The Holly chieftain., 1897-07-09

AT Cincinnati on the 5th there were
IL deaths from the hot weather, making
81 fatalities in three days
Ar Gloversville, N. T., ON the 9Th
Arthur A. Zimmerman, paced by
triplet. made an exhibition mile in
2:o2. He also went half mile against
time in :571s.
BECAUSE Saloonkeeper Patrick Grace
and wife at Chicago refused to open
their money drawer, three masked men
mortally shot them the other night
and then escaped.
A STRANGER with lighted cigar
ignited the gas of . mammoth oil well
In Madison county, Ind. ON the 5thv
the flames shooting 20 feet high and
burning down the derrick and damag-
ing much adjacent property.
By the capsizing Of boat near West
Superior, Wis, four persons were
drowned in party of seven.
HENRY b. SToSE, president of the
Nonquitt, Mass, on the 5th by the ex-
plosion of bomb.
The body of the child of the second
wife Of Sandy Soper, of Cass county,
Mo-, who killed his first wife and two
children, was found near the William
ette river at Portland, Ore, where
Soper said he had hidden it.
THE st Paul Pioneer Press advo-
Gates the proposed pardon of the
Youngers, the Missourians imprisoned
for SO many years in the Minnesota
penitentiary for being concerned in
the killing of bank cashier. The
paper had heretofore strenuously op-
opposed the pardon of the men.
Two men and two women lost their
lives by a pleasure steamer running
down their skiff at Little Rock, Ark,
and throwing them into the water.
By premature explosion of fire.
works at the celebration at Hedrick,
Ia, q rocket struck Mae Johnson over
the heart and another tore away half
of Mary Sweitzers head. Both expired
instantly.
SECRETARY BLISS has definitely au-
thorized the removal of % of the in
truders in the Cherokee nation. These
% are the heads of families who have
received the amount Of reimbursement
awarded them, but refuse to move.
This step is only an initial one. The
proceedings will be repeated until all
the intruders are ousted.
CHARLES SEYMOUR and wife, of Wy
more, Neb., went to bathe in the Blue
river and both were drowned.
AT Pedra Gorda, Mex, at an amateur
bull fight, the animals became 90 en-
ragged that they jumped over the bar
rier and charged the crowd and six
others injured.
EIGHT persons were drowned in Lake
Michigan on the 4th while bathing at
various points along the beach at Chi
cago.
JUDGE PARLAND, In the United States
circuit court ct New Orleans, sentenced
ex-President Gardes and ex-Cashier
Gerault to eight years in the peniten-
tiary for wrecking the American ma
tionsl bank at that place.
AT Colorado Springs, Col, on the I'd
McReynolds and Carruthers, the tan
dem pair, broke the worlds tandem
records. They did the third of mile
in 81 rs; half, IS 3-5; two-thirds, lit
2-5. The previous records for these
distances were: Third, 81; half, 81 4-5;
two-thirds, .:21 As. :.
JUDGE CLAYTON has handed down an
opinion at South McAlester, l. T., in
the Indian citizenship cases. He says
all white persons married to Choctaws
in accordance with their laws are en-
titled TO be enrolled.
A SWEEPING reduction has been
made in the wages of the employees in
the shops Of the Santa Fe-Pacific rail-
road from Albuquerque, N. NJ, to Los
Angeles, Cal. The reductions were
accepted by the men.
The coinage executed at the mints of
the United States in the month Of June
amounted to 1855, 500 pieces, of the
value of e4,132 ,s5S.27. The gold coin
age was -, a,1OO,547 Silver dollars to
the number Of 1,475,40 were struck
The total silver coinage was 81, s58, ,754.
The Louvre, dry goods, millinery
and furnishing house, which was
stocked and about to be opened at
New York, was destroyed by fire on
the 9Th. Loss, over S100, 900.
AT midnight on the 3Oth the anti
gambling law went into effect in Mon
tana, wiping out custom which has
existed ever since the territory was
formed.
LAKE BRATIsCH, near Galatz, Rou-
mania, became swollen by rains and
burst its embankment and 60 soldiers
and many women and children were
carried away by the torrent and
drowned.
JAMES NJ. BURslN and his wife were
found murdered in their home near
Bentonville, Ark. Robbery was pre-
sumed to have been the motive. There
was no clew to the murdererx
JONAS WILDER, an emigrant, and his
wife and two little girls were burned
to death in = cabin near Rochester,
Ky. They had stopped in the cabin
for few days rest. They were sup
posed to be from Ben ton. Mo.
In the freshman boat race at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, on the 8oth Cornell won
by three-quarters Of q length; Colun-
bia second, by one-third of length
over Pennsylvania. The official time:
Cornell, . minutes 81 1-5 seconds; Co
lumbia, minutes % 1-5 seconds. 1t
was over two-mile course.
THE fiscal court of Franklin county,
KY, has purchased the LawrenceburR
and Frankfort turnpike for 5000 and
the Shelbyville and Frankfort road for
1850 and the tollgates have been re-
moved. The sales Of the roads were
forced by the turnpike raiders, who
have fired and dynsmited many Of the
toll houses and threatened the keepers.
A PIrrsBuRaH. Pa, dispatch of the
LIST said that through the failure Of the