The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-11
NEWS SUMMARY.

The state department is watching
with anxiety the developments in
Guatemala.
A scheme to establish negro colony
at Oak Grove, near Pennington. n. D.,
is assuming form.
The report that the king Of Belgium
would visit Newport is discredited in
official quarters in Washington.
The loss of cotton crop by flood in
the Brazos bottom, Texas, will be POO
600 bales, representing S5.0o0.OoO,
The drought is still terrible in the
pastoral company of New South Wales.
Fifty per cent of the stock are dead.
Five thousand refugees in Salvador
and as many more in Mexico and Hon
duras are ready to take up arms against
Cabrera.
At Fort Smith. Ark, ten Of the strik-
ing miners were convicted in the feder-
al court of entering into a conspiracy
to intimidate negro miners.
~ ildS pCcH many tCuIo oiiSS e'i~
Panama isthmus has been visited by
such an outbreak of yellow fever as is
prevailing in the city of Panama.
The Separatist uprising in the South
ern provinces of Peru is spreading, and
the government has sent 800 infantry
and cavalry into the rebellious district
1t is reported that Russia is arrang-
ing loan in the United States and
that large orders have been made for
rails and armaments to counter balance
it.
There are now 40, 600 troops in South
Africa. The official estimate for the
Boer males of Is years and upward,
plus third of those under Is, is only
39,O3s.
The late Czarowitch, according to
the Paris correspondent of London
Daily News, was privately married
with his mothers consent. He left no
children.
Secretary Alger reports that General
Otis, in response to an inquiry, had
cabled that there was no necessity for
Eshipping cavalry horses from this
country.
Attorney General Crow won the first
round in a suit to GUST the Continental
and other parties from doing business
in the state for violation of the anti
trust law
Mrs Rich is to be surrendered to the
Mexican authorities to be tried for the
murder of her husband. This has been
decided upon by the authorities at
Washington,
Besides dynamite guns, ,'Gatling guns
will probably be sent to General Otis,
and the army transports are to be
armed with six-pounder rapid -tire.guns
to prevent any possible attack by in
surgents.
The customs receipts at the port of
Havana for June were 81, ,0l2, ,S99. The
total receipts for six months of 1899
are, to be exact, S., l46,s The
monthly average for six months is
1857, ,SO5.
1t is problematical what attitude
will be adopted by our government in
case an attempt should be made by the
European governments to seize custom.
houses in Guatemala to collect money
for bondholders.
An order of the war department per-
mits the immediate family of regular
volunteer soldier, who is absent abroad
to purchase at post prices fuel and
subsistence stores which are for the
immediate use of the family.
H. S. Coleman, Wisconsin man, has
sailed for Alaska with cargo of cats
on which he expects to realize at least
$4,000. He says the rats are very
troublesome in Dawson and his cats
will bring from $50 to $50 each.
Dynamite guns are to be used by the
American troops in the fall campaign
against the Filipinos. Preparations
are being made by the ordinance de
pdflileul W supply 'eHcial c1ls VIII
six Sims Dudley dynamite pneumatic
weapons.
No representations have been mad,
to the state department as reported
from Pretoria touching the reported
intention of American citizens in the
Transvaal to become British citizens il
order to avoid impressment into tn,
Boer army.
Count Boni de Castellane, who mar
red Anna Gould of New York has no
challenged the prince of Monaco to
duel, as was reported by New Yorl
newspaper and if he expected a chal
lenge from the prince he has been dis
appointed SO far.
Charles G.. Dawes comptroller of tn
currency, has resigned the office o