The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-03-25
NJ VS. GO M M ENY
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.
WORLD IS DOING

SPAN Is said to have bought from
Italy the ar.nored cruiser Varcse.
The steamer Alameda is carrying
So. 500. 0O0 from Australia to San Fran
cisco.
John Earl, of Dubuque. Iowa, was
beaten to death by his stepson, who
escaped.
The Turner societies of Wisconsin
have refused to admit women to men,
bership.
Over 700 deaths occurred from the
black plague in Bombay, India, during
February.
The Missouri supreme court has de-
clared the inheritalce tax law uncon-
stitutional.
All gambling at Dawson City, N.
W. T.. has been restricted to ''legiti-
mate games.
Pearl Eytinge. the actress, is in a
New York hospital, insane from the
morphine habit.
There is said to be sufficient food in
the Klondike to last the present popu-
lation two years
ST. Louis building trades will strike
on April /, i'll sympathy with the cut
in bricklayers' wages.
Five small children of Pottsville,
Pa, ate wild parsnips and will prob
ably die from the poison.
The trial Of the Holland submarine
boat Off New York harbor is said to
have been very successful.
Mild weather in Wisconsin has
started a breakup in the logging camps
the earliest for many years.
A bill is pending in the Canadian
parliament imposing a poll tax of $500
on each japanese Immigrant.
Eugene Saulsby, a prominent politi-
clan of indianapolis, Ind, has been
stricken with total blindness.
The Georgia poDulists have nomin-
ated Tom Watson for governor, al
though he has declined to accept.
The native population of the Ha-
waiian Islands are said generally to
favor annexation to the United States.
The United States court at Calves
ton, Tex has ordered the deportation
of five Cinnamon under the Geary
act.
An experimental school for habitual
truants and neglected and lncorrigble
children has been started in Philadel-
phia.
A bill prohibiting nursery stock from
entering Canada from the United
States has passed the Canadian parlia-
ment.
Gen. W. G. M. Davis, who died at
| his home at Alexandria, Va. last
| week, was "a cousin Of Jefferson Davis.
and an intimate frien nd OF Daniel
Webster.
Gov. Culberson, of Texas, has issued
a quarantine against yellow fever on
all coast points and along the Kio
Grande. ....
One hundred starving Cuban women
and children were massacred by Span.
ish troosp at FL Purgatorio. Matanzas
province.
A man named Chandler mortal,y
shot James Hooper near New Orleans.
Hooper mounted a horse, pursued
Chandler and inflicted fatal wound
upon him.
At Pulaski, ILL.,, Perry Gardiner,
aged IL years, lured his comrade, Will
Rogers, into an unoccupied house and
killed him.
Seventeen cases of smallpox are be-
ing treated at Middleboro, KY, and
famine is threatened to the quaran
tined people.
Reports from all sections of Califor-
MIA show that the crop conditions
throughout the state are critical, owing
to lack Of rain.
| Gen. Gomez is maneuvering prepar-
atory to making raid into Matanzas
and Havana provinces with a large
force of insurgents.
The importation Of gold to the
United States. which began on Febru-
ary %, aggregated, up to the close of
business March II, $25, 700, ,000
Great Britain officials express sur
prise at the report that the annexation
of Hawaii by the United States has
been sidetracked in the senate.
Measures are being considered at
Bombay, India, to deal more effective
ly with the black plague, from which
thousands of natives are dying.
Mayor Christey, of Laredo, Tex,
has received numerous anonymous
letters threatening to blow up the city
in the event Of war with Spain.
A Russian spy, in the disguise of a
footman, is said to have been dis
covered at the London residence of the
British premier, Lord Salisbury. .
The French minister for the colonies
has refused the petition of Nine. Drey-
fus, wife of Capt. Dreyfus, to share the
latter imprisonment on DEVILS
island.
Capt Sobral. Spain's late naval at
tache at Washington, who has plans of
the United States coast defenses, has
been appointed on the staff Of the ad.
miralty.
The winters gold output Of tie
KloDdike is estimated at So, 900, 00O,
which will he sent down the Yukon by
the first steamer after the opening Of
navigation.
United States Consul Johnson. #
Annoy, China. has written an article