The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-03-25
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Farmer Appleby, of Hampstead. N.
Y. his widow caused his remains to
be cremated and scattered the ashes
over the fields.
Many of the leading grain dealers of
illinois ask for the repeal Of the law
giving the right to elevator proprietors
to trade in the grain of which they are
merely public custodians.
A courier from Dawson City reports
the health of the people good and that
a stampede has taken place from Daw-
sou and Circle City to American creek,
in Alaska, where rich finds of gold are
reported.
A clergyman, while opening the New
Jersey senate with prayer, asked that
the emperor of Germany might be
forgiven if his failure ''to size this
country up properly was due to
Insanity.
Two negroes are to be sold into bond
age at Glasgow, Ky. they have
repeatedly been convicted If yagrancy,
and the county has advertised their
services for sale for the time of their
i.u prls, nment.
Jim Orr a versatile and independent
reformer of Kansas, is working for the
passage of law which will compel
every man to refrain from signing
another mans note without first get
ting his wife's consent.
The cotton mill strikers at New Bed
ford, Mass, have issued an urgent
appeal to the textile workers of New
England for more substantial help.
Unless it is given the stri sers say they
must acknowledge d feat
Capt. Bu,ley. who was in command
of the Ward lire steamer City Of Wash
ington when She was in Havana har-
Dor at the time of the Maine explosion,
died at his home in Brooklyn, n. Y,
Tuesday, of Tampico fever
During an exciting primary election
for councilmeu in Leavenworth. Kan,
Saturday, over 300 women voted in one
ward. They gathered at the churches
and were hauled to the polling places
III express wagons and hacks.
In the Missouri state luDa,ic asylum,
No ?, at st. Joseph, Abe Boyle.
former Klondike miner. is under treat
ment for insanity, caused by absorp-
tion of -four gold through TIE pores of
his skin while working in the Yukon
river.
-Four masked men rode into the town
of HaWley, Woods county. Okla. Fri
day night while a majority of the
people We're attending revival services,
aud while two of the robbers held up
the crowd at the church the otner two
robbed the stores aud residences
A dispatch from Half Moon Bay,
Cal says thar the wrecked shin, New
York. is rapidly sinking in her bed of
sand and in a few days more she will
probably be entirely covered. The
| swelling rice aud tapioca in her hold
have pushed up the deck, aud bid fair
TO te.r the ship asunder.
A cablegram from London concern
ing Mr.. Gladstone's health says: "It
was his own wish to be moved to Ha-
warden with as little delay as possi
BILE, Whatever the precise nature of
the facial pains, neuralgia or the pres
ence of some unhealthy growth, there
can be no doubt that, though inter-
mittent, they have occasioned severe
suffering, and it necessarily follows
that his physical powers and heart S
action have become gravely enfeebled. -
| Twenty Whitehead torpedoes were
received at the United States torpedo
station on Goat Island. Newport. OH
Friday. The Whitehead is new tor
pedo, owned exclusively by the United
| States, and its mechanism is a govern
ment secret. and is provided with
magnetic needle 90 ;Dplied to the stetr-
ing apparatus t.. " thin the range of
| 300 feet tho e 9my : ship acts as a
magnet and attr Is to Itself the mis-
sile Of destructlo
The attorney general Of Texas has
| ruled that in consequence of the care
| less urafting resolutions in the leg
| islature, there will have to be two
state elections in Texas this year. The
regular election of state officers the
second Tuesday i'll November, and IA
special election will have to be held
the first Tuesday, which is the first
day Of November. to pass on some con
stitutional amendments submitted by
the last legislature, to be voted on this
year.
A special dispatch from Dallas, Tex.
says that Theodore Schausell, prom
inent German American of Dallas,
has written to United States Senator
Mason, of Illinois, offering to accept
the challenge to fight a duel recently
sent to Senator Mason by Marquis de
Alta Villa, of Spain, on account of the
senator's anti Spanish utterances in
the senate. Mr.. Schauseil is an expert
swordsman and duelst, and expresses
an earnest desire to meet in mortal
combat "this pretended marquis. either
in this country or abroad, on land or
sea, with long, short. straight or
crooked swords, or shotguns, whichever
may satisfy his bluffness. -