The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-01-26


thority to issue a lottery loan for aiding
the construction of the Panama cana
Canal shares fell 25 francs in conse
quence.
1. Feodorof, editor of the Novo
Vremya. st. Petersburg, has been sen
fenced to six weeks imprisonment and t,
pay fine of $50 roubles for ibeling Her
Villaume, military attache of the Ger
man legation.
DR.. Carl Daniel Adolf Donia, editor O
the Volkszeltung, the leading socialisti
paper of New York, died last Saturday
aged SO years. His body will be EN-
balmed until his wife dies, when boil
will be cremated.
Benjamin Burton, of Atlanta, Georgia
is being tried for polygamy, having fv,
living wives. He says he has registered
a VOW to marry twenty-five women befor.
he is Is years old. The dispatch doe.
Let sly how much time he has left.
| Mrs. Celia Hendricks, of Philadelphi;
has been victimizing confding lady
friends by borrowing money on fortune
which she claimed to have, but which was
tied up. she got as much as $780,, 90 from
ore woman and the sum total of he1
swindles amounts to $10O,u00.
The general meeting of the Panama
canal company, which it was proposed to
hold in Paris on Saturday next, will not
take place, the number of shares depos.
tied being insufficient, according to the
charter, to call meeting, which has been
postponed until March.
Kurtz, Blanchard & Co., New York
dealers in bags, assigned last Saturday
with preferences amounting to $1,000
The assigners have firm in Chicago, I'm.
der the name of Hart, Blanchard & Co.
and in New Orleans under the name OF
Blanchard, Kurtz & Co.
The weekly bank statement to Janu
ary 21st shows a reserve increase of S5,-
$4,000. The banks now hold $2O, 1914
700 in excess of the legal rule. The i'm
portations of general merchandise at the
port of New York for the week ending
January Goth were $7,282,O0O.
Before the national board of trade, at
Washington, last week, Captain Taylor
o. s. n, read paper on the Nicaragua
canal and it's Importance. Postal tele-
graphy was discussed and a resolution
adopted asserting that the usefulness oil
the postal department should be ex-
tended in the direction of telegraphic
communication.
A Washington special to the World
says: The democratic national conven.
ton will be held in New York City. The
presi dent is in favor of such a decision,
and most of the party leaders believe
that the best way of insuring the Empire
State to the democratic column is by Sc
lecting New York City as the place to
begin the campaign.
-Four masked men shot the cashier of a
bank in Lines tone, Indian territory, last
Sunday, because he slammed the safe
door shut while pretending to give up.
The robbers then ransacked the cash
drawer and got $4,000, but were caught
by citizens who had been aroused by the
shooting. The leader was found guilty
of murder and hung.
A Star special from San Carlos, Ariz.
says: An Apache Indian who had been
put in the guard house for getting drunk,
asked to see his wife and child. When
they were taken to him he cut their
throats, put them in bed, set it on fire
and rushed for the sergeant of the guard
with a club and knife, but was riddled
with bullets and killed.
There has been filed in the Uuited
States circuit court, the complaint of the
Horn Silver mining company against
Dennis Ryan, praying that he pay the
plaintiff the sum of $5O0,ON, the amount
Of leans uniavf1ti'v made to themselves
by Frank Gi}Gown and CharlesB. Frank
lyn, while directors Of The company with
Ryan, from 1880 to 1884. It is stated
that Brown and Franklin are now insol-
vent.
The secretary of state has received re-
ports from Consul Crowell, at Annoy, in
regard to the explosion on November 19
of the Annoy magazine, containing about
400 tons of powder and other explosives,
by which over 20l lives were lost, and
several hundred dwellings DESTROYED.
The magazine was located in the midst
of a very populous suburb and foreign
settlement on the island of Kulangsoo, in
the Annoy harbor' No hves were lost,
nor were any personal injuries sustained
by the few American residents of Annoy.
They contributed S4GO for the relief OF
the sufferers, for which the government
made suitable acknowledgement.
The commission to try the charges pre-
ferred against the Grand Lodge of Penn
sylvania, Knights of Pythias, were in ses-
sion last Friday, investigating the charges
The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania pre-
senta written answer in which It denies