The Holly chieftain., 1897-11-19

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Isle, Pa. the other night The blazes
were quickly cxtinguished and perfect
discipline was maintained by the teach
ers-
SECRETARY WILSON proposes to ex-
tend the benefits of the agricultural
department to the wives and daughters
OF farmers and keep them posted on
the departments Investigations into
the food and nutrition of man and
otherwise aid women in the rational
practice of the arts of the home.
GEN. kADEskf, commander of the
| Uniformed Catholic Knights of Ameri-
ca, the military organization of the
Catholic church, has completed making
the rounds of all comma nderies in the
nation, gathering written pledges of
these who will go to Paris in 1900 to
contest for papal and international
drill prizes lie finds he will have at
least 800,
KID McCoY bested Australian Billy
Smith in two rounds at Chicago on the
18th. The contest was to have been
for six rounds, but the police inter
fered. The fight was, however, Nc
Coy's from start to finish.
THERE was a claim dispute near
Wauamaker, Ok, between John
Hicks, George Malone and William
Roberts and in the shooting affray
which followed Hicks was killed and
the two other men were badly wounded.
MRs, HENRY PAYsES tried to save
her child at Clinton, Ia, whose cloth
ing had caught fire from bonfire
t,l, - Il l.
were fatally burned.
CECIL ROBINSON, boy "a years old.
accidentally shot and killed his IL
year-old sister at Indianapolis, Ind.
He snapped a revolver at his sister,
thinking it was not loaded. and the
weapon sent a bullet into her head.
THE first annual report of Postmas-
ter General Gary was made public on the
lith. Its feature is the strong advo-
cacy of postal savings banks. The pos
tai revenue for 1897 was Ss2, G65, 4G2 20;
the estimated revenue for lsgs is $50
7so, 735. So; the estimated expenditures
for lsgs are SOS, ,922, 700.
The referee in the football game be-
tween the Kansas and Nebraska uni
versity teams at Lincoln, Neb., on the
18th stated that the score was: Ne
braska, 10; Kansas, s. Ia signed
statement on the night of the l+th he
altered his decision and gave the game
to Nebraska by a score of to >. The
game was marked by disputes and CON
slant chickering's,
THERE was rumor in Washington
that Joseph ii. Choate, the noted New
York lawyer, was likely to be made
United States attorney general.
AT the meeting of the general assem-
bly, of the Knights of Labor at Louis
vile, KY, on the 12th James K. Soyer-
cign was retired as general master
workman and Henry a. Hicks, of New
York, was chosen to fill his place. |.
d. Chamberlain, of Pueblo, Col, was
selected as general master foreman.
Mr.. Sovereign made his annual ad-
dress, taking for his theme the great
miners strike and the court injunc-
tions against strikers.
THE football game between the uni
versity teams of Harvard and Yale at
Cambridge, Mass. on the 18th resulted
in draw, neither side scoring. There
were $4,000 spectators on the field.
WALTER GRAY, of Lomax, Ia, while
hunting on the Mississippi river. was
knocked from skiff by the recoil of
his gun and drowned
SEVEN persons perished in n fire
which broke out among the wood
work of mine near Antonienhuette,
Germany.
ALBEIT VoIEEs was hanged at Fay.
etteville, w. Va, on the 18th in the
presence of over 10, 900 people. He was
the last of the Lewis gang of outlaws
THREE Indians, named Alex Coudot,
Paul Holy Track and Philip Ireland
were taken from the county Jail at
Williamsport, n. D., and hanged by
mob of 40 men. Two of them had
been convicted and sentenced to death
for the murder of six members of the
Spicer family last February and had
Just been granted new trial by the
supreme court
lT was reported by the Indian agent
OF the five tribes on the 18th that the
Creek Indians, who refused to allow
the Dawes commission to enroll their
names on the new citizenship rolls,
were tiocking to the towns to NEE the
commission.
PRACTICALLY all of the lines between
Chicago, St Louis and the Utah state
line have entered into an agreement
not to carry passengers on freight
trains This new rule was adopted at
the recent meeting in St. Louis The
Kansas City Transportation bureau
has taken up the matter in behalf OF
the merchants and will make hard
fight to induce the railroads to rescind
or modify their order.
The Riverview hotel ut Kankaltee,
H., burned on the l2th. 1t was q
wooden structure and the flames licked
it up SO rapidly that the guests barely
escaped with their lives and lost most
of their clothing and valuables-
A PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
Henderson & st. Louis road struck
freight car which had been blown on
to the main track at Lewisport, Ky,
and the engine, tender and combina-
in the combination car set fire to the
infiammable matter around it and be-
fore the trainmen could remove the
cars the other coaches were destroyed.
The passengers escaped.
THREE hundred cloakmakers in
Freedman Bros shops at New York
went on n strike on the l1th by order
of the union. Fifteen hundred opera.
tives in outside shops supplying Freed
man Bros. also struck.
c. p. JOHNSON, president of the In
terstate Association of Live Stock San
itary boards, has called conference
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