The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-10-08
$5OO,OOO. The fire was extinguished
by snow storm.

Oy SHOW storm.
| By the breaking of a cable three
colored men who were being hoisted
in an elevator shaft Of the Northwest
Land Tunnel, Chicago, fell 95 feet, to
the bottom of the excavation. One
was instantly killed and the others
fatally hurt.
/ Lewis Weaver, shoemaker, living
near Mechanicsburg. Pa, has just
buried his wife, which is the twenty
second death be has had in his family
He is 20 years old, and has buried two
wives and nineteen children. He has
eight children living.
William K. Vanderbilt. Jr.. brother
of Consuelo. Duchess of Marlborough,
has just entered Harvard University.
The young man is the first of his fam
lily to go to Harvard, all the rest of
the family who have had college ed
ucation having chosen Yale.
A Neapolitan nursemaid has disap-
peared with the infant son of a young
Englishman named Hastings Letters
bave been received asking $50, 900
ransom, and it is supposed that the
nurse was in league with some of the
brigands who infest the vicinity Ma
pies.
The Canadian military authorities
explain, in reference to the statement
that the Canadian government has Or
dered guns for the defense Of Montreal.
that the order for guns was given two
years ago, and includes guns for the
defense Of the Quebec capital.
1t has just been discovered by the
NC of % <.I> Il
pass that two of the unidentified vic
tim of the wreck on the Colorado Mid
land at New Castle. Colo, Septemb ber
g. were Elmer E. Black and his bride,
OF Greenport, Pa, who were OIL their
wedding tour.
The bones of two chilrden have been
discovered in an old chest at Altoona,
Pa, III the attic of a tenement house.
One was wrapped in a piece of oil
cloth, which may lead to the discovery
of tho murderer, and the other was
wapped i'll a newspaper bearing the
date October 10, 1891.
The oldest newspaper in the world
is the Kin Pan, of Pekin, China. 1t
has been published continuously for
nearly a thousand years. 1t now pub
fishes three editions daily, and in Or
der to prevent cheating. uses three
different colors, first yellow, then
white, and last gray.
Harry Vansant, of Railway. N. j..
who has been an invalid for over a
year, has just coughed up a live frog
three inches long. The physicians
think that he has more frogs in his
stomach. Vansant thinks he swal-
lowed the frog eggs while hunting in
North Carolina two yeas ago.
tAstage robbery. the second in the
same place within six months, has
just occurred near Yreka. Cal The
lone highwaynan stepped from be-
hind a rock, demanded the express box
which was handed out, and the stage
proceeded on it's way. Four passen-
gers were in the coach but were not
mOested.
A tiny engine, which was made by
a Philadelphia boy named Cyrus
Chambers, when he was 16 years Old.
has been exhibited at the Nashville
exhibition. 1t is made almost entirely
of gold and silver, weighs less than
half an ounce, and can be carried in
the vest pocket, and yet can be made
to run at the rate of 5000 revolutions
per minute.
The business of the Chicago sausage
market is nearly dead. Since the
Leutgert trial began, and the interior
and basement views of the factory
have been shown up so often in the
newspapers, the public has lost its APP
petite for sausage. Some of the hotels
and restaurants that formerly did
thriving trade in sausage have ceased
to serve it.