The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-02-18
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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 Transpiring Through
out the Globe.


The sinking of a part of the Isthmus
OF Panama is feared from continued
earthquakes.
While serving on cOrOner's jury in
New York Adam Star. - years old,
died from excitement incident to the
case.
Of the So, 500, 600 postal money orders
issued under the new system, only
5000 in fraudulent orders have been re-
ported.
Tests of ammunition furnished to
the United States army at San Fran
cisco showed 80 per cent. of it to be
worthless.
John Kern and Peter Kern, twin
brothers, living near Allentown, Pa.
jointly celebrated their 18th birthday
anniversary recently.
The navy department has issued Or
ders to proiectile factories to hurry up
the delivery of projectiles for navy and
seacoast defense guns
Ex-senator Blackburn's daughter,
Mrs. Lucille Lane, of Washington, is
rapidly recovering from her accidental
wound from a pistol shot.
The American ship W. J. Rotch,
which left New York last June, has
arrived in San Francisco. after having
been long given up as lost.
Thousands of sheep are reported to
have persisted from cold and starvation
in Western Wyoming. The cold there
has been intense for sixty days.
A monster It'd | wave rolled up on
the coast of the Adriatic Sea recently.
the water receding and returning sew
eral times with a laundering noise.
Warrants have been issued for the ar
rets of forty San Francisco druggists,
charged with selling pills under coun-
terfeit labels. which they knew to be
bogus.
An extra force of men has been en-
ployed in the postotfice at Havana,
Cuba, to open and examine letters and
newspapers coming from the United
| States.
| The war department has sent to con-
gress an estimate of 1925, 900 for use
during the coming year in planning
the deep waterway from the Great
Lakes to the Atlantic.
| -Four masked men entered the resi-
dence of Miss Nancy Fix, near Della
! ware, O.. recently and tortured her
until she revealed the hiding place of
her money, about $l10O.
It has been announced at Lexington.
Ky. by Miss Christine Bradley.
daughter of the governor, that her de-
termination to christen the new battle
ship Kentucky with water will be ad-
hered to-
Ex- Congressman w. H Martin, OF
Texas, familiarly known as "Howdy
Martini died recently at Hillsboro,
Tex. He served in the war as a Con.
federate, and was subsequently elected
to congress.
The navy department has asked con
gress for authority to contract for ar.
NOR plate for the battle ships Alabama
Illinois and Wisconsin. Unless this il
done. the completion of those vessels
will be delayed many months.
The peculiar winter phenomenon
called "sundogs' was visible in New
York one day last week. The dislpay
lasted nearly two hours, and the two
mock suns, which were on either side
of the sun, were of unusual brilliancy
It is feared that the black plague il
Bombay. India, will increase rapidly
in few weeks. and that, through the
penning up of a large population, {
panic will occur. A camp has beer
established on the islands across the
harbOr
A dispatch to London from MadriC
says that the Spanish government has
decided to send two additional cruiser.
to the United States, which is but one
of the many indications that Spain has
determined to 60 to war with this
, country.
Eight hundred families of G. A. r.
veterans are reported to be ready tC
start from Minnesota to Matagordf
county, Tex, where tract of 20. O0(
acres of land fronting on MatagOrds
Bay has been purchased for G. A.
R. colony.
With the exception OF eighteen plate!
for the battle ships Kearsarge an6
Kentucky. under construction al
Cramps ship-yard. Philadelphia, the
tested and shipped, and work on the
vessels being pushed with all possible
speed.
The gift of 800 by ex-Secretary o.
ney to aid the starving Crbans. which
he sent through the Spanish minister
at Washington, instead Of through the
state department, as requested by the
president, is interpreted in Havana as
intended merely to show his dislike
for Consul General Lee.
The very newest Of Chicago schemes
is the proposed establishment by q
syndicate of the Windy City, of q
gambling resort on Fighting Island il
Detroit River, eight miles from De
troit. Mich, and on Canadian soil.
The syndicate has purchased the isl
and and has a fund of 50, 900, 900.
| A cablegram from Berlin recently
points out the fact that orders have
been issued for the instruction of non
commissioned officers of the German
army in the Russian language, ano