The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-02-25
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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 Transpirlng Through
out the Globe.

There is possibility that both
branches Vi congress will adjourn about
May /.
Rich gold quartz has been discovered
in the Penn bina mountains, III South
ern Manitoba.
Last year the exports of the United
States were 30 per cent larger than the
exports Of France.
There have been four mysterious as
sasslnations in Houston, Tex, during
the past two weeks.
A French aeronaut is planning to 60
hunting for Andree with team IF
balloons joined together.
A tribe of Indians with yellow hair
and blue eyes has been discovered in
the mountains Of Sonora. Mexico.
George Duffy. an S-year-old boy. has
confessed to setting fire to houses in
Hoboken, N. j.. with malicious in
tent
A race war is threatened between
the white settlers and colony of ne
groes recently taken to Blackwell,
Okla.
The Colorado State Board of Arbitra-
tion has sustained the demands of the
striking miners in the northern district
of the state
| From all parts of China come reports
of attacks by natives on FOREIGNERS.
The whole country seems to be- III a
state of anarchy.
The body of Max Miller, which had
been buried beneath Il snowdrift i'll a
street in Chicago for twenty days. was
! eyDOSed by a recent thaW
The lemon industry on the Pacific
coast il growing very rapidly. Two
thousand carloads will be shipped east
during the present season.
Mrs. Mary Mashin, New York
boarding house keeper, has been sent
to the work house for begging food on
which to feed the boarders.
Two representatives of the Japanese
government are on their way to Mexico
in the interest of colossal coloniza-
tion scheme near San Benito.
Flour is now being pressed into
bricks for use on the march and il
camp. The British government il
testing it for use in the army.
The British fishing schooner Spine
way. heavily coated with ice, wal
blown from the coast of Newfoundland
across the Atlantic to the Azores
A bill Is to be introduced in the city
council of Montreal, Canada, prOvidin9
for the issue Of city bonds on the lot
terry plan, certain numbers to draw
prizes.
Wishin six months time the hors
cars will have disappeared from th
streets of New York City. and electri
city in one form or another will b.
substituted.
The trade balance in favor of tn
United States for the calendar yea
1897 was 1856, 800. 900. This vast sun
has never been equaled in the histor.
of the country.
A bill has bean introduced in til
Kentucky legislature which fixes dali
rates in first class hotels in the state a
81. so; boarding houses, soc, and res
taurant meals, 25c.
California orange growers have sue
ceeded in developing an orange tire
that will Withstand a temperature q
IL degrees and yet yield a sweet am
well favored fruit.
Lobsters are becoming very seal
along the Atlantic coast, and unles
taken for their protection they vii
soon become extinct.
Miss Sadie Holmes, a pretty tele
phone girl in San Francisco, has in
herited vast estate in Wales, togethe
] with the title of "Lady." which wa
enjoyed by her ancestors.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith has Issued al
address to the people of New Jerse
asking them to support the propose
J bill for special tax on all unmarrie'
men because of their bachelorhood.
The volcano on Galapagos Island, i
the South: Pacific, which has been in
active for more than fifty years, is j.
a state of violent eruption, belchln
forth volumes uf dense smoke and lava
A Prescott (Ariz. dispatch says tina
reports from the Grand Canyon of tn
Colorado state that ice formed in tn
) river during the recent cold spell at
depth of from 1000 to 5000 feet belo,
the mesa.
At a meeting of representatives Q
textile unions Of New England in Bos
ton Sunday resolution that al
unions call out all operatives in ever
cotton mill III New England was un
animously adopted
The United States cruiser San Fran
cisco and the gunboats Bancroft an
/ Helena have arrived at Lisbon, POI
! tugal. and are prepared to reach an
} Spanish port quickly or to attack tn
Spanish fleet in case of war.
According to London dispatch th
Spanish legations in London and else
where are suffering from long delay j
their remittances, and diplomats hav
I been forced to privately defray the ez
) penses Of their establishments.
4 Mrs. Louisa Stoutz, a wealthy wido,
: of Portland, Ind, was robbed an
i murdered in her house at night.
postal card written by one OF the mul
: derers and addressed to the city maj
4 shall gave the first intimation OF tn