The Holly chieftain., 1897-08-20

a ferry steamer at Dresden was cap
sized by the wash of large steamer
and SO persons were thrown into the
water and it was feared the loss of life
would turn ont to be heavy.
THIRTY-FfvE houses on the main
street of Jellico, Tenn, were swept
away in a destructive conflagration,
and over 100 people were made home
less. lamp overturned in gam
bling den started the FIRE. The dam
age aggregated $500. 900.
michel. ANGIoLILLo. alias "Golli,"
the anarchist who assassinated the
Spanish premier, Canovas del Castillo,
was tried by court-martial at vergara,
found guilty and sentenced to death.
He will be garroted within the prison.
By the breaking of y coupling pin on
a chain of cars in the mine of the Wa
Pello company at HitemAn, la 20 men
were more or less badly injured, three
of them fatally.
/ THE potato blight is ravaging the
counties Of Glare and Limerick, Ire.
land. Prices have quadrupled and
there is only supply for two months
OFFICERS went to arrest Harrison
Korr, a negro, charged with murder,
at Palarm station, near Little Rock,
Ark, when Korr and half dozen
other negroes opened fire and there
was pitched battle. which resulted
in two negroes and one of the officers
being killed and two other officers
seriously wounded. A posse started
after the other negroes in order to
lynch them.
DISPATCH to the New York Herald
from Havana said that Capt Gen. Wey-
ler, the commander of the Spanish
forces in Cuba, had sent his resigna-
tion to Madrid.
THE northbound passenger train OF
the NJ, X. & T. was derailed near Cad
do Mills, Tex, early on the 18th and
| w. II. Rollins, baggageman, was killed
and three negro passengers slightly
injured. The rails OF the track had
been misplaced by somebody.
BALD. Cooper, Loughead, Kiser and
Sanger have been matched for bicycle
race on the Buffalo, n. Y. athletic
field. August "a, for $1,000 purse
The race is to be in mile heats best
two out of three.
A BIG gold strike has been made in
the Moon Anchor mine near Colorado
Springs. Col. the ore running in the
neighborhood of s75, 900 to the ton.
ALL the prisoners in the Jail at
Olney, ILL.,, recently made their escape
by cutting the bars with files.
PETER MoSoBAN, aged so years, was
legally hanged at Baltimore, Md, on
the 18th for the murder of his wife.
SWEEPING and far reaching injunc-
ton was issued on the 12th in the coal
miners strike in the Pittsburgh, Pa,
district which tended to make the
situation q strained one. Judge
Collier granted preliminary in
junction restraining the defendants
from marching or encamping in
proximity to the mines and houses
of the miners for the purpose, by
intimidation and opprobrious words, OF
preventing the miners Of the plaintiff
from working. 1t further restrained
the defendants from inducing or com.
pelling any miner to quit work.
FIRE on the 18th burned four build
ings at Ironwood, Mich. Henry Lensol
was suspected Of starting the FIRE and
crowd gathered and attempted to
throw him into the burning buildinRs,
| DAs skAC AbSAnCA TACu kuG uOS6 Oh
them and they desisted and the pris-
oner was taken to jail. 1t was said
that he made full confession that he
was hired by Charles Ross, who owned
the buildings, TO set them on fire.
Ross has also been arrested.
KIN McCoY knocked out Dan Bay.
LII, Of Lima, o., in the third round al
Dayton, o., on the 18th. Baylif wa.
no equal to Mccoy as scientific
fighter.
MILTON PARK, the chairman of the
national organization committee of the
Populist party, has issued lengthy
address from Dallas, Tex, in which he
urges all populists to reject fusion OF
alliance with democrats or republicans.
HAROLD MORLEY, the .5-year-old SOC
of w. w. Morley, division superintend.
ent Of the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf, with headquarters At Kansa,
City, was found hanged to tree nea,
his fathers ranch, near Chamberino
N. NJ. The murder was supposed ia
have been committed by Mexican
neighbors OF the Morleys, with whom
they have had trouble over their ranch
boundaries. Aa5f
TIE 14-year-old son of Richard Bell
living south Of st. Charles, Ia, wa
moving weeds when he struck . nest
OF rattlesnakes and was bitten thres
timea His father went TO. the little
town to get q supply Of whisky. tc
counteract the effects of the ppiSon
but was unable to do So the county
tecink strictly prohibition. The boy
died. = Z. '9l, y ~ T;TF
4 President MCKINLEY and his party
paid . special visit on, the i2th to thu
grave of John Brown, near Lake Placid
n. Y. Mckinley is the frat presi
dent to ever visit the last resting placs
OF the great abolitionist and father O.
the republican party.
FUSION with the democrats was re
pudisted by the Ohio populists In ststs
convention At Columbus ON the ltth
Jacob 8. Coxey, Of ''commonwealF
fame, WAS nominated for governor and
the populist platforms of St Louis and
Omaha were Endorsed.
JOHN THOMAS, while drunk, fred
into crowd at Spokane, WASH, shoot
ing three men, and will himself prob
ably die from shot fired by Chief oi
Police Warren while resisting arrest.
The men employed in repairing IS oi
the public school buildings at Chicago
to the number of 2,500, struck on the
18th. The strikers wanted only union
men employed.
OFFICIAL information was received
st Havana Of battle between Span
ish troops under Gen. Weyler In Mat
anzas and force Of rebels in which