The Holly chieftain., 1897-05-28
GENERAL NEWS.

Inn 'Mdu SThWlOTu, VINO kllleu LICK
Whitsell near Pleasanton, Tex, q few
weeks ago, committed suicide in Jail
here by swallowing broken glass and
phosphorus.
WILLhAM BARRY. of Grant county,
Ok, fell under the wheels Of trac-
top engine and was crushed to death.
A RAILWAY train en- route from Chat
tanooga to Knoxville, Tenn, ran over
and horribly mutilated the bodies of
/. two menlnear Mouse Creek. 1t is be-
lieyed that the men had been mus
dered and their bodies placed ON the
track to ward of suspicion.
An Weldon, Ark. on the Gath Carrie
johnson. aged II, shot and killed
Walter johnson. johnson was mar
ried the day before and the johnson
girl said he had promised to marry her
GEORGE ,GRIEsBAuM, farmer, was
attacked.iby . vicious hog at his home
NEAR New Baden, ILL.,; and sustained
injuries that caused his death short
time afterward.
AN electric car on the LOckport line
and q carriage containing David and
John Kruger, brothers, ran into each
other at Joliet, Ill. The carriage was
demolished and the legs; OF both occu-
pants were cut of. They were re.
moved to the hospital, but died with
in an hour.
JuLIAN HAWTHORNE, has returned to
New York, having been sent to India
to describe the scenes Of the famine
and the bubonic plague. He says mill
lions have died from starvation and
the government figures represent one
sixth of the actual deaths from the
plague.
A RUDE raft Of boards ON which six
little boys were navigating the river
near Ashland avenue. Chicago, was
Syerturned and only ono escaped, the
five others being drowned.
TaE vaticsn has sent q decision to
the Catholic church in America in
which it says that Catholics of foreign
birth are not obliged to join parishes
in which their native tongue is spoken,
but may join parishes in which Eng
lish is used.
A HARD blow, amounting almost to
= tornado, on the night OF the 32d at
Terrall. l. T., tore down two houses
and moved eight or ten others of their
foundations Many small buildings
were wrecked, but NO persons were
seriously injured
The federal g-,and Jury At Dies
MOines, Ia, has returned indictments
against the trustees and commandant
of the soldiers' home At Marshalltown
for making the inmates turn over their
pension money in excass Of u month
to the institution.
ORIENTAL news received recently
told Of famine existing in the Chinese
provinces OF Szechuen and Hupehin.
PEARL WATERS, colored. who delib-
erately killed Lillian wsddell, also
colored, waa convicted of murder ID
the first degree at st. Lonis on the
31st When the verdict was read she
spraug mp and shrieked like mad
woman and in that condition wasted
back to Jail
ETYn JoHEs, . Negro, was jailed at
Houston, Tex, for enticing 3. w.
6tswArt : marehsnt, from his home
and Wandering him ENae Jonesnfter-
wsxds fmplicsted Will Jones, = promi-
nsnt white msn IN the c0namunity, and
he w arrested. buts mob broles into
the jatl and shot the white NAN to
death, sparjnG the negro.
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