The Holly chieftain., 1897-06-04

common on the 31st to the memory of
Col. John r. G. Shaw and his brave
black men who fell in the assault o.
Fort Wagner. S. c.
News from a Russian source stated
that Premier Ralli and his colleagues
in the Grecian cabinet were implicated
in plot to overthrow the dynasty in
Greece.
FIVE young people were killed and a
number of others injured at Valley
Springs, L. l., by the tally -ho in which
they were out for an excursion being
struck by train at crossing.
DIVINE HEALEB" ScHRAEpER was
stoned out of Clayton, a suburb of st.
Louis, by crowd of men and boys.
PRESIDENT WooDMANsEE has issued =
call for the annual convention of the
National Republican league at Detroit,
Mich. for July Ia
THE bicycle road race from Linden
| wald, near Hamilton, TO Chester park,
near Cincinnati, a distance of Is miles,
was won by C H. Farnsworth, of Avon
| dale, O., in 55.sl.
THE four-year-old baby of Mrs. Barr,
of Abbott Tex, tumbled into a tank
the child tried to sare it, but all three
were drowned.
The Yale university team won the
two-mile boat race with the Wisconsin
university team on Lake Saltonstall in
Connecticut On the 29th, winning by
about three lengths and being ten sec
onds ahead. Time, 1O:54.
NERBARD Goss, lately assistant clerk
of the Sherman house, Chicago, left
that place the other evening without a
cent for q tour around the world by
the ,say of Australia. He is to be back
within one year.
The plant of the Utica Packing Co.
in Deerfeld, N. ", was burned the
other day. Loss, $4,000
PiETRo AcCIRITo, the anarchist who
attempted to stab King Humbert at
Rome, has been sentenced to the gal
ieys for life.
The pope has just completed Latin
poem of SO stanzas, pointing out the
duties of frugality and the evil of
gluttony.
FIRE recently destroyed the William
II. Bunge vinegar factory at Chicago,
one of the largest in the west. Loss,
STE, 900.
WILLIAM I. POWERS and John Latti-
more, both colored. were hanged in the
Jail at Chicago on the 2sth.
| THE Atlantic express. eastbound, on
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, col
lided with a freight train near Grand
junction. Col, on the 2sth ana the en-
gineer and fireman were killed and
| several passenpers in niured
| ALL the journeymen bakers of Fort
Wayne, Ind. struck recently for an in
crease of wages and the use of the
label
The secretary of the treasury spoke
at the dinner given to the commercial
clubs of st. Louis, Chicago and Boston
by the commercial club OF Cincinnati
on the 2sth. The subject of the dis
course was the tariff and the public
| finances and the secretary said upon
the settlement of these two questions
enterprise waited and industry Ian
guished, but the future was bright
AN engine and five cars on the Penn
sylvania railroad were derailed at
Philadelphia the other night, causing
1.-The death Of the engineer and fireman.
NEAR Tecumseh, Ok, John Stibbins
accidentally shot and killed his two
year-old niece. Stibbins had started
out OF his dug-out with his gun and
the hammer hit against a bed post
The gun was discharged and six shots
took effect.
THERE was desperate shooting af-
fray at the little town of Oa<man, Ala.
on the 27th. Charles Williams, a ma
| chinist, while intoxicated, became
boisterous in Appling Bros store and
| was ordered out. He then drew his
revolver and began shooting, in which
the other side Joined in. Isaac Appling
| and Williams were killed and Andrew
Richards, Montgomery Appling and
William Duncan were probably fatally
wounded.
A HEAD-END collision between a
freight and a passenger train at Ameri-
can Falls, % miles west of Pocatel,o.
Ida, caused the death SO far as known
OF nine men.and the serious injury of
eight others. Two of the latter will
die.
REPRESENTATIVES, of independent
telephone companies throughout the
central and western states met in Chi
cago recently for the purpose of effect
ing national organization of all the
Independent telephone companies in
the United States TO combat the Bell
Telephone Co. and to protect the small
er exchanges against any action that
might be taken in the courts by the
Bell company in reference to the recent
Berliner decision by the United States
supreme court
JOHN Il. JOHNSON, late president and
cashier of the State national bank of
Logansport- Ind. wl-o pleaded guilty
to embezzling over 100000 of the
banks funds, was sentenced to ten
years imprisonment in the Ohio state
penitentiary on the 2sth by Judge
Baker, of the United States court for
the district OF Indiana.
A TELEGRAM on the 2sth stated that
the king of Greece was practically bar
ricaded in his palace at Athens and
that he was making preparations to
leave that city In order to evade the
fury of the populace.
DEsIRO BRUNO, the well-known BIZ
cyclist was killed At Chicago on the
asth by fall from his wheel
THERE were 257 business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 2sth, according to Bradstreet's re-
ort, against 227 for the corresponding
week last year.
THERE was q meeting Of prominent
grain growers recently at Versailles.
KY, with . view to organizing farm
er,a trr1af onr, vrtsiur Kor<unLu Tar