The Holly chieftain., 1897-10-01

The engine house and electric power
plant st Newsome Bros' coal mine u
Kingston, Ill. was destroyed by tire. .
SIx hundred Sac and Fog, Pawnec
and Usage Indians recently held q
grand ghost and medicine dance or;
the Pawnee reservation in the Indian
territory. A large part Of them
stripped to the skin and painted them
selves in the most gorgeous styls.
ESaINaER PATRICK McNULrY was
doing some work under his engine 1t
Gladstone, Mimi, when . freight
struck and moved it and the wheels
cut off his head.
RAYMOND BUsHRoD, q negro, assault
ed l4-year-old Maggie Roberts at
Hawesville, KY, and was captured
The oAlcera tried 70 do an they could
20 protect the culprit, gbut : mob
formed. got the negro and swung him
mp in the court square 1t Eve o'clock In
the afterno4q of, u 18th In the pres
ence Of 800 people, 800 Of whom wero
women. Cheers rent the air when the
aangling foszAOf the victim went Up.
Horn the Tualsahoma and union
party claim majority in the council
from the recsnt election in theC Choc-
taw nation and the union party are
not st AL backward IN charRine che
other party with fraud and, unless the
federal government shall intervene
and sond troops to Tnskahoms It the
convening Of the council October 4, an
armed conflict may be expected.
RoRERr j. paced q mile in 2:os1< at
Lancaster, Pa. on the S5th, lowering
the record Of 81 1 = made by Hal Pointer
in 1895.
ArToN, l. T., was almost wiped out
by fire on the a4th. All the business
houses were destroyed, the Frisco de-
pot and Is cars of wheat. The loss
will foot up between $50, 1000 and S75,-
300.
A DISPATCH from Bombay on the cath
stated that the bubonic plague was
again active and q wide area was af-
fected. owing to the withdrawal of
the medical o oficers for service with the
troops in the rebellion on the 'front.'
NOAH JOHNSON, aged 80, waylaid Miss
Tacy Mang, aged l6, while she was on
her way to school at Gas City, Ind,
and blew her brains out They were
lovers and had quarreled the previous
evening.
The Madrid Correspondence de Es-
pana asserts that proceedings asre on
between the United States and Spain
for q friendly settlement 81 affairs in
Cuba
LIEUT.. Col. GEORGE NJ. RANDALL,
Eighth infantry, U. s. A., with IS men,
left Portland. Ore, ON tho aSd ON .
special train over the Northern Pacific
to 60 to St Michaels, Alaska.
The Pei-Po river in China recently
burst its banks through . freshet and
100. 900 people weresrendered destitute.
TIE John Gnnd Brewing Go. Is plant
at Lacrosse, Wis, was destroyed by
fire on the sSd. Over Il. 900 barrels of
beer, 5000 bushels of barley and sew
eral car loads of malt were consumed.
The loss exceeded $500, 600
The strike on all the school build
ipgs Of Chicago has ended, the board
adopting the report Of the arbitration
committee inserting the union labor
clsuse in all building contracts
The annual entry Of King Ak-Sar-
Ben into Omaha was made in the pres-
ence Of IS 900 people on the night OF
the s3d. The parade was the most
pretentious yet given BY the knights
of.Ak-SAr-Ben. Itcontained 80 floats,
depicting scenes In the history OF the
Kingdom of Quivera.
SUIT has been brought by the United
States against thu South Omaha Live
Stock exchange and all its members,
under the Sherman antitrust law.
The effect of the suit, II decided as the
Kansas City case ct Topeka was, will
be perpetually to enjoin the South
Omaha Live Stock exchange from car
rying on its business
A DANCE by young people at Dobbins.
near Birmingham, Ala, closed with
the death Of Miss Mary Jackson, whose
throst vas cut BY Miss Louise Woods.
one Of the most popular girls In the
neighb0rhood. Jealousy was the cause.
AT Saline 4. T.) courthouse David
Ridge, sheriff OF tho district snd- Jesse
Sunday, sherin-elect, both Indians,
and Tho.uas u, White were killed in .
drunken row by Samson HAITI. The
murderer was arrested
4 A DlsPArcH from Rome ON the 34th
said that about 40 persons were killed
and many others injured by an earth
slip nj the sulphur mines near Cir.
genti. Italy.
A DIASATCH from Shanghai the other
day said that q Chinese boy, sged Ii,
was swinging some article about his
head In play when In struck his mother
and killed her. He was condemned by
law TO be sliced to death and allefIorts
to avert his doom were unavailing.
A DIsAsrRoUs firc occurred at Balm
bridge, o.. on the ssd. An entire
square-containing the principal busi-
ness houses, several handsome resi-
dcnces and the Methodist church-was
destroyed. The 6re started in barn
and when It reached Beardsley's drug
store an explosion took place and the
proprietor and another man lost their
iives.
5 WHILE Charles and Philip Mans were
loading wagons with sand near Rock
port, Ind, the bank caved In and
Charles was taken ont dead and Philip
was thought to be fatally injured.
The famous PAGERS, John &. Gentry
and Robert j.. hitched together, on
the 9sd lowered the worlds double team
record for . nile to 800 At Philadel.
phia. The quarters were: :8s, 1:04A.
1:87, 400. The previous record was
9:ooA. held by Mrs. w. E. D. StolcsS
Miss Rita and Joaie B.
THE Glover Leaf railway has given
IN order at Sil0am Springs, Ark. for
> shipment of 80. 900 barrels OF apples
70 : New York commission house.
CoNMAHDEB BOoTH-TUcK1n has ~.