The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-09-17
NEWS COM M ENY

WHAT IHE WORLD Is DOlNO
Clippings From the Daily Press Show
ing Events Transpirlng Through
out the Globe
Eugene O'Hara, desperdo, has jnst
been captured at New York City after
six years chase.
John O'Day. in Jail at Mercer, Pa,
for larceny, broke out by picking the
lock with a table fork.
| The annual convention of the Ma
tlonal Association of Post Office Clerk
| is in session at Baltimore
Robert Blackaby, a prominent living
near Lewiston, Ill, died Tuesday. He
came to Fulton county in 1S41.
It is announced that the Chilian
Government will cut down expences by
disarning a portion Of her navy
An Austrian priest named Gentilini
claims to have discovered a CERTAIN cure
for cancer by mean OF eating lizards
Ahorse broke in a freight car that
was siGetracked at Trenton, N. j., and
killed nine other horses by kicking
them.
George A. Mexican of Marion, la.
commiUtd suicide at the Hotel Linden,
Davenport Monday by taking NOR
phine.
tt is stated On authority thst Sena-
tor Sherman will go to Ohio about
the 18th, and make one speech IN the
campaign.
Twelve hundred and eighty nine
bales of cotton were burned at the
Fall River Pier, New York, the other
day. Loss, 500, 600.
In trying to effect their ESCAPE
from the Jail at Fargo. N. D., three
tramps set the building on fire, and
were burned to death
Mrs. Alexander Grimm, of Newark,
Oho. grieving over the waywardness
VI ICL SOIls ouloltO " th
morhine Wednesday.
Henry Bumister, bartender at Ne
vada Mo-, cut his thr6 at Wednesday
afternoon. He was despondent as re-
suit Of excessive drinking.
Alaska is so large that twelve states
the size of Pennsylvania could be
carved out of it, with enough left over
to make a state the size of South Caro-
lima.
On Labor day ex-Gov. Altgeld, Of
Illinois, talked for an hour and half at
labor league demonstration on the
banks of the Delaware at Philadel-
phia.
Wild horses have become SO much
of nuisance in Northetn Ariz)l.
that Attorney General Frazer has been
asked if they may not be legally
slaughtered.
A child playing with matches caused
fire which destroyed three barns and
their contents on the farm of Charles
Leach. near Freedom, 0. Loss, $4,000
no insurance.
Thomas V. Hawkins, colored, who
was formerly porter in the tax collec
tors, office at Washington, D. G., and
who disappeared in August with about
$4,000, has been captured in Toronto.
The wedding of Miss Reba Williams
and Abram Garfield, son of President
James A. Garfield. is announced tC
take place at the home of the brides
parents in Cleveland, O., in October.
The body of Mrs. John Drew was
buried on Sunday in Glenwood Gene
terry, Philadelphia. The services
were held in st. Stephens Church
of which she was a lifelong attend
ant
A Saginaw, Mich, court, in charge
of street railway, has ordered the
receivers to sell "labor'' tickets at thu
rate of nine for 20 cents, making
fares to laboring people less than ;
| cents.
A condemned murderer in iail a,
Fulton Ga, led the religious service.
. in the prison chapel OH Sunday il
such an impressive way that the large
congregation of criminals grew hys
: terical.
, A letter from Spain's Premier tc
| a prominent Spaniard in Havana re-
5 iterates the determination of Spain tc
, resort to war with the United State:
rather than lose Cuba through inter
ference.
In round numbers, the acreage
planted to corn in Nebraska is abou,
70, 900. 900, and fair estimate from
reliable sources places the yield "a,
thirty bushels per acre, and it will be
high grade.
The war Department. has granted
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