The Holly chieftain., 1897-10-08

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distraction In Japan recently, the
Official report showing that "a, ooo
houses were submerged or wrecked.
Many deaths by drowning also 90
CURED.
OwINa to the long continued drought,
. dispatch on the 4th said. the people
Of Osceola, Ark. were forced TO buy
drinking water, paying Eve cents .
quart for It AL the wells and sprin9s
in the vicinity had gone dry.
A COW lying on the Choctaw railroad
track near South McAlester, /. T., de-
rallied an engine and IL cars the other
night The engineer and fireman were
killed and the brakeman was badly
hurt
| A DESTRUCTIVE prairie fire broke out
In the indisn territory near Sloan
Springs on the 9Th and the flames were
re:orted rs eating everything before
them There wss great apprehensiou
felt for border townA The flames
were destroying hundreds OF tons OF
prairie hay and Il was feared that
many lives had been lost.
FIRE broke out In Austin, Pa, on the
9Th and In 1--WE hours every building In
the town wAs burned to the ground
and shout 500 people made homeless.
The place was practically without .
water supply.
| SoILY SMITH Of Los Angeles, Cal,
was given the decision over George
Dixon, of Boston, in . 20-round fight
the other night at San Francisco. The
match was virtually for the champion.
ship of tho feathsr-weight class, and
Smith is now at the top.
CAPT. FREDERICK CHArARD, the old.
est surviving officer OF the confederate
navy, died at st. Louis on the 9Th,
aged 90 years
FIRE destroyed the Northern Pacific
railroad depot at Little Falls. Mimi,
the other morning, besides . dozen
loaded freight cars and = number OF
small buildings Tramps were sus.
pected ~ being the cause.
MAR Schuyler. Neh.. on the Sd Z
physician was hastily summoned to the
home Of Frank Divis, where he found
four Of the seven children in the family
and their mother dead, . hfth child In
dying coalition and . sixth child
very sick. 1t was thought the mother
put strychnine in the coffee.
In . freight collision on the Nickel
Plate st Willoughby, o., Engineer
Brown was killed and seven cara load.
ed with grain and stock were demol.
ished.
| THE steamer Rowena Lee struck q
snag near Moons Landing, Tenn, and
sank. The crew and passengers were
saved, but the boats cargo, consisting
Of bales of cotton, doated down the
river.
THE indianapolis and Columbus play.
ers decided not to play ont the cup
series in the Western league and the
cup was given to the Hoosiers, rs they
had won three out Of tho 1--WE gsmes
played.
r A AsAxuef rtSdepts fsNm1 1Ayaaernnf
versity at waso, Tex. forced W. c.
BraDp, editor Of Brann's Iconoclast, Ia
| 60 to the college campus. where be
was made TO sign . paper embodying
retractio. OF the severe criticisms be
had print-1 on tho morals Of the insti-
tuition. Brsnn signed the paper under
dures% and was given "a hours to leave
the r .ece. After Brann got TO his Of.
/ A4St tthA0 a. ouItO0h0C0 Oy AtR 1Exo0u1
he repudisfed his act and declared he
would not .sve Waco. More trouble
| was feared. ss5s,s n
AT the recent convention Of the Ne.
brasl<a Wo,nan's Christian Temperance
union At Lincoln Mrs. Caroline Wood
ward, The. president nrged women ci
| the Methodist der ,mination TO with
draw from scttss church work until
the general confssence should recog-
niEs them e Delegates. The dos was
applauded.
THE Rock Island road has offered q
reward Of $500 each f0r the captare OF
the Ave men who ;-ir.. m, and robbed
Its passenger train at Chickasha, l. T.,
recently. ~
THE organization Of the American
Maisirp Co has been accomplished, :
New DIX dispatch said. and the trans.
fer To it Of over 20 OF the largest mali
horses has been practically completed.
Two freight trains collided on the
/, Chicago. Burlfhgton AQufncy railroad
near Colmsr, III. and several cars were
badly damaged and one OF the locomo.
tives rolled down an embankment- A
tira then broke ont and 10 cars, loaded
with merchandise, were totally de-
stroyed.
FoRxsr ares around Huntington,
Ind, were doing great damage ON the
LIST. Tho timber and meadows were &C
dry that the fires burned with great
rapidity.
TEE failures In the United States tc,
tho week ended the lst were lsl. ac'
cording TO Dun's report sgainst 300 for
tho corresponding week last year.
Ar Abilene, Tex, Patrick II. Grady,
. prominent blAcl<smith and iron
merchant, attempted to murder Rev.
Father Dole. fornsrly priest in charge
Of the diocese. Grady alleged that the
reverend father had slienated tho #.
fections Of his wife and destroyed his
home.
Two masked highwsymen held ur
three stages travelling from Angeli
Camp TO Milton, Cal, one after the
other, and robbed the passengers and
decsmped with the express box.
| THE following story was pu blished In
the Sheffield Eng Telegraph: I'VE be
lieve that the French, Indian and U nited
States mints will be reopened to the
coinage Of silver 1t l5K to /, and tina,
It will be 70 announced In October. II
| will probably also be announced that
Great Britain has agreed to the terms
suggestsd BY the Washington govern
! meutn
Aonnas CONAN, .an empioye Of N M
dertaking establishment in 81. Louis
qusrrelsd with Charles Noye, anothe,
smploye. when the latter. - : distance