The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-17

to slight mod tication in the final re-
port.
THE Dupont trophy was won at Chi
cago by J. A. r. Elliott, of Kansas
City. Mo, who defeated Fred Gilbert
of Spirit Lake, la. Elliott killed his
% birds straight and Gilbert missed
his sixth and tenth birds
POLICEMAN COGHLAS, while attempt
to serve warrant on Pole named
Bazlowski at Chicago. was resisted and
were fatally shot.
THEre were 2g3 business failures in
the United States reported by Brad
streets commercial agency for the
week ended the 10th against 3si for
the corresponding week last year.
THREE suicides occurred in Kansas
City. Mo. on the 10th. julius G.
kneule. a porter in a saloon, shot him
self; cause given as temporary insan-
ity. Myrtle Switzer, 10 years old, took
laudanum because of a quarrel with
her father about a lover. Homer f.
Basket, night clerk at a hotel, drank
carbolic acid because he could not quit
drinking whisky.
THE ten-year-old daughter of James
Rish, of Canadian county. Ok, was
burned to death while playing near an
open fireplace.
An armed band of toll-gate raiders
destroyed the gate on the Standard
turnpike, near Danville. Ky.
THREE small children of the Sobotka
family at St Louis were mystcriously
poisoned the other day. Willie. aged
nine, has died, but antidotes were Civ
en- TO the other two and they viii re-
cover.
Two yard engines collided at Spring
field. H., during 4 heavy fog and
Switchman Castle was killed.
l.. II. WISsLow. president of the
Metropolitan Plate Glass company at
New York, confirmed a report to the
effect that rates for plate glass insur-
auce will probably soon be cutin every
state. He said the compact for busi-
ness in Wisconsin,, Illinois, Minnesota,
Missouri, Kansas and the DakOtas had
already been declared off.
JuuS FRANCIS, general passenger
agent of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad company, who stopped
at Denver, Col, the other day on his
way home from the Pacific coast, said:
There is going to be Il big rush of
travel to Alaska when the season
opens. People are preparing to go
from every state in the union and from
almost every town. There will be at
Least 80, 900 people who will make the
trip and the crowd may reach twice
that number"
A. H. BARNES, a gray-haired old SOL
dier, arrived in Washington the other
day, having walked from Leavenworth.
Kan, in 55}I days, losing IS days from
rain and other causes. He made the
trip to prove the staying qualities of
an old soldier and to settle a waEer.
The great six.iay bicycle race at
Madison Square garden, New York,
came to an end on the night of the
18th, Miller, of Chicago, doing 1908
miles and laps, and winning, as a re-
suit of his great ride, altogether about
81, $50 in prizes. Rice was second. with
a score of 2,O2G miles and Schinneer
third, with 1000 miles and I laps. The
other Is riders had scores ranging
downward from l,922 miles to i,229
miles. The SO starters narrowed down
to 10 at the finish. Outside of Miller,
the riders were wrecks, most of them
being affected in their brains. The
track was afterward discovered to be
roo feet short to the mile thus reducing
all the scores, and making Miller's ac-
tual distance 2,0li.
A COLLISION between a freight train
and a train of empty coal cars occurred
in the Nossburg tunnel near Wilkes
barre. Pa, on the Lehigh Valley road.
and both engines and l6 cars were de-
rallied and the wreck then took fire.
PETER MIX, u butcher of Aurora, Ill,
slaughtered a calf which had in its
stomach, when killed, silver spoon,
table fork, small salt cellar and an
ordinary curling iron, such as school
girls use.
SMALL-Pox is prevailing in 80 coun.
ties in Georgia. The business inter
ests at Atlanta were said to be suffer
ing badly from the epidemic in that
city.
TWENTY men were buried under de.
bris by the collapse of a cast house at
Milwaukee early the other morning.
Only two were seriously hurt, the 9TH
ers escaping with slight injuries. An
explosion of a furnace adjoining had
occurred the previous evening, which
had probably weakened the founda-
tion of the cast house. The roof being
of sheet iron did not fall fiat on the
ground, else all the men would have
been killed.
a FREIGHT train on the New York
Central railroad ran into pile of
rocks which had fallen on the track
near Poughkeepsie, n. Y. and the en-
gine and 10 cars were derailed.
BROWN SMITH, farmer in Simpson
county, Miss, left his family at home
to go to town for shopping purposes.
When he returned he found his wife
and five children weltering in their
blood and apparently all dead. An
alarm was raised Immediately and the
entire neighborhood turned out to
hunt for the perpetrator of the crime.
One of the little gir.s, supposed to
have been dead, revived enough to say
that the man who committed the deed
was negro.
The Ohio statute giving damages to
persons assaulted or killed by mobs
was declared unconstitutional by the
state supreme court.
The coal mining business in central
Iowa is enjoying boom such as it
never knew before. Several large com
panies have been organized this fall
and at least ten large mines will be
opened near Des Moines during the
winter and spring.
A HEAVY fog at New York on the 9th
was responsible for two elevated rail
road collisions in which five persons