The Holly chieftain., 1897-11-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

CHARLES JOHNSON and Frank haut-
man. bakers, were suffocated in their
beds, and Clara Erhart, aged II, was
found dead at the rear stairs in re
at Erhart's bakery at Hot Springs, Ark
A FIRE at Louisville, Ky, on the sth
destroyed the wholesale stores of Bar
ford Il Lawson, milliners, and Benz ia
min 5. Allen, boots and shoes. The
losses aggregated $3.50, 900
THERE was S22. 900 deficit on the
recent horse show in Chicago.
The notorious desperate Charles
Clifton, alias Dynamite Dick" was
shot to death by a posse of deputy
marshals near Checotah, |. T., while
resisting arrest.
TERRIBLE famine is raging in the
province of Archangel, Russia. The
people are said to wander about re-
duced almost to skeletons
A NEGRO named Burrell Shears, liv-
ing about IL miles from Lufkin, Tex,
shot his wife three times. fatally
wounding her. He then blew his own
brains out, dying Immediately. No
cause for the crime could be assigned.
Is q football game at Pittsburgh,
Pa, Robert Grange suffered a cerebral
conclusion, from which he was reported
as lying in a precarious condition, and
Bert Richie received possibly fatal
injuries.
EDDIE MACKIS, the champion waltz
err of the Bowery, while dancing with
fat woman at Webster hall, New
York, slipped and fell and the fat
woman crashed upon his chest Mackin
was carried away internally injured
and died the next day.
SEVERAL rich finds of lead and zinc
ore on the Quapaw reservation, in the
Indian territory. caused quite rush
to that locality recently.
An Atlantic & Pacific passenger train
was held up near Grants station, 95
miles west of Albuquerque, n, NJ, the
other evening. The robbers dynami-
ted the express safe and set the train
on fire, the express, baggage and smok-
ing ears being totally destroyed.
BY an explosion at the Illinois steel
works at Milwaukee five men were in
jurcd, two fatally.
LUIS SILIcEo, the Mexican govern.
ment colonization agent, is making
the final arrangements for taking ll5
to 100 families. comprising 800 persons
or thereabouts, from Luling, Corpus
Christi, Prairie Lea Taylor. Gonzales
and elsewhere in Texas and settling
them in the state of Tamaulipas, Mex.
On an average each family will receive
100 acres of land.
JESUS MEJIA, Mexican, applied for
burial permit for his child at Tucson.
Ariz His actions aroused suspicion
and the child was found to be alive,
although in the throes OF death from
poisoning. A few days before another
son of Mejia expired under peculiar
circumstances. He has been arrested
on u charge of child murder.
NEAR Lawson, Neb.. Willis Dunn,
aged 81, and two younger brothers
found what they supposed was bottle
of whisky in wheat bin. Each drank
of the contents and all will die. The
stuff proved to be horse medicine.
The commissioner Of pensions made
public his annual report on the 5th.
The whole number of pensioners on
the rolls June 30, 1897, was 976,0l4. o
gain over the previous year Of 5,336.
The number of western pensioners is
as follows: Missouri. 49, ,a57; Kansas,
4o,s43; Indian territory, 1885; Okla
homa, 6,l7a The aggregate annual
value of all pensions at the close OF
the fiscal year was sl29, 705, 42s, exclud
ing the cases held up.
The large hay sheds Of the Ardmore
q. IT, Oil & Milling company, contain
ing about 40 cars Of baled hay and
some machinery, were destroyed BY
fire.