The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-12-10
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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.
'lour sells for So a pound at Dawson

the ports of Japan.
John W. Keely, of motor fame, has
invented flying machine.
Denver cigarette dealers are re-
quired to pay $1,000 license
The second trial of Luetgert for the
murder of his wife has been begun in
Chicago.
The National Educational Conven.
tion will assemble at Washington, d.
G., next July.
David Richards, the sculptor, the
designer of many noted statues, died
at Utica N. Y.
Henry Hadricks, aged 16 years, had
his neck broken at Downingtown, Pa,
while playing hanging.
Mrs. Benjamin Herndon, of Hamil-
ton, O., gave birth to healthy boy
having six well-forned fingers Oh each
hand.
The Prince of Wales carries the
largest amount of life insurance of any
one in England. 1t is said to be over
So, 900, 900.
Haynor H. Gordon. 12 years Old, the
son of a minister in Middletown, O.,
has applied for patent on a successful
hydraulic pump.
Gen. Miles has submitted to the Sec
retary of War a recommendation that
Port Townsend. Wash be occupied by
troops Immediately.
The residence Of Mrs. Mary Conway,
Of Youngstown. o., was wrecked by a
) natural gas explosion, and four persons
were dangerously injured.
After drinking q glass of whisky,
Lewis Shugen, of Hamilton, o., calmly
ate the glass he seemed noue the
worse for his strange diet.
Plans for the proposed PAN American
Exposition at La Sale, N. Y, on the
Niagara River. in 1899, have been
shown to President Mckinley.
The codfsheries of Newfoundland
} have been followed for nearly 400 years.
} The average export of cod is about
; 1850, 900 hundredweight per annum.
In excavating for building at
Jenkintown, Pa. a box of old coins
was unearthed. which 1t is supposed
has been buried more than century.
The United States steamer Adams,
now a training ship, has sailed from
Magdalena Bay. Cal. +, with a number
Of apprentices aboard for Hilo, Hawaii.
Norway and Sweden find tie United
States a good customer OF cod liver Oil
and matches, those articles being the
principal items of export to this coun-
try.
Of the $50 eXiles sent from Cuba to
the Island of Fernando Po, the Spanish
penal colony. $50 are dead. Some of
the exiles were transported without
/. trial.
William Carr, under sentence to be
y hanged for the murder of his child,
: tried to commit suicide by swallow
: ing powdered glass in the Jail at Lib
erty, Mo.
= A farmer near Bridgeton, N. j., has
= just sold $5l6 SO worth of beans and
peppers picked from two and three
quarters acres OF ground during the
: past summer.
A merchant in Paulsboro has piece
; Of goods in his stock that has been
there since the civil war Then the
goods sold for 81 yard. Now it can
+ be bought at l0c a yard.
The severe gale which swept the
English coast recently was the most
: severe in recent years. Many lives
: were lost, and scarcely coast town
escaped without damage.
: An old gypsy named Rafael, who
claims he can prove his direct descent
from Pharaoh, has asked the Emperor
] Of Austria to invest him with the
! dignity of king of the gypsies.
Ensign H. E. Smith, the young naval
officer who lately married the only
daughter of the late ex President HAYES,
4 has just been ordered to Hawaii by the
) steamer which leaves December 27.
Don Carlos, the pretender, has sum
moned Marquis Cerralto his represen-
tative in Spain, to Venice. with a
view of promoting a fresh agitation on
the subject of the autonomy DEGREES
Richard Reddick. a colored man, of
! Pittsburg, Pa. claims to be 1870 years
old, and copy of his ''free papers
seems to confirm the claim. This pa
per certifies that he was born on July
: 4, 1777.
A daring daylight robbery occurred
in Chicago the other day. Mrs. Mau-
rice Eppenstein, Of No. 444 Wabash
avenue, was the victim, and $4,000
/ worth of diamonds and $50 bills were
( secured.
Mrs. M. A. Wright. of Burlington.
n. j.. has completed her fftieth year
4 of continuous service as bible teacher
in the Baptist Sunday school at that
4 place. where she now teaches class OF
eighty scholars.
The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
i Crosse broke the record for highest
: average speed across the Atlantic
4 ocean, her speed averaging 22.3 30 knots
= per hour. Her time was days, 1G
q hours and 43 minutes
3 A romance which began in England
: half century ago has just ended in
Z Jersey City by the uniting in marriage
! OF Benjamin Milen and Margaret
z Flynn, who were separated by low
< e1s' quarrel over fifty years ago.
: During a recent trip down Green
3 River, Ky, the steamer Gayoso ran
: into flock of wild geese at night, and