The Holly chieftain., 1897-05-21


ing defeat on the nth and have occu.
pied Domokos, being now in full pos
session OF Thessaly. There was In
tense excitement at Athens on rcceip<
Of the news, and q plot was said 70
have been discovered there to murder
King George and many arrests have
been made.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, aged IL, fell from
q wagon ss he was trying to set the
brake and broke his neck at Guthrie,
Ok, and his father, who came along in
another wagon, found him lying in the
road dead.
The Missouri river has been cutting
banks badly between Bismarck and
Omaha, south Of Sioux, City, La, many
farms being entirely lost Near Sloan
the river has been washing sway a
cemetery and collins have been tum-
bling into the river at the rate Of four
or i've = day snd indications were that
'the cctsctcry woufd soon be entirely
swept away. a
IN q fight over the cutting of of q
horses tail at Big Valley schoolhouse.
near Goldthwaite, Tex. Tom Weathers
was fatally shot; John Patton was
shot through the thigh and may die,
and Curtis was shot in the leg.
The little son of John Huffman, liv-
ing near Chandler, Ok, was killed by
lightning. He and his stepmother
were in the yard feeding chickens
when the lightning struck two trees
close by, tearing them to pieces. The
boy was instantly killed and the wom-
an knocked senseless, but not fatally
injured.
JAMES HESyEssY was Instantly killed
by the explosion of a stick Of dynamite
in sewer excavation at Kansas City,
Mo, on the 18th and Pat Tull, another
laborer, received fatal injuries
The New York Press says that a bill
will soon be submitted to congress for
the establishment of credit company
under federal supervision, ON the plan
Of the Credit Fnncier of France, but
with greater powers The company, as
planned, is to have = capital OF $780,
600, 900, with the privilege of doing q
business Of 81, 900. 600, 900. Many Of the
leading financial men in the United
States are connected with the project
SENAroR-ELEcr MALLORY, of Florida,
dictated his views the other night at
Pensacola and said that he stood
squarely on the Chicago platform and
was in favor Of the free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of sixteen to one. He
was also in favor of giving the SUI
preme court another chance to test the
income tax.
AMvorE, the Piute Indian who re-
Gently murdered no fewer than ten
white men, is dead. He met his fate
at the hands of members Of his own
tribe. who were compelled by the
miners In Eldorado canyon, Ariz-, to
trail the murderer to death, the penal
ty for their failure to do SO being fixed
at the annihilation OF every Piute the
miners could reach.
MAcEDoNIo FBAusro, q 17-year-old
boy, who was in love with Anita Mojas,
daughter of ranchman at Monclova,
Mex, but whose suit was opposed by
the girls family, on his way to the
girls home shot dead the manager Of
the ranch and . brother Of the girl.
Soon after he shot dead another broth
er and man and then eloped with the
girl
THREE negroes, who had been con-
fined in the jail st Rosebud, Tex, on .
charge Of attempting to assault white
girl, were taken from the officers Of
the law, who were taking the negroes
to another place for safety, and hanged
to tree by . mob of l 900 masked men.
A PITrsBURsH, Pa, dispatch Of the
18th stated chat manufacturers Of wire
nails, wire and rods were about to
form grand combination to control
the market for all three products.
The policy outlined will only include
. moderate advance in price Of each
product If>the new combination IL a
go, It will practically drive out all
competition in the manufacture Of
wire nails.
sentence for the Emanuel Baptist
church murders, through his attorneys,
asked Gov, Budd on the 14th to pardon
him on the ground that the real muir
derer of Blanche Lamont had at last
confessed his crime. John Rosenberg,
a convict in San Quentin prison, has
made a sworn confession that he killed
Blanche Lamont at San Francisco at
the instigstion Of stranger and in
consideration of the payment OF $500
for his work.
The new tipple or ore dump at the
mines at Pinckney. Tenn, 90 feet high,
fell and killed ten white men and boys
outright and seriously wounded sew
eral Others. The dump was . new one
and had been tested.
AN Omaha dispatch stated that the
Nebraska grand lodge Ancient Order Of
United Workmen has exonerated SUI
preme Master Workman Tate, from
charges Of malfeasance in Office, pre-
ferrcd by his local lodge.
A sAwNn.L boiler exploded on Reels
river near Tiptonville, KY, killing Ed
Patterson and Dink Hodges, white, and
two colored men, whose names could
not be learned. Three other men will
die.
RIcHARD COKE, ex-United States sem
stor, died 1t Waco, Tex, on the 18th.
The steamship Teutonic arrived 1t
New York on the 12th with another
batch Of young women from Ireland.
Two children of John w. Welch,
sged eight and six years, were burned
to death st Maybee, Mich. They
played with matches In an old barn.
ELMER CLAwsoN was hanged In the
county Jail at 6omerville, N. j., ON the
18th for the murder Of Harry Hodgett,
. farmer. The victim was shot be-
cstse he refused to re-employ Clawson,
which caused . quarrel. n
FRBDEnrcK w. HoELLMAN held dress
rsfsastAl oh the 18th and wss-photc-
grAphed on the gAllows Ut Paxton, Ill. :,
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