The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-22

EASTERN ITEMS.
Virginia and North Carolina To-.
bacco Crop Reported Fine.
The Grant Family Object to the Removal
OF the Generals Body from Riv.
erSide to Arlington.

The salaries of sugar trust officials, it
is said. aggregated 1926, 900.
The Tennessee wheat crop will be
short; the corn crop an average.
General Adam Badeau's resignation as
retired officer of the army has been ac-
cepted.
The State National bank of Yelling
ton, Kan, has closed its doors. Liabil-
tiles about 100000.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America met in it's twentieth annual
session at Pittsburg.
Advices from North Carolina and Vir-
glnla indicate that the tobacco crop will
be large and of fine quality.
The gamblers of Cleveland are boast
ing that the Police Commissioners dare
not order them to be suppressed.
Texas fever has made it's appearance
among cattle within the city limits of
Chicago, and about twenty deaths are
reported.
The Grant family do not approve of
Senator Plumb's resolution for the re-
moval of the Generals body from River
side to Arlington.
An official rough count by the Census
Bureau shows the population of Phila-
delphia to be l ,044 1894, an increase dur
ing the last ten years of 197,724.
The United States steamship Balti-
more ran into the Dolphin while the lat
ter was at anchor at Bar Harbor, Me-,
and made several ugly dents astern.
The engagement is announced of Isaig
Bey, formerly connected with the Turk
ish legation in this country, to Miss Alice
Jenney, daughter of millionaire of
Boston.
Governor Campbell says there is not a
word of truth in the story that he threat
ened to oppose the execution of a Fed
eral elections law in Ohio with the State
militia.
The electric battery has superseded the
hose and cold-water treatment for tam
ing refractory prisoners at the Ohio pen
itentiary. 1t is reported to be very eff
cacious.
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| the honey crop this year. Leading api-
artists say there is no honey in flowers,
and the clover and buckwheat have thus
far yielded nothing.
1t has been decided by the members
of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting
Club to donate the property of the fa-
nous South Fork dam to the Pittsburg
Fresh Air Fund Association.
The fifth annual convention of Gar
ment Workers of the United States and
Canada has opened in Rochester. Since
the last convention the membership has
increased from $500 to 10000.
The Washington Senators have agreed
upon Thomas H. Boyd for Deputy Com
missioner at Tacoma. His appointment
is made under the new law organizing
the Puget sound collection district.
The returns relating to abandoned
farms in Maine show that there, as in
Massachusetts,, it is in the older settle
ments where the locations were i'll
chosen and the soil is exhausted that the
chief decline is apparent.
Lieutenant w. R. Rush and Ensign
M. K. Eyre of the cruiser Boston have
been tried by a cOurt-martlal on the
charge of absence without leave at Rio
de Janeiro and sentenced to two years
suspension from rank and duty.
President Palmer, the Worlds Fair
National Commissioner, after a confer
ence with the Executive Committee Di-
rectors. has announced that he would
call meeting of the National Commit
tee September Is instead of month
later.
Secretary Noble has approved the rec
ommendation of Superintendent Porter,
submitted last week, that the original
order directing recount OF the popula-
ton of the city of st. Paul be put into
execution. The examination of the
schedules discloses among other irregu-
larities the fact that at least 1900 dupli-
cations of names are made.
Representative Enloe has introduced
a resolution, which was referred to the
Committee on Rules, to further extend
the investigation of charges against
Commissioner of Pensions Raum, SO as
to inquire into the business relations
existing between the Commissioner and
his son, John Raum, who is engaged In
prosecuting pension and bounty claims.
The property of Andrew S. Hammond
of the Munroe Organ Reed Company,
Worcester, Mass, has been attached by
Charles p. Fisher, heavy stakeholder
in the Munroe Organ Reed Company, OF
which Hammond owns the controlling
interest and is general manager. A bill
in equity filed by the plaintiffs counsel
alleges that Hammond mismanaged the
affairs of the company, and asks that a
receiver be appointed.
Arthur Krupp of Germany has arrived
in New York. He will make an exten-
sive tour through the United States to
studv its iron industry, and will attend
the convention of German and English
; iron founders and engineers. Arthur
Krupp is cousin of f. Krupp, the man
1facturer of cannon and steel guns In
Essen. Germany, and he himself is the
owner of an extensive hardware factory
in Berndorffe, Austria. in which his
cousin is special partner.
} Friends of O'Donovan Rosa propose
to raise fund for him that will main
tain him in comfort in his old age. With
this object a society has been formed
that is going to send out circulars early
this week to all prominent Irishmen Ii
the country, asking them to contribute
Tn the society is every wel[known Irish
man in New York city who inclines tt
the use of physical force for the freedom
of Ireland. 1t is also contemplated t
start o subscription to send Rossa baeb
!. to England soon after January lSyl
the twentieth Anniversary Of his hanlsh
Hant from bic natiye country,