The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-24

airy l. L ne cut VIII hutcL nearly l'oOp
operatives. 1t is probable that the cut
will be accepted.
\ PRAIRIE fire was reported on the
Goth rs raging in Edwards county,
Tex. 1t had burned strip from the
Nueccs river to Il point few miles
northwest of Rock Springs, about IS
TO 80 miles wide.
The Auditorium theater and hotel
at Kansas City, Mo, was destroyed by
fire early on the morning of the 2ist.
So far as known all the guests escaped
without serious injury. The loss on
the building was placed at $500, 900.
THE 4. F. OF L., at its meeting at
Nashville, Tenn, on the Goth. adopted
resolutions favoring the establishment
Of postal savings banks and denounc-
ing Secretary Cages currency bill
The convention decided to increase
the per capita tax to two cents, to go
into effect February next
A TROLLEY car at Philadelphia,
while descending a hill, got out OF the
control of the motorman and dashed
into a horse car. The stove was upset
and the wreckage caught fire and
burned. Many passengers were seri-
ously injured.
4 FREIGHT train OF .! cars, travelling
down the mountain near Altoona, Pa,
became unmanageab owing to the
slippery tracks, and crashed into q
freight train standing at the station.
About so cars were completely broken
up and passenger train was also
thrown over on its side. Several train
men were seriously hurt.
THE Indian agents have been warned
by the interior department OF the pro-
posed movement to enter the lands of
the Wichita, kiowa and Apache and
Comanche Indian reservations in Okla
homa and have been directed to call
on the military to prevent the forcible
occupation of the lands.
RoBBEEs dynamited the safe in the
post office at Canal Dover, O., the other
night and secured the contents.
FITzsIHMoSs stated at Chicago on
the 18th that he had changed his mind
and would give Corbett another
chance in the prize ring. The date OF
the battle is indefinite.
The a. +. of l.. at its meeting on the
10Th at Nashville, Tenn, decided To
admit negro unions.
MOTHER HUMPHREY" the aged wife
of White Bear. once a chief of the Win
nebago Indians, was recently found
frozen to death in hut made of gunny
sacks and rags on the Missouri river at
Sioux City. Ia.
AS open switch on the Chicago &
Alton road was the cause of 4 collision
between the St, Louis limited passen-
ger and freight train on the side
track at Pontiac, III. Several persons
were seriously injured. The two en-
gines and two freight cars were total
wrecks
The testimony of Director of the Mint
Preston before the house committee on
coinage developed the fact that there
were many counterfeit silver dollars in
circulation and that the government
was encuuntering much trouble with
the subject, but he offered no sugges-
tions as to Il remedy.
GRADY REYNOLDS and Bud Brooks
were executed at jefferson, Ga, on
the nth for murder.
BUD BEARD, colored aged "a. was
hanged at Carrollton, Ala, for assault
ing an eight-year-old girl
The advance guard of 10, 600 Croatian
colonists arrived in Denver the other
day. The colony will locate in the
Shenandoah valley OF south western
Colorado, where houses, schools
churches and various industrial insti-
tutions will be erected, the Rio Grande
railroad promising to construct u
branch into the country.
FIFE destroyed the United States
courthouse at Ardmore, |. T., on the
18th. The records were safe in the
vault, but valuable papers in the offices
of the marshal, clerk and commission
er were lost. Only the bare walls were
left standing. The fire also destroyed
the Cobb house, Arch Matthews feed
store and 90 bales of cotton in com
press yard. The blaze was believed to
have been of incendiary origin.
A RECENT dispatch from Bayou, La,
stated that the steamboat Pargoud
sank in the Mississippi river just above
the mouth of Red river. The boat and
cargo were in bad shape and the loss
was heavy.
A MOB lynched Tom Waller. n negro,
near Bankston Ferry, Miss, for being
an accomplice of Charley Lewis-who
had been hanged day or two before -
in the murder OF Mrs. Smith and her
four children.
The house of Patrick Leahy at Otta-
wa, Ont, was burned early the other
morning and Leahv and five of his
children, the Oldest only nine years of
age, perished. 1t was supposed that
Leahy dropped lighted lamp.
THE comptroller of the currency has
issued call on national banks for a
statement of their condition at the
close of business Wednesday, Decem-
Der 10.
THE threatened strike OF the New
York printers for nine-hour day has
been compromised, a 9ji4-hour day be-
ing offered by the proprietors and the
printers accepting it.
A TERRIBLE sandstorm ragged the
other day at Pearsall, Tex, and sur.
rounding territory causing all houses
and stores to be closed and the suspen.
| sion of business.
A LOSS of nearly sl,ooo,o 900 was
caused early on the morning OF the
nth by the burning Of the Hotel
Dakota at Grand Forks, n. ID. II was
large five-story structure that cost
$780, 900. Two large wholesale stores
adjoining were also destroyed.
The bishop of Havana is gathering
all the authoritative reports OF deaths
in Cuba for the past year The patriot
priests OF all the parishes are report.
ing to him the number of persons who
have died in their districts. Accord.
ing to trustworthy information, the
priests had found that 500, 900 persons