The Holly chieftain., 1897-08-27

cept one.
| JAMES r. QUIeLEY was kicked SO
badly by John O'Donnell at St Louis
on the a2d, in a quarrel over a game of
| quoits, that he died soon after being
taken to the hospital.
THREE children of William Psaast
were cremated at Anaconda, Mont, by
their house burning down during the
absence of their parents.
Two thousand cloakmakers at New
York went on a strike for an increase
of wages
number of 1900, struck at New York
on the s2d for an increase in wages.
The strike closed leo shops.
J. B. Rich, shot and killed his wife
at the home Of her mother in Nash
| vile, Tenn, and then killed his BROTH
er-in-law. He afterwards shot himself
twice, infiicting fatal wounds. Domes-
| tic trouble was the cause.
ELcASY SULLIVAN, a negro convicted
| of an assault on a woman and SEN
fenced to 20 years imprisonment a.
Williamsburg, KY, was taken from
| Jail by mob and hanged at one o'clock
a. IN. on the ed.
THE baby parade at Asbury Park,
| N. j., on the 2lst was a grand success.
67l infants being in the show with
their baby carriages and carts. There
were babies from nearly every state in
the union and from Russia and Cuba.
IT is not improbable that official an
nouncement will be made in short
time of radical change in the present
attitude of the pension bureau towards
| pension claimants who had confeder-
ate war service. Commissioner of PEN
sions Evans believes that If claimant
served in any capacity in the confeder-
ate service, but later enlisted in the
union army, served there and was hon
orably discharged, it would be an in
justice to refuse him a pension.
| AT St. Louis on the Goth No. Q red
wheat sold for 81 bushel.
| The commissioner of pensions re-
Gently stated that the pension list was
increased by old soldiers marrying
young wives and that he hoped con-
gress would pass a law to prevent PEN
sions from being given to widows of
soldiers of the last war who married
the soldiers in the future.
AERoNAUT ALLERD fell 800 feet from
his balloon at Electric park, Chicago,
on the Goth, every bone in his body
being broken. He became entsnglcd
in guy-rope and was dragged from
his parachute.
SoLLY SMITH. of Los Angeles, Cal, /,
knocked out Johnny Griffin, Of Bos-
ton, in the seventh rouud at San Fran
cisco.
MICHEL ANsIoLILLo, the anarchist
who shot and killed Premier Canovas
del Castillo at the baths OF Santa Ague-
da, Spain, August 8, was put to death
by the garrote on the 20th.
The body OF man on whose coat
was tag on which was the name 'E.
w. Kirton, Wisner. Neb.," has been
found near the summit of Pixies peak,
his head. All his .valusbles were gone
and it was thought he was murdered
for his money.
AN unknown tramp entered the
house OF Mrs Pauline Fenske. wife of q
German farmer in Schiller park, sub
urb of Chicago, and seeing only her
and the children round, struck her
over the head with a revolver and at
tempted to assault her. The children
ran screaming out of the house and
gave an alarm and a posse, with Mr..
Fenske, chased the rascal through
cornfelds and woods, both sides ex-
changing shots. Finally the man fell
and his pursuers then literally riddled
him with bullets
THE coal operators, at meeting
held at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the goth,
issued statement to the public in
which they accused President Ratch-
ford, of the miners union, of trying
to dodge the issue and of being insin-
cere in his efforts to settle the miners
strike.
IT was said on the 10Th that the Off
GERS of the United Mine Workers pro-
posed to call conference of all feder-
ated unions to secure their co-opera-
tion in plan to tie up traffic on rail-
roads, SO that the supply of coal would
be cut off and the operators be forced
to negotiate for settlement Of the
coal strike.
A CALL has been issued by the ma
tional executive board of the United
Mine Workers for q conference Of the
representatives of organized labor tc
meet in st. Louis on August 80. At
the meeting all labor organizations will
be asked to join issues with the miners
and stop work, SO as to effectively cut
off the supply of coal and bring the
mining strike to crisis.
THREE young men from Chicago, who
had been camping on the banks Of the
Canadian river, hired small boat at
La Sale, N. Y, and started to cross tc
the Canadian shore, when their boat
upset and they were carried over the
falls and drowned.
The coal operators Of the Pittsburgh,
Pa, district formed an organization on
the 10th for the special purpose Of
breaking up the strike Of the miners.
They proposed to operate their mines
even II they had to employ force TO do 1t.
The post office department is extend.
ing the long telephone service,
and on the Goth 5000 cities throughout
the country secured long distance con.
nection directly with the department.
THE first convention of sugar beet
growers in the United States was held
at Rome, N. Y, on the 21st. Many
valuable reports were read, among the
most interesting being those covering
the experiments in Kansas.
Rev. II. II. BURaERINE, aged 60, q
highly-respected Methodist minister of
Hulings, w. Va, was stoned to death
because he was unable to pay bill
due to Coleman Pitzer, day laborer.
Pitzer and his brother Lewis were
Jailed, charged with the chine.
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