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

hazy.
Roland Molineaux has again beer
arrested by the New York police on a
charge of numbering Mrs. Adams.
The United States may be called
upon to arbitrate the differences be
tween Great Britain and the Transvaal
Armed troops are invading the Andes
province, Venezuela, under the leader.
ship of Ciprani Castro. The movemen,
is believed to be local.
Hundreds of people have been
driven from their homes along the
Colorado river and score of casual
ties have been recorded.
The town of Linz near Ottensheim,
Austria, has been totally burned. Four
women perished in the flames and a
number of people were injured.
In Alexandria, Egypt, there have
been twenty-one cases of the plague
and seven deaths from that disease
Two new cases have just been re-
ported.
The engagement between Prince
Macmillan of Baden and the Grand
Duchess Helen, daughter of the Grand
Duke Vladimir, has been definitely
broken off.
1t is rumored in Rome that Count
Nigra, head of the Italian delegation
at the peace conference, will propose
that the Pope have permanent seat
on the arbitration tribunal.
DR.. l. N. Johnson, a member of the
legislature from Easton, Pa, has been
arrested charged with perjury before
the recent Legislative bribery commit.
tee. He was admitted to bail.
Rear-Admiral Charles Beresford,
| Conservative member for York City in
| the House of Commons, delivered
scathing criticism of the governments
policy on ''Drifting" in China.
Princess Chimay, formerly Clara
Ward of Detroit, telegraphs from Cairo
that jamie Rego, the gipsy with whom
she eloped and later married, is not
dead, but is quite we'll in Cairo.
John j. Lalor, translator in the
Office of the director of the mint, lost
his balance and fell from the second
floor in the treasury department down
the shaft, receiving fatal injuries.
u,lo Dox, A1f,ol Dol,r,:A ,,,lo &c..
months ago founded the Congrega-
tional church in the city of Havana,
has returned to this country for aid in
his religions and educational work in
Cuba.
The president has approved an
amendment to rule six of the civil SER
vice rules, excepting from examination
one assistant postmaster or chief as
sistant to the postmaster at each post
office.
Captain p. H. Bonus of the army
recruiting station in Chicago, has re-
ceived instructions from the war de-
partment to enlist an unlimited num-
Der of men for service in the Philippine
islands.
North of Wichita, Kan, there is 13O
feet of track on the Santa Fe washed
out and train is stalled. Five thou
sand acres of lowland are under water.
The Arkansas river is the highest
since 1877.
1t is learned at the state department
that, while arrangements are making
toward a modus vivendi for the regu-
lation of the Alaskan boundary ques-
tion, conclusion has not vet been
reached.
Secretary Long has passed on the ar
NOR bids recently submitted, deciding
to purchase a small quantity of armor
and to let the next congress decide
what shall be done toward securing
the remainder needed.
The Attorney-General announces his
opinion that "the army reorganization
bill fixing the maximum strength of
the army at 65, 900 did not include the
enlisted force of the hospital corps,
about 2,6OO men, so that the enlisted
force can be increased by that num-
ber"
The statement is made by a promi.
nent Cuban that certain Cubans have
entered into compact that in the
event the United States does not turn
the government of the islands over to
them in certain length of time they
will apply the torch to every building
in Cuba.
Morris Foley, of New York city, suf-
fering from two bullet wounds and
cuts in the head, accuses his wife and
her daughter, Hannah Pool, of at
tempting his murder, and the two
women are in custody at Sheepshead
Bay.