The Holly chieftain., 1897-06-18
MlSCELLANEOUy.

hiAh todi yOoh6 iooANS AohACd 4i ith-
lnie McGuire, Alpa Taylor, Fannie
White and Sarah Bohring, each about
10 years old, were walking home from
church at Jacobsburg, o., on the 18th
they were struck by lightning and the
three former were killed and the latter
was stunned.
FIRE destroyed the large livery stable
Of J. r. Dendinger at Dallas, Tex, re-
Gently. Fourteen horses were ere
mated and large quantity of feed,
harness, implements and vehicles were
burned.
The national w. c. T. q. officers have
issued q report at Chicago regarding
the work of the various state legisla-
lures this year In the line Of w. c. 4.
y. work.
Two men were drowned on the Hud-
son river near Fort Lee, N. Y, by a
squall overturning their yacht.
A PANIC occurred in polish school
house at Buffalo, N. Y, by hanging
lamp falling while an entertainment
was being given on the 18th. Many
were bruised and otherwise injured in
the mad rush for the exits.
DELIBERATE attempt was made to
wreck train on the Sea Beach rail-
way in New York city which was
loaded with excursionists by placing
steel rails across the track, but no se-
-ious damage was done.
The management of the Reading
Pa-) iron works has decided to close
down its tube mill indefinitely, throw
ing out over 1000 men.
Nina .Inuy CAMrpnN a prOmiuant
society lady of Pueblo. Col, was
fatally burned by the explosion of q
.an of benzine with which she was
cleaning furniture. Her son was alko
badly burned in trying to save her.
JAMES FRENCH was hanged at the
county jail ut Rockford, Ill, for the
,old-blooded murder of his wife last
July.
A FESTIVAL was in progress in a tenn
pie at Tien Tsin. China, when the in.
fiammable materials strung inside
caught fire and terrible panic ensued
Men and women struggled for the
exits and trampled the weaker ones
and the children under foot Over 100
people lost their lives
THE American National Association
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New York, elected j. w. Hawkins, OF
Mansfield, o., president Three new
DANCES were selected, the figures of
which will be kept secret until the
opening of the season.
A Mob of 200 men boarded freight
train at Decatur, Ala, on the 10th to
ride to Huntsville to lynch two negroes
who had assaulted a 12-year-old white
girl at Decatur and had been taken TO
Huntsville for safety. The conductor.
when ten miles out sidetracked the
train and refused to go any farther un-
til the mob left and walked back to
Decatur. The mob svvore they would
carry out their purpose some time and
militia have been sent to guard the
\ prisoners.
MARY ALLEN, aged 65 years, was
found in heap of straw in her shanty
at st. Louis starved TO death.
THE June government crop report
issued on the 10th makes the general
condition Of winter wheat 1876; spring
wheat, S9.8; acreage of winter wheat In
Kansas, 81; in Missouri. 90; condition
Of winter wheat in Kansas, So; in Mis-.
souri,, As.
TINE Jury In the case of John Powell,
the member Of the Cleveland baseball
club. charged with playing baseball on
Sunday and exhibiting the same, re
turned . verdict OF guilty Ii both
counts This settles the fate Of Sun.
day baseball in Cleveland, o.
WILLIAM ASDnEws, colored, aliAu
scuba" was taken from tho officer At
the door Of the courthouse at Princess
Anne. Nd, on the 9th and lynched by Z
mob. Andrews had been tried. CON
victed and sentenced to death for fclo'
niously assaulting Mrs. benjamin 4
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