The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-18
NEWS SUMMARY.


Klondike is estimated at $40, 600, 900.
The lack of the usual fall of rain in
Cuba is delaying the maturing of the
sugar crop.
The war department has chartered
the steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry
horses to Manila.
There is no confirmation of the re-
port that Chief Justice Chambers Of
Samoa will resign.
The Volksraad at Pretoria in secret
session, has adopted the seven years
franchise proposition.
Christian A. Geotfrion, member of
the Canadian cabinet and distn-
guished lawyer, is dead
News of the Arctic whaling fleet is
that so far it has been bad year. as
very few whales have been seen.
The Federal government has sent
agents to several points in Texas to
secure horses for service in Cuba.
SbolluS nave tcSlIOScu
bridges and prostrated telegraph wires
in Chile, interrupting communication.
The new tug Fearless. recently
built for the Speckels brothers, San
Francisco, has been chartered by the
government.
Abe Rothschild, a notorious diamond
thief and crook, has been sentenced to
erve three years in the Texas peniten-
tiary for forgery.
United States Consul Jenkins has
cabled the state department that San
Salvador is in a state of siege as re-
suit Of revolutionary plotting.
The past week closed the period of
two years prescribed by the Ding
ley tariff law within which recipros-
ity treaties may be negotiated.
An English syndicate has paid s2l5,-
900 for the Iowa and Yellow Jacket
groups in Boise Basin, Idaho. They
join the famous Gold Hill group
Governor Bradley of Kentucky has
declined to call a special session of the
Legislature or send troops to Clay
county where feudal war is in pro-
gress
The Mark Lane Express says that
the British wheat promises full aver
age yield, and barley an average, and
nat Il tf,,,t t1, .l,
ticient.
A reciprocity treaty, under the pro
visions of the Dingley law, has been
negotiated /. tween Portugal and the
United States, and went into effect
the 2Oth inst.
Americans built the first street rail
way constructed in Korea. 1t is an
overhead electric trolley road. six
miles in length, and runs through
Seoul, the capital.
The Argentine minister of finance
proposes to reduce the taxes on for
eign insurance companies from 10 to ,
per cent, raising those on Argentine
corporations from 2 to per cent
From John Sherman's closest friend
and former law partner, Henry c.
Hedges, it is learned that the venera-
BILE statesman is improving slowly from
his recent illness and hopes to be about
again soon.
The triple murder of an American
named Ward aud two japanese women
at Yokohama, the supposed cause be-
ing jealousy, brings an American sailor
named Miller under the Japanese law
as the suspected murderer.
The agricultural Department. for
eign crop report for July states that
commercial authorities estimate the
shortage in the Russian wheat crop at
from 1900, 900 to l20, 900, 900 bushels,
as compared with last year.
The Tn ted States district attorney
at Jacksonville, Fla, has been warned
from Washington to beware of fill
clustering expeditions from the Flori-
other Central American countries.
The removal of tresspassers-whit
settlers-from the Leech Lake Indian
reservation, has been postponed until
August %, by order of Assistant Sec
retary of the Interior Hitchcock.
The settlers are vigorously opposing
removal.
st. Vincent, Cape Verde islands, re-
ports the Italian steamer Centric
America from Montevideo June 30. for
Genoa with go passengers. has been
towed there for distance of 300 miles,
having been disabled by the loss of her
propeller.
Work has begun on the construction
of passage from the cell of Caot.
Dreyfus to the hall in which the court
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