The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-04-19

| LII OdtuTUsty ulOfn1fg. Curylng many
workmen in the ruins. So far three
dead bodies have been recovered. Fifteen
OR twenty persons were wounded more OF
less seriously.
| The president has returned to the SEN
ate unsigned acts granting pensions to
| Hannah r. Langdon, Betsy Mansfield
| and Laura A. Wright. These acts are
| vetoed on the ground that death did not
result from injuries received during the
| war, Or sickness Incident to army SER
vice.
Small pox was discovered in the steer
age of the Anchor Limo etoo,n shin ITALY
which reached New York last Saturday.
| The steamer carried 546 Italian immi-
grants. The case of sickness was re-
moved to Hoefman's Island, and the yes
sci detained until flonday for fun4iga-
! ton.
Red River, MINI, still continues to rise
steadily at the rate Of an inch and q half
an hour. Several houses on the point
are submerged, and the occupants are
forced to leave. The river has risen
twenty feet in all. It is reported that
the railway bridge at Wahpeton. Dakota,
has been carried away.
Fitzpatrick Brothers & Collins, railroad
contractors OF Beatrice. Nebraska. have
closed contract with the 0 ;on railway
Il navigation company TO build two
branch lines in Oregon, the Eureka fiat
extension near Walla Walla and the
Willow Greek branch near Arlington, a
distance OF eighty miles.
A construction train On tie Kansas
City, siemphie and Birmingham railroad
was wrecked sixty miles west Of Dirm-
inyham, Ala, at 7:30 last Friday night.
-Four worhnen were killed, one injured
fatally, and nine others seriously hurt
The train was backing at high rate Of
speed. struck COW and was ditched.
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extending. Several village mayors have
been killed. Large hands are assembling
with the avowed object OF attacking BIZ
charest, the capital OF Eolnania. The
telegraph wires have been c11t al several
railway stations. Special trains are
hrln .ing troops from Noit;ayia TO protect
the capital.
Judge Mcdonnell has rendered a de-
c;sion i'll the celebrated case Of J. ",
Hawks, of Forgo, Dakota, We the North
ern Pacific railroad company, begun to
compel defendants to furnish cars to the
p'"intitii', the decision being III favor OF
lie plaintiff, who will now bring suit for
damages in each case where he failed to
get the cars as demanded.
Miss Helen Forster Of PHILADELPHIA.
while. preparing for a social event, was
engaged in curling her hair by means Of
an almost red-I1ot slate pencil. Slipping
from her fingers, the pencil fell down her
back, where it was held by a garment.
Before it could be removed it proved
terrible agent of injury. Her back was
SCARED into rows of red, looking
blisters from the shoulder to the waist,
as though she had been gridironed. SIZE
suffers intense pain.
Advices from China, state that Ii
Hung Chang, the Chinese Premier, on
behalf Of his government, has perempt-
orily demanded that the King Of Coye:s
explain why the Corean Minister to tie
United States presented letters Of
credence to President Cleveland without
the intervention Of the Chinese Minister,
which act Ii Hung Chang claims was
breach Of the explicit conditions upon
which China permitted Corea to send
ENJOYS abroad.
The fast mail on the Burlington road
collided with a freight train near Cres-
ton, Ohio. last Sunday. Fireman Shoot, |
of the freight train, was instantly killed. |!
Engineer Osborne, Brakemen Gibbons |
and Miller. and Engineer Carpenter Of
The mail train were badly bruised Two
mail cars were thrown down an embank- /
nent and totally burned, together with !
he bridge near which the accident oc- |
cured. The mail clerks were rescued.
The wreck is said to be caused bv q freight /
rain running past the station where it |
should have side-tracl.ed.
The train which left New York On the
Pennsylvania road at 1890 last Sunday
morning was wrecked by g collision With
N engine in the Philadelphia yards The
'ngineer ard fireman and several passen-
sers were badly bruised. The collision
occurred on the elevated tracks in tie
yard and was caused by a
Misrepresentation Of the engineer of the
lght engine, who understood the pas
enger train had gone by and started out
n the main track. Both engines and
our passenger cars were overturned and
'adly smashed.
Simon Rosenfeld, travelling salesman
tabled himself to the heart with pen |:
nife last Saturday afternoon and fell {
. the ground dead. Rosenfeld is mem {
er of a wealthy Detroit family. He has s
cen unable to retain positions long for 6
he past two years on account of drink (
,g. He has recently been at work for a