The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

other evening. The murderer was
crazed from the effects of drink.
JoHs AGSEw and Thomas Kennedy
were in car in the Alden shaft at
Wilkes barre, Pa, on the eth, when
the rope broke and it fell 45O feet and
the men were dashed to pieces
THE business houses in the center of
st. Louis were shaken to their founda.
tions on the 27th by a terrific explosion
of charge of dynamite used in trying
to raise the sunken tug boat Dolphin,
which went down in the Mississippi
during the tornado, The attempt
proved futile.
JOE WALCoTT and Tom Tracey met
at Chicago on the 2Tth for six-round
bout. The decision of the referee was
a draw.
OVER 100 representatives of the
United States secret service are CEN
tcring on a gang of counterfeiters,
now in Colorado, who are believed to
make their headquarters in Kansas
City, Mo. They are passing two dan
gerous counterfeits of the denomina-
tion of s. and $40. The gang has flood
ed Colorado with the bogus bills.
WHILE Christmas salute was being
fired from an old cannon at Asheville.
y. C., Joseph Finch carelessly brought
4 can containing 30 pounds of gunpow-
der into contact with the heated gun.
The explosion which followed severely
injured Finch and knocked down be.
tween 80 and 40 of the spectators. all
of whom were more or less hurt.
An agent of the interior department
has been Investigating the reported
invasion of the Wichita country in the
Indian territory and says there are no
people camped or gathering along the
line at certain points and the whole
scheme is to get dupes to pay 81. 80 for
a certificate Of mem bership in a myth
ical colonization company.
The non-partisan ". c. T. Z. will
hold its annual convention in Colum-
bus, O., January 7-ll.
NEAR Pulaski, Va, freight train
and passenger train cOliided and a
postal clerk was killed and two other
men were badly injured
JOHN NJ. CARROLL, an expert ma
chinist of Cincinnati, thinks that he
has hit upon Il plan for the successful
navigation of the air. He is building
an airship. He has working model
at his home which will fly around the
room like bird and he is hard at
work on the ship itself, which he hopes
to launch soon. The machine is mod
cled after a goose. 1t is to be guided
by the wings, which are to be operated
by electricity.
THE New York Medical Record on
ha slEtH .. f,,lI 1t
markable operation whereby WON
ans stomach was cut out and the pa.
tieut has recovered and can eat and
drink and feels in better health than
before the operation.
FIVE terrific explosions occurred the
other morning in the works of the
United States Acetylene company at
Jersey City, \. j., and two men lost
their lives and three other employees
were injured. Windows were brol,en
for a distance of mile from the gas
works, which burned to the ground
and set fire to paper mill and the
railroad bridge. Damage done, about
$40, 900.
Four small children named Maltbski
were suffocated by smoke while alone
IA al hAAAI lcoiiI OtNuDA ny iHt
ly at Philadelphia. The house caught
fire from an overheated stove.
THE commercial failures in the
United States for the week ended the
2ith were $50, according to Brad,
streets report
THE wife of Jacob Peyer, living near
Park River, n. D.. poisoned her four
little children with strychninc and
then took poison herself All are dead.
A quarrel with her husband was the
cause.
Miss IDA BROOKS was killed and Will
liam Pearcy fatally injured by being
struck by fast express train at Grif-
fin, o. They were returning in a
buggy from Christmas entertainment.
A PENSION has been granted to the
widow of Knud Knudsen. a soldier
who was killed in the late war, by the
Washington authorities, the back pay
of which aggregates over g.. 900 The
woman has never left Norway.
Mrs BARNEY PICKERr. an aged widow,
was found dead in n hay loft at Lima,
o., few days ago, The premises were
searched by the administrator and over
$1,000 in bank notes and silver was
found and 5000 in personal notes.
The sum of s., 900 was found sewed in
an old bonnet. She had lived in pow
erty, and the find was a great surprise.
THE post Office at Collinville, Tex.
was robbed the other night, as was
also the store of Varley & Cliff, in
which the post office was located The
robbers blew two safes open with dy
Mantle. About 81. 900 was secured in
stamps, money orders, currency and
jewelry.
IMMEDIATELY after the holidays dele
cations in congress from several states
will get together for the purpose of
organizing, if possible, for the passage
of an omnibus public building bill.
There is an urgent demand for public
buildings in many cities and towns
and bills for their construction are
now pending to the amount of no less
than $50, 900, 900.
lSDIANAPoLIs veterans are signing a
petition to congress to pay all pension
ers 20 years pension money in lump
sum at once and abolish the pension
department and have the government
get out of the pension business per-
manently.
SIXTEEN persons were killed bv an ex-
plosion of tiredamp in the Kaiserstuhl
pit at Dartmund, Prussia, the other
day.
THE possibility that Letter and
Armour will pool their interests to
corner May wheat was stirring traders
on the Chicago change on the esd
The Post said that George French.
operating for the Letter crowd, had
nilnd I'M at lenst 4 600 nnn hnshnls of