismarck, n. D.; Receiver
of public moneys-Asa Fisher, Birmarck
! N. D.; G. w. Cook, Lewiston, Mont; ]
i B. Cattlin, Missoula, Mont; ]. K. Wal
lace, Olympia, WASH. A. j. Shaw, post
master at Spokane Falls, Wash; F. ]
Lucker, Berlin, Wis,