The Holly chieftain., 1897-02-19
GENERAa NEWS.

oilsBEhi bhOSh pTdlned Ills IdlleT
with an AK at Pineville, KY. The
father was opposed to the sons mar
riage.
w. GRAYsoN, a farmer, was shot to
death in Sewer county, Tenn, by "a
gang of whitecaps.
In hard fought 20-round fight in
the Broadway Athletic club house at
New York on the 18th George Dixon,
of Boston, and Jack Downey, of Brook
lyn, worked so fast that the referee de-
clared the bout draw. Dixon was
the favorite, but Downey's showing
placed him in the front rank of feather
weights.
ANNIE BEsANT, the theosophist, will
arrive in this country in March from
India to lecture six months on theoso-
ply.
zzaAy Immense tank used in rendering
tallow exploded in the packing house
of b. Franz at Springfield, ILL.,. and
half the plant was wrecked and two
employees injured
MRS. REBEccA CHRIsMAN, aged rs
years, was burned to death at Normal,
Ill, while attempting to light her
fire.
IT was semi-officially announced at
Paris on the 18th that all the powers
will firmly persist in the agreement to
maintain peace and the attempts of
Greece to disturb it cannot, therefore.
prevail. The joint forces of the foreign
warships have occupied the town of
Canea, Crete.
GEN. 10 0. SHELBY, the noted eX-con-
federate general, died at Adrian, Mo-,
on the 18th, aged sc years.
PRoF. j. EDWARDS was arrested near
Waco, Tex, on the charge of having
murdered d. Lucas and John Day near
blackburn, Ok, year ago by shooting
them through window at night
EX-CoNGREssMAN SMEDLEY DARLING
TON has been arressed at Westchester,
Pa, on charge of embezzlement aris-
ing from the financial troubles of the
Westchester Guarantee, Trust & Safe
Deposit Co., of which he was recently
president. Darlington is well known
in Kansas and Missouri, having loaned
thousands of dollars on real estate in
those states.
THE Alabama legislature passed a
bill and the governor has signed it ex-
empting cotton factories hereafter to
be built in that state from taxation for
ten years.
A DELEGATION representing the
Transmississippi and international ex-
position left Omaha, Neb., on the 18th
to appear before the legislatures of
Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah
and afterwards to visit Montana and
the coast states.
The most malignant type of measles
has been epidemic for over Il month
throughout Jasper, Clark, Cumberland
and adjoining counties in Illinois and
was reported on the 11th as growing
more serious. The public schools at
Toledo and saany country schools had
been closed.
A DISPATCH from Canton, o., stated
that Ghauncey NJ. Depew, the noted
New Yorker, had been practically de-
cided upon as ambassador to Great
Britain.
wiped out by fire.
LEWIS MILLER, living near Okmulgec,
/. T., was cremated by his house burn
ing down. He,had quarreled and sepa-
rated from his wife and it was sup
posed he had set the house on fire and
shot himself. Others thought it was
case of murder.
A DARING robbery of burro train
loaded with $4,000 worth of silver,
which was being sent from Sonbrete
to San Felipe, Mex, was reported.
The train was accompanied by an
armed band. The robbers captured
the burros and no trace could be found
Of them.
THE board of trustees OF Washington
and Lee university at Lexington. Va,
on the 11th unanimously elected Post
lmaster-General Wilson president in
place Of G. w. C. Lee, who recently
resigned. 1t was understood that Mr..
Wilson will accept the position and
enter upon the duties Of his Office on
July l next
A COMMITTEE of young men near
Clinton. Ok, took an evangelist named
Cogswell out of bed, rode him on rail
several miles and gave him "a hours to
leave the country. In sermon he had
declared literary societies to be insti-
tutions OF the devil, and referred to
women who danced as "hell-cats."