The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-18
EASTERN ITEMS.
Dredging Contracts for the Mic
aragua Canal to Be Let.
canadian Farmers Mortgaging Their
Farms and Leaving for the
United States.

/ A war has been opened on the Mem
! phis gamblers.
/ The New York Chamber of Commerce
tavors tunnel under East river.
Central Vermont has thus far made
ry little maple sugar this season.
John L. Sullivan is anxious to meet
James Corbett in sparring contest.
Speaker Reeds reforms are approved
oy Democrats as well as Republicans.
The Michigan Central railway is equip
ping its coaches with new quick acting
air brake.
In the Massachusetts, Legislature the
House rejected the resolution against a
duty on hides.
Land in the financial section of Broad
way, New York, recently sold at the rate
OF $1,000, 900 per acre.
1t is believed that a new building will
be re-erected ill Philadelphia for the use
OF the United States mint.
Five hundred and fifty-seven persons
were killed on Illinois railroads during
1889, and ,706 were injured.
Samuel Phillips & Co., grain mer-
chants, Baltimore, have fai'ei. Liabil-
tiles, $4,000; assets, $4,000.
The report Of the President of the COM
pany shows that the Brazos (Tex.) bar
jetty works will be successful.
Daniel Rochester of New York has
filed suit in Chicago to cole t iudg-
ment of s76,695 against Joseph Frank.
Secretary Tracy has approved the pro-
posed plan for review of the navies of
the world In New York harbor in 1892.
There are go O0O, 900 bushels of corn
and 160,0O0,000 bushels of wheat now in
the hands of the farmers of this country.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that witness in Congressional
contest case is not amenable to State laws.
The tobacco trade of Richmond has
lndOrsed the scheme to secure the Jeff
Davis mansion as Confederate memorial
hall.
AS result Of the recent rise in Stand
ard oil prices new refinery will be
erected at Toledo, O., by independent re.
finers.
The will of William w. Merriam, River
Head, L. l., who left 100000 to the
United States government, is being con-
tested.
The Illinois State Prohibition Conven-
tion will be held in Bloomington May 81
and %. Under the new apportionment
there will be about 900 delegates.
The only request made by ex President
dent Harrison in the appointment of
General Mitchell II pension agent at Co.
lumbus.
There is a possibility that Atlantic
steams hip owners will form trust to ad-
vance passenger rates. There is too
much opposition in tramp steamers to
advance freights.
The largest vessel ever built in France,
La Touraine, of 12,000-horse power and
more than $50 feet long, will be added to
the fleet plying between Havre and New
York this season.
1t is reported that many farmers in
the neighborhood of Kingston. Canada,
owing to their heavy indebtedness, are
mortgaging their farms and leaving for
the United States.
The Pan-American Congress recon-
mends an international monetary union
and silver coins uniform in weight and
fnenessfor use in all the countries rep
resented in the conference.
Senator Sherman's bill to regulate
,&c ,c, NTH
sition from the labor unions and Farm
ers Alliance, which bodies it was sup
posed to be designed to benefit.
Many German Jesuits in the United
States are to return to their native coun-
try, believing that Bismarck's resigna-
ton will restore the German church to
it's former prestige and referment.
In anticipation of the passage OF the
Republican tariff bill tin-plate mills are
being erected at Pittsburgh and in the
West, 80 as to be ready to begin manu-
featuring as soon as the bill becomes
law
Ex-senator Warner Miller says dred =
ing contracts for the Nicaragua canal will
soon be let. Practical men who have
been over the route say there is no ques-
ton as to the feasibility of the under
taking.
Reports are current that Western rail-
ways have decided to fight the interstate
law, having secured legal opinion that
the prohibition of pooling and the at
tempt to regulate long and short haul
rates are unconstitutional.
Upon recommendation of Governor
Hill resolution has been introduced in
the New York Legislature, asking the
Court of Appeals to reconvene and give
an opinion as to the constitutionality of
the Saxton reform ballot bill.
1t is understood that the Democratic
members of the Ways and Means Com
mittee will report the Mills bill. though
modified as substitute for the McKin ey
bill. The notifications will be chiefly
bv additions to the free list. Hides, wool
and perhaps coal and pig iron, all of
which New England manufacturers want
free, will be on the free list.
The following is a synopsis OF the pub
ic-debt statement: IBterest- bearing debt
principal, 1902, 122, ,532; interest. $8,
9O4. OPS; total, s8i1, ,026. 557; total debt
on which interest has ceased-principa
and interest, 81 1881 IA; total debt bear
Ing no interest, $787, 1854 ,S42 total debt
principal, 81, 80, ,89S, ,4S9; interest, &c.
054, ,O64 total, $1.5 1882 544; total debt,
less available cash items, 81 -055, ,773, ,514
net cash in the Treasury, 32,615, ,84l;
debt. less cash in the Treasury April 1,
81, ,023, ,157 ,672; debt, less cash in the
Treasury March 1, $1,034, ,547, ,529; de-
crease Of the debt since June 80, 1889,
$50, ASS, ,949 total cash in the Treasury,
as shown by the Treasurer's general ac-
count, $o28, ,764,7Jl.