The Holly chieftain., 1897-09-10

onoepshead Hay, N. z, Ornament.
the greatest Of three-ysar. old.. won
the Twin City handicap At 1I m;le.
ne ran the distance in e:os IS.
WESTERN passenger rates are RAPIDLY
becoming demorHlized. While freight
business il the heaviest ON record The
passenger business on nearly al, w.st-
ern roads has shown little or M i'm
provement.
DuhISe big 6re Al 1913 North Water
street, Phi!adclphia. 20 Hremeu were
Frustrated by the dense smoke All
recovered.
MAR Friends Mission, Va. Henry
wall, white, brutally assaulted and
murdered Sadie Cook. young girl.
lie was captured while at a sprinp
washing the blood from his clothinc .
and an angry mob lyuched him In
broad daylight.
The annual convention of the Ma.
tional Association of Letter Carriers
gathered at San Francisco on the eth.
IN Labor day address ut Philadel.
phia Ex.Gov. Altgeld advocated poy.
eminent and municipal ownership OF
all corporations and a radical reform
OF the federal Judiciary.
| ROBERT MEYER, aged IL, of st. Louis
shot and killed his drunken father
who, in fit of passion. had tried to
kill him.
IHE failure of the potato, hay and
corn crops in Ireland has resulted in a
most gloomy outlook for the winter.
| j. II. BoBO, suspected of driving his
frail young daughter to commit sui.
eide, was drummed out of Roswell.
Ga-. by irate citizens
In speech at Denison Ia, William
j. Bryan ridiculed the monetary com.
mission appointed by President Nc.
kiuley and said other nations would
do nothing for silver until scared
| into it.
ALFRED PACKER. who was convicted
OF killing five companions who were
lost in the mountains with him in 1874
and eating their flesh, and sentenced
to 40 years in the Colorado state prison
has applied for pardon.
JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLER has sent to the
American Baptist Missionary union and
the American Baptist Home Mission
ary society. at Boston, his check for the
balance of the $3.50, 900 promised BY
him on condition that the two socie tie.
would raise S23G, 900.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and party wen,
to Columbus, O., on the Sd as guests o.
the Ohio state board Of agriculture
After luncheon the president went
to the fair grounds, where he addressed
the school children from many parts ot
the state, all of whom had been invitec
by card.
On the Sd the national executive
board Of the United Mine Worker.
agreed to recommend to the striking
miners . proposition from the Pitts
burgh operators for . straight price O
65 cents ton. to continue in fore,
until the end of the year. and circu
lar has been issued to that effect call
ing for delegate convention Of al
miners who have suspended work t.
meet At Columbus, O., September 8
This proposition. it was thought, will
end the coal strike.
SHERRY BAeLEY, with the regula,
police force and eight sworn deputies
made = raid on the tramps and ovel
400 were driven out Of Arcola, Ill
They had caused much annoyance IL
plundering gardens and fields Of eat
ables.
THE Madison elevator at Madison
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire the othe,
night, entailing loss of about 900, 900
ROBERT HENRY, colored, was hanged
atJacksonville, Fla, on the Cd, for the
murder of his wife in February, 1896.
The New York vestibule train or
the Delaware, Lackawanna l. Western
railroad, which left Syracuse, N. Y.
at nine o'clock on the morning of the
I'd, jumped the track at Blodgett',
Mills and plunged through the station
buildings. The locomotive, baggage
car and two coaches went entirely
through the structure. Mrs. J. II. Nc
Quillan, Of Philadelphia, was killed
and IL other passengers were more OIL
less injured. The accident was caused
by broken rail.
SETH Low has been nominated fol
mayor Of Greater New York by ths
Citizens union.
| A GUTHRIE, Ok, dispatch on the Isl
said that the Otoe and Missouri tribei
of Indians had had the Sac and Fo,
tribe for their guests for week past
and had just closed grand green corr
dance, which had been in progress ri,
days and nights During the progress,
Of the dance number Of braves went
through tho tribal divorce ceremony
and divorced themselves Of their sur
plus wives in order to comply with ths
territorial law, which prohibits then
from having moro than one wife.
The long -drawn-out senatorial con
test at Winfield, Ia, in which Kopp, OF
Henry county, aud Palmer, of Wash
ington county. equally divided the
votes Of the delegates for senator from
the Tenth district, ended in the nomi.
nation Of Palmer by reclamation. The
end was reached after {, ,021 ballots had
been taken.
AT Mexis, Tex. on the I'd Tom Clark,
charged with attempted assault on q
young girl. was indicted and sentenced
TO 90 years in the penitontiary IS hours
after the crime was committed.
THE last Minnesota Legislature
passed q law allowing taxpayers until
the middle Of next year to pay their
taxes for the current year, and as re-
suit there Is such strinRency at Duluth
that one-third of the police force has
been dismissed, park and other i'm
provements are stopped. I've fire en-.
zine houses will be boarded up and
| those municipal employees who retain
their places will be paid in orders Tor
many pay days.
TH.- surface of the Mississincws
river at Somerset, Ind, was reported
to be covered with dead fish, the stencil