The Holly chieftain., 1897-02-12

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| PATRICK X BRENNAN, aged 60 years.
was found dead from starvation in his
home near. Yardley. N. j., on the sth.
I Sitting beside his body was, his aged
and insane wife, who was dying from
| the same cause.
| THE 25-round bout between George
Layigne. the lightweight champion,
and .'Kids Mcfarland at New York
On the sth resul tied in favor of the for
mer. although Mcfarland made a won
derful showing.
EMANUEL LowESsTEIS. manager of
| the Interstate Live Stock Commission
Co., of KausN City, was found dead in
his room at New York hotel on the
,sth from the effects of escaping illumi-
mating gas. 1t was believed HIS death
was the result of accident
| Two freight trains coIlided on the
nlinpis Central railroad neSr Tolono.
! H.. .during a dense fog on the 9th.
| Both engines. five caraloads of mcr-
chandise and three box ears We're de-
rnolished In;one ear Were 80 head of
horses and *hey We're all killed. sThc
nainmen jumped in time to save them
selves a. -.
| THE. cowboys at Shelby junction,
Mont terrorized the members of the
! Columbia Opera company which arrived
| there on the 7th For three hours the
/ cowboys fought with the men. insnlteti
the women and fired off their revolvcrs.
TEMPLE IIousroN, of Woodward. Ok.
son OF Col. Sam Houston, has been in.
vited by the state of Tennessee to de.
liver the centennial address at the
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on Nay /.
AT the worlds skating championship
races ut Montreal. Can, on The 9th the
result showed thai y. Nillssen. of Min.
neapolis,. Minn.,t is the professional
champion skater of the world and j. X.
McCulloch. of Winnipeg, Man, is the
amatenr champion.
tTlIE 100-inile bicycle race at Cleve-
Hand, o.. between Louis Gimm md
f'I'eddy Hale was won by Gimm by
about 10 feet, the time being hours
| and 10 seconds.
1 Gov. BRADLEY recently ordered out
50 members OF the state militia to pre-,
vent the lynching of a negro prisoner
named Black at Lebanon, Ky.
| Nv. 4 LcHrENwALTER, wealthy
farmer,nea Mason City. Ia, conmitted
suicide'by hanging. lie was a stock
holderin the City bank, of Nora Springs.
which recently failed and hearing that
he,would be financially ruined he pre-.
ferrcd to meet deatits4n this way.
| THE Northwestern national bank of
Great Falls, Mont, on the 5th posted a
notice announcing its suspension.
j Ihsa loagd -aiZsci2ra md QtlicerS
| oh ir hat hi. is fn g,
defalcation on the part of the cashier,
Benton D. Hatcher, of $50, 900.
4 REPORT was received at Vienna on
the 5th of the massacre of l,5o0 Chris
tians in the villages of the islands of
Crete by Turkish troops.
THE number of failures in the United
States for the week ended the 5th were
sos, according to Bradstreets report,
rs compared with 326 the previous
week and 33s in the corresponding
week of last year.
CHARGES have been preferred against
Agent Pearson. who has charge of the
Pottawatomie Indians in Kansas. 1t is
said THAT he has been remarkably de
rclict and that the law has been fire.
quently violated on the reservation un.
der his charge.
JUSTICE RICHARDSON at Chicago on
the 5th held Wong Chin Foo, editor OF
the Chinese Daily News and president
of the League of Americanized China,
men, to the criminal court on the
charge of being the keeper of gam
bling house.
DAN STUART. the promoter of the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, left Deni-
son. Tex, for Nevada on the 5th to ar
range for the battles-Sghich he said
would either take place at Reno or Car
son City. He will erect an amphi-
thcater to seat p, 900 people.
CONSTANTINE STEVENSON, n farmer
near Jacksonville. Fla, was shot and
killed while in his field by hidden as.
sassins, making the ninth victim in the
Tillct-Whidden feud Stevenson was
recently tried for killing member OF
the Whidden faction, but was acquit-
ted. The Whidden sympathizers be.
lieved him guilty, however, and swore
vengeance.
The Oklahoma house passed the
marriage contract bill. 1t prohibits
the intermarriagc of whites and ne
groes or Indians, and especially pro
hibits that no man shall marry his
own mother-in-law.
THE recent wreck of the Great North
ern passenger train near Wenatchee,
Wash. came near being one of the
most disastrous of railroad casualties.
A tourist car containing 80 persons, in
.luding 1 babes, caught fire. The car
was hurled into an embankment of
snow. 1t was only after the greatest
.xertions that the inmates liberated
themselves by breaking the windows.
The First national bank, of Griswold,
Ia, has failed. Assets, STAT 200; liabil-
tiles. $4,000.
THREE raftsmen. John Adkins. Sam
ael Wellington and Jonas Blevins,
were drowned in Pike county, KY, by
the breaking of log boom in the ice
run. The dangerous condition of the
civer prevented any attempt at recov-
aring the bodies.
A FIRE gutted the Arnold block at
Amsterdam, N. Y, on the Sd. Loss,
5000; fully insured.
THE schooner Biscaync was wrecked
off the Florida coast by the explosion
of gas engine and the captain, mate
and sailor were drowned in the surf.
A YOUNG Indian named John Tyler
was killed at dance near Eufaula, /.
I. A man named Noah, who was
drunk, shot him while he was acting
; as a peacemaker. Noah has been ar
rested.
THE annual convention of the Ma