The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-17
EASTERN ITEMS.
An Iowa Prophet Augurs a Long,
Cold, Snowy Winter.
An Appeal for Aid Made by the American
Committee for the Relief of
Famine in ireland.

Over $4,000, 900 bananas are distribute
ed In Chicago every week.
Saratoga is to have new bathing es-
tablishment to cost $l0O, ,OO0..s
/ An opposition water works company
has been organized at Topeka, Kan.
A colored evangelist of Brockwayville,
Pa, is said to be second Sam Jones.
I There is talk of spanning the Missis-
sippi at Burlington with a pontoon
bridge.
The census bureau has announced the
population of the Territory of Oklahoma
as 81, ,7O1.
There are fifty-one different postmas-
ters within the. corporate limits of the
city of Chicago.
1t is reported that one of the largest
banks in Great Britain is to establish a
branch at Chicago.
The ship yards of the lakes will this
year turn out 125, 900 tons of excellent
cargo-carrying vessels.
Jones, the Iowa weather prophet, pre-
diets long, cold. snowy winter; starting
in early and continuing late.
Buffalo Bill's ill treatment of his In
dians is to be investigated by the Indian
Department at Washington.
All the little towns in Oklahoma are
presenting their claims to the Legisla-
ture for the Territorial capitol site.
A monument is to be erected at Lex
ington, Mo-, in memory of the dead SOL
diers of the Union and Confederate ar
mics.
The President has approved the river
and harbor bill and the joint resolution
for the purchase of nickel ore for the
navy.
| A Just retribution has overtaken the
inventor of the pigs-in-clover puzzle.
He has been sent to an asylum in St.
Louis.
Washington authorities deny that or
ders have been sent to the revenue cut
ter Wolcott to proceed to Behring sea
and make seizures.
The postoffice authorities have seized
| the entire weekly edition of the Cincin-
| lottery advertisements.
| JERSEY City has a law under which
fines of 500 each are to be imposed upon
persons detected drinking malt or alco-
holic liquors in her new parks.
The report of the Statistician of Kan
sas shows that mortgages in that State
are being lifted at the rate OF "a per
cent. and SIC, 100000 for the year.
Representative Vandever's bill con-
vertihg the Yosemite Valley region into
grand national park has been signed
by the President and is now law.
The work of classifying the sections in
the Worlds Fair will be completed by
November. The whole exhibition will
occupy nine buildings.
House Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds has cut down the ap-
priations for buildings at Reno, New,
and Oakland, CAL, to $40, 900 and 1925,
600 respectively.
Secretary Noble has christened the Big
Tree reservation "The Sequoia National
Park" and promulgated rules and regu-
lations similar to those now governing
Yellowstone Park.
The Constitutional Convention of Mis-
sissippi has adopted section which for
bids the Legislature authorizing any lot
terv. nor shall the sale of any lottery
| tickets be allowed in the State.
Tn the suit for limited divorce
brought by the wife of Mckee Rankin
at New York the latter pleads compare
| tive impecuniosity. He owes much
money to Joseph Jefferson. Stuart Rob-
son and others.
AS a result, it is alleged, of inordinate
greed on the part of the gas trust, Chi
cago's City Council by unanimous vote
has declared in favor of municipal own
ership and operation of all the gas and
electric light plants OF the town.
The Manhattan Club of New York
CITY has at last taken possession OF the
old A. T. Stewart mansion, which is to
! be its future home. Nearly all the fur
niture and carpeting owned by MIR.
! Stewart was bought by the club.
The Cinnamon of New York have
given to their joss at Is Mott street
new umbrella, which they had brought
over from China. 1t is covered with
dragons and other monsters with glitter
ing ewes. and is said to have cost $500.
An appeal to the people of America
from the American committee for the
relief of famine in Ireland is published
in New York. 1t says the point of ac-
/ tual suffering from hunger Is not YET
! reached, but the days OF starvation, un-
! less help comes, are not far OH.
The rush of foreign goods to the United
States to escape the increased duties OF
! the MCKINLEY bill has turned the bal
ance of trade against the country. The
/ government statement of foreign com
merce shows the exports from this coun
trv for August to have been S56,OOO,OU
and imports Sol zoo, $40.
In the Mississippi Constitutional Con
vention the committee to which the
snbiect of securing conciliatory race
LEGISLATION was referred has reported
q number of resolutions which claim
the incapacity of the negro to govern
and recommend that Congress be ap
pealed to to resubmit the Fifteenth
I Amendment to the States.
The Board of Bureau Chiefs have gon'
over the figures of the San Francisco
trial and decline to designate the speef
definitely. 1t is understood that tn
i Anal decision will be that the San Fran
:, cisco has stood a test of 1912 knots
i which will mean that the contractor
will receive less than SlO0, 900. in pre-
miume. They will nfcbably appeal +
Congress for Feliet.