The Holly chieftain., 1897-11-05
ELI.ANEOUs.

FIVE ucspcradOch, confined IN the
Jail at Dcadwood. :. D., ovcrpOwercd
the jailcr, assaulted his wife and es-
capped
BAXrEE's private bank at Burling-
ton, Ont, was wrecked by dynamite
early the other morning and about
81 900 taken.
OSE mat was fatally injured and five
persons severely bruised by collision
IN the Panhandle road at Ilartsdalc.
Ind. Both engines were wrecked and
a smoker and baggage car telescoped.
TIE great horse show at Chicago
opened on the lst, 10000 people being
present
IuDGE THAYER, of the United States
court, heard arguments at ST. Louis
on the lst on the question of the pro-
lection of cattle shippers pending the
appeal of the Kansas City Stock Yards
company vs.. the new Kansas law. 1t
was decided that rebate checks should
be issued and the cattle shippers would
thus be protected.
y srRAwBoARD trust, controlling
every plant in the United States, has
been effected. The Information was
given out by Manager Williams. of An
derson. Ind.
AN engine collided with n train on
the lst near Leipsic, Germany. and 20
persons were injured, six of them prob
ably fatally.
LIEUT.. PEARY's six EskimoS. who
Natural History at New York by the
arctic explorer, have been sent TO
Bellevue hospital in n dangerous ply.
steal condition, through the weather
being too warm for them.
The jury in the trial of DR.. jefferson
d. Goddard for the murder of Laundry.
man Fred j. Jackson ut Kansas City.
Mo, was dismissed on the 3lst by
Judge Longan as they could not agree,
six being for conviction and six for ac-
quittal.
THE Columbus house at Gilmore, ILL.,.
was destroyed by fire early in the
morning and So guests escaped in their
night clothes
TIE Tennessee Centennial exposition
closed at Nashville. Tenn, on the 3Oth
by magnificent display OF fireworks
and n concert
GEN. A. 5. WEIssEKr, of Milwaukee,
and Gen. Paul Van Der WORT, Of
Omaha, Neb.. eN-grand commanders of
the q. a. r.. have secured ~ 900 acres
of land in Mata Gorda county on the
Texas coast on which they will locate
a colony of veterans of the late war;
500 families are said to be ready for
settlement on the land.
COURIER arrived at Steamboat
Springs, Col, from Game Warden VIII
cox to Sheriff Nieman asking for help
against the Indians in Routt county,
who We're threatening to pillage and
murder the settlers.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 2gth
stated that the offices of the supreme
council of the A. 7. A. had been closed
on a mortgage deed of trust for $3.50
Many of the state councils of the order
had refused to pay their per capitu tax.
which had left the supreme council
bankrupt
The grand jury at WilkeshaTre. Pa. .
returned true bills against Shsriif
Martin and his deputies for the shoot
ing of striking miners at Lattimer.
The true bills included 10 for murder,
one for each man killed and one for the
victims considered collectively. Thirty
six true bills were found in the same
way for felonions wounding against
the same defendants.
BEuLAH PRESTON, an eight-ycar-old
daughter of Charles Preston, u farmer
living 20 miles northwest of Enid. Ok.
was returning on nhorsebackfrom school
when the horse threw her and her
foot caught in the stirrup. The horse
dragged her to her home, running
through several barbed wire fences.
When the parents found the child she
was simply n mass of lacerated flesh
and broken bones.
AN attempt was made the other
night to hold up the northbound Chi
cago, Rock Island S Texas passenger
train near Boyd, Wise county, Tex.
Ties were placed on the track, but the
engine pushed them off and proceeded.
The engineer noticed two men at the
point with Winchesters, and two sticks
of dynamite were afterwards found al
the spot.
A New YORK dispatch stated that
practically all of the outgoing room
for the transportation of cattle on the
regular transatlantic lines has been
cornered by a syndicate composed OF
English cattle buyers and +. D. Ar
mour, Of Chicago