The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02


Minlss, met in an encounter ut Iilv.
KY, and Minks was fatally wounded.
THE Chicago Post said: accord.
ing to anarchists in Chicago an ex.
tensive movement of revolution.
ary nature has just been set on foot.
Systematic agitation is to be begun
May I, outdoor meetings are to be held
whether or not police permission is OBJ
tainable and just such preparations
and speeches as preceded the Haymar-
ket episode are being made
NEAR Bloomer, Ok, ]. P. Cassidy,
while hunting with his little son, shot
at rabbit in a thicket. The load hit
the boy in the head and ,he died from
the effects.
A HUNDRED masked meh destroyed
four tollgates in carrardtc county. Ky,
the other night and thteatened the
gatekeepers with death i khey collect
ed any. more toll. aI
An oyster sloop was caught in
squall near Pensacola. Fla, and sank,
drowning John CohDAkntine, his wife
and five children and his wifes sister
LEE PoN, grand recorder of the
Chinese frcemasons in America, was
buried at st. Louis on the 2sth. His
obsequies provided entertainment for
5000 people and scared more horses
than the police have any record of.
A CALL has been issued for national
good citizens convention, to be held at
Nashville. Tenn, on May 1920, to dis
cuss matters relating to the many evils
of the day, such as crimes. Sabbath
desecration. intemperance, dishonesty,
poverty, etc. The signers of the call
are from every state in the union.
MRs. MARGARET PREsTeN, the we'll
known writer of southern war poetry,
died at Baltimore, Nd, on the oSth.
A FIRE occurred at Portsmouth, Va,
on the asth, making so families home
less and causing 100000 damage.
The northern Colorado coal opera
tors combine has been dissolved and
the price of coal has dropped from 81
to $3.50 per ton.
ALpACE +. WALKER, chairman of the
executive board of the A., L. & S. +.
company. said on the 27th that he did
not look for any immediate rate wars
in consequence of the recent decision
Of the United States supreme court in
which traffic associations of railroads
were held to be contrary to the Sher-
man antitrust law.
THE steamer Olive, which arrived at
New York on the asth, brought Lilo
Italians, the largest number of immi
grants bought to that port by any one
steamer this season.
OFFICERS at Perry, Ok. have arrested
over a dozen boys between the ages OF
l2 and II years on the charge of whole
sale thefts. Most of the band are
from Chicago, Kansas City and st.
Louis. They have been operating on
the line of the Santa Fe railroad.
The time of all of the employees OF
the car. bridge and building depart
nents of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railroad at Denison, Tex, has been
shortened to three days of nine hours
DER week.
AT the bicycle tournament ut San
francisco Allen Jones won quarter.
nile dash in 81 3-5 seconds, the fastest
'ecord for indoor riding. J. E. Wing
won the fifth heat of the five-mile club
ace in HOS, taking IL seconds from
the previous worlds record. In the
nile race Brecker covered the distance
n 2:05, reducing the worlds indoor
.ecord by three seconds.
TIE Iowa house on the Goth passed
.hc senate medical practice act with
,ut change, driving out osteopaths,
'aith healers, massage doctors and all
others protesting to heal unless they
pass examination, the same as physi-
.ians.
In the Canadian parliament two bills
nave been introduced to prohibit the
Importation of alien labor into Canada
lnder contract or agreement. Both
oils are drafted on the lines of the
.lien labor law of the United States,
ind are intended as retaliatory lcgis-
iation against citizens of the United
states.
THE Order of Equity, operating in Ii
states, made deed of assignment at
indianapolis, Ind, on the 25th. Its
lapscs and matured certificates amount
ed to more than its new business last
year.
TIE Colorado senate on the 25th
passed the bill for the abolition of cap
ital punishment. 1t recently passed
the house.
WHILE the British cruiser Thescus
was practicing outside the harbor of
Malta with torpedoes one exploded as
it was being thrown to the ships
launch, injuring 80 men, two probably
fatally.
OSCAR ERICKSON was crushed to death
on the 25th in the basement of the old
post Office at Chicago by the falling of
an embanl1mcnt.
WILLIAM HUGGINs died of hydropho.
bia at Wheeling, w. ". on the 25th.
He and seven others were bitten by u
dog last January, Those who were
bitten now feel much alarmed at the
death of Huggins.
The free silver republican party of
Nebraska was launched at Lincoln on
the 25th. Judge Gregory, of Omaha,
was selected to attend the meeting OF
the provisional national committee, to
be held June s.
THL Illinois house of representatives
killed the anti-departmcnt store bill
which was being wagcd by small re-
tail merchants of Chicago.
THE Olympic club, of San Francisco,
is trying to get up 20-round contest
between Corbct. and Maher, and, II
the ex-champion will not consent, to
hang up purse for 20-rounf contest
between Sharkey and Mnhcr or Choyn-
ski and Maher.
THE chancellor of the diocese Of Lon.
don has been petitioned by Ambassa-
dor Bayard, on behalf of the president
and citizens of the United States for