The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-03-11
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Interesting Telegraph Items in Con.
densed Form.
WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING
Clippings From the Daily Press Show.
ing Events Transpiring Through
out the Globe.


ing back the British forces.
-Four hundred patients have died of
starvation in one Havana hospital
during the past two months.
The work of preparing the monitor
Puritan for service is being pushed
rapidly at Norfork navy yard.
The bill giving the owners of whisky
the same rights in transportation as
distillers has passed the house.
The last two descendants of Christie
pher Columbus are said to be occupants
of a poor house in Cadiz, Spain.
One of tho men who attempted to
assassinate i.Ing George of Greece in
Athens rec, ntly has been arrested.
At Basle in Switzerland. prepara-
tions are Icing made to commemorate
the 4OJvl birthday of Hans HOLDEN.
1t is believed in Washington that the
present congress will recognize the
belligerency of the Cuban insurgents.
William Warren jumped into shall
low Turkish bath at New York and
was killed by striking upon his head.
The cotton mill operatives Oh strike
at BiddefOrd, Me-, declare that they
will hold out until they are starved in.
Cowboys and frontiersmen of Ari-
Zona and New Mexico are organizing
cavalry companies to go to the front,
If needed.
The fiftieth anniversary of Califor-
MAS statehood will be celebrated in
1901 by another midwinter fair at San
Francisco.
lie =, 20,
San Francisco will be devoted to the
relief of the families of the victims of
the Maine.
The war department believes that the
entire Pennsylvania national guard
would volunteer in case of declara-
tiOD OF war.
The house of representatives has
passed bill making it lawful to trans
NIT by mail private postal cards with
1c stamps affixed.
There will be no war between Chill
and Argentine Republic, as arbitra.
tion by the British government has
been agreed upon
Last year the railways of the United
States carried 1900. .000,O 900 passen-
gers one mile and 95, 900, 900. 600 tons
of freight one mile.
A single mahogany log was recently
sold in London for $2SOO According
to the latest figures. China owes her
creditors Sl93, 525, 900.
1t is almost certain that the Partisan
drummer who was found dead in
room as Il hotel in Chicago was muir
dered with woman's 5 hat pin.
Henri Eumelen, at San Diego, Cal.
is said to have commission from
Rome to establish home in California
for Catholic priests. to cost $4,000, 600.
Last Saturday the postmaster at Ce-
dar Rapids, Iowa, spent an anxious
eight hours guarding 81, 200, 900 in gold
being transferred from Japan to New
York.
The provision relating to an appro-
priation for a government exhibit at
the Paris exposition in 1900 was
stricken from the sundry civil bill in
the house.
The trouble between Costa Rica and
Nicaragua over the boundary line be-
tween those countries threatens to in
volve all the Central American repub-
lies in war.
Six thousand painters and decorators
Of New York will demand 81 and 3d. 80
per da" for eight hours work on April
4. If their demands are not granted
a strike will follow.
Only little flag marks the grave of
the late Gov. John A. Martin, in
Atchison, Kan and efforts are being
made to secure the erection of fitting
monument to his memory.
A 7-fOot granite monument in the
Upper Hartz, Germany, has an iron
tablet inscribed "Here in the year
lS47 the first trials were made with the
cultivation Of the potato"
A Paris newspaper expresses hope
that "a European statesman will be
found to intervene. with a view of the
of peace between the
United States and Spain"
At Cairo. W. Va, near Parkersburg,
Geo. Collins. IL years old. stabbed his
mother twelve times, while she was
to punish him for disobedi-
ence. She can not recover.
The United States supreme court has
decided that no government official of
the land Office or any other department
can take advantage over others in the
location of homestead claim.
The American ship Ell Captain lost
three men overheard in a fierce gale |
off Cape Horn, and was so badly bat
tered that she had to be condemned and |
her crew discharged at Montevideo
The Intervention Of the United |
States to stop the war in Cuba is re.
garded as imminent, the time limit set |
by the president for the trial of the |
autonomy plan being nearly reached.
The navies of the world are now
rated as follows: Great Britain. !:
France, 2; Russia, 3; Italy, 4 United !
States, 8; Germany, 6; Spain. 7; :a-
pan, s.; Austria. 8, and NetherlanG.,
10.
Hearing the cries Of an angry mob |
outside the Jail in which he was COZ.
fined at Richmond, Ark, Alexander
Johnson. conegro boy, charged with |
grand larcen drew razor and cut his |