The Holly chieftain., 1897-02-26
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NorEs.

Farmers Alliance and Industrial union
at Washington on the 18th elected of
ticers for the ensuing year rs follows;
President, Mann Page, Virginia, vice
president, c. Vincent, Indianapolis,
Ind; ;secretary-treasurer w. p. Briclser.
Pennsylvania.
THE First Baptist church at WASH
ington was crowded on the 18th by at
tendants at the mothers congress.
Mrs. Ballipgton Booth conducted the
devotional exercises. Many prominent
women discussed tina best way to
bring up children.
PosTMA WILSON has an
,ounced that he has accepted the pres
sdency of the Washington and Lee uni
sersity at Lexington, Va lie will as
sumo the duties on July 1.
THE last evening reception OF this
administration was given by President
and Mrs. Cleveland at the white house
On the 18th for the benefit of the gen.
eral public. The crowd was record
breaker in point of attendance, it be-
ing estimated that between 5000 and
5000 persons were in line during the
two hours.
SECRETARY OLNEY sounded the Brit
ish government about the amendments
which have been proposed to the arbi-
tration treaty in the senate. Ambassa-
dor Bayard stated that Lord Salisbury
cared little about the amendments
eliminating King Oscar of Norway and
Sweden and reatiirming the Monroe
doctrine, but the British were sur
prised at the objection raised in the
senate and attributed it to political
and personal motives rather than to
serious opposition to the general idea
of arbitration.
The mothers congress at Washing
ton on the 10Th passed many resolu-
tions and listened to the reading of
papers bearing on the bringing up of
children and then adjourned to meet
again in Washington next year.
The postmasters and the patrons at
every one of the "A post offices where
rural free delivery has been in opera
ton have indorsed the plan and the
postmaster-general will make a special
report to congress concerning the eX-
pertinent.
GILES Y. CRENsnAw, of Maysville,
Mo-, has been nominated by the presi-
dent successor to the late Gen. 10
Shelby as United States marshal for
the Western Missouri district.
THE president has issued 10 procla-
nations setting aside certain timber
lands in South Dakota. Wyoming.
Montana. Idaho, Washington. Califor-
MIA and Utah as forest reservations.
THE congress OF the Daughters of the
Revolution opened at Washington on
the 2ad. The president-general, Mrs.
Stevenson. wife of the vice president
of the United States, called the meet
ing to order and her address was re-
sponded to by Mrs. Elroy NJ. Avery,
state regent of Ohio.
GENERAL NEWS.
A MAIL train on the Pennsylvania
railroad crashed into a loaded freight
car extending from Il side track a;
Ebensburg, Pa, on the 2ad and was
wrecked, number of people being
more or less injured.
Two brothers, John and Bert Shaw
aged 25 and 90 years respectively, were
killed by runaway team while driv-
ing from Oklahoma City, Ok, to their
home, three miles in the country.
ALBERT w. LANDoN, secretary of the
Illinois Humane society and for q
years editor of the Humane Journal
died at Chicago from overworls. aged
81.
DIR. WILLIAM STEIN1TZ, the noted
chess player and former champion OF
the world, died recently in an asylum
at Moscow. He was a Bohemian by
birth. but an American by adoption.
A CHICAGO NEWS Washington specia
on the 22d said that President Mckin
ley was likely to suspend or revoke the
sweeping civil service order of Presi
dent Cleveland.
BICYCLE men of Butte and othei
points in Montana have determined t,
Join with Colorado and other far west
ern states in secession from the League
of American Wheelmen. The cause o
secession is the refusal OF the oldel
body to allow divisional option as tt
Sunday racing.
BY the explosion of natural gas il
the press room of the Chicago Chroni
Gle six persons were burned. two o
them dangerously. The explosion wa
caused by leak in the pipes.
A MOB of about $50 colored men as
sembled at the Guthrie, Ok. depot 70
the purpose of lynching Eldridgc Pres
ton, colored, who shot another colorct
man, but the sheriff and his deputie
outwitted them.
Gov. THORNTON has placed compan,
of infantry on guard at the peniten
tiary at Santa Fe. N. NJ, on accoun
of the discovery of n plot to blow u!
the building so as to liberate fou
members of the Borrego gang, undo
sentence of death for murder.
REPUBLICANS, including Nessrs Nc
Kinley, Hanna and Carnegie, proposed
to raise fund OF slO0, 900 for the ben
eft of the family of Col. ]. X. Fellows
OF New York. who recently died iron
cold caught while stumping the soutl
for the Palmer and Buclsner ticket.
KYLE was reelected United State
senator at Pierre, S. D., on the 18th b,
the solid republican vote and few
populists who stayed by him.
The 11th annual convention of TIL,
Newspaper Publishers association be
gan at New York on the nth. the Mt
tendance being unusually large
In the Wyoming legislature the re
publicans, by a full party vote, de
feated free silver resolution intro
duced by democrats and substituted
resolution instructing the Wyominl
delegation in congress to work TO
measures which might secure FIRE
coining of gold and silver by interna
tionoiegreeTent.