The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-11
EASTERN ITEMS.
treat Distress Among Miners at
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Colorado Capitalists Investing in
Salt Lake Property Other
Interesting News.

PATHS season-ticket sale in New York
aggregated $q7 200.
I dorado capitalists are investing heay-
iiy IN Salt Lake property.
The Philadelphia police department
payroll contains | III names.
Recent freezing weather in Illinois has
cansed serious DANA e to wheat.
The Kansas Farmers Al ance will
probably enter largely in.o p ,litics.
Mayor Roberts hae appointed lady
JndEes of el ction in Ma haitian, Kan.
The Dominion Parliament has author
lzed the Instruction oe bridge across
the Detroit river.
The continued dry wea her in Texas is
causing distress on the frontier. Cattle
are dying rapidly.
English investors are after paper-mil-
ing interests at Glenn's Falls, Watertown
an Rochester, \. Y.
1t is announced that new asso .iation
OF wool manufacturers has been organ
ized on a free trade basis.
The arrival of numerous immigrants
bound for the coal regions is attracting
much attention in New York
The New York market is all demand
for prunes, with no supply, raisiDs and
canned goods bringing excellent prices
1t cost New Yo~k $4,000 to ascertain
through the Supreme Court that it is lie.
gal to execute its criminals by electricity.
Chicago men entertain the belief that
the New Yo kers are doing all in their
power to defeat the Worlds Fair project.
The owners of the Valkyrie and the
1arana have be' n inv ted to come over
TO America aud contest for the Paine
cup.
1t has been dry this season in the
south Atlantic States, where l. SIS than
one half of the usual amount of rain has
fallen.
There are now five men in New York
who must suffer death by electricity, the
new law having been declared con titu-
tional.
The Chicago Gas Trust announced a
reduction in the price of gas of 25 cents
per 1000 feet t. those using gas for fuel
purposes alone.
The Car aaian Pacific Railway Com
paDy repudiates any cOnnec ion with
George Fra ancis Train and other round
the-world races.
The overflow of the Mississippi is
causing immense destruction of property
and putting an embargo upon traffic both
by land and water.
Senator Mitchell reports that B. E.
Sinnott, late agent at the Grande Ronde
reservation. had a shortage of $2,l46
charged against him.
Efforts are being made at Toronto to
encou age the expo tAtion of Cana iian
ca Il" to Ireland, where, it is said, the re
is demand for them.
Intimate friends of Malone say that
should the appointment of Consul Gen
eral at Paris be offered him he W, uld
probably not accept it.
The Rio Grande river, in the State of
Jalisco. is TO be made navigable. The
work is to he carried on under the super
ylS'On OF State engineers.
There is great distress among the min
ers in Wilkesha're, Pa, and neiyhbor-
hood and steps are Icing taken to form
a citizens relief committee.
The Chinese have held mass meeting
at New York to protect themselves
against the efforts of white laundrymen
to drive them out of the business.
There is a strong feeling at Washington
tenant-General and having General
Schofield appointed TO that position.
Farmers in the hill towns of Western
Massachusetts are in tne midst of the
annual maple sugar harvest. The sap is
reported as running very plentifully.
The total cost to St Louis of not get
ting the Worlds Fair is $26, 1926 S2-that
is to. say, that is the exact sum expended
by the committee in booming st. Louis.
The condition of agriculture in Kansas
is declared by the Farmers Alliance of
that State to be alarming, and immediate
|. gislative relief is absolutely necessary.
Nebraska offers l cent pound bounty
OIL sugar Judut NItttlu lCc. anu
the beet is crowding the succulent sor-
ghum stalk on the prairies of the West.
The Chicago Board of Trade has de-
clare its policy of stopping all market
quotations rather than to any longer fur
nish ammunition to the bucket shops.
The rate war has already so far demor-
allied passenger traffic on railroads to
Missouri points from Chicago that a
move is being made to patch up treaty.
In the Hurley bank-robbing case tried
at Ashland, Wis, there was no verdict.
Bribe ~ OF Jurors is charged by the Dis
frict Attorney Perrin, the defendant,
has been arrested on an embezzlement
charge.
The stockholders of the Postal Tele-
graph Company have voted to increase
the capital stork to $5,000,00O. The
money is needed to pay for several
smaller companies acquired by President
Mackay-
In the damage suit for SO, 1000 brought
bv Tom Heffron against the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad Company at Brainerd
Mich. for the loss OF his eve the jury
has given the boy $1,000 The case viii
be carried to the Supreme Court.
The public works of Philadelphia yield
a suffic entity large revenue from gas, wa
ter aud ther sources to pay all their ex
penses and yield an income of s2,500, ,00t
to the city; and yet the lighting of tha
city is passing into the hands of privat,
electric-light companies.
Congrf ssman Bartine of Nevada think
the Windom b II, with it's amendments
will be acceptable to the Coast people
The objection in the East to free coinas'
!, is strong, and concessions are absolntel,
necessary. He THINKS the cause OF silve
has made most substantial advance.