The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-26
NEWS SUMMARY.


with the United States.
Lii Hung Chang is said to be confer
ring with Marquis Ito Of Japan regard
ing the trouble with Italy.
Numerous requests are received from
various districts in the island of Cuba
for implements and seed, not rations.
The session of the Pennsylvania gen.
eral assembly of 1899 has adjourned
after being in session little over three
months.
The governor of Alabama has issued
a call for an extra session of the legis-
lature to repeal the constitutional
convention act.
Herr Polack, a well-known engineer
and electrician, has discovered means
of telegraphing 60, 900 words per hour
over a single wire.
General Henry, commanding the
department of Porto Rico, has asked
to be relved of his present duty on ac-
count of i'll health.
The Minnesota legislature tabled the
governors message urging the recall
from the Philippines of the Thirteenth
Minnesota volunteers.
The stone reefs of Brazil are to be
mapped out and their relations to the
geological history Of the South Ameri-
can continent will be studied.
Orders have been issued for the Ninth
immunes to return to the United States
by the steamer Meade via New York
for muster out at Camp Meade.
The Third Nebraska will be mus
tered out May II at Augusta, Ga.
Colonel Bryan will be invited to review
the regiment before it is disbanded
According to statistics gathered re-
garding the bubonic plague it is esti-
mated there has been 100000 deaths
recorded in India since its beginning.
The Tenth United States cavalry.
the colored regiment which did such
brilliant service in the Santiago cam
paign, is to have another tour of duty
In Cuba.
Miss Dell Clevenger, who was shot
by her cousin, Ernest Clevenger, on
the night of December 8, last, is dead
at Missouri City, Mo-, of her wounds
Clevenger is in Jail.
The Naval Reserve association OF
Illinois, veterans of the Spanish -Ameri.
can war, have resolved to offer the
government 25O men for the service in
the Philippine islands.
After several conferences with the
minister from Venezuela the United
States postotiice officials have entered
into an agreement for a parcel postal
treaty with Venezuela.
The farm on which Abraham Lin
coin was born, two miles south OF
David Grear of New York and will
probably be converted into park.
Simon Hotema, the full blooded Choc
tow Indian who was arrested on tho
charge of numbering a man and two
women last week near Cold Springs, L
T., has written confession of his guilt.
The municipal revenues of Santiago
have been reduced from $50, 900 to
1000 per month, and there have been
similar reductions in other towns.
Public works and schools must be stop
ped.
Governor-General Brooke, in the dis
tribution of the So, 900, 900 to the Cuban
soldiers, has determined to treat the
Cuban officers as soldiers and gentle
men and not endeavor to go behind tho
rolls.
At Carthage, Mo, the jury in the suit
of Mrs Gilfllon againstJ. d. McCrills,
her husband, rendered verdict for
$1,000 damages in favor of Mrs. Gill
fillan.
Adolph Rehfold, the saloonkeeper
whose place of business near the
Preside was burned by a mob of sol
diers belonging to the Fourteenth
United States infantry, has identified
four of the culprits.
A party of young men at Dalton,
Mimi, put lemon extract into the g in :
ger ale they were drinking and as a re-
suit Duffy Riorson and Martin Dahl
are dead, while several others were
made seriously sick.
The Kentucky law under which many
negroes in the past two years have
been sold on the block for term of
years as punishment for vagrancy, has
been declared unconstitutional by
Judge Scott at Richmond.
A drink generally known as vino,
which is exceedingly palat able and
inexpensive, is playing havoc with the
soldiers in Manila. A single drink un-
fits man for active duty for TWENTY