The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-09

IN the Phillips house, q hotel in Day
ton, o., and the west wing was COM
.pletely gutted and the other sections
badly damaged by water and smoke.
There were many narrow and thrill
ing escapes of the guests and several
persons were seriously injured. There
was strike among the chambermaida
and it was said that one of them
started the fire in spirit of revenge.
Miss MINNIE LUrH was probably IA
tally injured and her five-year-old
niece, Anna SchniederIneyer, was seri-
ously hurt by a train at St Louis.
They were walking on the railroad
tracks viewing the flood when the ac-
,ident occurred.
A FREIGHT train, consisting of an en-.
CINE and is cars loaded with coal and
iron, broke through trestle in lower
Allegheny City, Pa, and fell to the
street below. The fireman was taken
out dead and the engineer was fatally
hurt. About 150 feet of the trestle was
destroyed.
CAPT. EDWARD p. DoHERrY, who was
detailed with so men to capture Wilkes
Booth, Lincoln's assassin, died at New
York recently of heart disease.
THE Richardson building, the largest
in Chattanooga. Tenn. was totally de
stroyed by fire on the Sd, and Boyd Ew.
ing, one of the wealthiest men in thai
section, and S. NJ. Patton, leading ar.
chitect, lost their lives. The total loss
was about S4OO, 900.
A MADRID dispatch stated that Gen.
Ruis Rivera, the Cuban insurgent com
| h., xnlr H. f.,,
trial before an ordinary court-martial
the Spanish government SO directing
1t was said that it was not likely tina,
the death penalty would be imposed
upon him.
ALL records for long distance horse
back riding were broken on the Sd By
Harrison K. Gamer and Tristan Colket
of Philadelphia, who rode about lot
miles on relays of horses from New
York to Philadelphia in hours and s.
minutes.
WILLIAM C. PLUSKErT, Protestan,
archbishop of Dublin, died in that city
on the LIST after a brief illness, aged IL
A CHINEsE Equal Rights league has
been formed at Chicago to Americanize
Cinnamon in the United States and get
them the rights of citizenship.
A BATCH of IL convicts was working
in field at Waynesboro, Ga, when {
storm came up and the keeper strung
the convicts on a chain and secured
them to tree. Lightning struck the
tree and shocked the convicts, killing
one named Dent, who was the 11th anG
end man.
COUNT RADENI. prime minister o,
Austria, rendered to the emperor or
the I'd the resignation of himself an6
the entire cabinet. The reason wa.
that Count Radeni found it impossible
to maintain liberal majority in tn,
recently-electcd reichsrath.
The four members of the "Buttor
gang" named Francisco Gonzales !
Borrego, Antonio Gonzales Borrego
Sauriano Alarid and Patricio Talencia
condemned to death for the murder O.
ex-Sherif Frank Chavez, were hanged
together on one scaffold at Santa Fe
N. NJ, on the I'd.
IT was stated at New York that al
the kinetscope pictures of the Carson
fight were practically ruined. They
were developed at the Edison work.
and were SO defective as to be useless.
THE steamer Griggs struck an OBJ
struction on the Chattahoochie rivel
near Columbia, Ala, on the night o.
the 1st and soon sank. The engineer
and four deck hands were drowned
There was panic among the passen
gers and some jumped overheard be
fore the boats could be lowered.
AT the Fifth Avenue Athletic club q,
New York on the LIST Oscar Gardner, O.
Kansas City, knocked out Jack Grant
of New York, in the ninth round.
THE Oldest veteran of the G. A. r.
William Harding, celebrated his 1O0tt
birthday recently Mt his farm near Wa
seka, Minn. He is also veteran of botf
the war of 1912 and of the Mexican
war, and in 1862, when over IS years o.
age, he enlisted in the Fifth Minnesota
A DISPATCH from San Antonio, Tex.
said that the cattle grazing season had
opened and rush of shipments to the
Indian territory began on the LIST from
many different points in southwest
Texas. 1t was estimated that no less
than 5000 car loads of cattle would be
shipped from the section around Sar
Antonio to the Indian territory graz
ing lands by April Is.
THE diplomatic representatives, O.
the powers at Constnntinople have re
ceived instructions from their respec
tive governments to open negotiation.
with the porte for definite with.
drawal of the Turkish troops from
Crete.
HUGH MILLER, % years old, under ar
rest for setting fire to four-story
brown-stone apartment house in Brook
lyn, admitted that in 1881 he had fired
eight houses in which ten people had
been burned to death. Miller coolly
related the details of his awful crimes
and then declared that he was victim
of pyromania, caused by excessive ciga.
rette smoking.
The boycott on Chicago-brewed
beers, which was to take effect April
1, has been postponed pending prob.
able settlement of the controversy be.
tween the Brewers association and the
Coopers' union in that city.
ALARMING reports were received from
South Dakota points on the 31st
Huron reported that the james river
was higher than ever known before
and all trains were held because OF
washouts. Many bridges had gone.
Families in the bottoms were rescued
in boats. At Belle Fourche, in the
Black hills. n gorge had formed in the
river, flooding the town and tenrinc
out the Elkhorn bridge.
SPAIN has accepted the invitation OF
President Mckinley and will send .
warship to participate in the exercises