The Holly chieftain., 1897-05-07

Sd of paresis, aged - years. He had
been confined to his room almost con-
stantly for two years.
REV. EDWARD FAIRFAx BERKEIY, the
oldest Episcopal minister in the Mis-
souri, diocese. died at st. Louis on the
Sd. He was s4 years of age. 40 of which
he had passed in the ministry.
The town of Pulaski, Va, and vicin-
ity was shaken up by an earthquake
soon after noon on the I'd. No odamage
resulted, but the people were terribly
frightened.
The Atlantic & Pacific railway was
sold ut Gallup, N. NJ. on the Sd for
Si2, 100000. The only bidder was Aldace
+. Walker, chairman of the board of
directors of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railway.
1T has been given ont that the amount
ofCashier H. II. Espe's defalcation from
the Savings bank of Radcliffe. Ia, was
about $4,000. Espe has disappeared.
JOHN v. CRuM, the famous sprinter.
died at Des Moines, Ia, on the Sd as
the result of an operation for appen.
dicitis
FRANK WILLIAMS. IN ls-year-old
newsboy. met his death by drowning
at st. Louis. He attempted to board n
moving cattle train on the trestlework
of the Eads bridge and lost his footing
and fell into the river below.
A HEAVY snowstorm prevailed in
southwest Virginia on the night of the
I'd and its effect on small fruits and
garden truck was disastrous.
A PARADE of the unemployed had
been largely advertised for the Sd at
Detroit Mich, but of a crowd of 1000
idle men who gathered at the rendez-
vous in front of the city hall only
about 500 or 800 consented to be mar
shalled into the possession. They car
ried rude banners. declaring I'VE want
work, not charity"
The Chicago News said that it was
that Marshall Field was engaged to
the widow of the late Gen. Phil Sheri-
dan and that the wedding would take
place in the near future.
JAMES LEWIS colored, charged with
assaulting white woman, was found
guilty by jury at Fairfax, Va, and
the death penalty imposed.
THE Tennessee Centennial exposition
was formally opened at Nashville on
the 1st. There was a parade through
the city to the grounds, where. after a
prayer by Bishop Gailor and speeches
by President Thomas and Gov. Taylor,
ct a given signal President Mckinley,
at Washington, touched an electric
button, and as the band played Hail
Columbia" the machinery began to
he e.,
the world.
A MAN named Ray, a desperate char
acter. had heen- arrextedZ Zhy-t.ha sheriff.
in Mitchell county, Va, when two
friends of Ray attempted to rescue him
and the prisoner and one of his friends
were killed and the other was fatally
wounded by the sheriff and his deputy
AUGUST NORMAN stopped at the house
of Knute Hillstead, farmer near Lar
imore, N. d., while Hillstead was ab-
sent, and during the night he attempt
ed to break into Mrs. Hillstead's room
to assault her, but she barricaded the
door. and because she would not ad-
init him he threatened to kill all her
family and did cut the throats of four
OF. her children, two Of whom will die.
and escaped
JUDGE SANBoRN, of the United States
circuit court at st. Paul, Mimi, has
denied the application of the first
mortgage bondholders for the appoint
ment of receivers for the Central
Branch, Union Pacific, with its extern
sions, the Atchison, Colorado & Pa
cific and the Atchison. Jewell County
& Western.
A TERRE HAuTE, Ind. dispatch stated
that there was no truth in the report
that the Debs cooperative common
wealth idea is to be put into practical
test by starting marching army to
Utah this year. II is true that Debs
desires to establish cooperative com
monwealth in some one of the western
states and that he looks favorably on
Utah, but it is not the purpose to get
men there by Coxey sort of move
ment.
The Greek ministry, headed by NJ.
Delyannis, which was blamed for the
recent disasters to the Greek arms in
Thessaly, was dismissed by King
George, and NJ. Ralli, called the Gam
betta of Greece, summoned by the
king to form q new ministry. This
somewhat quieted the people in Ath-
ems.
JOHN WAGNER, near Freetown, Ind,
apparently died of old age. Physicians
pronounced him dead; the under
taker prepared the body for burial and
relatives came to attend the funeral,
but when the honr for the funeral ar
rived he was talking with his friends
and asking to have his funeral post
poned.
WILLIAM SCHUTTE was found dead in
lumber yard at the foot of Sixth
street, New York, from starvation and
exposure. He kept the record of his
privations in an old Bible, which was
found on him.
HENRY WAsHHoUsEN, a farmer near
Columbia, ILL.,, was clubbed to death
by his neighbor. Joseph Meier, who,
after he was arrested, showed by his
queer actions that he was a religious
fanatic.
A BoILER explosion at Aldcrman's
sawmill in the Kanawha valley. w.
Va, killed two men and seriously in
jured FIVE more, three of whom will
probably die. The mill was badly
wrecked.
The general executive board OF the
Knights vi Labor has formally de-
clared war against the American Fed
GRAFTON OF Labor on account OF the
action of the National Brewery Work
ers union, an affiliated body of the
American Federation Of Labor, and
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