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

The tenants of Donegal have resolved
to withhold payment of rents during the
time that Blame and Father McFadden
arrested at Armagh last Friday, are kept
in prison.
The trial of Cora Lee for the murder
! of Sarah Graham terminated last Sat-
urday. in verdict of acquittal by the
jury after deliberation of about seven
minutes.
The engineer corps Of the army, in
report to the senate recommends that
authority be granted the government tc
supervise the salmon fishers on the
Columbia.
The president has issued proclaim
alton granting to German vessels in
American ports the same rights and
privileges accorded United States vessels
in German ports.
The president has issued an order di.
recting the relief of William Ludlow, as
engineer commissioner of the District OF
Columbia, and detailing Chas. w. Ray.
mond to succeed him.
The agent of the Berlin banker who is
negotiating loan of $1O,5G 1000 to the
Mexican government has left Mexico for
Berlin. It is believed he has been sue
ooccf,11 hio
Among other bills introduced in Con-
gress in order to reduce the surplus is
one to ''test the science of spelling and
to provide for establishing one hundred
schools for that purpose
- HonnHt,i:s, he Greek minister at
%; 49,, .is .,*,;l t. ,is:s:.; :, proceed to
- -. {. JA "a ell:i:,.i, rIsl % spare no
=1.orts to induce the American govern
ment to abolish the duty on currants.
At the starting of the new cable car
line in st. Paul last week grip refused to
work and the car ran down steep grade.
One man, Mervi,le L. Saunders, was
killed and twenty others were injured.
Captain Fisher, of the Zurich police
confirms the tatement that Schroe der
and Haupt, who were arrested in Switz-
erland as anarchists declared them
selves to be agents of the Berlin police.
The republican convention of Louis
lana has completed it's laborsL The dele
g.tes elected to the republican national
convention we're W. Il. Kellogg, P. F..
Herwig. P. b. s. Pinchback and Joseph
Lewis
The great Irish Home Rule leader,
Parnell, is said to be victim to cancer
of the stomach, and his days are fast
drawing to a close. 1T has been weeks
since he was able to partake of solid food
and that butsparinely.
G. B. Hitchcock. California farmer and
his wife, we're brutally murdered and cut
to pieces by German named Auschlag
who had bought some land from them
but had not yet paid the money. Ausch-
lag was caught and lynched.
The commerce committee of the house
has decided to report back Anderson's 8
resolution providing for a congressional
inquiry into the Reading strike, with the
recommendation that the whole subject
be referred to the interstate commerce
commission.
By direction of the postoffice depart
ment, the name of the postofflce at Chey-
enne, Wyoming. has been changed from
Cheyenne City to Cheyenne, and that at
Ogden City, Utah, to Ogden, to CORE
sdond with the names of the towns in
which they are located.
The secretary of state has received ap-
plicantion from government of Mexico
for the extradition of Mayer, alias Bnr-
ton, the alleged ticket swindler, who made
arrangements for the appearance of
Patti in the City of Mexico and then ab-
seconded with the money.
The house committee on manufactures
discussed at some length last week the
resolution to investigate trusts, and it
was finally determined to place the mat
ter in the hands of subcommittee to
determine the best method of procedure
and which one of the trusts should be
first investigated.
Senator Spooner has introduced bill
to regulated the charges made by tele-
graph companies, to prevent discrimina-
tion by them for or against any person,
or other telegraph company
and to place the overseeing of their busi-
ness in the hands of of the Interstate
Commerce commission.
Ten tons of superior Texas cotton seed |
vera shipped from Galveston, Texas, last !
.~as. consigned . :,s German East Afri- |
can Colonization S:cciety at Zanzibar,
Africa. An experienced planter accom-
panied the seed for the purpose of in
'tructing the natives of Zanzibar in the
Of the cotton plant.
James Burrows, the leader of the band
II men who at various times during the
'ast few years have held up passenger
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