The Philipsburg mail., 1900-06-01
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Sea, has begun.
1t is charged that the secret police o.
Havana is demoralized body, and the
municipal police not much better.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has appointed Emperor William field
narshal-general of the Austrian army.
Indiana Prohibitionists have nomi-
mated full state ticket. Charles Eek
hart of Auburn was named for gov
ernor.
There is no truth in the report that
the American vice-consul at Alexan-
dretta, Turkey, was maltreated by the
police.
The Brazos river is over the bottoms
at Hempstead Tex, and below there.
The river continues to rise steadily
and the flats are rapidly being GOV.
cred.
Reports received at Calcutta from
the tea districts show the prospects are
generally unfavorable. Hail and rain
storms have done much damage to the
crops.
Twenty-Five thousand men employed
by the Standard Oil company, as me-
chanics and Ia borers all over the coun-
try, it is stated, have had their wages
raised 10 per cent.
George W. Click, the Fusionst can
didate and the only Democrat ever
elected governor of Kansas, has boen
nominated for congress by the Demo
Gratis of the First Kansas district.
In Chicago a true bill has been voted
against George p. Gubbins, president
of the Rriclliayers and Stonemasons
union, by the grand jury, the specific
charge being conspiracy to incite riot.
Michigan forest fires are abating.
The danger of Fisher being burned is
past. Several camps of the Wisconsin
Land & Lumber company, near Herk.
Evansville, and valuable tim Der has been
burned.
The negotiations between Denmark
and the United States relative to the
purchase of the Danish West Indies,
according to the Copenhagen cores
pondent OF the Daily Mail, have been
definitely broken off
The war department has issued orders
granting MajorGeneral Wesley Mer-
r,+ ~ &
the east, leave of absence from the
10th inst, with permission to leave the
United States.
The sundry civil appropriation bill,
the most important Of the general sup
ply bills and the last on the list, has
been completed and reported to the
house. 1t carries SCI $50, 715, being
$S,4s5, 992 less than the estimates.
The strike Of the carpenters at Bos-
ton and vicinity for the esta blishment
OF an eight-hour work day and a min
imum rate of wages Of S? so day, has
practically ended by nearly all firms
signing the new schedule
Calls have been issued for the nomi
mating conventions of the Democratic
and Silver Republican parties in Ne.
braska, to be held at Lincoln July l1th.
The Populists will meet there on the
same day. 1t is probable fusion plan
for the state tickets viii be agreed
upon.
United States District Judge Lochren
in st. Louis has decided that the ratif
cation Of the treaty OF peace between
the United States and Spain made
Porto Rico American territory and
subject to the constitution of the
United States, without any further &C
of congress.
Andrew Carnegie, who refused te
contribute to the Dewey arch fund ,has
given 81 900 to the fund for the widow
OF Sergeant Douglas, who was killed a.
Croton Dam during the recent strike
In sending the check Mr.. Ca1negi,
wrote: sergeant Douglas fought no
for foreign conquest, but for peace ant
OrQer az nome.
Among the many letters received b,
Chief of Police Mclaughlin at Port
land, Or, in regard to the identity O,
the man found drowned in the rive1
recently is one from Contra Costa,
Cal, describing Captain Samuel L.
Williams, who is supposed to have left
San Francisco for Portland in March
last
The sundry civil appropriation bill
appropriates s22, 800 for surveying and
marking the boundary line between
Utah and Arizona, and SIS, 600 for sur.
veVing private land claims in Colorado,
Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and
New Mexico.
The California state committee of the
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