The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-09

sued call for an international Gold
Miners convention. to be held in Dem
yer, Col. on the 18th and 10Th of June
The exhibitions will consist of refined
gold and gold ores and general min
ing display. Miners organizations are
invited to cooperate in the exhibit
mining states is asked to hold a mass
convention not later than May 80, and
elect delegates to the gathering.
FRED AcocK, an ex-soldier in the
regular army, will start from Topeka,
Kan, June 10 to carry Old Glory
around the world. He will go to
Europe first and return by the way of
the Pacific.
The Globe savings bank at Chicago
suspended on the 5th.
HENRY LEE was shot and killed by
Bob Chcatham over q game of marbles
at Rockport, Ind. Both are colored
oRRrNeroN LuST, founder of Evans
ton. ILL.,, and one of the founders of
the Northwestern university, died at
Evanston on the 5th. He located in
Chicago in 1910.
A DISPATCH from Muskogee, l. T.,
on the 5th said that Jim Cook, one of
the members of the notorious Cook
gang, who escaped from the Cherokee
national prison last December, had
been recaptured and placed behind the
bars.
THE Spanish government has in
structed Gen. Weyler to introduce in
Cuba the reforms which the cabinet
tl,,u 20 ;s1u h,
Madrid Epoca, u semi-otficiai organ,
stated on the 5th that negotiations for
the restoration of peace in Cuba were
in progress with every prospect OF sue
cess.
THREE men were asphyxiated by car
bonic acid gas while cleaning a beer
tunnel ut Doves brewery in Montreal,
Can.
A sIX-RoUND bout took place ut Phila-
delphia on the 5th between Owen Zeig-
ler and Charles McKeevcr. No deci-
sion was rendered, but Zeigler ap-
peared' to be the best man.
ANOTHER disastrous break in the
Mississippi levee occurred at Fowler
lake, near Tunica, Miss, which will
inundate, the dispatch said. the coun-
ties of Cohoma, LAHORE, Quitman and
Tallahatchie and lay waste the newly
planted corn crops. The levee near
Helena, Ark, had also broken, for
which the people had made such a des.
peratc fight to save.
The forest fires in the mountains
near Bellefont. Pa, We're spreading at
an alarming rate on the 4th and many
h., l.,< 81 IL -lo~
land were going up in smoke.
A FIRE in George +. Cites carpet
store in Cincinnati did damage to the
amount Of over $500, 900.
THE steamer Fuerst Bismarck
brought nearly l,ela Italian immi-
grants to New York on the 4th.
THE Jim river in South Dakota had
overfowcd its banks on the 4th and a
steamer was sent from Yankton to res
cue the sufferers. Thousands of acres
of farm lands were under about six
feet of water.
JOHANNES BRAHMS, the well-known
musical composer, died at Vienna re-
Gently, aged 81.
A FAREWELL banquet to eX-Ambassa-
dor Bayard is to be given at London
on May Z, when gold loving cup,
worth $1,000, will be presented to him
by the American colony in London and
elsewhere in Great Britain.
MILLARD SPENCER, farmer living in
Chautauqua county, N. Y, fatally as
saulted stepdaughter and young
lady who was visiting her. set fire to
his barn and burned 13 head of stock
and then cut his own throat.
THE steamer R. T. Cole, loaded with
merchandise, sank near Clarksville,
Tenn, the other day. Three roust-
abouts were drowned and one man was
reported missing. The, boat was n
total loss.
The Texas house passed the senate
bill appropriating S25,o 900 to buy the
San Jacinto battlefield and improve it
for a state park. 1t was understood
the governor would approve the bill.
NEARLY $4,000 had been raised in
st. Louis up to the I'd to aid the flood
sufferres in the south.
AT Kansas City, Mo-, the other night
DIR. jefferson D. Goddard shot and
killed Frank J. jackson, laundry
man. There was bad blood between
the two men, jackson being jealous of
Goddard on account of the latter's
many visits to Mrs. jackson. DR.. God
dard ran drug store for Mrs. jackson
and his visits were said to be on busi-
ness. jackson was fond of morphine
and whisky and, did not live with his
wife, but managed her laundry on u
salary.
FIVE hundred employees of clothing
manufacturers in st. Louis struck on the
I'd. Last fall the price paid for making q
coat was reduced from 65 to 80 cents.
1t was promised that the old rate
would be restored in the spring, but as
this has not been done the workers
struck.
A HURRICANE struck Peoria, ILL.,, on
the Sd and did considerable damage to
buildings. The roof of Wards overall
factory was ripped off, taking along
two smokestacks and section of stone
wall. Over $50 girls were ut work and
many of them tainted.
A SPECIAL from Toledo. O., said that
a gigantic farmers trust was being or
ganized in this country. Several
branches were secretly organized. and
the order is strictly oath-bound. 1t
originated at Lancaster, Pa, and was
incorporated under the laws of New
Jersey as the Agriculturists' National
Protective association. 1t is patterned
somewhat. after the anthracite coal
combine.
NINE prisoners at the county jail at
Greencastle, Ind, recently effected
their escape. They were at work upon