The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-03-18
NEWS 60 M M KN Mt
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.

Call1Ornla petroleum trace Is DOOm-
ing. Thirty.two new wells have been
sunk since March /.
Reports from various points in New
England show that the cotton mill
strike will soon end.
The American society in London has
started "a fund for a memorial to the
dead of the batt!eship Maine.
Two separate Spanish commissions
have arrived in London to purchase
ammunition and war supplies
Alexander Millet. IA peddler at Chel-
sea. Mass. claims the *3 000 900 estate
of John Green, Portland, Ore.
Two hundred thousand Massachu-
setts wheelrcn have asked the legisla-
ture to IN Ike railroads carry bicycles
Free
1t l. rep rted that the Cramps Ship
building company, OF Philadelphia,
will soon receive an immense naval
contract from Russia.
A dispatch to the London Daily
Mail from Hong Kong, China. said
that six additional United States wal
ships are expected there.
Chicago friends of George w. Ferris
inventor of the Ferris wheel. who
died in poverty in Pittsburg, Pa,
raised funds to bury him.
Ex-Chief Justice Wycliffc, of the
Cherokee nation, has been placed in
JAIL at Vinita, charged with stealing
cattle. He could not give the give re-
quired bond for $1,000
1t is reported in Hong Kong. China,
that fresh rebellion against the Span
ish has broken out in the Philippine
ISLANDS, and that tifty-three Spanish
soldiers have been killed
James II. Carpenter. founder of the
Carpenter Steel works, at Reading, Pa,
and inventor of the armor-p piercing
projectile which bears his name, died
in Reading Sunday, aged 81 years.
Corea's first railway, IT, enty-five
miles in length, is being constructed
by American contractors The excava
ting and rough work is being done by
natives, who receive 80 cents day.
Color Sergt Beastly, of Gen. Long
streets Confederate Army Corps, who
led the Southern army's charge at
Bloody Angle during the battle of Get
tysburg, died last Sunday at Louis
vile, Ky.
Louisville received that week a pay
ment from unknown parties of $24OC
IN gold, representing taxes OIL whisky
of which the government was de
franded in 1868.
James Toomey, q prominent young
man Of Lincoln. Neb. has myster
ious2y disappeared. His family has re
, oeived intlmati0us as to his where
| L., xl~n< 1,o1, E< L.,
, gone to Klondike.
The Japanese minister at Pekln il
pressing the Chinese government TO-
payment of the war indemnity du'
next May. and demanding an immedi
ate assurance that the money will b.
promptly paid when due.
1t IS stated that the Spanish cruise
Vizcaya, now at Havana, is PRACTICAL,
cleared for action and in constan
,, state of readiness for all emergencies
and that picket boats are on dut,
around her day and night.
Frank Slavin. pugilist. who is il
Dawson City, will return to SIN Fran
cisco and buy steam laundry plan
and take it back to Dawson. At 81
piece for shirts he believes it will b.
better than bonanza gold mine.
According to dispatch from Ha
, vana four 12-inch guns-two west an,
: two east of the city-are the only one
: that are considered dangerous. Thei
y implacements are not modern, ant
, their gunne1s are not well trained.
{ During his visit to Artemisa, Cuba
Cubans who refused to beg, though
cto ,ipc 10 vouc1, y,
, the suffering he saw and indignant a
the inhumanity Of the Spanish off
cials.
Ex-senator Hill, of New York, char
3 acterizes the bill pending before tn,
general assembly of that state to pre-
vent newspapers from cartooning peo
! pie as q most viAdictive and dangerou
t measure to curtail the freedom OF tn,
press.
Six persons have been arrested a
Cripple Greek, Colo, charged will
, stealing gold ore from mine dumps.
is claimed that vast amount Of th'
, richest ores have been taken in tn,
past year, and that other arrests are t.
be made.
Adolph Luetgert. the Chicago sau
sage maker. convicted OF numbering
his wife, has been taken to Joliet pen
itentiary, to serve for life. It is re,
ported that he will be employed ir
making sausage for the use of the in
mates Of the penitentiary.
An attempt was made at Waverly
R. I, to start the White Rock cottor
! mill. which has been closed for si1
weeks on account Of a strike brough,
on by a reduction Of wages The at
S tempt to resume operations was a fail
: ure, as only fifty of the strikers re
ported for duty.
: Green Morrison, alias Green Youngs
S colored, confined in Jail at Warrel S
: burg, Mo-. charged with misdemeanor
attempted to commit suicide Mond; ,
= in his cell by hanging himself. Whel
o discovered by the deputy sheriff h
+. was unconscious. but through vigorOu
efforts he was reGuscitated.