The Holly chieftain., 1897-11-12

a COW to water. tied the rope around
his waist, and the COW ran away and
dragged him to death.
A DISPUTE over business matters oc-
Cured between George Jacks son and T.
V. fOngue, publishers of the \ berdcer
(Missj Ledger. and the former was
fatally shot by the latter.
The United States supreme court on
the sth affirmed the decision of the cir
cult court for California in the case of
William Henry Theodore Durrant. un-
der sentence for the murder of blanche
Lamont in san Francisco. This deci-
sion permits the law TO take its course
with the condemned man.
INSTEAD of building new soldiers
homes for the accommodation of those
veterans who cannot get into the pres
ent ones because of their crowded con.
dition, Inspector General Brecki iuridge
will recommend an allotment of s. or
$40 n month for those old soldiers who
would prefer to live with their fami-
lies
Ten cars OF freight train on the
Kansas City, Pittsburg * Gulf railroad
were wrecked near SLOAN Springs,
Ark, the other morning. All were
loaded with wheat and corn. Eight of
them were SO badly damaged that it
was necessary to burn them.
RALPH VAN Horn killed his child
and then shot himself at Unadilla,
Neb. 1t was thought that his mind
was unbalanced by a lawsuit in which
he had sued his father-in-law for S1O,-
900 damages for slander, but was only
allowed 81 and made to pay the costs.
A RECENT special from Havana to the
New York World gives details of the
horrible condition of some 30. 900 starv-
ing Cubans- Hundreds are declared tc
be dying daily.
The steamship Idaho, which left
Buffalo, y. Y, for Chicago on the 5th.
foundered the next day off Long point,
Lake Erie, and 10 men were drowned.
Two sailors were rescued. The boat
had no passengers.
FRANK Il. GERMAN, at Brocton, Mass,
broke the American 24-hour bicycle
road record On the 6th, riding 342
miles The former record was held by
Davis, of Cleveland, O., of 3I6 miles.
German also broke Davis I2-hour rec
ord of i76 miles, riding Ig4 miles.
The Eutaw guards were picket ted
around the Jail at Eutaw, Ala, the
other night because the authorities cN-
pected an attack from an armed mob
to lynch Bud Beard, a negro assailant
of q seven-year-old white girl. The
prisoner is u brother to Andy Beard
who some time ago eloped with u white
girl, but was caught by a mob. tied to
tree and shot to death before the
girls eyes.
FoUR children of Michael McNulty
and wife, who live near Mont Calm
Mills, Que, were brutally butchered
the other day. The parents had gone
to St Julienne to transact some bust.
ness. leaving their three daughters
and boy at home. During their alb
sence n neigh Dor found two of the
girls on the kitchen floor with their
throats cut The body of the oldest
daughter was found outside the house
in a similar condition and the boys
remains We're discovered in the barn.
Posses were organized and hunted over
the vicinity for the miscreant.
GEN. NELSON A. MILES has suggested
to the supervising architect for the
new Chicago post Office building that
1t would be wise plan to make provi-
sion for mounting few gatling guns
over the several approaches to the
new structure. Gen. Miles has had
some experience in handling strikers
and riotous mobs and he thinks that
some tion should be taken to
protect the building from being sacked
and destroyed in a time of great excite.
leaders denounce the scheme.
AN appeal has been made to the bu.
reau of animal industry at Washington
to investigate the disease which is
prevalent among the horses in the
coast country of Texas. the mortality
being alarming.
THE Chesapeake & Ohio express train
from Cincinnati to Washington was
wrecked near Charlottesville. Va, on
the ith and four persons were killed
and II injured. An axle broke on the
locomotive track.
The annual session of the church ex.
tension committee OF the NJ. f. church,
at Philadelphia, decided to ask S1O0 COO
from the various conferences this year
for church extension.
RECENT special from Joliet, ILL.,.
said: There is Il rumor in circulation
here that the operators at Carbon Hill
are planning to import Chinese labor
ers to take the place of the strikers in
the mines. The company will build a
stockade to iuclosc both houses and
shaft. As soon as the company can
get ready to receive them 900 China
men viii be shipped, and If this ex-
pertinent proves success other oper-
ators will follow it
THREE little negro boys were struck
by a westbound Cotton Belt train the
other afternoon near Greenvillc, Tex.
They were knocked off bridge and
killed.
SHOCKING state of affairs in the
Illinois soldiers orphans home at
bloomington is being revealed by a
committee of the Grand Army Wit.
nesses upon their oaths stated they
had seen little children knocked down
by the superintendent and that girls
had been kept in bed two days as pun.
ishment for trifling offenscs.
THREE colored desperadoes held up
the mining town of Marquisville, Ia.
the other day. They walked into the
pool room and, calling on so miners to
hold up their hands, one of the party
went through their pockets. The min
ers had just been paid and quite sum
was taken.
TIE three-story wooden block occu.
pied by the Central hotel at Marlboro,
Ind, and block adjoining were com.
pletely destroyed by fire. causing a
loss OF nearly sl5O,000. All the guests
in the hotel escaped.
L. T. ID.