The Philipsburg mail., 1897-11-12
NEWS 60 NJ NJ ( n 7
Interesting Telegraph Items in a Con.
densed Form.
WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING
Clippings From the Daily Press Show
ing Events Transpiring Through
out the Globe.

been destroyed bv a Hood.
President McKin.ev has issued his
first Thanksgiving proclamation.
Eight whalers, instead oe FIVE. have
been reported fast in the Arctic ice.
A conspiracy has been discovered
against the Venezuelan Government.
A new So, O0n coo union passenger
station will be constructed in Kansas
City
Germs Of consumption have been
found i'll Chinese cigars in San Fran
cisco.
Another big strike has been
made in the new lead mine at Soda
liza, Mo.
More than half the population of
Cuba has disappeared since the war
began.
Gigantic frauds in tire sale of cigar
stamps are said to have been discovered
in Cuba.
The famous grape vine Of Hampton
Court, England, this year yielded 1900
i bunches.
Mrs Lanra Hunter was recently
frozen to death l1ear her home at Ell
bert, Colo.
Twenty -nino persons We're l.urt in a
railroad wreck at Ellenberg, Germany.
on Monday.
The report of yellow fever in Maaat-
Ian, Mex, has been denied by Mexi-
eau officials.
| Gen. Jamal will succeed Gen Saus-
sier as commander in chief OF the
French army.
A detachment Of French troops was
defeated by natives on the Ogowai
River, Africa.
Three hundred lives were lost in the
recent typhoon On the southeastern
coast of China.
Princeton University will send sec
oiM expendition to Patagonia. to leave
New York soon.
American bicycles command higher
prices in Germany than wheels Of ma
tive manufacture.
The heavy frost in sections of Texas
and the Indian Territory will help
cotton crop mature. ...
A Baltimore judge has decided that
! faith cure fees can not be collected
through the courts.
An English syndicate has secured
control of the Santo Domingo customs
revenue for 100 years.
The eight International Geological
Congress will meet III Paris in 1900,
and in Vienna in 1908.
BrigandS and not Yaqui Indians are
causing all the tronble iii the gold
fields OF Sonora, Mexico.
A band of Me1icans stoymed Jail
at Clifton, Ariz., and shat to death
Juan MADEIRA a murderer
Several of the Eskimos who accom-
panied Lieut.. Peary to New York are
suffering from pneumonia.
English and German firms are strong
ly competing for the work of recon-
structing the Turkish navy
The ST. Louis Merchants Exchange
has entered fight to a finisi, against
the bucket shops OF the city.
Frank H. Miles, a clerk in the Wash
ington tax Office, has been arrested
charged with embezzlenaent.
While digging for fish bait ON Beaver
Island, Clinton, Iowa, boy unearthed
an iron box containing $50, 1000.
Sixty eight thousand five hundred
persons have died Of starvation in Gu
ba during the last two months.
Some parts of the Yukon River, at a
distance of 700 to 800 miles from the
sea, are twenty miles in width.
Gov. Atkinson, of Georgia, in a
message to the Legislature vigorously
denounces mob violence and crime.
One of Yale's football players is
theological student who breaches to q
suburban congregation every Sunday.
The Society Of the Army of the Ten
nessee has reelected the old officers
with Gen. G. M. Dodge as president.
A stage upset near Grand Encamp-
ment, Wyo., injuring ali of it's eight
cen passengers. three probably fatally.
Two carloads of Chinamen arrived
in New York recently on their way to
Cuba to work on the plantations there.
q. The total attendance during the Ten.
nessee Centennial Exposition lust
closed at Nashville will exceed 1,65O.
900.
The validity of divorces granted in
Dakota to residents of New York is to
be tested in the New York Court of
Fort Custer, near where the brave
Indian fighter and his followers fell, is
soon to be abandoned by the War De.
partment.
An underground reservoir, holding
800, 900 gallons of wine, has been con
structed in connection with Califor-
MIA winery.
All the swing bridges across the riv-
er within the limits of the City of
Chlcago are now operated by means
Of electricity. ... s
Charles Bluejacket. ey-chief of the
ohawnees, has just died a. his home,
Twelve miles north Of Vinitl, l. T., at
the age of n. h
Sheriff Martin and his deputies have
been indicted for murder in connec-
[lon with the shooting Of miners at
Lattimer, Pa. 90" "a
Ihe cruiser Baltimore has sailed
from San Francisco for Honolulu,