The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-10-29
NEW 5 CON, N ( 7
Interesting Telegraph Items in Con
densed Form. I'd
WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING
Clippings From the Daily Press Show
ing Events Transpirlng Through
out the Globe.

Mrs SIllle "A. Stler committed sui
eide at New Albany, Ind, by taking
chlOrOform.
!. B. Thunnison and wife, of Mitch
ell, S. D., were asphyxiated by gas
from a coal stove.
Earl Corley. the son of Oscar Corley,
of Moweaque, ILL.,, was kicked to death
by IA fractions horse.
Fire did damage to the Ledwidge
block and contents in Hot Springs,
Ark, to the amount Of $4,000.
The first and only known case OF
typhus fever in California terminated
fatally Sunday in the San Francisco
pest house.
George W. Harbourt. colored, was
arrested Tuesday at Coffeyville. Kan.
charged with stealing cattle near
Gainesville. Tex. in 1898.
Stephen Bowers was indicted at
Guthrie, Okla, by the grand jury Mon
day for attempting to bribe Sheriff
Rhinehart not to serve papers on him.
The citizens Of Carthage, Mo-, Tues
day voted against proposition to is
sue &2S, 900 of per cent bonds for
the construction of an electric light
plant.
Near Isabella, Woods county, Okla.
John Hill WAS thrown from loaded
wagon by q runaway team and the
wheels passed over his body, killing
him instantly.
The British steamer Clangordon, Of
lis tons, has been wrecked on the At
rican coast between Natal and Della
goa bay. The passengers and crew
were all saved.
A car laden with sheep took fire from
sparks near TairmOunt, Ind. Mon-
day night. The rapid movement Of
the train famed the flames and thirty
sheep were burned.
The citizens of Lagrand. Mo-. voted
Tuesday in favor Of issuing bonds to
the amount of $4,000 for the erection of
an electric light plant. The vote stood
227 for to 50 against.
Alden Levings. a prominent member
of the Denver (Colo Athletic club,
died Monday night from the effects Of
an overdose Of morphine, taken on ac-
count of business reyerses.
Beverly Waller and John Baugh. wood
choppers, living north of Vandalia. III.
quarreled Sunday nihgt and Waller
struck Baugh on.the back of the head
with an ak. Bough Can not recover
Waller is in Jail
A Missouri Pacific engine ran into
eleven cars loaded with animals. be-
longing to the Forepaugh aud Sells
show. early Tuesday morning, south
of ST. Joseph Mo. Several cages and
two cars were badly wrecked.
Twenty-e eight Italians, who arrived
by steamer at Duluth, Mimi, from
Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Tuesday. and
said they had come from Canada to
work on railroad, were sent back
across the border by United States in
spectors.. .t.. .....
John Andrews. member of the So
phomore class of the Mount Pleasant
(O.) high school. was badly stabbed
Monday night in row at fresh
mems class, praty. He was cut near
the jugular vein, and barely escaped q
fatal injruy. ...
The fall of. IA cup in the electrical
room of the Colma Fuse company's
plant, San Francisco, caused a ia,
which produced an explosion. Mary
Beck was killed, a Chinaman was fla.
tally injured and twelve other EN-.
ployes were hurt.
Willie Hill was acquitted of the
charge of horse theft for the second
time at Oregon. III. He is only /.
years of age, but has been arrested a
dozen times or more for the theft Of
horses. He has also succeeded in
breaking jail several times.
A syndicate of capitalists headed by
ex-Gov. Barney Gibbs, Of Texas. has
had an expert for the past month a,
Nogales. Ariz Investigating the mine.
there with view of investing il
them. Large quantities of ore have
been found that, it is said. run il
gold from $1,000 to $4,000 per ton.
Walter Hornbuckle,a a notorious thief
who, with many others, escaped from
Jail at Galesburg, ILL.,. six years ago
was landed in Jail again last Monday
having been surrendered to the author
tiles by the warden of the penitentiary
at jefferson City, Mo- Hornbuchle Il
had just completed a sentence in the
Missouri penitentiary. ...... ~.
Bill Hawinkson and Tom Hickerson
two notorious negrOs, quarreied al
Roanoke, in the northern part of How
ard county, Mo. and a desperate fight
ensued. Hickerson drew revolver anG
Hawkinson attacked him with a bis
} knife, cutting his throat from ear te
ear, and severing the jugular vein.
The murderer was arrested.
Judge John A. Williams. in the
United States court at Little Rock
Ark, accepted grand juror who had
not paid his poll tax. This caused
some surprise, as it had heretofore
been the custom of the court to excuse
all jurors, grand and petit, who hal
failed to comply with this requirement
of the Arkansas state law. The MAJ
said he had endeavored to pay the pol
tax, but the official would not re-
ceive it,
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