The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-04-05

Items Taken From the Latest Tele
graphic Reports on Subjects
Of Interest.
Wallace Ross has left London To-
America.
The bicycle race craze seems to have hi
Philadelphia hard.
United States Minister Phelps will sal
for New York to-day.
The president has approved the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill.
The New York club will open five diff
ferent ball grounds this season.
Ellsworth Setter ef,ot his wife and
himself fatally at Kansas City last week
Hon. David N. White, formerly edito,
of the Pittsburg Gazet se, died last Sun
day, aged 81
The failure Of Louis II. Zerega, broker,
of New York, was announced on the cot
ton exchange.
The house painters Of Cincinnati, mum.
bering 5000, struck to-day for an advance
in wages and decrease in hours. q
The bridge across the Willamette at
Oregon City, Or, will be 935 feet long
and it is to be completed by Aug. l.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland gave
a special reception at the White House
last week to the members of the
Woman's Council.
The handsome residence of William
Walter Phelps, at Teaneck, N. J.,was de-
stroyed by fire last Monday night at q
few minutes after 6 o'clock.
Ira Mulock, president of the defunc'
bank at Canyon City, Colorado, was ar
rested on the 21st ult., for grand larceny
and bound over in &lc,'O0 bail.
Miss Nellie Hall, a we'll known societ,
girl of Minneapolis, is going to marry
Patsy Cardiff, ex-pugilist. Society cir
cles are much exercised over the affair.
Arlington, Or, had a $4,000 fire on the
2lst, the block in which the Arlington
Times and large number OF business
houses we're, being entirely consumed.
It is officially promulgated that Mrs
Grover Cleveland has contributed 30
photographs Of herself to be sold for TIE
benefit OF the fair for working women IL
New York.
Benz. E. Hopkins, late assistant cash
ier of the Fidelity National Bank OF Gin
cinnati has been sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary for violation OF
the national banking law.
Mrs. Tillie Sipp. aged IS years, while In
a fit of insanity threw her twelve-year-old
son, George, out of the fourth story OF
house in New York, and then jumped
herself. Both were fatally injured.
A bill to amend the naturalization laws
SO as to require would-be citizens to make
oath that they are not polygamists, an
archists or communists, has been intro
duced in the house by Representative
Stewart (Ga).
President Carnot denies the truth
of the statement that he quarrelled with
Boulanger, when they were IN Office to-
gether, because the general refused to
shoot down the De Caseville miners
during riot there.
A report is current that the Spokane
Daily Review has been sold by Brown 4
Greenberg to Patrick II. Winston, OF
Lewiston, and Wills Sweet, men of news
paper experience and means. The price
paid is said to be $4,000.
The jury in the famous Welch-Vilas
libel suit have disagreed, after being out
forty hours. The vote stood seven for
conviction and five for acquittal. Welch
is jubilant at the result, and predicts an
acquittal at the next trial.
All the freight brakemen on the Kan
sas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs rail-
road struck last Sunday. They assign
as a reason the danger of their lives in
working with "scab" engineers. This
makes 500 strikers now in St. Joe.
A number of fires occurred in Hungary
during the prevalence of the gale. At
1,50D persons were rendered
shelterless and are camping out in the
snow. Thirty-eight houses were burned
and many lives lost at Mezoberen.
Advices from Massawah state that the
have captured the village of
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