The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-30

riding the distance in SO s-5 seconds.
She was paced by tandem and the
course was straight away.
BOB PAYNE, negro desperate. shot
and killed Mrs. Lulu Tyres at Birming-
ham, Ala. He was wanted on some
charges and he thought some boarders
him and entered the place and tried
to shoot them, but missed and killed
Mrs Tyres.
WILHELM FISCHER, aged 75 and very
infirm, was jailed at Nebraska City,
Neb., charged with horse stealing. He
confessed the theft Of a team at Lin
coin. one at Berlin ana two in Kansas.
THEODORE HAvEMEYER, vice presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
Co., died in New York on the 26th.
| -IsApoRE WEBER shot his four-year-
old daughter and then killed himself
at New York on the Goth. Weber was
u hard driuker and used his wife badly
and she had been Obliged to turn him
out of doors.
The big Iowa elevator at Peoria. ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire the other night,
entailing loss of 5000, 900. About 1O0,
900 bushels of grain and 80 box cars
were burned.
| A DISPATCH on the 27th said that the
most serious feature of the trnco-Turl-
ish emergency was the Evolutionary
feeling displayed at Athens A feel
ing of anger against the palace party
in the conduct Of the campaign was in
creasing and arrangements, it was re-
ported, were being made to enable the
royal family to leave the country
hastily in case of necessity.
| THE managers of Peter Maher and
| Tom Sharkey on the Goth met repre-
sentatives of sporting club and ac-
cepted proposition for fight be-
tween the principals for SO, 600 purse
to take place in the vicinity of New
York between May s5 and June 1onext
The Connecticut house, on the oath
passed . bill prohibiting all Sunday
labor or sport ffL
A FIRE at Whitney's Point, near Bing-
hamton, N. ", recently destroyed prop
erty to the value of $3.50, 900.
Col. ROBERT McREYNoLps, of Guth.
rie, Ok, has been commissioned re-
cruiting officer for Oklahoma for the
American Volunteer legion, an organi.
zation recently formed for the invasion
of Cuba in behalf of the insurgents.
The town of Omer "a miles north OF
Bay City, Mich, was visited by tor
nado on the night of the cath. Mr..
md Mrs. Hagley were blown 90 feet
into the air and were fatally injured.
Many buildings were blown down.
SOPHIE BOSWELL was recently crowned
queen of the gypsies of the United
States in an open field near East St.
Louis in the presence of several hun
dred gypsies and many visitors.
The annual dinner of the Reform
club took place mt New York on the
Gath. Ex-President Cleveland respond
ed to the toast of Present Problems, "
ex-Secretary Carlisle to that of "Sound
Currency" and observation-disclosures
Wilson to that OF .'Tarifr Reform.
Several other speeches were made by
noted gold democrats.
The man who was hypnotized and
buried in the ground for three days al
Simcoe, Ont, was disinterred when the
time had elapsed and great crowds fol.
lowed the box to the opera house. II
required five men to control the sub.
i ject in his struggles while he was be.
ing brought back to consciousness and
the box was smashed to pieces.
| THE Cook County Qll.) Business
Mems association is getting up II big
demonstration for May 90 for the pur.
pose of arousing sentiment against the
big department stores.
TILE paper mills at Ellsworth, Ind,
were totally destroyed by fire entail
ing loss Of S75, 900 s
FIRE broke out on the 2od in the
town of Pottersville, near Homestead,
Pa, and 88 houses were burned. Pot
tersrille is within the Carnegie yards
and consisted of about 400 frame
dwellings, which were built at the
time of the strike in 1899. The place
is the home of about 300 or 400 families,
and has a population of about 1 900.
No household effects We're saved by
the residents
The, Paris Journals correspondent
at Odessa, Russia, telegraphed on the
2ad that all the necessary measures
had been taken at Sebastopol for the
eventful Intervention Of Russia in the
war between Turkey and Greece.
THE corner stone Of the Transmissis
sippi exposition arch of the states was
laid on the 2ad at Omaha, Neb., after 9
long parade OF military and civic soci-
cites. Grand Master Phelps, of the
Nebraska masons, officiated. Addresses
were made by Mayor Broatch, Lieut..
Gov. Harris and ex-Secretary of Agri.
culture Morton.
EDITOR HINTON, of the Abba Qa.) De.
fender, was fatally assaulted by John
Jamison. a coal miner. who had taken
offense at an item in Hinton's paper
DIR. w. GODFREY HUNTER published
card at Frankfort, KY, on the 21st
formally withdrawing as the caucus
nominee for United States senator.
THE Western Baseball league season
of '97 opened in Indianapolis, Ind, on
the 2lst with the Grand Rapids club.
The score was 10 to 0 in favor of In.
dianapolis
THE 2ad was the eighth anniversary
Of the opening Of original Oklahoma
to settlement and the day was cele.
brated as general holiday all over
the territory.
Az the result of charges brought
against ex-Grain Inspector Dwight w.
Andrews at Chicago the Investigate
ing committee of the legislature In
vestigated the affairs Of the state grain
inspectors Office. 1t Is said that there
is . shortage Of ~, 900 in his scconnts.
+ A SPECIAL from Nashville. Tenn, on
the 21st said that Eve lives had been
lost In the flooded lands Of Lake coun.
| ty. "A skin was upset. causing thu
drowning Of Joseph Cans and his en-.
tire family, wife, two sons and .
daughter.