The Holly chieftain., 1897-03-05

hierarchy to meet in picnary council in
Baltimore, Nd, on May to deal with
the subjects which have caused such a
division among the American bishops,
such as public instruction, nationalism
and secret societies.
A RIOT was caused at Knoxville. Tenn,
on the LIST by n conflict of authority be-
tween the United States and city Off
cials about the control of street car
franchise. A negro was fatally shot,
the chief of the fire department sus-
tanned fractured skull and several
policemen and special officers were ar
rested.
The body of young woman was
found in store room of livery stable
in Paducah, KY, on the 1st with q
knife wound in her brain. After kill
ing his victim the murderer had un-
dressed the corpse and washed and pre-
pared it for burial There was no clew
to the murderer.
Two-sToRY brick building. occupied
by several business firms, was burned
at Casey, Ill, early on the lst and a
joining blocks, which were soon
Butteu. LOSS, SloU,Uuu. Inc cause OF
the fire was not known.
AT Rimouski, Que, the house of
Evariste St. Pierre caught fire and his
three children, aged two, three and
five, were burned to death. st. Pierre
and his wife had gone out to visit
neighbors, locking the house and leav-
ing the children in bed. The cause of
the fire was unknown
RESOLUTION to congress passed both
houses of the Oklahoma legislature on
the 1st protesting against the detach-
ing of part of eastern Oklahoma and
adding it to the Indian territory.
THE Aurora chair factory and the
Wymond cooper shop at Aurora, Ind, i,
We're destroyed by fire on the 2sth.
The loss on the former was $50, 900 and
on the latter $4,000. The two fires
threw 500 operatives out of employ
ment.
ERNEST HERM, who was infatuated
with a school-teacher at Nebraska
City, Neb., asked j. d. Chapman for an
explanation OF some remarks the latter
had made and in the quarrel which
followed Herm was fatally shot
FIVE floors of the Shinkle, Wilson,
Kreis & Co.'S wholesale grocery store
at Cincinnati crashed into the cellar
under a load of 1000 barrels of sugar.
The watchman was crushed to death
and two other men were injured.
In the six-day bicycle race which
ended at Chicago on the 27th the scores
We're: Schinneer. 1,7ss miles laps;
Miller, 1.TG4 miles 1 lap; Ashinger, l.
727 miles; Lawson, 1,TO7 miles 1 lap;
Hansen, 1908 miles laps
A YOUNG negro named Charlie Brown
attempted to assault a farmers daugh-
ter at Soddi, Tenn, and when posse
attempted to arrest him he fatally
shot deputy. The mob then strung
up the negro and riddlcd his body with
bullets.
JOHN NICHOLS shot and fatally
wounded Joseph Lewis at Plain City,
Utah, and then turned the gun on him
self with fatal results. Lewis had
charged Nichols with stealing a watch.
THE supreme court of Indiana de-
cided against Helen NJ. Cougar in her
suit against the election officers to
compel them to receive and count her
ballot In pronouncing the opinion OF
the court Judge Hackney said that
under the Indiana constitution women
cannot vote, and that this provision OF
the constitution is not in conflict with
the constitution of the United States.
REPRESENTATIVE JONES. of the
Idaho Legislature, has made an affi-
davit, setting forth that he was bribed
to vote for Henry Heitfield for United
States senator. 1t was said affidavits
of similar character have been made
by two other members.
THE senate at Olympia, Wash, passed
the bill for an amendment to the con.
stitution comforting elective franchise
on women, the question to be submit
ted in the next general election. in No
vember, 1898. AS bill of similar pur.
port has passed the house there is every
reason to believe that this bill will be
agreed to by the house without serious
opposition.
The body of the murderer of Anton
Sheep and his bride, killed at Tindall,
S. d., the other day, has been found.
He was Frank Bende, neighbor, and
after killing the Sleeps he drove away
and shot himself. He was found on
Iuc rcbuTH Ol HIS teiiIn.
THE capitol mt Wheeling, w. Va, on
the 25th was entirely surrounded by
water and accessible only by boat.
The Legislature was in session three
hours with the temperature at 40 de.
grces, the members keeping their hats
on and overcoats buttoned.
SOUND money men from many cities
recently gathered at New York to at
tend the conference of the National
Sound Money league. 1t was proposed
to have an executive committee of 81
members and to divide the country
into IL districts, at the head of each
to be one OF the vice presidents.
George f. Leighton, of st. Louis, was
elected president
A CORRESPONDENT at Puerto Principe
telegraphs paper in Havana that it is
reported that the president of the Cuban
republic, Salvador Cisneros, died re.
Gently from sickness.
The New York Sun on the Goth said
that Col. John j. McCook had positive
ly declined to enter President McKin.
ley's cabinet as secretary of the into
rior.
SEVEN business houses on Main street
in Millbank, S. D., were burned to the
ground the other night. Itwas feared
that man named Andrew vyg, who
was rooming over Molish's bakery,
where the fire started, had been burned
to death.
The Oregon legislature adjourned
sine die on the cath without electing a
successor to United States Senator
Mitchell.