The Philipsburg mail., 1888-09-13
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS,
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE WORLD.
A COLLATION. Of Dispatches and Other
News Items, of Interest to Oar
Readers, Including All the PrIn-
cfpal Events Of the Week.

Readers, Including All the Prin-
cfpal Events of the Week.
The German Consul at Pueblo, Mexico,
committed suicide.
Fire destroyed the Bloomsbury desk
factory at Bloomsbury Pa.
The Savannah News has been sol d to a
| syndicate, J. Fl. Estell retiring.
Jas. Harderly shot and killed William
Murphy near Owensboro, KY.
The Brakemen's Brotherhood is holding
convention at San Antonia, Tex.
The west-bound Santa Fe train killed
man named Brady near Trenton, Mo.
The last span of the Hudson River
bridge at Poughkepsie, n. Y, has been
completed.
Judge H. .. Head was thrown from his
horse and seriously hurt near Sherman,
Tex.
Capt. Blunt, late of Gen. Sheridan's s
staff, will conduct the army rifle match
at Fort Niagara.
Fire damaged the Globe Soap Works at
Cincinnati to the extent of several thous-
and dollars last week.
DR.. Rev. Fordyce NJ. Hubbard, of Ra-
leigh, n. e., was found dead at his bedside
in the attitude Of prayer.
The First National Bank of Lowre,
Minn., has been authorized to begin bust
ness with $4,000 capital.
Advices from Matimoras say Mexico
has raised her quarantine against Texas,
and Texas will return the favor.
The death is announced at London of
Philip Henry Gosse, F. r. s., the En-
glish naturalist, aged 78 years.
The Southwest Coke Company of Pitts
burg, Pa. voluntarily advanced the wages
OF its workmen 5 per cent last week.
At Bumont, Del, large cotton mill
and warehouse was destroyed by fire
Saturday morning. Loss, $2OO,000.
In shooting scrape over cattle trade
at Arlington, Tex, Harvey Speer received
wounds that will probably prove fatal.
Black measles have broken out among
the negroes on the Santee river, South
Carolina, and fifty deaths have occurred.
Hendel Eros & Co., hat manufacturers
at Reading, Pa, have notified their en-
ployes of an intended reduction of wages.
stanaeffoSSdt~ St~i imai1iionaire a1i railroader, Killed
teamster named Walker, at Louisville,
Ky.
Montreal dispatch says the cotton COM
bine will for the present leave prices open
for all mills to deal with as they think
best.
A building in process of erection on
Eighty fourth street, New York, has
fallen. Three men we're buried in the
ruins.
An international spiritualist1c congress
will assemble in London during this
month. Viscount Corressolanoth will
preside.
Fire swept Sto,1ghton, Wis, Friday
night, to the extent Of $4,000. Most of
the business portion of the city was de-
stroyed.
The journal des Debats says that the
recent naval manHuvres prove that the
French Mediterranean literal is we'll
protected.
Fire at Canton, Ind, near Terra Halte,
caused $4,000 loss Friday night.
Thieves who took advantage of the fire
were arrested.
Two brothers, named Kassebaum, went
to Arkansas City, Kas., to buy cattle, and
| were victimized in a bogus deal to the
tune of s2,4O0.
The Nordenhom dock yard company,
Germany, has been officially entered on
the trade register in the Gutenberg
court of justice.
Mrs. Geo. F. Carpenter, mother OF
Frank G. Carpenter, the journalist and
correspondent, died at the family home
at Mansfield, O.,
A drug clerk at Branford put aconite
in two glasses of soda by mistake, and
two boys who drank the stuff died. The
! clerk was arrested.
Emma Fitch of Danvers, Mass, imagin-
ed she had cancer, and her Imagination
was so strong she killed herself. She had
no disease whatever.
Gen. Won Schkopp has been appointed
governor of Cologne. Gen. Knobelskor1
succeeds Gen. Won Schkopp as comman
dant at Spandau, Germany.
Again rumors are revived of the exis-
tence of an engagement between Joseph
Chamberlain and Miss EndicOtt, the
marriage to occur next year.
Henry Wilson, tramp, charged with
attempting to outrage 13-year-old CIR
near Lebanon, ILL.,, was arrested at Mas
cotauh, and jailed at Belleville.
| C. P. Buckingham, who was once pro
fessor at West Point and at Kenyon Col
lege, Ohio, died IN Chicago. He was
president of the Chicago steel works.
M. Bruynan, deputy for Larmonde
has been appointed minister Of agricul
ture and public works, at Brussels, in
place of NJ. DeMoreau. who has resigned
The grand lodge, Knights of Pythias,
of Pennsylvania, is in session at Wilkes
barre, revising the state constitution, as
directed by the national supreme lodge
MissDaisyStock,a comely young school
teacher of Lagro, Ind, wants $4,000 o.
William Orr's money. She says William
who is wealthy young farmer, slandere6