The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-14
EASTERN ITEMS.
Sllcott, the Defaulting Clerk, In
terviewed in Canada.
A Fire in the Navy Yard at Ports.
mouth, N. H.-Nitro-G esrine
Explosion at Alton, Pa.

OHCoVt has Deen interviewed in Canada
Ex-Lieutenant-Go Governor Bross, on.
linOis, is dead.
Most has been liberated on IS 900 bail
penang an appeal.
Senator Daniel eulosized JEFF Davis by
invitation OF the Virginia legislature.
Larysbaugh, Queensland, is inundated
D1y Hoods. Six people have been
drowned.
A passen -er train at Oswego, n. Y.
was run into by another. Three persons
were killed.
Blaine's Oldest daughter, Mrs. Goppin-
ger, is lying at the point of death with
the grippe.
Col. John Mason Brown, one of the
most promin MT lawyers of Kentucky
died in Louisville.
A fatal plague, resembling meaningless
Is carrying Oft the population of Cook
county, Texas.
Fred W. Fuhrmau, pnrser of the
steamship Oceanic, shot himself fatally
cause unknown.
Peter Jackson has gone back to New
York. He weiehs 204 pounds and saws
he never felt better.
John Il. La 'lande, cotton factor. New
Or" ans, has failed. Liabilities. $564.
600; assets, $544, 900.
Prof ssor Karl Mertz, director of the
muslctl depar' ment of Wooster univer-
sity, Ohio, died OF la grippe.
The directors of the Conway Spr n s.
Kan, Sugar COnrany, have settled wit !,
their former red tors and labo-ers
A fire in the Portsm 'uth, N. H., navy
yard In the construction and repair de.
pariment, resulted in $lUO,nOO d;mag,..
Forn al RECOGNITION Of Brazil by the
government h been completed, and the
president has received the new minister.
An ex losiOn in the Standrd Oil Works
at Hunter oint de@t Dyed several
thousand allons OF oil and other prop
erty.
Cap ain Houdlette, of the at amer
Aus "a II, p'ead d gull y and was fined
1880 + carrying an exc IS of ,ssen-
gers.
Geor e TObler, colored, was hanged at
Fort Smith, Ark, for tie murder of Err
win Ri hardsOn, tolored, last Septem-
Der.
w. J. Arkell and Russell Harrison
have advertised for three journalists and
ak alb e-bodied men to 20 on an expe-
DIT on to Alaska.
Charles Williams, wanted at Fredonia,
Ohio, for the murder of Will am McLain,
farn er, seven years ago, has been ar
rested at Denver
A favorable report has been ordered
by the house military committee on the
bill to retire General Fremont with the
rank OF majOr-eeneral.
Secretary Window has issued a SC
Ond call to national banks for the sur
r. nd b1fOre March st, of 10 pr cent.
of their public d-posits.
The adjutsnt-general of the army has
re o nme nded the passage of Carter's bill
giving part of the Fort Keogh reservation
to Miles City for a park.
Rev. Father S roup, provisional IF the
order of the Holy Ghost of the Roman
Catholic church in America, died at
Pittsburg of pneumonia.
A sAven-story building at the corner of
Fifth and Sycamore streets, Cincinnati,
belonging to the Glenn estate, VS.
burned. Loss, 100000.
A charge of dynamite failed to explode
in a Chicki' s, Pennsylvania quarry.
VIM. NJ stenhoffer wenF to investigate
when his h. ad was blown off.
Charles Emery Smith, of the Phila-
delphia Press, has ben offered the Rus
sian mission and is considering the ad-
visa ability of accepting the place.
I. Lucia Zarate, the Mexican midget,
aid TO he the smallest hum n adult in
the word, pass g'r on the c. p. train
died at Truckee from gastric fever.
the house committee on Indian affairs
has decided to report favorab'y on Car
ter's bill to throw open the west end of
the Crow reservation for settlement.
The Union Pacific and Northwestern
railroads have Civ n notice of with
drava' in thirty days fir m the Inter-
state Commerce Railway Association.
Senator Stewards bill authorizing pay
ment of coast states civil war cl inns ap-
propri 4tes for California, s4,4 0,89l |;
Oregon, $356,27i and Nevada $402, 1896.
By an explosion ofnitro-g -glycerine near
Alton, Bradford county, Pa, William H.
McHenry and Alex Connors, two we'll
known torpedo, men were blown to
atoms.
Chairman Goshorn, of the national ex-
ecutive committee OF the Union Labor
party, has cabled a conference OF the
party, to be held at Kansas City Feb
ruary z.
Hon. William Critchfeld, who was a
member Of Con :ress in 1874, from the
Third district of Tennessee, and noted
for his eccentricities, died at Chat
tanoO2a.
Pat Grant, correspondent OF the Chi
| ago Inter-O can, has been arretod in
Detroit for libe', at The instance OF Dr..
Charles O'Reilly, treasurer OF the I.ish
Land League.
The mayor of Montreal has written to
the secretary of the Briti-h embassy at
Washington, asKiny him to hand the
South Amerit an delegates invitations to
visit Montreal.
The league baseball managers have de-
| ided to begin forral quits against the
plavers in all the state and federal. ourts
necessary to restrain them from playing
with the brotherhood.
Mrs. Mary Irish, mother of the late
Colon-l Irisp, of the national bureau OF
printing and engraving, and of Mrs.
Hen v, the evangelist OF the w. G. I. u,
died at Evansville. Ind.