The Holly chieftain., 1897-11-05

lice, and skipped down the stairs and
the other soon followed.
The gold reserve in the national
treasury at the end OF October amount
ed to s15S. SOL, slI, which was the high
est recorded since November, 1890.
| The deficit for October was 50, 32222, 653;
the total receipts. S24, 39O.Si7
CARL GEKRER, four years old, died at
New York from the effects OF eating
jimson weed or thorn apple and Will
liam Roth. six years old, who also ate
some of the poisonous stuff, was in il
precarious condition.
The Union Pacific railroad proper,
including the buildings and all that
goes to operate the system, was sold at
the freight depot at Omaha, Neb.. on
the lst to the reorganization commit
tee for s53, 532. &c. The amount
does not include the sinking fund in
the hands of the government, and tax.
ing this to be 81, ,03d, 400. the amount
stated in the government decree cover
ing the sale of the road the total paid
for the property was sjT, 56+ ,932. 10.
The Kansas university football team
defeated the lowans at Lawrence
Kan, on the 30th by a score of j6 to o.
The Swedish government has in
structed the governor of the province
| of Tromsoe to charter a steamer at the
expense of the state, to provision it
for six months and to send out relief
expedition for Herr Andrec, the aero
uaut. who assembled in his balloon on
July II last in a proposed expedition
to the north pole.
N. " day nursery. The children
were safely carried through the smoke
by the nurses.
THE Nebraska university football
team defeated the Missouri university
/ / at Lincoln. Neb., on the 30th. The
score was Al to
A LARGE crowd witnessed the legal
whipping of five men at Dover, Del,
on the 3Oth. The sheriff used a raw
hide ~ inches long and was not spar
ing with it Some of the culprits were
afterwards stood in the pillory.
A LARGE quantity of giant powder
exploded in the Grand Central mine at
Minas Priestas, Mex, and % men were
probably fatal injuries.
The New York limited over the Van.
dalia struck a team and wagon at the
Union street crossing at Mar,insville,
Ind, killing the driver, Oscar Neidigh,
and both horses, and making kindliug
wood of the wagon.
DAUGHTER, aged three, and a cone
year-old girl belonging to John
kuhnc. of Miltona, Mimi, were left in
the house while the rest of the family
were working in field, when the
house was burned down and the two
children were crcmatcd.
DR.. JACOBS and "a man named Smith,
bridge builders of the Chesapeake Il
Ohio railway. were struck by train
just below Russell, KY, and instantly
killed. They were on railroad veloc-
ipede, and were run down before they
could jump from the trestle.
GEORGE LAvIGNg whipped Joe Wal
colt in IL rounds at san Francisco on
the Goth. The pace was terrific from
start to finish.
The decision of Amos NJ. Thayer.
United States circuit judge, in the
Kansas City stock yards case was read
by Judge Foster at Topeka, Kan, on
the 2sth. 1t sustains Judge Fosters
decision and is sweeping victory for
Attorney General Boyle and the state
of Kansas on every single point in
issue. Judge Thayer declares that the
state has right TO legislatc to control
the stock yards company. The attor-
ney for the stock yards company gave
notice of an appeal to the supre me
court.
A POSTAL clerk named Walter X.
lioughton has been arrested Mt Chey.
enne, Wyo., for stealing registered
package containing $4,000 mailed by
Chicago bank. Houghton confessed
and offered to return the money if the
prosecution was dropped, but threat
ened that I the officers would not agree
to that the money would be burned.
JACOB II. AMOS and Henry Bergen
keiger, cigarmakers ut st. Paul, Mimi,
bet - cents with friends that they
would kill themselves and then jumped
off a bridge into the Mississippi river
and were drowned. No plausible mo-
tive for the deed could be imagined in
either case.
a CROSS tie was recently placed OF
the Cotton Belt railroad near Waco.
Tex. and the locomotive of n passen.
ger train was derailed. No other dam.
age was done.
The directors OF the Kansas City,
Pittsburg * Gulf railway decided at q
meeting to eNpend $4,000, 900 for per
manent improvements at Port Arthur
the Gulf of Mexico terminus of the
line.
The Union Trust building Mt Pitts.
burgh. Pa, was destroyed by fire on
the Goth. One tiremgn was killed and
several had narrow escapes. The loss
was estimated at from $3.50, 600 to 5000,
900; insurance about half
MAT and Jennie Blakely. indicted a,
Princeton, Ky, for attempting TO poi
son the family of l.. Y. Pollard by
throwing poison in the well, pleaded
guilty and were given two years each
in the penitentiary. One has a Young
baby and very pathetic scene oc.
Cured when the mother and baby
were separated.
FLOODS have washed away every
building in Ahumada. Mex. The town
had population of l.2O0 persons and
they are all homeless and suffering
Eduardo Linss, wealthy merchant
and grain buyer of the place, lost $40.
oeo worth of property, including 5000
bushels of wheat.
MAYOR JONES has signed the ordi
nance creating ID Greater Kansas City
and the measure now awaits only the
sanction of the people to become oper
ative. BY the extension of its limits
to the boundaries fixed by the annex
alton ordinance Kansas City will an
mex 10 square miles of territory to it.
present area and add almost 20, 900 peo
pie to its population. The city's pres