The Holly chieftain., 1897-02-19

| lor, Tex, recently. He murdered his
stepfather over 13 years ago and a mob
shortly afterward captured a man sup
| posed to be Brooks and burned him to
| death. Brooks admitted that it was an
innocent man that suffered and that he
is the original Brooks.
ALLEN ROLES was thrown through
the roof and William Eldridge through
the door by an explosion of powder at
| Woodland, Pa. One of the men stirred
fire and threw the poker on the floor
and it set off two kegs of powder.
Both men We're terribly if not fatally
injured.
| PETER MAHER fought six rounds with
c. c. Smith, the ''blacl1 thunderbolt,,
ut the Empire Athletic club at New
York on the 18th and had narrow es-
cape from defeat. The referee gave
the decision to Maher. but it was the
general opinion that the big Irishman
would have been out in "A couple more
| rounds.
A DISPATCH, from Louisville, KY, on
the 18th stated that it was expected
that there would be a division of the
bicycle racing interests of America
into two separate bodies within the
| next month on account of the adverse
decision of the national assembly of
the League of American Wheelmen on
the Sunday racing divisional opinion
of the question.
| RAIDERS shivered the tollgate to
pieces by dynamite near Frankfort, KY,
and aroused the citizens from their
slumbers early on the 18th by the tre-
| mendous explosion.
FRANK WALLER, 1.-The Flying Dutch
man." as he calls himself, won the re-
cent siX-day bicycle race at Pittsburgh,
Pa, beating Louis Gimm, the Cleve-
land rider, by two miles. The score
was: Waller, 1,alG; Gimm, l,a14;
Schoch. 1,199; Hall, 1,1s1; Forster, L.,
III, and Ruckett. 1.1O3 miles.
Gov. DRAKE, of Iowa, wants to send
the state troops to the celebration of
the battle of Wilson creek Mo-. to en-
gage in sham battle, instead of hold
ing the regular summer encampments.
THE waste oil from the Alexandria
oil wells, which flows into creek pass
ing through Elwood, Ind, was set on
fire by boys on the 14th and the flames
swept through the town and burned
two bridges and an elevator, causing Il
heavy loss.
Two Italians fought duel in Lake
Front park, Chicago, on the night of
the 18th and the challenger Botiste
Mclleri. was shot. to death by Joseph
Bernasconi. The duel was deliberate
ly planned, the men quarreling over
the subject of anarchy.
THE police raided the gambling dens
of Chinatown, in San Francisco, and
arrested 500 Cinnamon.
NOTICE of II ten per cent. reduction,
to take effect March l. has been posted
at the works of the Pennsylvania Steel
Co. at Harrisburg, Pa. 1t will affect
5000 hands.
CHARLES BRADLEY. n prisoner being
taken to Jail at Paris, l. T.. jumped
from the train while handcuffed and
made his escape.
SIN men were crushed to death in the
Freeman mine enearGouverneur, n. v,
by a cave-in. Each left large families.
l r. +. FITZPATRICK, a brakeman, was
killed by the cars at Shawnee, /. Il.
He was coupling and caught his foot
in a frog.
GEORGE yoLK and his brother An
drew, of Wanatah, Ca. We're instantly
1
| mia accommodation train. Two ladies,
who were in the vehicle with them,
escaped with slight injuries, but the
team was killed.
TIE League of American Wheelmen
in annual convention at Albany, N. V,
on the 18th declined to admit profess
sionals. no matter of what standing, to
| either full or associate membership in
the league and also declined by a
heavy vote to allow local option for
Sunday racing.
THE cashier of the First national
bank at Salisbury, Pa. was held up at
noon in the bank on the 18th by ne
gro and made to hand over S40O. The
cashier gave an alarm when the negro
left and the robber was captured and
the money recovered.
| ARTHUR L. German, of Baltimore,
Md. who is said to be nephew of
United States Senator German, was
married at Detroit, Mich, on the 18th
to Miss Annie Waitman, of the Wood
Sisters Burlesque Vaudeville Co. The
marriage was performed on the stage
and the bride appeared in tights.
THE Wisconsin Odd Fellows Mutual
| Lie w. stI
which was organized in 1869, made an
assignment for the benefit of its cred
itors. During the past year over 5000
members dropped out, which crippled
the company SO that it could not pay
| its losses.
OWING to differences between tho
McBeth Glass Co. and it's employees 400
men struck on the 11th. The men
claimed that the glass had been so bad
for several weeks that they were great
iy hampered. The company insisted
that the material on hand was good.
BRIGHAM CITY Utah, was visited bya
neavy earthquake shock. 1t was SO Sc
we're that the bell in the courthouse
tapped five or six times.
| ELECTRIC wires crossed in William
z. Shaefer & Sons sporting goods store
At Boston and set the place on fire. A
supply of powder exploded with terrific
violence, wrecking the five-story build
.ng and blowing out the windows of
adjacent stores.
FAILURES for the week ended the 12tl
Dun's review in the United States
were 267, against 32i last year.
| AN incendiary fire at Plano, Tex, on
the 11th burned nearly 80 buildings. in
cluding the business part of the city.
The loss was upward Of 100000, with
practically no insurance. The post
| office was destroyed, but the mails