The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-12
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Tunnel Under the st. Clair
River About Completed.
An Immigrant on His Arrival at New
York COnfesseS to a Murder
in Denmark.

Silver is the most active feature of
Wall-street speculation.
1t is said that Edison has perfected a
noiseless electric motor.
Cape May proposes henceforth to be a.
winter as well as summer resort.
1t is said that several more Baltimore
breweries will be bought up bv English
capitalists.
The Chicago gas trust is reported to
have cleared over 81 100000 in the last
six months.
Counterfeit silver dollars have been
discovered in the vaults of the sub-treas-
ury at Philadelphia.
Much alarm is felt at the spread of
diphtheria in the mining towns of Lu-
zerne county, Pennsylvania.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks that
more than two-thirds of the next Geor-
gia Legislature will be farmers.
Chief-Justice Morton of the Massa-
chusetts Supreme Court has rendered his
resignation prompted by failing health.
James Gordon Bennett has leased for
500, 900 a year a lot at Broadway and
Thirty-fifth street for a new Herald Of
! fee.
Property along the Hudson river for
residential purposes is held at figures to
sell higher than have prevailed for sew
eral years.
A large butter and cheese firm at Mon
treal has been seized for importing the
best American butter and entering it as
an inferior article.
The New York health authorities fear
that there is slight return of la grippe
in that city, and it is said Southern Wis
itors are especially susceptible to it.
In 1880 there were nineteen out of
thirty-eight States each with a popula-
| ton of less than a million. There are
now only seventeen out of forty-four.
Under the new law men who have en-
listed in the regular army of the United
States and served one year may obtain
their discharge by the payment of $120.
Miss Francis E. Willard says there is
movement on foot looking to a union
for work of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union and the Salvation Army.
White caps are threatening the "stay-
out-lates" at Arlington, n. j., with con-
dign punishment. Some have already
been pelted with rocks while returning
home late.
The elevated railways in Brooklyn are
all resisting taxation. Some of their Of
ficers say openly that the roads should
not be taxed until they are on a paying
basis; others complain of overassess-
ment.
Shing Woon, the Chinese Consul at
New York, SAYS he was requested bv the
Chinese Minister at Washington to no
| tifv the public that China had not agreed
to Corea's plan to negotiate loan of ST.
100000.
The partial failure of the North Da-
kata wheat crop is said to threaten thou
sands of farmers with bankruptcy.
Settlers will have to be aided with food
during the next twelve months and sup
piled with seed in the spring.
The man who is believed to be the
chief conspirator in the Minneapolis
census frauds is in Canada, and he pro-
poses to resist extradition on the ground
that his offense was not common for
gerry, but rather political crime.
A convention of Governors of all the
cotton States has been called to meet at
Atlanta. The convention will consider
the matter of direct trade with Liver
pool; also questions relating to weights,
freights and the handling of cotton.
All the brick in New York have been
used. Six million bricks are daily used
in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City,
and brickmakers along the Hudson and
about Philadelphia have cut off the sup
ply. The union workmen of the three
cities boycotted the Hudson-river man
ayers. and this is the result. One hum
dred thousand men will be compelled to
quit work.
Alexander Philipsen, who arrived at
New York with his wife and two chill
dren in the steerage of the Hamburg
steamship Normandie, has confessed to
the murder of the man whose body was
discovered in barrel of lime that was
brought to this country on a steamship
from Denmark and seized for duties by
the customs officials few months ago.
There are some very much disgusetd
real-estate investors in Chicago. There
are those who bought land near Jackson
park at fancy prices, thinking it settled
that the Worlds Fair would be located
there. Some of them paid $500 to $400
per front foot for property that five
months ago would not have brought one
sixth of that, and unless the fair should
after all go to Jackson park, not few OF
them will be ruined.
A scheme is to build railway east
ward from Quebec some eighty miles to St.
Charles bay on the Labrador Coast, from
which point large steamers are expected
| to make the voyage to Milford haven,
Wales. In three and a half days, is pro-
| iected in Canada. By this route 1t Is
expected that passengers and perishable
| freight can be carried from Chicago to
London inside of seven days. The pro-
visional directory is composed of wealthy
men.
The workmen engaged upon the two
ends of the st. Clair-river tunnel be-
| tween Port Huron and Sarnia, Ontario,
shook hands with each other on August
"a under the St. Clair river, and made
the great subterranean highway echo
with their cheers. This marks the COM
pletion of the greatest river tunnel In
| the world and probably the greatest piece
OF engineering in this country. It Is
eleven feet longer than the Brooklyn
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