The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-05-27
NEWS 60 M M ENY
Telegraph Items in a Con
densed Form.
Clippings From the Daily Press Show.
ing Events Transpiring Through
out the Globe.

1t is said that the populace Of Man
lila is reduced to eating horsetesh.
The president has approved the
Alaska homestead and right of way
bill.
A measure for the annexation of
Hawaii will be reported to the house
this week.
Popolar opinion in Italy thinks an
Anglo Saxon alliance would tend to
preserve the general peace.
The brewers of Chicago have ad-
vanced the price os beer 81. 80 a barrel
in anticipation of war taxes
The New York Chapter of Colonial
Danes will ecuip and maintain hos
pital ship for service in Cuban waters
While boating on the lake near At
lanta. GA. Paul d. Safe and Miss
Sadie Moore, his fiance. were drowned
Farmer Hibbs, of Bucks county. Pa.
has sold his wheat at 81. so a bushel,
the highest price ever obtained in that
county.
J. Snyder, of Ottoville. Pa had a
terrific fight with a monster black
snake, which attacked him in the
road, and which he finally killed.
Fifteen American fishing vessels
have abandoned fishing Oh the grand
banks of Newfoundland through fear
of Spanish cruisers.
Mrs. Margaret e. Cody, who has
figured as a litigant against the Gould
family in New York, is under arrest
Oh a charge of blacllmail.
The government is making strenuous
,,,te I'D y,,f<> TO A Il
miral Dewey and garrison of land
forces to hold the Philippines.
The American cable companies in
London have issued instructions to
their agents tG refuse to transmit any
1 Spanish government messages.
Senator Sewell. of New Jersey, has
declined appointment as major general
of volcnteres. presumably because he
would have to forfeit his seat in the
senate.
The steamer Gussie succeeded in
safely landing two companies OF
! United Stares troops ard large Hual.
tity Of war munitions for the insur
gents within fifty miles Of Havana.
A high fence has been erected around
the Carpenter steel works at Reading,
E-t.. DIS d IuItutI l)ItfctitI lTtIll
spies. Shipments of shells are now
made from the works three times :,
week.
Statistics of the Spanish loss at Man
4 ila are still meager. The latest reports
4 show that the loss was greater than
at first supposed. The best informa-
tion is that 32l We're killed and zoe
wounded.
| The secretary of the navy has re
ceived dispatch from Admiral Dewey
expressing the belief that Manila could
not hold out long against his attack.
There have been no massacres in the
city, as reported.
| A fisherman captured near Havana
says the reconcentrados are nearly al
dead. Many Of them were expelled
from the city and afterward died in
the suburbs. where their remains were
devoured by buzzards.
At Sault Ste Marie. Mich. have
been found five sticks Of dynamite
with fuse and caps at a point about
800 feet from the canal locks. placed
there. it is believed, by two Spanish
spies to damage the locks.
| n Ihllaudssee, Id ulspdtCn says
that while two acres of land in that
vicinity planted to cotton yield crop
Of cotton worth $50, the space planted
in cabbages would, with no more la
Dor, bring from $12O to $40.
The Spaniards who We're captured
in the battle of Manila explain their
defeat by saying it was due to the fact
that the Americans arrived too early
in the morning. while they were still
in their night clothes and before they
had coffee.