The Holly chieftain., 1897-08-06

HARDIN JoHNsON, MS wtfe and daugh-
ter and Dan Hazlewood. ali colored,
were poisoned at Louisville. KY, by
iaudanum being mixed in their food, .
ueighbor being suspected of the crime.
1t was feared they all would die.
JOHN O'CoNSELL was found murd cred
At his home near Redwood Falls, Minn.
Seven gashes in his scalp were made
by some blunt instrument and his
clothing had been saturated by oil and
his house set on fre. According to the
statement of three OF his children, Mrs.
O'Connell was the perpetrator Of the
deed, being driven crazy by the man
drinking and abusing his family while
under its influence.
OK September the three silver con-
ventions Of the populists, democrsts
and republicans win be heldVt Lincoln,
Neb.. and w. j. Bryan will Issue . ma
tional address on the occasion 10 advc-
Gates of the silver cause throughout
the world.
Mrs DARLINGTON BOOTH told of the
work the Volunteer Salvation army was
doing in the penitentiary At Joliet, Ill,
and at the end of her remarks 800 con-
victs were enrolled under the Volun-
teers' banner.
QUANAH PARKER, the noted chief of
the Comanches, was reported to have
been killed by m outlaw in Greer
county, Ok.
CHARLES w. SPALDISe, late president
of the Globe savings bank and treas
urer Of the state university. was found
guilty at Chicago of embezzling e3e. 900
belonging TO the university. This was
his third trial, the jury in the former
cases holding that in hypothecating
the university bonds he was merely q
borrower, because he paid interest on
them to the university trustees.
WILLIAM w. YdUse and his brother,
George, and Fred Bridgeford were
drowned at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
lst while bathing.
The white people at Thornbeck,
Tex, objected to q squad of negroes
being set to work in quarry at that
place and a pitched battle occurred be-
tween the negroes and whites and two
negroes were mortally wounded and
several others less seriously shot.
lTwas reported that Great Britain is
about to open the East India mints TO
further international bimetallism.
The crops in q strip Ave miles wide
and 80 long in Rock county, Mimi,
were entirely destroyed by hail the
other night.
THERE were five unsuccessful at
tempts ut suicide in Kansas City, Mo,
on the 2sth. All were women.
JOHN JOHNSON, colored, was hanged
at Livingston, Ala, for the murder of
q white man.
THE Wheeling. 4 Lake Erie railroad
bridge at Dillonvale, O., was fred by
Istrikcrs end ssssoss sFuAsss 49, fsaes6.
A DELIBERATE sttempts was made to
wreck the fast train on the c., c., C. 4
st. L. railway on the morning Of the
soth by driving coupling pin into the
switch SO IS to hold the switch open.
The engine and tender, mail, express
and baggage cars were thrown
from the track and wrecked and the
Iengineer, fireman and two tramps were
killed and several other persons in
jured.
A DAN at Middleton, Conn, contain
ing water from which three factories
got power. burst, letting down tre-
mendous volume Of water. Forty work.
men were compelled to Zee for their
lives and much damage was done.
DURING the second heat of the pac-
ing event at the race course at Mar
shalltown, Ia, the other day Doctor
b., owned by g. w, Bowman, Galens,
Kan. fell dead. The horse was valued
at 1000.
THERE were $50 business failures re-
ported in the United States by Brad
streets commercial agency for the
week ended the 3Oth, against e94 for
the corresponding week last year.
DOMINO, the famous race horse, died
at the farm of James r. Keene at Lex.
ington, KY, the other morning. He
was taken i'll and six veterinaries could
not save him. Domino was foaled in
1891 and won about 800, 900 in stakes
and purses.
ONE man was burned to a crisp and .
whole square of buildings destroyed
by Are which started in the sash and
door factory at Michigan City, Ind, ON
the .sth.
A TORNADO passed through the farm
of A. c. Mcdowell near San Jose, Ill,
on the evening Of the SOth and seven
persons were reported killed and SOW.
eral more injured.
Six men who were laying water pipes
in Chicago were overcome by escaping
gas, and while they were being car.
ried away young man In the crowd
looking on threw his lighted cigarette
into the trench and ignited the gas.
The gas burned dercely for two hours,
the flremen being unable to put it ont
with water.
| JULES BvyNRIJ and Mis- Ell. vii.
liamson were recently married Both
were discovered dying at boarding
house In Houston, Tex, ON the morn
| ing of the :9th from the effects of NOR
phine, taken with suicidal intent be-
cause they could not get work to earn
living.
FORECLOSURE proceedings have been
begun against the Central division Of
the Atlantic & Pacific railroad, which
extends from Seneca, Mo-, to Sapulps,
L T., liz miles.
Pic NEWELL, colored, was legally
hanged at Selma. Ala, on the 30th.
He admitted his guilt on the scaRold
and prayed TO the Lord to send two
angels TO escort him to glory.
The rain fall has been so heavy
throughout northern New York for 9
number ef days that great damage has
been done to crops. All lakes and
streams are swollen to an uuprece-
dented height for this season OF the
year,
THE plan Of sending soldiers to