The Holly chieftain., 1897-02-12
/ rnE1aAhr train on the Santa Fe


OF the caboose. went into the stream.
One man. said to be. IA tramp, was
killed
4 NEw YORK special from Indianapo-
lis on the sth said that the appoints
Inent AS minister to Mexico had been
given to Powell Clay ton. of Arkansas,
WyuTE Constable Lawyer was ut Jo-
seph9 sYhitc's farm in Alleeau county,
Mich, making an Investigation OF
cruelty to animals. White became in
dignant and madela attack upon Law
yer with saw, whea Lawyer drew
revolver and shot White dead. Law
se--w was Seriously .vouadi.dss.s-s - -.
AT the dance given at the wedding
of Henry Wood and Carrie PEBBLES,
near jacksonville, Fa-. Albert Thur
man, rejected suitor. insisted on
dancingswi.h the bride and he Waited
in suchia Inanner as to excite the jeal-
ousy of the groom. who shot Thurman
doyvnsas waltzed past him.
CHARLES LEWIS came into Pierre, y.
D.. the other day with the bodies OF his
wife and one child, who We're killed by
the failing OF the dirt roof of their log
house.y Lewis, two children and two
time and managed to crawl out
Two sections Of freight train coll
lided on the Il. s. o., near Davisyille,
w. Va, and Engineer Richardson was
killed, Fireman Hughill fatally 6sjured
and two brakemen badly hurt.
| IL a fit of desperation, after quar-
rel with her husband, the wife of Rob
sert Gor't, n raneher near Big Timber,
Mont, picked upher three small chill
dren and rushed to the Yellowstone
river and threw them in and then
jumped in herself. They were all
| drowned. sA
| A uEAD-ESD collision occurred be-
tween two freight trains on the LOUIS
| Vile & Nashville railroad near Mont
I gomery, Ala, on the 9TH through q
smistake of the telegraph operator and
r the engineer and brakeman Were killed
and the fireman. fatally hurt. The
| operator has disappeared.
4 "A LARGE portion of the business sec
ton of Shellock, Ia, including the
| post office, has been destroyed by fire.
| Loss, estimated at $500
| ACCoRpISG to official reports, there
have been 5000 cases ofplaguc in Bonn
bay up to the 4th and 3,sii deaths. .
| A PASSENGER train ran into tree
which had rolled on the track at Wood
| house, Pa, and the engine was thrown
across the track and the rest of the
train rolled down an embankment into
a creek. The fireman was fatally
crushed and several others were badly
injured.
/, a.AS issi .garge tsst liGA,a9S 90 4iass
| long gave way ut Louisville, KY, on
the 9TH. Several New Orleans and
Memphis packets were caught in the
ice and heavy loss by damage was
| feared.
THE ship yards of the Fairfield Ship
building Co. at Govan, near Glasgow,
were DESTROYED by fire. The damage
done is estimated at S250,000. -Four
thousand persons were thrown out OF
employment.
NICHOLAS SuAFFEE, of Burlington,
y. J.. shot his wife and then turned
the weapon on himself in the street on
the 9Th. Mrs. Shaffer it was thought
would recover, while the husbands S
wounds will prove fatal.
ANDERSON PARKER. farmer of Rock
castle county, Ky. in a drunken rage
fractured his wife's skull with club,
shot his son through the wrist and in.
flicted scalp wound and killed his
father with revolver. The rest oi
the family escaped during the fight.
The Connecticut Legislature voted
down resolution calling upon con.
gress to recognize the independence OF
the Cuban republic.
WALLACE HARRISON and Charles Lin,
guist skated into air holes on Lake
Michigan at Chicago on the 4th and
We're drowned. Assistant Corporation
Counsel Burling made n desperate eff
fort to save Harrison and came neaI
being drowned himself.
EXPERT accountants have found 4
shortage of nearly $4,000 in the ac
counts of Cashier c. L. BREEDER, of the
First national bank of Bethlehem. Pa
BREEDER has absconded. He had been
cashier for 20 years
I. J. LEvAS, of Dubuque, Ia, has
discovered lead-bearing crevasse il
the cellar of his house. 1t is six-inct
vein and promises a big yield of mineral
THE police of Nebraska City, Neb.
h ad II desperate fight with gang o.
IA drunken tramps, but the officer,
finally arrested the principal offenders
ROBERT MoRToS. a negro, wrote an
insulting note to Miss Tommic John,
SON popular young white woman OF
Rockfeld. Ky, and when it became
known officers arrested him, but a moi
overpowered them and carried the
prisoner three miles from town anC
hanged him.
The breaking ice gorges of the Lick
ing river sunk 81 coal barges at Pom
eroy, o.. and vicinity and damage:
were reported at other points along
the Ohio river
THE senatorial deadlock in Oregon
was unbroken on the 5th and as eacf
contestant stood firm it seemed prob
able that Oregon will have but one
senator for the next two years.
SHERIFF LEWIS, of Carrollton, Mo.
has t. egraphed to the California Off
GERS to release the man they suspected
of being George Taylor, the ESCAPED
murderer of the Meeks family. as the
photograph received of the man look:
as much like Taylor as any quarter
breed Indian would look.
JOHN BROWN, in fit of jealousy
shot and killed his sweetheart, Eller
Titiworth, in Wise county, Va, on tn,
Sd. Brown then shot himself.
The British steamer Jason. which
arrived at New York from Jamaica
picked up the crew of ten men of tn,
sinking schooner Mary Sprague neal
Crooked island passage and brought
them to New York.
1T can be definitely stated that ]