The Philipsburg mail., 1899-07-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

At Jeffersonville, Ind, 1.500 men ir
the foundry OF the American Car Man
ufacturing company have struck.
Madame Dreyfus has obtained per.
mission to visit her husband in prison
at any time between sunrise and sun
set.
Acting Secretary Allen has perfected
his plans for the drills of the naval
militia organization on the Pacific
coast
Governor Gomez has discharged the
mayor of Santo Domingo for compile
ity in the Justification of the Cuban
army lists.
The Darcy island leper station has
been destroyed by fire. One )eper is
dead and another it is feared will die
from injuries received.
The Toledo Press club has issued a
letter to the newspapers of Ohio ask
ing them to assist in determining the
most beautiful woman in Ohio.
Nearly 1900 pants makers are on
strike in Manhattan, Brooklyn and
Brownsville, throwing 5000 women
and girl fnishers out of work.
All the racing stock of the Palo Alto
stock farm has been ordered sold by
Mrs. Stanford. who has decided to
abandon the breeding of runners.
The Chinese government, it is said,
contemplates the destruction of the
ancient Chinese wall that separates
China proper from Chinese Tartary.
Captain Mercer, Indian agent, has
received peremptory orders to remove
all white persons off the Chippewa
Indian reservation within thirty days.
German-American of Detroit, in
mass meeting assembled, in most radi-
cal terms declared hostility to any sort
of American English political alli-
ance.
The steamer Apache, plying between
Columbus and Apalachicola, Fla, was
sunk in the Chipola river near We
wathitcka, Fla, and four persons were
drowned.
In the course of recent reciprocity
negotiations an arrangement was made
between the United States and Portu-
gal for a mutual reduction of duty on
certain articles.
The board of regents of Heidelberg
university, Tifin, o., conferred the de-
gree of doctor OF laws upon Andrew
Carnegie, the iron and steel magnate
of Pittsburg.
An English syndicate with a capital
Of 500, ,o0o, 900. it is said, has started
in to purchase all the cattle in Texas,
with view of cornering the cattle
market in this country.
The government of the South African
republic. according to dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Rome, is ordering
large quantities of rifles from Italian
firms for immediate shipment.
y tremendous waterspout is reported
in the Pine Ridge, S. D., district, ex-
tending thirty miles in length, causing
destruction to crops and inundating
al the low lands No lives were lost.
.,,w York District Assembly No 4,
Krjghts of Labor, unanimously adopt
cd 1,,ti n 4 ~
riams recall and court martial on ac-
count of his action in the Couer d'Alene
la Dor troubles.
Governor Pingree announces that
Secretary Alger will not leave the cab
met to accept foreign appointment.
Said the governor. "lIe knows better
than to go to Europe when he has a
senatorial fight on in Michi gan"
There has been call made by Gen
eral Otis upon the war department for
four expert Spanish court stenogra-
piers for service in the Philippine
islands. They must be familiar with
the Spanish and English languages
The British armed sloop Buzzard,
while trying to reach the French
treaty shore, Newfoundland, collided
with an iceberg. which stove in her
bows. BY means of collision mats and
moving the heavy guns and gear to the
stern, she made her way back to ST.
Johns safely.
The remains of Ensign Robert Mon
aghan of the cruiser Philadelphia were
given every honor while in Portland,
where he was well remembered by
many old classmates. After living at
the armory over night the casket was
carried out at noon to the waiting
hearse and taken to the cathedral,
where services for the dead were con
Quoted
A heavy explosion of gas occurred in
one of the lower lifts of the Maxwell