The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-02-16
GENERAL NEWS.
Late Doings Throughout the
World.
The Latest Happenings in Both
Continents in Condensed
Form.
Items Taken From the Latest TeIe-
graphic Reports on Subjects
Of Interest.

Severe fighting is reported at Kassal
| between the Dervishes and Abysslnians
A fire in the heart of Ironton, O., de
stroyed property valued at over $4,000
| insurance $4,000.
John L. Sullivan has accepted the of
! fer Of ack Knifton to stand before hin
| for 92OO for six rounds.
George Miller, catcher, has signed will
| the PlttsDurg club contract for sam.
salary as Carroll receives, said to be So,
500.
Several tons Of powder exploded a
the Dupont Powder Works, Penn, las
week. Four men were killed and many
! wounded.
The House has passed the senate bill
authorizing the appointment Of Andrew
D. White as regent of the Smithsonian
Institute.
An Arctic owl was captured near Fisf
Point, Maine, few days ago and meas
ured about e:;x feet from tip to tip. These
are rare birds.
The London Post denies the truth o1
the rumor that negotiations are being
made with England to join the Franco.
Russian alliance.
The Mexican government has granted
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The pope has received the vicar-eenera]
of the archdiocese of Boston, who
brought to his holiness the Peters pence
offering of that archdiocese.
The comptroller of the currency has
appointed Jamee McConville, of Stuben-
vile, to be receiver of the Metropolitan
Nationa bank OF Cincinnati.
Governor Larrabee, of Iowa. has ap-
sointed A. Howatt, OF Clinton. to be dis
tz'ict judge, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death Of Judge Lelfingwell.
T. D. Sullivan, member of parliament,
recently released from an Irish prison,
visited Northampton yesterday. He re-
ceived an enthusiastic reception.
At the London wool sales last Friday
bidding was very animated, the compe-
tition between home and foreign buyers
was keen. American buyers did little.
The patchwork quilt presented to
Jenny Lind by the children of the United
States was buried with her remains, in
accordance with her oft-expressed de-
sire.
The reichstag committee on the anti
socialist bill has decided to favor prolonG-
ing for two years the operation of the
existing law, rejecting che governments
amendments.
The building of the Ramona Indian
girls school, at Santa Fe, N. NJ, commem-
Grating Helen Hunt jackson, will cost
$4,000, being arranged so as to accom-
modate $50 pupils.
The British bark elena 7on is lost. She
sailed from Astoria, Oregon, August
9th, for Liverpool and was spoken o.
tober 28th off Falkland Islands by the
ship Scottish Wizard.
The jury in the suit of Howard Henkel
Of Cincinnati, against Mrs. Jeanette M.
Thurber, for 81, 900, for money advanc-
ed to Manager Locke, OF the American
Opera company, have disagreed.
Among the cabin passengers on the
steamer City of Chicago which sailed yes
terday was Mrs. Folsom, mother of Mrs.
Cleveland, who went from Washington
Yesterday and saw her mother off.
The French printers at Quebec are on
a strike for nine hours per day and
higher wages. They are backed by the
Knights of Labor. Some of the French
papers have suspended publication.
Between one and two million farmers
in the United States are affected by the
decision of the United States supreme
court that tie drive well patents are
Illegal on account of the priority of use.
In the primary schools of Stockton
CAL, the boys in the two lower classes
are obliged to learn needlework Just the
same as the little girls, SO that hereafter
they can make small repairs for them
selves.
Prince io,anof. ne 5,ussiasrl aEnba ss;s-
dor at Vienna, in conversation with eev-
aral diplomats Oh the bulgarian question
declared that Russia was firmly resolved
neither to initiate steps for another SET
element by diplomatic means nor to dis
cuss the schemes of other powers, if at
ariance with her own policy