The Holly chieftain., 1897-05-14

Two masked rOOOcES at one O'CLOCK
on the morning of the 10th entered the
home Of Father Joseph Flache, the
Catholic priest at Dyer, Ind, and
struck the cook on the head, infiicting
dangerous wounds. The priest at
tempted to shoot, but his revolver
failed to work, and he was roughly
handled. The house was ransacked.
THREE children. Eduardo, Gabriel
and Manuel Padilla, were recently
burned to death at Fairbank. Ariz
The parents had gone to a dance near
by, locking the door on the sleeping
children. 1t is believed a lighted lamp
exploded.
HENRY SMITH, a member of the Mary
land Century Cycling club, finished
24-hour road race against time on the
10th at Baltimore, Md, during which
he established a new set of American
road records. At the end of 12 hours
he covered 170 miles and when he quit
at the end of the "a hours he had
reeled off a14 miles. The figures have
been submitted to the Century Cycling
Club of America for ratification.
WHILE boating on the luke at Chi
cago Matthew Roche and his little
nephew, Harry Flynn, attempted to
exchange seats and the boat capsized
and the boy was drowned. Albert
Mattarl, who was in the crowd at the
waters edge, suddenly pitched for
ward dead, owing to excitement in
watching the drowning boys strug-
giles
FIRE destroyed the post Office, hotel,
telephone Office and several other
buildings in the little village of Marsh
land, Wis.
A SENSATIONAL shooting affray, in
which woman shot and seriously
wounded four men, occurred at Lowell,
Ark, on the 9th. The shooting was
done by Mrs. Duerling and was the re-
suit of religious excitement, caused by
II series of "holiness meetings in the
neighborhood. The men wanted to
run the women holding the meetings
out of the county.
AN order of the district court to open
a street in Auburn, Neb.. was appealed
and the mayor ordered the town mar
shal and street commissioner to remove
the wire fences inclosing the street
and the property owners had the three
city officers arrested for destroying
private property. The officers refused
to give bond and said they would re-
main in Jail until the court convened
in June.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Mount Vernon, ILL.,, and Is cars ditched.
Most of them were broken into kind
ling wood. Three cars were loaded
with whisky and one with poultry.
The whisky escaped and filed the gull
lies and the poultry imbibed freely and
all got intoxicated.
AT the second day of the national
turnfest at st. Louis on the 7th the
forenoon was taken up with class COM
petition of the ''actives," fully 5000
turner's being on the field at one time.
In the afternoon mass exercises by the
st. Louis juniors and by ladies' classes
in swinging clubs took place. In the
evening speeches and musical num-
bers were given at the exposition hall.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 7th said
that the king Of Greece had formally
asked for the mediation of the emperor
of Russia in the war between Greece
and Turkey.
WITH box containing 200 pounds of
| Wy LUG Ou uTt tCh lCCU away
him, John Thomas, the boy who runs
the compressed air hoisting engine in
the Tamarack mine, near Houghton,
Mich, stuck to his post and saved the
lives of the men at work in the mine
by his bravery. Ten seconds after he
had hoisted the men to the level the
dynamite exploded.
THE first case of prostration from
the heat this season occurred at Chi
| cago on the 9th. Charles Wilson, a
milk wagon driver, fell into the street
unconscious. The weather bureau
thermometer registered so degrees
| during the day. On the streets it was
three to five degrees warmer.
MEMBERS OF the Chicago and Milwau-
kee Beer Brewers associations will
combine to fight the proposed increased
tax on beer in the tariff bill.
The south and west grain and trade
congress got through with its business
on the 9th at Kansas City, Mo-. and ad-
| journed to meet in Tampa, Fla, in
1898. The resolutions demanded equit-
able rates of transportation between
carrier and shipper. the improvement
of the Mississippi river and other water
courses, indorsed the Nicaragua canal,
favored the.Torrey bankruptcy bill, the
promotion of the consumption of our
food products abroad and aid rendered
to the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad.
The London afternoon papers were
bitter at the rejection of the arbitra,
tion treaty by the United States sen.
| ate.
Col. GusTAvE G. PABsr, first vice
president Of the Pabst Brewing Co., OF
Milwaukee, is authority for the state
ment that he is to marry Miss Hulda
Lemp, daughter of William ]. Lemp,
the millionaire brewer of st. Louis
Four years ago Col. Pabst married
Margaret Mather, the actress, who
publicly horscwhipped him, and the
couple were divorced.
A DOUBLE, and what may yet prove
quadruple murder occurred at the
farm home of Alexander Harris. who
resided in the township of Waukesha,
Wis The victims were Mr.. Harris, his
wife, hired girl and hired man. The
crime was committed, it was supposed,
by farm hand named William Pouch,
who had been sheltered by the farmer
over night
Born houses of the Iowa legislature
passed resolution making the wild
rose the official flower of the state.
LITTLE Guy STEPHENS, the two-year-
old son of w. H. Stephens, farmer re-
siding near Farmingdale, Ill, fell into