The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-03-15
| GENERAL NEWS,
Late Doings Throughout the
World.
The Latest Happenings in Both
Continents in Condensed
Form.
items Taken rtoss the latest Tele-
graphic Beports on Subjects
of interest.

An earthquake in China last Decembe
killed over a thousand people.
5. w. Shulock suieided In the PrescO1
house, San Francisco, on the 29th ult.
A railroad is projected from Battl
Mountain, Nevada, north to Bois.
Idaho.
The bill providing for a postal tele
graph system will be favorably reporte,
| to the house.
John Baker, Of San Francisco. ha
been sentenced to serss twenty years a
Folsom for felony. =
Three Americans and one Mexica1
were killed In a row over q monte gam
at Laredo, Mexico.
The steamer Prove, having on boare
Mrs. Garfield and her daughter arrived
in New York on the 7th.
The supreme court Of California has de
clded that railroad grants do not include
titles to mineral therein.
> The house committee on elections will
hear the Lynch-Vandever contested
election case on Marchs2Cth.
The bodies of over to hundred vic.
tlms OF the recent ayalanches in the
italian Alps have beer recovered.
1he British bark Brussels, loaded with
merchandise and cor :igned TO Havre,
burned last week at. s, Il Francisco.
Little Beck, aged 10 years, was killed
by horse kicking her in the head at
North Yakima, W. T. llezent the United
VIM. It. n-,,s':n1 7,sarne Exposition.
J. 0. Cousins, the Marysville leper,
made fifth and finally successful at
tempt to commit suicide on the 18th ult.
A bill authorizing the establishment
OF llfe-say1ng stations on the tactic
coast was favorably reported to the
house.
Mormon elders have been discovered
at wcr2 1. Virginia. they t:2:: 22on
notifa,; =, :eaT, II 5.:s1 ..2<. :3'-s+,-
quencea.
The Mississippi Senate by vote OF
80 to 40 refused TO pass bill appro-
priating $1O,0G0f fora monument to Con
federate soldiers.
Justin Mccarthy has declined to be-
come deputy speaker of the Engilst
House of Commons, giving as hls reason
that he is near sighted.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination Of John Lee Brown, o
New York, to be Associate Justice OF the
Supreme Court Of Idaho.
At North Dufferein, 18th inst, the
government candidate was elected by
large majority over the former member
of the Norquay government.
Gustav Ranger, a cotton merchant ant
banker, whose financial embarrassment
was reported a month ago, assigned las
week. Liabilities, 515O,0OO.
Festivities in honor of the silver wed
ding Of the Prince and Princess OF Vale
were held in all European capitals. In
members of royal families general
called at the British embassies and OF
fered their congratulations.
The United States man-of-war, Enter
prise, arrived at Gibraltar Wednesda.
and after coaling Will go at once to Tan
gier to SUPPORT the demands Of Consu
Philips.
The wife of John f. Shelton, of Pat
ton, Missouri, recently gave birth to thre
| fine boys, weighing twenty-five and one
half pounds. They were named Abraham
Isaac and Jacob.
Tire Treasury public debt stateinen
shows d decrease OF debt Cor the month c
February of S!,756, 1861, and for th
| first eight months of the current hsca
year Of s76,974,0 ,022,20.
| At the evening session Of the hous
last Friday 81 pension bills were passee
including one increasing the pension c
the widow OF Gen. Anderson, the hero {
Fort Sumter, to $lO0 a month.
The case against AIRS. Rawson, chare
inr her with coln nplicity in the shootin
Of her husband, Banker kawson, at Oh
cayo. on melton II tna district attorne
-3s Gis1n ;ssel: ffo;,l Il court docket.
In tne United States court at SAINT
F.. n. H., On the 2nd tventysix cases
alleged illegal fencing Of public lands,
which the Prairie Cattle company, ST.
phen ". Dorsey, A. 0. Aadley. j.
Temple and the Dubuque and Cimarro
Cattle companies wers defendants, wei
dismissed.