The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
EASTERN ITEMS.
Milwaukee's Public School Princi-
pals About to Strike.
The Widow of Colonel Mulligan, the Hero
of the Battle of Lexington, Re-
CeiveS Nomination.

Georgia has 800 lifetime prisoners in
the penitentiary.
A Mormon colony is trying to buy land
from Mexico on the frontier.
The Mississippi Constitutional Con-
ventiOn still has a months work ahead
of it.
The Chinese gamblers in New York
are taxed 81 900 week for police pro.
lection.
The report of the Pittsburg police de-
partment shows remarkable decrease
in crime.
Captain Pabst of Milwaukee is to put
upon the lakes feet of handsome pas
senger boats.
The factional war over the Territorial
seat of the Oklahoma government grows
in bitterness.
1t is said that the docking" of our
new steel cruisers will cost nearly ST.
OOO, 900 year.
The cog-wheel railway to the summit
of Pixies Peak has been completed, and
is now in operation.
Milwaukee's public-school principals
have given notice that, if they do not
get increased salaries, they will strike.
A large shortage in the cranberry crop
is announced by A. Rider, Secretary of
the American Cranberry Growers Asso-
citation.
1t seems to be definitely settled that
the San Francisco will be assigned to the
Asiatic station as Rear-Admiral Bel
knap's flag ship.
The widow of Colonel Mulligan, the
hero of the battle of Lexington, Mo-,
has been nominated for Superintendent
of School at Chicago.
The Kansas Legislature will have to
pass new prohibitory enactment to
make the Wilson original-package law
effective in the State.
The pearl fisheries of the Miami river
still continue to be profitable. The pearl
hunters have been busy all summer, and
some of them have been very successful.
The President has appointed Charles
K. Dougherty of Pennsylvania as Secre-
tary of Legation in Mexico and III. Rem
sen Whitehouse as Secretary of Lega-
ton in Italy.
About $500 miners are OH strike at
Ishpeming, Mich, for increased wages.
The agitation may extend to other points.
There are 5000 miners employed in the
Lake Superior region.
Almost all Western roads have been
dealing with scalpers, and it is said in
Chicago that almost any point in the
West, competitive or not, could be
reached by cut rate of from 25 to 40
per cent.
In the opinion of real-estate men the
recent cyclone of South Lawrence, Mass,
has had the effect of improving the dis
trict nearly 10 per cent. in value by rea-
son of building Improvements which
followed.
According to the law of New York a
barrel of potatoes contains 172 and a
bushel of potatoes 60 pounds respective
". An effort is being made to have all
fruit and vegetables sold in that State
by weight.
The United States dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius has made two trial runs over a
measured mile course at full speed with
a forced draft and all her boilers work
ing, and has made twenty knots an hour
under these conditions.
The New York Mail and Express has
a Washington special saying: 1t is stated
on good authority that President Harri-
son will not call an extra session of Con-
gress November IL to consider and pass
the Federal election bill.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry c. CoTbin
has been relieved from duty at head
quarters, Division of the Missouri, and
ordered to the Department of Arizona,
where. it is understood, he will act as
Assistant Adjutant- General.
Health Commissioner Wickersham at
Chicago has given orders that no more
vaccinations on the leg will be permitted
in the public-health Office. Ii girls per-
sist in being vaccinated in that way,
they will have to 60 to some private ply
sician.
Rarbers on the French steamers arriv-
ing at New York are said to have regular
natrons among their compatriots, who
visit the steamers upon their arrival,
bent upon having their boards kept
trimmed in the ultra fashion of the bou-
levards.
John Schmidt, the counterfeiter re-
Gently arrested at Louisville, KY, has
conf fsed to the police that he has coun-
terfeited 50 certificates, having made
81 900 worth. He claims to have been
assisted by Miles Ogle, known as 1.-The
King of Counterfeiters.
Miss Mary Franz of New York has
brought suit against a physician for
making an unfavorable report on her
case to beneficial society, of which she
was desirous of becoming member.
Several doctors have certified that heI
health is good, and it is expected that
the suit will develop interesting legal
points
The Chicago Times says articles have
heen signed there for a match between
lack McAuliffe and Billy Meyer for S..
5O0 a side and purse of $1,000 side
offered by the Metropolitan Clu6 OF New
Orleans, Each man is to pay his OWL
expenses. The fight will be with flye
ounce gloves, to take place in New Or
leans during the early part of February
The annual report of Pension Com
missioner Raum shows there were at the
end of the last fiscal year 537 ,944 pen
sioners upon the rolls. classified as fol
lows: Army invalid pensioners, 392,
500; army widows, 104, ,456 navy invalit
pensioners, 5,274; navy widows, mino
Children and dependent relatives, !, ,46O
survivors of the war of 1872, 4l3; wild
ows of soldiers of the war of 1872, $50
survivors of the Mexican war. 7.l5S
widows OF soldiers Of the Mexican war
1874,