The Philipsburg mail., 1899-07-14

President Mckinley has accepted the
invitation extended to him by Henry G.
Payne, on behalf of the merchants and
manufacturers of Milwaukee, to visit
that city in October.
The War Department will loan can
non captured from the Spaniards. one
gun to each state. to be cared fC< by
monument associations. G.. A. K. posts
or corporations. if the states borrowing
them will pay all transportation eX-
penSes.
The most expensive hat on record
cost $1,000 in gold, and was presented
to General Grant while in Mexico in
1882. 1t is now on exhibition in the
National Museum at Washington
perhaps the finest Mexican sOmbrero
that was ever made.
After consultation with the secretary
OF the interior, Commissioner Hermann
Of the General Land Office has decided
to refuse the request of the wool grow
ers of Utah for Il modification of his
former order prohibiting the grazing
of sheep on the Uintah reservation in
Utah.
Congressman David B. Henderson of
Iowa has received enough pledges by
telegraph and mail to give him 1O2
votes in the Republican caucus for the
position of speaker AS ninety-three
votes constitute a majority Of the Re-
publican representation in the House,
Colonel Henderson has nine to the good
| and more states to hear from.
1t is possible that 10000 volunteers
will be called for. although it is not
definitely determined upon. General
Otis says he does not want more than
10000 troops, and he will have that
number by the 1st of July if the re-
endorsements now arranged for sail as
promptly as expected. More than %
600 volunteers have already been Of
fered.
The regulations allowing the volun-
teers to purchase the arms and equip
ments which they carried during the
| Spanish war will be continued in the
case of the volunteers returning from
Manila They may purchase the
Springfield rifles at $40 each and the
revolver and equipments at the same
price, while the other portions of the
outfit are sold at cost.
The officials here are quite hopeful
| that some good may come out OF the
| Peace Conference at The Hague. The
arbitration proposition submitted by
the United States has met with much
favor, and, although it may not be
adopted in the form it was proposed
| the officials here are confident that the
congress will not adjourn without
| adopting some sort of an arbitration
plan.
Mr.. OXnard of Grand Island, Nebras
ka. who is the chief lobbyist of the
! beet sugar interest in Washington, as
serts that nine new sugar mills are
now being erected in the state OF
Michigan alone. with capital that was
formerly interested in lumber, and de-
clares that $25.0O0.00O will be put into
the industry the coming year. Whil(
this rapid development is going on il
is scarcely probable that the Senate
will ratify any treaty that encourages
competition.
Diplomatic relations with Spain
broken off April 81, 1885, were formal
ly resumed last Saturday, when Pres
ident Mckinley greeted Due d'Arcos
the newly accredited minister to the
! United States, in the blue pallor of the
! White House. simultaneously in Ma
drld, Bellamy StOrrer, the new United
States minister to Spain, was being
presented to ChriStiana, the Queen Re
gent, during the legal minority of his
Catholic majesty, Alphonso NIII.
If Senator Hanna is chairman of the
next National Republican campaign
committee it will be against his pres
ent intention and desire Mr.. Ham;
l,,,, ;,,fn Ia Il f,,; 4
that he does not care to take charg,
of the presidential campaign. His rea
son, as his friends state it, is entrel,
based upon the state of his health
He is by no means a we'll man, and il
to sail in few days for Europe il
hope of gaining physical strength.
The administration has decided t.
reduce the American armies of Occupa
ton in Cuba and Puerto Rico in Orde
to send additional troops to Genera
Otis in the Philippines Orders have
been sent to General Davis, mlitar,
governor of Puerto Rico, instructn.
him to begin recruiting natives for us'
in the army. He is first to enlist bat
talon, 400 men, and then, if the expert
ment promises well, the number will
be increased until probably an entir'
native regiment has been raised.
The President has not decided where
he will spend his vacation, but III
wants to go up into the northwest ant
is making preparations to do so. Ill
has been to Colorado and Kansas ant
as far as Minneapolis, where he at
tended the Republican convention il
1892, and, like Caesar. thrice refused ;
crown. But he is anxious to see tn
wheat farms of the DakOtas and wit
ness for himself the progress that ha
been made in Montana, Washington
and Oregon and visit the Nellowston'
park.
The coal production and consump
ton of the world the past fifteen gear
is presented in tables just prepared b.
the treasury bureau of statistics. Thes
show that while the United Kingdom
is still the largest coal producer in tn
world the United States is a close sec
ond. II the present rate of gain is 0an
tinued this country will soon becOm