The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-16

THE Santa Fe Railroad Co. has put
In l,oO0 new cars to help take care Of
Oklshoma's wheat and many towns
can hardly get enough cars 70 remove
the crop 1t was estimated the crop
yield will not fall less than 81, 900, 600
bushels 3,
An Indian named Tiger Cat eloped
with the wife of = chief at Fort Lau-
derdale. Fla, were followed by the
whole tribe and caught. They were
afterwards sentenced to be fed to alli-
gators and the sentence was carried
out.
DISPATCH from Denmark on the ioth
said that an express from Belsingor
ran into passenger train and wrecked
eight carriages. killing 40 persons and
injuring 90 others, most Of the victims
| being Of the nrtisan class.
ANEw religious sect hes sprungs up
Ut Papillion, Neb., called the F4Rgites.
after Mrs, FigR, the founder. They
claim that when a stranger enters the
presence of Figg they know whether
God or the devil is inside the stranger.
The members do not offer physical vio-
lence to those they think have the
devil, but they assume threatening at
titude in order to drive the devil away.
JOHN KELLY. aged II, and Frank
Murphy, aged ls, were swimming 1t
Webster City, Ia, recently when Kelly
went down. In attempting. to drag
him from the water Murphy was pulled
under and both lost their lives -
H. :. I.cI1z~
ascension At Benton Harbor, Mich, ON
the 10th snd when 500 feet in the air
his balloon collapsed, his parachute
failed to work and he came down on a
house top He was probably fatally
injured.
THE swell jockey club at Paris has
blackballed George Gould's brother-in-
law, Comte de Castellane. There were
sss votes east against him. Two would
have been enough.
CHARLES H. SPRINGER. commercial
traveller, was killed at Dallas, Tex, by
James A. Wright. a contractor, who
alleged that Springer had alienated
the affections of Mrs. Wright.
OK unlocking his combined meat shop
and grocery the other morning Gustav
Stab, Of Tomkinsville, L. l., saw q
man packing articles. At Staib's ap-
proack the thief stepped into large
refrigerator. Stab locked him in and
notified the police. 1t was hot day,
and after the man had been in small
cell for an hour he asked to be put back
in the ice box.
JOSEPH WEIssHAUER was arrested the
other day at New York charged with
bringing home food, cooking and eat
ing it himself and leaving his wife and
two-year-old child to starve.
PHfLLIP TAsBLEY. Dane convicted
by the United States court Of killing
John Sanders, q United States soldier,
at Huachita, . year ago, was hanged
at Tucson, Arix-. on the eth. He made
jocular remarks, danced jig and then
said, Let 'er 60. Gallagher
THERE were five deaths and 30 or
more prostrations in the two Kansas
Citys ON the 9th. In ST. Louis the
death list reached ten; Chicago re-
ported 16 deaths and ten cases critical.
Six died from the heat at Cincinnati;
three at Lafayette, Ind; seven at New
York; two at Indianapolis, Ind, be-
sides three more cases Of prostration
considered fatal. Fatal cases were
also reported from other cities.
SOME time ago Atticus Thompson, .
negro, attempted to outrage q white
woman At Forest, Miss. but was frus-
trated in his designs. He eluded af-
rest until the 9th. when he was cap
tured by mob of unknown men and
shot to death.
THE bodies of man and woman, ap-
parently dying, lying side by side ON
. raft of logs moored to the shore near
the village Of California, was found a
few miles above Cincinnati. Near the
raft the dead body Of an infant was
taken from the water. The man and
woman were alive bnt unable to speak.
Both their wrists were cut and bleed
ing and other wounds indicated an at
tempt at suicide.
AT Cincinnati on the Sth there were
two fatal cases of sunstroke and Louis
vile, KY, reported one death and
many prostrations. Nine children
died suddenly at New York through
the heat Two deaths also occurred at
Indianapolis.
IA D1A AAN y why OAss SAAC hCat Va tiiE
agency Of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians, over 5000 red men and women
were reported in secret council and
people near them fear trouble. On
July law was passed by the late
legislature prohibiting polygamy
among the Indians and an outbreak
may occur over the enforcement OF the
new law.
FIRED ROYAL, the professional high
diver. dived from car ON the Ferris
wheel At Chicago the other night after
1t had reached . height OF 1875 feet
BE miscalculated the distance and in
turning into the net used in breaking
the fall struck on his hips. Physicians
. severe conclusion Of the spine and 1t
was feared he might not recover.
Mrs. JANE GEoRGE, Of Hot Springs,
Ark, became partially demented,
caused by the extreme hot weather ON
the 7th, and jumped into q well so feet
deep, but was rescued by neighbour.
The reason she gave for the act was
thst abe wanted to keep cool.
JOIN ScoTr OLIVER, . deputy sheriff
from Los Angeles, CAL, was held by
the Coney Islsnd, N. r., police court
on the charge of abducting 1s-year-old
Stella Robb, Of Brooklyn, and was put
In the prison van to go TO jail. When
the door Of the vsn was opened he tot
tered 70 the entrance and fell. He had
tried TO puncturc his heart with q
scarfpin. He will recover.
Tin intsnss hest 1t Chicago ON the
sth caused four deaths and % prostrs-
tions, four Of the lstter being serious