The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1888-02-09

items AIKEN From the Latest TeIe-
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.
Otto P. Clarke ex commissioner of pen
sions, is dead.
Sir Henry James Sumner, the eminent
legal writer is dead
The government of Uruguay has
abolished all export duties.
Thirty-six horses were suffocated by
fire at Fort Leavenworth, Kas, last
week.
Jack Dempsey whipped Dominick Nc.
Caifrey in ten-round glove fight last
week.
Several American bishops are trying
to reconcile Father McGlynn an the Va
tican.
DR.. E. Miles Willett, Supreme Medical
Examiner Catholic Knights of America,
is dead.
Rob't. E. Morrow, indicted recently IN
San Francisco for enlbracery, has been
acquitted.
Two cowboys were killed at Buffalo
Gap, Oak, last week while attempting
to run the town.
Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, wife of
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, died last
Monday, aged GO years.
Senator Stanford has introduced bill
for the erection of public building at
San Diego, to cost soc, 600.
It is stated :1lat French, Bel:;;a.l 81 c:
Dutch syndicate has agreed to negotiate
a Russian loan of 20O,OOO,00O roubies.
Cox, N. p, has been removed from
his cell in the Limerick Jail and sent to
the inticinary. He is said to have lost
his appetite.
The Afghan frontier commission has
completed it's work of delimiting bound
aries, and the English members have
started for home.
Several crofters on the Island Of Lewes
have been convicted of rioting and SEN
fenced, some to year. others to nine and
six months Imprisonment.
The government is going to arm the
postal railway clerks throughout the
west in order that they may defend them
selves against train robbers.
The cigar makers of Boston have voted
unanimously to strike against a reduc-
tion of wages. Sixty per cent of the ci-
gar makers Of the city are involved.
The treaty between Italy and Germany
stipulates that if France attacks either
country the other shall send an ARM of
10000 men to the French frontier.
Bank Examiner Sanders, in a report to
the comptroller of the currency, says
that the creditors of the Metropolitan
bank of Cincinnati will lose nothing.
Sub Agent Douglass, of the Papago
Indian reservation IN Arizona, has been
arrested at Tucson for giving whisky to
Indians; he was on spree with them.
Agents of the Panama canal company
are negotiating with deputies of the right
FOR promotion of the bill allowing the
issue of lottery loan of II ,50O,O 600 francs.
Among the passengers on the Aurania,
which arrived at New York Sunday, was
Samuel Newton Brooks, father of Hugh
NJ. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the murderer.
Sir Charles Russell will have an amend
ment to the address in reply to the
queens speech, raising the right of hold
ing public meetings in Trafalgar Square.
The swelling in the lower part of the
German crown princes larnyx has slightly
increased and interferes somewhat with
his respiration. when he exerts himself.
George Elston, of Bellevue, Idado, has
Major Hendershot to a
friendly drum contest for the champion
ship of the Pacific Coast and $3.50 a
side
Chicago and St. Louis each suffered on
Sunday from fires, the former $9O, 900 and
he latter $135.OOO. The heaviest suffer-
rs in each city are printing establish
nents.
Fifteen civilians and two soldiers we're
titled in miners riot iii Spain last Sat-
lrday. The trouble was caused by a re-
luction of wages, which have been re-
tored.
Julius Crane, ]. Curran Keegan and
\. F. Perriers, two of them lawyers, were
ent to Jail on the 25th, charged with
to ruin William Bergman, a
Denver tailor.
John B. Kearney, for the murder of
J. J. Burt, has been found guilty of mur-
ler in the first degree, and on. the -26th,
It Aspen, Col, was sentenced to be
,enged February II.