The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-08-23

Hoffman, the German poet and editr OF
the "Gartenlaube is dead,
There are $4,000 trees on the public
streets of San Diego. Cal.
San Francisco raised $1,000 for the
Leon flood sufferers in Mexico.
The death is announced Of M. Burson
Billault, the French advocate.
There were one day this week 81 ocean
steamers in Tacoma (W. IT, harbor.
Two valuable Oregon mines have been
sold to St. Louis men for $1,5OO,OOO.
Baron Matteville has been imprisoned
for bribing troops at Mourtle, France.
The date set for the completion of the
Mexican National Railroad is September
The fire engineers at Minneapolis We'd
nesday voted to favor shorter hours for
fremen.
Gold mining in Queensland is now
taking the lead in the gold production
of Australia.
The naortuary chaple to be erecled for
the remains of the late General Logan
will cost 5000.
The Sacred Heart convent of New York
was burned last week. Loss half million;
insurance, 100000.
Gallant Phil. Sheridan sleeps at Ar
IngtOn surrounded by a CORDS of 10000
"boys in blue"
The weekly bank statement shows the
banks hold S21, ,936, $50 in excess of the
legal requirement..
Russia joins in the protest of the Porte
against the Italian claims to Massowah
on the Red sea.
The Japanese government has decided
to spend 910,W0,O0O in five years, pur-
chasing men-of-war.
AT Paris, Mime. Peloulse, sister of M.
Wilson, has been declared bankrupt to
the amount of $6OO,GOO.
The United States Galena left Newport.
Il. l., Saturday night for Hayti, to look
after American interests.
The fund raised in the City of Mexico
for the Leon flood sufferers had reached
on the 3Oth of July s2O4, ,5O8.
Michigans Union labor party nominated
a State ticket headed by D. W. Mills and
Paul Marvin. They refuse to fuse,
Dr. Flores, the newly-elecred President
OF Ecuador, is en- route home from this
country to assume his new position.
The governor, in opening the Australian
p rliament, announced that he would
support the Canadian Pacific cable.
David Davis, the clerk who recently
absconded after embezzeling $4,000, was
arrested Friday at Prescott, Canada.
The first page of Ell Porvenir of Cartha-
gena, Colombia, is printed in English Ian
guage. E. w. P. Smith is the editor.
At Cleveland, O., the fourth annual
meeting of Kreiger-Bund North America
began Monday with a large attendance.
A public school exhibition was recently
given in the City of Mexico in which all
the exercises were in the English language.
Charles Croker, second vice president
Of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, died at Monterey, CAL, on August,
IA,
The first kindergarten in the City of
Mexico was opened August by Mrs Bes-
sic Files, an American lady from Houston,
Tex.
At Vernon, Mo-, August 18, Frank
Linneburg fatally shot his wife and then |
They had quarreled over prop
srty.
In the New York Yacht Club race at
Cottage City, Mass, Wednesday the Pur-
tan won, the Mayhower mistaking the
course.
At Indianapolis, August 18, Dr.. A. K.
Fisher, the well-known German writer
md politician, committed suicide by
aking opium.
Gen. Walker, secretary of the American
Legation at Bogota, has gone to the cap
tai OF Ecuador on a special mission for
his government.
MISS OQp, VI NOW 1OTk, won C00 pOlQ
medal, and T. M. McGuerran of Salt Lake,
he silver medal, ON Toronto, in the type
writing contest.
The principal streets of Mexico
re to be lighted with electric lights after
september Is. They are to take the place
f the old gas lamps.
The Barings will issue in October,
took of company with capital of e1O,-
W,lW to work a concession to supply I
suenos Ayres with water.
Resolutions of the conference ct Syd- ;
ey in regard to Chinese immigration ;
congratulate the government for the
rogress which has been made. :
An American contractor is putting I
own Nicholson pavements on the prin- -!
lpal streets of the capital of Mexico and !!
to- receive s480,0O0 for the work. !,
Reports from Freetown, N. Y, indicate ]
nat more than twenty negroes were c
lied Thursday by the regulators, and j
svera Others were severely wounded. s
Dick Perry, who is in Jail at Los An t
eles, CAL, on the charge of attempt to r
lurder, boasts of killing nine PERSONS
ght men and one woman. He is 73 n
9ars old. N