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

By the spreading of the rails on the
Delaware, Lackawana 4 Western, neal
Vestal, N. Y, on the 10Th, a coach and two
sleepers were thrown down thirty-foot
smbankment and burned. Eleven per
sons were injured, two of whom have
since died.
A woman OF the town of Omaha, named
Mary Kollmeyer, has fallen heir to $75, ,OO(
by the death of her mother at Sioux City
She has been an inmate Of several houses
in that city, and frequently locked up in
the station on the charge drunkenness
Rare luck for the lover.
A freight train on the Pennsylvania
road was derailed at Barre, Pa, las.
week. 4 brakesman and tramp were
killed, three tramps seriously injured
and two boys, Who are missing, are sup
posed to be buried under heap Of Goa
and coke dumped from the train.
c. T.. Myers, the wealthy citizen Of Du.
rango, Colo, who was arrested for the al.
legged murder OF Archibald Douglass in
Kansas twelve years ago, says he was q
deputy sheriff at the time, and Douglass
having been arrested for cattle stealing
made break for liberty, when he shot
him.
The Hungarian minister OF public
works has arrived at Csaba to attend to
The relief measures. Tho Emperor hae
given 5000 marks to start a relief fund
The Szmos river has destroyed F, hargy-
armot and thirty-nine villages. Tae
Raab has inundated six villa .es in { ed
enburg, near Pesth.
The great Irish horse Bendigo, the
winner of the Eclipse stakes. worth $48,-
O0o, and whose second for the Cam
bridgeshire Q39 pounds up) stamped
him as grand an animal ae
the generation has seen, enters the
stud at BIankney (home of Herricks) at
TIE price of 10b guineas.
The Laramie Boomerang reports fight
60 finish on the banks of the Larami.
river on the morning Of March 13. The
match was made two months a O in Car
bon between Jimmie, the Makn-Up" and
the "CarEon Dark Horse" and the latter
won in twenty-seven rounds, fifty-6ve
taking the $50 stake-money.
Giuseppe Longobardi, convicted OF
in the first degree for kill
ing young Barrett last Oetober, was son
fenced last week to twenty years i'm
prisonment. After sentence was pro-
nounced Barrett's brother, Officer Bar
rett. made for the prisoner with an open
knife, with the manifest intention of kill
ing him, but was disarmed.
Chief Justice Waite died at his resi-
dence in Washington at 6:10 o'clock last
Friday morning. The chief justice was
in usual health. though exhausted
by his recent severe labors, until Satur-
dav night, when he became ill With CON-
plicated symptoms of bronchitis and
pr eumon;a- His son and daughter were
with him at the time Of his meath.
A Winnipeg special to the Minneapolis
Journal says: Arrivals from Harrison
Hot Springs, forty miles from the Pacific
coast. on the Canadian Pacific state that
Tascott was there Friday and hired an
Indian to canoe hinl down the Harrison
river and it is supposed he is Inning in
the mountains. A Chicago detective ar
rived later and party is in pursuit.
Sylvester S. Hall, tho Minneapolis
builder who disappeared over two years
ago, turned up the other day, having
come directly from the Rochester insane
asylum. where he has been confined. He
5el;s thrilling story OF having been
mistaken for another man by three wit
aesses who positively swore to his ,den-
Jity, and placed in the asylum.
William E. English, the young Indian
apolis lawyer and son of Ex-Governor
English, of Indiana, who was sued last
February by Mrs. Lucy A. Case, young
widow, for S25 900 damages for betrayal
md assault, has placed, through his
'ather, in the hands Of Howe & Hum
mel. Mrs Cases counsel, the sum of
$4,000, and further amount of coste,
as compromise.
The six days match between cowboys
mounted on mustangs and bicyclists ter
minated Sunday evening in favor Of the
AFTER they making 891 miles to 500 for
he cowboys. Lane, of Nebraska, re-
,laced Beardsley, who was taken violent
y sick five hours. before the finish. The
articles stipulated expressly no substitu-
ions should be made unless in case OF
Iccident, ard for this reason the race was
Iwarded the bicyelists.
The trial of Seneca A. Swain, charged
With grand larceny, closed at San Fran
.isco Saturday and the jury rendered
'erdict for conviction. The property
tulen consisted of diamonds belonging
o the Mcdonald family. Mrs. Clara
';cDorald testified that she had given
"a 4 r1,c,nds to Sualr1 to taka to Nau