The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-04
EASTERN ITEMS.
The People of Maine Becoming
Tired of Prohibition.
The Champion Bridge Leaper Dives With
Safety From the Suspension
Bridge at Cincinnati.

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Tobacco-raising has been tried il
Georgia with great success.
Georgia is said to have a crop of 30
oOo,O0O OF watermelons this year.
There is a shortage of s17 900 in tn,
funds OF the Michigan State Soldiers
Home.
The Congressional Record for the pres
ent session of Congress has reached 6. 81
pages up to date.
A Louisiana grand jury has entered
upon an investigation of lottery bribery
Ill the Legislature.
The Pennsylvania railroad will soor
equip all of its 1900 passenger cars with
steam-heating fixtures.
Senator Evarts has introduced a bill te
appropriate $20,ONO with which to buy
manuscripts of Jefferson.
Numbers of Dakota settlers are cross.
Ing over into Manitoba, according to the
reports OF Canadian papers.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany wilt spend about $40. 900 in inn
proving its Pittsburg facilities.
A decision has been rendered bv the
Illinois Supreme Court affirming the con
stltutionality OF the drainage law.
Sixteen sophomores at Bates College
have been suspended for painting the
steps OF the residences of therfaculty.
In Cincinnati the price of coal is
higher because the men who shovel it
and deliver 1t demand that ice water be
furnished them.
The international Typographical Con-
vention has passed a law prohibiting
regular compositors from working more
than six days in any one week.
1t is charged that the entire Bohemian
colony. NUM- Ibering about 5000, in the
Eleventh ward, New York City, has been
overlooked by the census enumerators.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
appointed committee composed of the
postmasters of various cities to receive
designs of letter box for private houses.
Judge .Sherwin of Iowa has decided
that liquors sold in bottles may be drunk
on the premises of agents for outside
houses, being considered in "original
packages"
The Michigan mine at Marquette,
Mich has been robbed of $4,000 worth
of ore by the employees. The miners are
now required to change their clothing on
the premises.
New York fishermen argue from the
Southern fish found in New York bay
that warm summer is impending
These fish rarely are found 50 far north
as New York.
John H. Inman of steamship celebrity
and hundred other prominent citizens
of New York publicly announce that
enumerators did not take the census of
their families.
Three leading lines of surface railroads
in Brooklyn have petitioned for the right
to substitute electric for horse power
Brooklyn is rapidly developing her rapid
transit facilities.
A rich deposit of copper ore, mixed
with silver in paying quantities, has been
found west of Drumnond, Wis, near
Eau Claire lake, one vein being traced a
distance of three miles.
The Greenbackers of Iowa, or what
there is left of them, are going to hold q
State convention and nominate full
State ticket. The convention is called
for August IA at Des Moines.
Meredith Stanley, the young champion
bridge leaper, dived safely from the sus-
pension bridge at Cincinnati, distance
of eighty-seven feet. He struck upon his
head and shot far beneath the surface.
The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge has is
sued an edict requiring all Masons who
are members of the Egyptian Masonic
Rite of Memphis to renOunce their allie
glance to the body within ninety days.
The Cherokee Commission has arrived
at an agreement with the PottawattOmies,
and contracts are now being drawn up.
There will be 6 o acres of land in the
reservation after the severalty allotments.
A party of blowers, who were not
allowed to land in New York, as they
were found to be contract laborers, were
returned to Liverpool at the expense of
the Cunard line, which brought them
over.
The majority of the people in Maine
appear to have had enough of prohibit
ton. A call for an independent pro-
license convention has been issued,
which will nominate a candidate for
Governor.
The site for the city postoffice of Wash
ington selected by the Senate is the
square on the south side OF Pennsylvania
avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets. The cost of the site is not to
exceed 100000.
The Postofice Department has decided
to make no more compromises on failures
to perform star-route services, but will
prosecute the contractors by both crimi-
nal and civil action when they do not
carry out the agreement entered into.
Reverend Richard Copp, formerly a
missionary at Panama. President OF a
bogus American steamship company at
New York, is charged by two wealthy
ladies with having them take stock in
vessels which they allege do not exist.
Mercantile associations in New York
are looking with favor upon the petition
adopted by the Boston business men to
tie Massachusetts, Legislature, asking
for the passage of laws against the wa
tering of the stock of railway corpora
tions.
Among important increases made by
the Senale Committee to the river and
barbor bill are: Yaquina bay, $50, 900 ;
Mississippi river from the head of the
noaaoe tn the month of the Ohio river.