The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-02-11
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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.
WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING

There have been S34 deaths from the
black plague il Bombay. India, during
the week.
Chris Merry, the Chicago wife-nur-
derer. has been sentenced to be hanged
February Is.
An assay of gold taken from mine
at Llano. Tex, yielded Sl5, $50 to the
ton. Why go to klondike.
The January receipts of the govern
ment from customs were over $4,000,
900 more than January, 1897.
It is reported that England is buying
up all the Welsh and English coal it
can procure in China and Japan
The public prosecutor in Madrid has
demanded Il sentence upon Gen. Wey-
Ter of two mouths imprisonment.
Who sa.a arrests of members of the
mob " 10 Jdrned two Seminole Indians
in Oklahoma will soon be be made.
blocked with ice and several vessels
are imprisoned in tho harbor of st.
Johns.
The United States treasury gold re-
serve reached Tl63, go, 600 on Thurs
day, the highest point in about seven
years.
1t has beeu reported from Toronto.
Ont, that the Canadian government
will not allow aliens to hold claims in
the Klondike.
B. Il. Baker, colored, recently ap
pointed postmaster of Lake City. S.
c., was shot while assuming his du-
ties, and the postottice burned.
A young woman who was arrested
committed the crime in order to get
into prison because she was starving.
The Russian government is reported
as contemr lating the use of ice plOws
in navigating the Arctic sea between
Siberia and the north coast of Russia.
The quickest trip of the season from
Philadelphia TO San Francisco, around
Cape Horn. has just been completed
by the Iroquois, ma king the run in 12S
days.
Rev. r. N. P. Miles. Of New York
has informed the police of that city
that regular traffic of slave girls il
carried on in Chinatown, New Yorl
suburbs.
| David K. Seeley, with seven aliases
is in Jail at Kalamazoo. Mich. OF
charge of having committed bigam,
ten times. He is a veteran of the lat'
war, and 6S years old.
George Somerville, sou Of New
Jersey minister, and who for twent,
years led Il tranIp's life, has been mar
ried at Sioax City, Iowa, to Mrs. OF
sou, IA widow, worth $50, 900
1t is announced ut Berlin that tn
Emperor William has drawn up ant
distributed to the high naval officers
table of the forces of Japan, Russi
and Germany in the far east.
, The government will send a militar.
expedition to map out the topOgrahp,
of the Copper River route in Alaska
to ascertain the value of this route t
the Klondike goldfields in winter.
Thomas Garcia was found dead o.
the Ell Paso and Northeastern raIroa,
track, five miles from Ell Paso, Mon
day. 1t is thought he went to slee1
on the track and was run over an,
killed.
Lem Higginbotham, while runnin,
an electric mining machine in Baker
mine, near Centerville, Iowa. had hi
, rlSnt manu- LOTu OlI. IL CdupnJ III
cogwheel in the machine and his arm
was almost torn from his body.
Additional details of the betrayal an'
+ assassination Of the Cuban genera
Aranguren makes clear the fact that j
was deliberately planned and carried
, out by the Spanish authorities, AM
that it was simply a cold blooded mur
der.
| Mrs. William Stewart, of Terr
Haute. Ind, was fatally scalded Mon
, day while her husband was helpin,
her carry a wash boiler filed witt
t boiling water. The handle in he
: hand came off and the water poure'
over her.
A cablegram from London recentl
announces that war between Norwa
and Sweden seems inevitable. 1t
stated that on the frontier the armie
of both parties is rapidly progressing
both sides making extensive prepara
, tions for war.
There is scheme before the Nev
York legislature to establish stat
colony for cOnsumptiveS in the AdirOn