The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-03-29

Form.
Items Taken From the Latest Tele-
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.
Cambridge beat Oxford in the Uuiver-
sity boat race on the Thames.
The engineers of the Central Iowa
railroad returned to work Saturday.
The lists for the new Mexican loan Of
s52 000,0 900 in Berlin have been closed.
The queen has donated cup valued at
e1O0 to be competed for in the Hyde re-
gatta.
he French government has declined
to accept Italy's proposals for CONNER
cial treaty.
Statistics show that there are in the
United States 1872, 1000 churches, 5000
ministers and 19,O00,N0 members.
The municipal authorities have de-
cided to erect mausoleum of marble for
the remains of the victims of the theater
fire.
In the Canadian house of commons
last week, Minister of Justice Thompson
introduced bill to ratify the fisheries
treaty.
Henry Bereh, 1s9,hew q tas late
Henry Herea, las been elected president
of the sociaty tor sls prevention OF CRU
city to animals.
A letter from st. Petersburg to the
Morning Post confirms the report of the
continued massing OF Russian troops on
the Polish frontier.
The French government has drafted a
bill reserving the right of navigation be-
tween French and Algerian ports to ves-
under the French flag.
The sentences Of Messrs. Ryrne,
O'Rrien and Hayden to three months
imprisonment under the crimes act were
confirmed upon appeal.
A snow plow pushed by four engines
jumped the track at Sharon, N. Y, on the
10th, killing four employees and severely
if not fatally, injuring four others.
John P. King, the Oldest living ex-Uni-
ted States Senator. died at Augusta, Ga,
Monday, March 18th. He was born in
Barren county, Kentucky, April 3, 1893.
The annual report of the Board OF I'm
migration of New York, shows that the
total number of passengers landed at
that port during the last year was 45G,-
$40.
Measles are raging in a virulent form
among the United States recruits in
Jefferson barracks Seven deaths have
already occurred aud the hospital is
crowded.
State Treasurer Tate, of Kentucky. is
g defaulter to the amount OF about $780,,
900 and has skipped to Canada. Tate
had been treasurer of that state twenty
one years.
The grand national steeplechase for
900 sovereigns, run at the Liverpoo!
sp1ing meeting. was won by Playfair,
Frigate second, Ballot Box third, There
were twenty starters.
Over 800 regiments were represented
at Dayton in the reception given by the
posts of the Grand Army of the
Republic to Gen. John p. Rea, their
commander-in- chief
Four hundred and fifty thousand acres
of land claimed by tie Southern Pacific
railroad company in Los Angeles and
San Bernardino counties, Cal, haS L>en
thrown open to settlement.
P. B. Conn, of Steubenville, O., has
purchased of John Madden, of Lexing-
ton, roam colt, three-year-old, by Egg
bert, dam by Mambrino Patchen, with
record of 1864 as two-year old, for
$4,000.
Lonsdale, the winner of the great
Maribyrnong plate, the great two-year-
old event of Australia, at the Mel
bourne meeting. is thought to be one of
the best colts that has ever stripped in
the colonies. !.
The situation in the flooded district
in Hungary is appalling. The dykes at
Berkes are falling and the town is doomed.
Fifty or more tio.:ses haze already col-
apsod Floating ice has Destroyed E.lanS
DC 1893 in DaIapil!:n.
A conflict between Mexican troops and
train robbers, took place on Saturday,
At Stein Pass, New Mexico, in which
three of the robbers-Larry Sheehan,
Dick johnson and Dick Shorthand
sergeant of the Mexican troops were kill
I'd.
The engineers on the L. &, N. road, at
Decatur last week refused to pull freight
rain to which %" freight car was at
a.