The Holly chieftain., 1897-08-13

\ LEADEBs In Chinese mission work At
San Frsncisco were recently circulate
ling . petition TO be sent to President
Mckinley asiing him to get congress
70 appoint commission TO inyesti ste
the horrors of human slavery IN that
city. 1t was said that over 1000 Chi
nese women were bought and sold ..
chattels and kept in Involuntary servi
tude.
A GRADING company at work near
Valley, Neh, cxhumed 10 skeletons re
Gently, Eve being women Resident.
Of the locality could not sccoupt foI
them being there nor recall any bury.
ing ground as having been located at
the place. The bodies were not buried
in any coffins.
WHILE on his way TO serve warrants
on charges Of "wildcatting,r Dink
Wharton, a deputy sheriff. in Cleburne
county, Ala, was sssassinassd from
the bushes His body was literally
filed with lead.
A NEGRO attempted to assault a IA
year-old girl near Edwardsville, Ala,
but she screamed and got away. A
short time after armed men with dogs
were after the fend. When they re-
turned they said they had ..lost" the
negro, intimating that he never would
be found alive.
Work is Being pushed in vigorous
manner at the Brooklyn navy yard on
all the government vessels which are
undergoing repairs, but the officials
deny that there is any special signifi-
canoe in the fact.
ACCORDING to the National Apple
Shippers association at Buffalo, N. ",
the probable yield Of apples for 1917
based on an average of 100 as full
crop-in Missouri will be so; in Kan
sas, 10.
| JUDGE THOMAS, In the United States
court at Muskogee, !. T., has declared
the incorporation OF towns in the In.
dian territory under the Arkansas law
u nullity. The decision affects many
towns and places damper on munich
pal government in the territory.
| BY an explosion at the cartridge
factory 81 Rustchuk, Bulgaria, 46 per-
sons were killed and many others In
jured and the lives of 80 of the latter
despaired Of.
Thirty Thousand people witnessed
the final contests of the national meet
of the League of American Wheelmen
at Willow Grove, Philadelphia, on the
9TH. The finishes were all intensely
exciting, but only one record was
broken, Fred Schade covering one
third mile in 80 As seconds.
THE August crop reportof the Orange
Judd Farmer, Of Chicago, based upon
returns from all the principal agricul.
tural counties Of the country. makes
the condition of the corn crop on Au-
gust S6.4. against SO. 4 ON July I.
A RECENT dispatch from Sloan
Springs, Ark, said that there was .
rush In the Cherokee strip by white
men to marry Indian maids. as August
Is was the last date upon which squaw
men could quality as Cherokee citi-
zeua Each dusky maid carries a
dowry OF 100 acres.
| A NEGRO named Nathaniel Mason at
tempted an assault upon his employ
er's wife at Glenwood. Ga. He was
captured and mob of SO decided to
shoot him in military fashion. He
was placed against pile of rock, given
an opportunity to pray and. at sig
nal, every trigger WAS. pulled and a
shower Of lead found lodgment in his
body.
OFFICERS Of the Florida Fruit ex-
change, who keep themselves posted
on the condition Of the orange crop
throughout the state. estimate that
the crop this fall will amount to be-
tween $50, 900 and zoo. 600 boxes.
A BRIDGE 1t Kertsch, Russia. which
haA hAAn ~1~aL~Hnl h- .1l
lapsed recently. A number Of people
were crossing when the bridge fell,
and SS OF them were drowned.
Miss" Lucy SIXTH, of Omaha, Neb.,
has fled sensational plea for divorce
In the Douglas county court. She set
up that ON May 81 last, while she was
confined to her bed, Harvey Boone
bribed her nurse to drug her, and
while she was stupefed he came TO her
bedside with = minister and license
and they were married.
The grand stand at the White Horse
race track near Lancaster, Pa, gave
way just as the winning horse passed
under the wire. There were fully g.
600 men, women and children on it and
hundreds of them were buried in the
debris Over 200 were injured and four
killed.
THE commissioner of the general
land office is having new map made
Of the Alaskan country, which will be
OF the greatest value to persons con-
templating trip to the gold regions.
1t will show all the rivers and lakes
and all the routes to the gold fields,
including those through British Co
lumbia. The maps will be out in
couple of months.
A NIGHT watchman at Homestead,
N. J., heard = woman shrieking II am
burning ur save meP' He rushed to
her rescue, beat out the flames and
picked her an bAt she was dead. 1t
proved to Be his wife, who was the
victim Of . lamp explosion.
The report that Chief Quanah Parker
had been killed and robbed by . gam.
bier was fslse. II originated In the
fact thst the chief was ono Of several
Indians who had trouble with outlaws
and that Running Antelope, Co
msnche. was injured BY being thrown
from his horne.
JOHN KENNEDY, On old man who had
lived the life Of . hermit ever since the
death of his wife and two children,
was found by his neighbors in New
York half naked, bound to . chair,
with his feet roaated 10 that he will be
. cripple for the rest Of his dsya He
said robbers did 1t and got all his
wealth.
THE men at the Reading iron plant
at Danville, Pa, who recently struck
against . reduction Of wages, have