The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-02-02

! World.
The Latest Happenings in Both
! Continents in a Condensed
Form.
items Taken From the Latest Tele-
graphic Reports on Subjects
Of Interest.
| Crude petroleum has been discovered
in Illinois.
Ex-Queen Isabelle will be permitted to
live in Seville.
Postmaster J.W. Ross, of Washington,
DC, has been confirmed.
| Father McFadden has been sentenced
to three months' imprisonment.
A terrible explosion occurred in Penn
sylvania last week in dynamite factory.
The cashier of the Central bank of To-
ronto has absconded to theUnited States.
| Whitner, the last surviving witness to
authenticity of the Book of Mormon, is
dead.
The delayed deficiency bill of last year
with the senate amendments, has passed
the House.
Bismarck has rG fused to eee J4orsi ii>:,:
dolph Ciiu TIL q. The gcou,.G ., ever
plus Of work.
Baron Demacau has been reelected
president of the party French Cham
Der of Deputies.
A great storm is raging at Vienna
Much damage has been done and many
persons injured.
Cardinal Manning has forbidden the
proposed requiem services in memory of
Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
The president has approved the postal
convention recently concluded between
the United States and Canada.
The senate committee on elections has
named February II for hearing OF Tur-
pies title to seat in the senate.
Sullivan offers to defeat Smith in six
rounds, with small gloves, or forfeit EGO
Smith to lose nothing If defeated.
P. 81. -;ell, chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Georgia and president of the
Southern Baptists association, is dead. ,
The harbor of Requal is closed by ice
and navigation is suspended. Vessels
bound to that port are obliged to proceed
to Liban.
By an explosion of gas in the Noting
ham mine at Plymouth, Eng, last week,
one man was killed and four fatally
burned.
William Durre, wealthy farmer and
insane, living near Wisner, Neb., COM
mitted suicide by cutting the arteries of
his wrist.
Geo. w. Childs, of the Philpadelphia
Ledger has declined the preferred nomi-
nation for republican candidate for the
presidency.
Secret warrants have been obtained in
England for the arrest of six Irish men,
bers of parliament and magistrates now
in hiding.
A German named Brandt forced his
way into the Office of La France last
week and tried to shoot Decot, but was
disarmed.
The New York democratic state COM
mites I'd: ::ourned without having made a
choice of a state member of the national
cornmittee
It is understood that the government
will grant relief for the families rendered
destitute by the British Columbia COL
ierY disaster.
The right to vote has been given the
women of Washington territory, Govern
or Senlple having signed the bill on
Thursday last.
The house committee on public lands
has acted favorably upon Del. Hermann's
bill to establish new land district at
Harvey, Oregon.
Among the bills introduced in the
senate yesterday is one by Cullom for
the construction of the Hennepin canal,
appropriating $4,000.
Quay, of Pennsylvania. has introduced
a bill III the senate granting rensious to
Union Soldiers who were c0nElcd il. /;
prisons.
The house committee on Invalid PEN
sions has agreed to report favorably the
bill granting a pension ;:of $1,000 q year
to asrs. John A. Logan.
Mrs. Meckie L. Rawson, wife of the
banker who was shot by his stepson, has
been indicted as accessory before the
TACT to attempt to commit murder.