The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02

| ing expenses hns been innugurnted by
the Chicago IL Alton Railroad Co. and
an order issued dispensing with the
services of many train dispatcbers and
clerks and reducing the salaries of
operators S. per month.
The Spanish general Hernandez
Vclasco, while operating in the hills of
Pinar del Rio, recently defeated party
,f Cuban insurgents under Gen. Ruiz
Rivera, who was wounded and taken
prisoner. The crew of the Spanish
yunboat Dependence deserted to the
insurgents, after having burned the
yunboat and secured the arms and am
nunition on board.
Two tobacco merchants, named Will
liam Eades and John Hallifield, were
killed by 4 passenger train while cross
ing the tracks at Pnducah, Ky.. in
their buggy.
| TIE United Press. having its princi-
pal Office in New York, on the a9th
! filed in the county clerks office an as
sigument for the benefit of its creditors
to Frederick q. Mason, the auditor of
the corporation. The assignment pa.
pers were filed by Charles A. Dana,
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| The boiler of a sawmill exploded at
Augusta, Ky. on the a9tt l,illing two
men and fatally injnring .,.ree others.
A BAND of vigilantes who call
themselves BLACK caps" because they
wear disguises of that color has been
organized in Carlisle county, Ky. Re-
gently they went to the cabin of col
ored family and drove them away. The
worst class of negroes are badly fright
ened and are leaving the vicinity in
numbers to avoid u visit from the regu-
lators.
c. E. CROSBY. the correspondent of
the Chicago Record in Cuba, was re-
ported killed while watching fight
between Spanish and insurgent troops.
A MOVEMENT has been started by
some influential men of New York by
which it is hoped to get Rev. I. Dewitt
Talmage to return to that city. A
plan is on foot to erect one OF the
greatest edifices for worship on this
continent.
AUSTIN, Tex, and the surrounding
country was visited by terrific cyclone
on the 2sth that did II great amount of
damage to property. many buildings
being unroofed and twisted from their
foundations. Several persons at differ
ent places We're reported killed or IA
were also badly damaged by the heavy
rains which followed.
WILLIAM 4. ADA MS, the wcll-known
writer of boys books under the name
of "Oliver Optic" died at his home at
Boston on the 27th from fatty degen-
Grafton of the heart, aged IS years.
| A CONVERSATION was said to be nearly
completed between dealers in the pro-
ducts of the fresh water fisheries OF
the United Stdtes and Canada which
will practically control the supply.
The trust is backed by English capital
ROBBERS tried to derail train on the
Texas, Saline Valley & Northwestern
road on the 25th by piling iron ON the
track, but the pilot of the locomotive
pushed the obstruction and the plar
miscarried.
THREE men were blown to atoms and
ten other persons injured by an explo
sion of nitro-glycerine at the Repaunc
chemical works near Gibbstown, N. j..
on the 10th. The remains of the victim.
were gathered up in two buckets.
THE East German Methodist Episco
pal conference in session at Scranton
Pa, voted against the admission OF
women as delegates to the general con.
ference. The vote was A against to :
in favor of admission.
Two bills have been introduced into
the New York legislature to establish
the state of Manhattan, including
within its boundaries the territory oi
the greater city of New York.
| MAJ.-GEN. DODGE, grand marshal o.
the Grant monument dedication pa
rade at New York, says the showing
to be made by United States troops OF
April 81 will be the largest ever seer
in this country with the exception oi
that at the close of the war. Mrs. u
S. Grant has written letter to the
committee that She would endeavor tc
have all the members of her family
present at New York on the day of the
ceremonies.
AT an informal meeting of distillers
and wholesale whisky dealers at Gin.
cinnati on the 26th it was unanimously
agreed to advance the price of spirits
in few days.
AS the result of an old quarrel Blan.
chard Thomas was shot and instantly
killed at Lapaz, Ind, by Jacob Leeds,
who had previously been fatally cut by
a knife in the hands of Thomas.
THE national convention of Patrons
of Husbandry, in session at Cleveland,
o., elected w. s. Donnelly, of New
York, president and George A. BEN
nett, OF Illinois, secretary and treas
urer.
AT the session of the New Jersey
Methodist conference at Trenton a
vote was taken on the question of the
admission of women AS delegates to
the general conference and resulted:
In favor, 6s; against, 103.
THE Denver Coli Republican said
that an association was about to inau-
gurate a gigantic project for manufac-
turing beet sugar in Colorado. If car
ried to successful issue, it will in
volve an outlay of from s2,oOO,OO to
q, ,0OO, 600. AS preliminary to plant
ing beets and building refineries. the
projectors of the scheme have secured
control of the LA Junta and Lamar
canal and of large tracts Of land that
/, adjoin 1t.
NEAR Mount Gilead. KY, Amos Riggs
shot and killed young Boyd and his
father. w. r. Boyd. Young Boyd had
run off with one of Riggs daughters
The two men were shot from ambush
The pope's mass in the throne room
Of the vatican at Rome on the 95th was
attended by 80 American pilgrims,
mostly clerpymeu. from New York.